The award winning Grapefruit team open a popup shop at OnSite this weekend! Grapefruit provides a launching platform for young artists to kick-start their careers. They sell limited editions and one-of-a-kind products ranging from prints and jewellery, to t-shirts for both children and adults. This idea has won the four female postgraduates the 2011 Newcastle University Enterprise Challenge Cultural and Creativity award!
Shop Opening Hours: September 30 to Monday October 3rd
10am to 7pm, every day
Culture Lab Newcastle is hosting an international interdisciplinary event on the topic of “Connected Communities”. The event includes a three day conference, exhibition and workshop taking place at Culture Lab and Culture Lab Onsite.
In an era where digital technologies have supported transnational forms of connectedness and the efficiency of grass root movements, communities are once again looked at as innovative fertile grounds for alternative social organisation.
The Connected Communities exhibition showcases artworks and HCI design that aim to critically explore notions of community, as evolving with the creative uses and the effects of digital technologies.
The exhibition includes documentation of community-based art workshops, contemporary art and ethnographic projects that aim to explore community and how technology can allow for a level of connectivity in this digital age.
A project funded through the AHRC Connected Communities programme and the EPSRC SiDE (Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy) programme.
Newcastle University MMUS student Craig Pollard is performing his brand new music project ALRIGHT LOVER at OnSite this Thursday! In fact this is his final graduation assessment performance so dont be late ;-) With Andrew Lowther on the drums.
As part of the development process for Susan Sontag’s play Alice in Bed Tender Buttons will be holding a film screening of Ingmar Bergman’s film Through a Glass Darkly followed by a tea party for all those connected to, or interested in, the production. The tea party will serve as a taste of the project so far as well as providing guests and creative team with an opportunity to discuss progress made and future plans. We would love to hear your thoughts if you attended the work-in-progress performance or if you would like to hear more about the project come along to OnSite for tea and cake and wine on September 7th.
Theatre company Tender Buttons is producing Alice in Bed in close cooperation with researchers from Culture Lab and is supported by the British Arts Council.
Picture by Kuba Ryniewicz
Film 4pm, Tea Party 6.30pm Wednesday, September 7th 2011 Culture Lab OnSite
5 Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ
After a busy couple of months, Culture Lab OnSite is going to enjoy the splendour of a proper British Summer during all of August. Thanks for your interest in the past months, its been a truly great experience! We are back in September with an exciting programme to look forward to. Watch this space for further announcements, or subscribe to our Newsletter or Facebook page to receive our updates and announcements!
Based on the assumption that audio-feedback has an effect on tactile sensation, Twiddletone probes if and how the perception of tactile qualities of materials and surfaces can be enhanced and manipulated through sound.
A collection of textile samples invites people to twiddle and fiddle, tinker and touch, manipulate sound intuitively and create a real-time soundscape. A week of exhibition and research-in-progress.
Berit Greinke is a textile and surface designer whose studio practice exists at an intersection between textiles, sound and performance. As part of her PhD at Queen Mary University of London she is currently visiting Culture Lab as a research placement (Supervisor QMUL: Tony Stockman, Supervisor Culture Lab: Atau Tanaka)
Short Stories by the Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956) read by Gabriele Heller, Claire Webster Saaremets and Tim Bennett. An evening with stories and music and an open discussion about the work of Robert Walser.
An event by the Insitut Robert Walser. The Institute Robert Walser is a loose collective devoted to the understanding, appreciation and dissemination of the work and life of the writer Robert Walser (1878-1956). Over the next few weeks in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK the Institute Robert Walser will begin a series of regular meetings, readings and open discussions at Culture Lab OnSite with a view to formulating a program of events for a potential Walser Festival in October, 2011. The basic premise of the festival will be to co-ordinate a series of events concerning the impact and influence Walser’s work has had on contemporary writers, academics, dramatists, musicians, philosophers and artists. If you are interested in Walser and his work, would like to participate in the Walser Festival, or would like to find out more about him, please come and join us, or get in touch.
(noun) Biology & Chemistry a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane.
figurative: the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.: what she knows of the blue-blood set she learned not through birthright, not even through wealth, but through osmosis.
A site-specific installation by Ewelina Aleksandrowicz, Alessandro Altavilla, Andrzej Wojtas
Osmosis is a response to the physical and infrastructural characteristics of 5 Forth Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne, a space carved from one of the main railways bridges of the city.
AEGIS is a TSB funded project looking at ways to acceptably monitor older people in their home for both their own, and their relatives peace of mind. As part of this project we will be conducting a “Design in the street” exercise where we consult members of the public about ways they would like to see activity in the home visualised. This will be a “lo-fidelity” exercise that leverages informal techniques to engage the members of the public in short design sessions. The project is running daily until the 1st of July.
Stephen Lindsay is a research associate at Culture Lab. He completed the Masters in Systems Design for Internet Applications at Newcastle University and is currently undertaking a PhD with Louise Robinson and Patrick Olivier. His research is jointly funded by the Institute of Ageing and Health and the Informatics Research Institute.
The aim of his research is to develop systems which can be used to increase the quality of life of, not just the sufferers of dementia, but those around them who are responsible for giving them care. As modern medicine becomes more and more effective, the life expectancy of the population continues to increase, this leads to the “ageing population” phenomenon. In Britain, estimates predict that by 2040 the number of dementia sufferers will have doubled. In contrast to technology driven approaches to assistive technology Stephen is developing participatory approaches by which people with dementia and their carers may be involved in the design and development processes from start to finish.
IS YOUR BUSINESS AND SEX LIFE NOT ROCKETING?
DO YOUR IDEAS AND HAIR FEEL FLAT AND LIFELESS?
ARE YOU PINCHING YOUR POCKETS AND YOUR LUNCH?
DO YOUR RICHES HAVE WINGS AND DO YOU WISH YOU COULD FLY?
IT’S BOOM TIME !!!!!!
DANCE FOR A PRIZE OF GREAT VALUE
Dancing begins 6pm prompt
until the last one is standing
Admission 25p dancers, 50p spectators
by Hannah Gillespie and Neesha Champaneria
June 24 2011, 6pm Culture Lab OnSite
5 Forth Street, NE1 3PJ, Newcastle upon Tyne
