A&A Chairman's Blog (10)

Art at the Centre is commissioning a £26K <a href="http://www2.swale.gov.uk/aatc/Mobile%20Space.htm"><b>Mobile Art Space</b></a> that will travel to key regeneration sites in Queenborough &amp; Rushenden, in the South East of England. The new project will investigate opportunities for artists’ workspaces/studios to develop the creative community on the Isle of Sheppey, and will deliver an exciting programme of public art and related events. Continue

The 2008 festival drew crowds of over 250,000 people, to over 800 events staged across London’s boroughs in a four-week period.

London’s architectural community is being asked to come up with ideas for next year’s London Festival of Architecture, running between June 19 and July 4 under the theme The Welcoming City in anticipation of the 2012 Olympics. Founding director of the festival Peter Murray, said: “We are incredibly excited about this nex… Continue

Nominations are now open for this year's Lloyd's A&B Innovation Prize, which celebrates bold, new and innovative cultural collaborations from the last 16 months. The closing date for nominations is Friday 3 July 2009. (Link here for more information ...) The Prize will be presented at the 31st Arts & Business Awards on Tuesday 24 November 2009 at the V&A, London. Innovation is the successful implementation o… Continue

The Art Fund's Big Art debate at the RSA If you couldn't attend the debate at the RSA last week, you can listen to a recording here Chair:Jon Snow Panelists: Jonathan Jones, art critic for The Guardian, Munira Mirza, Cultural Adviser to the Mayor of London, Grayson Perry, Turner Prize winning artist, Andrew Shoben, greyworld. From figures on a beach to a giant white horse, there's been an explosion of public art… Continue

The public arts practice Proboscis have been making use of mobile mapping technologies in a less technical way than many of the other speakers; as Giles would have it: people focused. A short film, “Play to Invent” gave a survey of their recent projects Much of this work emerged from Giles' involveme… Continue

Justin demonstrated the integrated mapping system that he has been developing since 2000. The EmapSite portal offers an on-line interactive environment where one can build, organize and archive projects. Data sets can be up-loaded by the subscriber and overlaid onto raw map data. The available views includ… Continue

This delivery gave great cause for concern: it illustrated the ways in which British world class academic research still fails to deliver timely implementation of emergent technologies. CASA was a tiny team in a small lab at UCL, Dr Hudson-Smith was way ahead of the game , his team used lidar data technology t… Continue

Reporting the Digital Cities event 27th April 2009:
Presentation1: Sir Terry Farrell - (© Alan Thompson for A&A)
Sir Terry Farrell: This keynote presentation investigated the nature of mapping in general; pondering the reasons for why maps are so different from each other… Continue

Digital Cities: Mapping Movement & Planning
The second of three seminars
Digital Cities Exhibition Building Centre Nov 08 - Jan 09
Seminar 27th April 2009

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