News Archive 2006
Hey! Danish speaking Day Of The Figurines fans
The current presentation in Singapore has been featured on Danish radio.
Web: www.dr.dk/P1/harddisken/Udsendelser
Blast Theory on Radio 3, 7th December at 10pm
Soft Message is a new work by Blast Theory exploring how and why we use the phone. The 30 minute broadcast will go out at 10pm on BBC Radio 3.
Date: Thursday 7th December 2006 at 10pm
Web: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speechanddrama
Articulated London exhibition December 1st to 10th
Blast Theory will be exhibiting TRUCOLD & Other Works as part of Articulated London, organised by The Light Surgeons. The exhibition will bring together a range of artists exploring public and private space.
Date: 1st to 10th December 2006 between 11am and 7pm
Web: www.articulatedlondon.com/
Location: Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, Southbank, London, SE1 9PH
Associate Artists
We're delighted to announce that we have appointed Paul Dungworth, Dicky Eton, Sheila Ghelani and Niki Woods as Associate Artists. These four artists have been long time collaborators of ours, working on Kidnap, Desert Rain, 10 Backwards, Uncle Roy All Around You, Can You See Me Now?, Light Square, Danger Game and Day Of The Figurines between them. They have contributed immeasurably to our work and we're very happy to be continuing our relationship with them into the future.
Participate research project
Blast Theory is a partner in Participate, a 3 year research project to create a mass participation event about the environment using mobile devices. Alongside the BBC, British Telecom, Microsoft Research, University of Nottingham, University of Bath and Sciencescope, Blast Theory is working on designing a game to monitor player's environmental impacts.
Web: www.participateonline.info
Trailer goes to pilot episode
Having recently completed an 11 minute trailer for a TV project in New York we are pleased to say it has now gone to pilot. More details to follow.
Can You See Me Now?, Banff, Canada
Blast Theory will be presenting Can You See Me Now? at the Banff New Media Institue in August.
Date: 11-14th August 2006
Web: www.banffcentre.ca
Location: Main Hallway, JPL Atrium / Banff Centre Campus, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada
TRUCOLD, Festival Art Rock, Saint-Brieuc, France
Blast Theory will present Trucold as part of Festival Art Rock taking place in Saint-Brieuc, France from 2nd to 4th June 2006.
Date: 2nd - 4th June 2006
Web: www.artrock.org
Location: Pavillon Art Numérique, Musée de Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc, France
Blast Theory have moved to Brighton
Blast Theory have made a permanent move to the South East region. The group have taken temporary space in Brighton while they develop a new warehouse space overlooking Shoreham Harbour in Portslade.
New contact details from Monday 24th April 2006
Unit 4, Level 5 South
New England House
New England Street
Brighton, BN1 4GH
Tel: 01273 676 040
Fax: 01273 676 040
Single Story Building, Nottdance 06 Festival
Blast Theory will be presenting Single Story Building as part of the Nottdance 06 Festival taking place in various locations across Nottingham in May.
Date: 3rd to 5th May, 2006
Web: www.dance4.co.uk
Location: Sneinton Market, Opposite the Victoria Leisure Centre, Gedling Street, Sneinton
Day Of The Figurines
Day Of The Figurines is a new work being developed as part of the IPerG (Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming) research project.
For more information go to: Day Of The Figurines
Recent Publications
aRt & D: Research and Development in Art
Matt Adams contributes one chapter to this publication, documenting the development process of Can You See Me Now?
Brouwer, Joke. V2_Publishing/NAi Publishers, 2005
ISBN 90-5662-389-3
A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation: by and for artists in the cultural sector
Includes 'Orchestrating a mixed reality performance : Desert Rain', Matt Adams and Ju Row Farr, co-authors, and 'Documenting live and mediated performance: the Blast Theory case study'.
Goodman L & Milton K eds. Oxbow Books, 2004
ISBN 18-4217-156-9&g
EU Pervasive Gaming Project
Blast Theory is a member of the consortium for the European Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming (IPerG), a three and a half year initiative researching the technical and design aspects of pervasive games. Along with partners such as Sony, Nokia and the University of Nottingham, the group will create games that extend in time and space.
Date: September 2004 to February 2008
Web: www.pervasive-gaming.org
Interview for Breaking The Game
Matt Adams in discussion with Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens and Kora Van den Bulcke on themes of hybridity, overclocking the city and the virtual self and society is now online.
Date: 19th March 2006
Games Developers Conference, San Jose, California
Matt Adams spoke on 'The Social Dimensions of Digital Gaming' panel as part of the Games Developers Conference (GDC:06) in San Jose.
The Social Dimensions of Digital Gaming: Monday 20 March 10.00-18.00
GDC:06 Dates: 20-24 March 2006
Location: San Jose Convention Center, California, USA
Web: www.gdconf.com
Flypad Testing at The Public, West Bromwich
Blast Theory have been commissioned to create a major new interactive work for The Public, West Bromwich, UK. Flypad will be a permanent exhibit using augmented reality for up to twelve players.
The second stage of testing took place in West Bromwich between 23 - 25 January 2006 and comprised both user and technical testing. This included introduction and comprehension, flying and game comprehension, holds and mutations, game length and difficulty, to name but a few. Various members of the public, ranging from 9-10 year old school children, wheelchair users and mixed ages of adults took part.
Presentation at Australia Council
Caitlin Newton Broad will present the work of Blast Theory to an Australia Council session on Media and Live Performance.
Date: 22 February 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Web: www.ozco.gov.au/
Major commission for The Public, West Bromwich
Blast Theory have been commissioned to create a major new interactive work for The Public, West Bromwich, UK. Flypad will be a permanent exhibit using augmented reality for up to twelve players.
The CreativeLab, Oulu, Finland
Ju Row Farr attended the CreativeLab on Concepting Pervasive Multi User Applications - a peer-to-peer creative cross disciplinary lab on concepting interactive narrative pervasive applications, as a participating expert.
During this intensive 5-day think tank, attendees formed teams of three to five members and developed concepts for pervasive narrative multi-user applications, considering challenges, limitations and advantages of the choice of genre.
The event was organised by sagasnet in co-operation with m-cult.
Date: 26 January - 1 February 2006
Location: Oulu, Finland
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