The SuperForager team, Sam Jones, Laura Pullig & Neil Winterburn took part in the Connecting Cities Urban Media Lab at iMal in summer 2014. The programme combined a symposium at which practitioners and researchers presented on issues relating to the creation of digital art for urban spaces and an intense five day lab. The team […]
The Numbers That Matter hack challenged participants to invent new kinds of tech that made an interesting and practical use of open data. Sam Jones, Neil Winterburn and Tim brunsden developed the idea of a new wearable technology that would enable users to sense when they were close to food that could be foraged.
‘St. Helen’s Vs The Lizards’ is an 1980’s / Lizard themed Escape Room, designed with teenagers and built in St. Helen’s Central Library. The Escape Room was designed in collaboration with set designer Olivia Dumonceau, set builder Colin Gaskarth, Escape room experts Exit Strategy and Teletext Artist Dan Farrimond. It was commissioned as part of […]
Young people created a trail of slimy thoughts around St.Helens Central Library and investigated them using a Thought Detector device. Here are some of the young people using the device to read the messaged stored in the thought blobs. Text descriptions of thoughts are written to slime covered RFID tags using a Raspberry Pi. They […]
This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s policy of pit closures. Neil Winterburn and Internet of Things expert Adrian McEwen worked with the ex-mining community in St.Helens to create an interactive exhibition of enchanted objects, telling the story of the past 30 years. The project was commissioned […]
Haunted Hologram Heads are 3d style illusions of floating heads that appear above smartphones and tablets. The illusion makes use of mobile devices to project video onto an upside down, see through plastic pyramid made from acetate. Neil Winterburn developed a new app that splits video footage from a computers webcam, splits it four ways […]
The Advice Portal project was developed in partnership with Tenantspin, working with residents in sheltered housing schemes across NW to explore ideas around communication technology and telepresence. Tenantspin have a history of developing community broadcast projects and are now experimenting post-broadcast media in collaboration with Re-Dock. ‘Advice Portal‘ builds on residents’ ipad learning sessions to […]
The Flunconference was a symposium in response to Flunstellas and the Future of Education exhibited as part of the Knowledge is Everywhere exhibition. Specialists from across arts, technology and mental health were invited to gallery two at FACT Liverpool to present their responses to ideas raised by Flunstellas. They were asked to imagine how being […]
Flunstellas are flocks, clusters and constellations of ideas, memories and emotions. Flunstellas are all around us. The project asks people to imagine that our thoughts are visible things, with a life of their own inhabiting the spaces we share. Flunstellas and the Future of Learning was an artwork by Neil Winterburn and students from year 8 […]
Twee Prototype is a piece of software art that makes space for the viewer to poke, manipulate and sift through a twitching, almost living collection of photos, text, drawings and sound. The piece documents a day long experiment, in which I drew my thoughts on scraps of paper as I became aware of them, and […]