‘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 […]
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 […]
Projection Points used the form of edutainment interactive cd-rom to introduce an inside out theory of mind, in which the self is considered to be everything outside of the physical body. Download the interactive windows application here. The user is encouraged to explore this idea by creating ‘Projection Points’, drawings and writings, made from scraps […]