DERRY-LONDONDERRY, SEPTEMBER 9 -15 2013
A WEEK LONG CELEBRATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA, MUSIC & ARTS
WWW.CULTURETECH.CO
Fore word
It’s CultureTECH time again and this year is set to be bigger and better than ever. If you didn’t get a chance to check us out last year, CultureTECH is a week-long celebration of digital technology, media and music taking place in Derry-Londonderry from September 9-15. It’s big, it’s messy, it’s huge fun and it’s open to everyone – even if you don’t consider yourself very ‘digital’. This year’s programme features well over 100 different sessions and events – from games tournaments to film screenings, live music to art installations and theatre to comedy. There’s also a dedicated CultureTECH Junior strand, supported by Seagate, which will be taking over The Venue at Ebrington for three full days. The rest of the programme takes place throughout the city in bars, coffee shops, unloved retail spaces, clubs, shopping centres, theatres, art galleries and even outdoors; so if you’re in the city you’re bound to catch something happening.
Ticket Types: Conference + Music (£99) Wednesday Conference sessions + free access to all music events
Workshops Pass & Registration Req'd (Free) Free to attend but you must register at culturetech.co
Music Wristband (£20)
This year, we’re also joined by a host of friends including the Belfast Media Festival, the Loebner Prize, the DANI Awards, games tournament supremos Multiplay as well as speakers and artists from The Barbican, YouTube, the NY Philharmonic, the Tate, the MET and nearly 100 other organisations. And if you’re just interested in having a good time, we’ve got you covered too. From Thursday to Sunday, our music programme features showcase events from record labels festivals, promoters and music industry companies. We’ve even got hometown heroes, Jetplane Landing, in their first full Derry performance in 8 years! CultureTECH is already Northern Ireland’s biggest digital and creative industries event with even bigger plans already taking shape for 2014.
Access to all paid music events
So please, dive into the programme. We hope you’ll find something exciting, fun or just plain weird to enjoy and we’ll look forward to seeing you in September.
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Free to the Public Open to everyone, no charge
At a Glance throughout the week
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
Daily from 10am
Foyleside Gallery
Foyleside
Free
Daily 3pm-4pm
Sound of the Summer with Downtown Radio
Foyleside
Free
Daily
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
Digitally Enabled User Experiences
Foyleside
Free
10:00-11:30
Exporting to Great Britain Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
10:00-11:30
The Culture of Technology
St Columb's Hall
Conference
11:30-13:00
Digital Innovation in Archive
The Bentley
Conference
11:30-13:00
Fostering Startup Innovation
St Columb's Hall
Conference
Choorpy presents Music in New Spaces
City-Wide
Daily
Dreamscape
City-Wide
Free
11:30-13:00
Technology and the Performing Arts
The Bentley
Conference
Mon-Sat
Seagate presents CultureTECH Junior
City-wide
Schools
11:30-13:00
YouTube Killed the TV Star
Playhouse
Conference
Bounce Education Presents: Real Times Workshops
Various
11:30-13:00
Exporting to Europe Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
13:00-14:00
The Lunchtime Conversation: Wilson Kriegel
Millennium Forum
Free
14:00-15:00
Foresight: The Future of Publishing
INI PopUp Office
Free
Mon-Sat
Stravaganza Arts Lab
Various
Free
14:00-15:30
(Crowd)funding Innovation
St Columb's Hall
Conference
Tues-Sun
Exhibition: Without
Echo Echo
Free
14:00-15:30
Remix the Museum
The Bentley
Conference
Tues-Sat from 12pm
Exhibition: Momentous Times
CCA Gallery
Free
14:00-15:30
The Art of Information: Data, the Dark Matter ….
St Columb's Hall
Conference
Wed-Fri
Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Institute
University of Ulster
Free
14:00-15:30
The Future of Audience Engagement
The Bentley
Conference
14:00-15:30
Become the Story
Playhouse
Conference
15:00-16:00
Foresight: The Future of TV
INI PopUp Office
Free
15:30-17:00
The Moving Picture Company Showcase & Launch
St Columb's Hall
Conference
Mon-Sat
Wed-Sat
Acoustic Music Trail
Thurs-Sat
Talkaoke
City-wide Various
Free
wednesday
Schools
Free Free
Thurs-Sat
City Arcade
Various
Free
Thurs-Sat from 10am
Multiplay Games Bash
Millennium Forum
Free
16:00-17:00
The Future of Animation
INI PopUp Office
Free
Thurs-Sat 12pm5pm
Mobile Republic
Waterloo Place
Free
18:00-20:00
The Bluffer's Guide to Angel Investing
St. Columb's Hall
Free
20:00-00:00
Viral Video Disco
Sandinos
Free
Thurs-Fri
Teen Tech
The Venue
Schools
Monday
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-14:00
Junior Enterprise Event
Millennium Forum
Schools
13:30-16:30
Babble
An Culturlann
£3
19:30-21:30
Cafe Scientifique
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
20:00-00:00
World's Apart
Sandinos
Free/£3
Tuesday
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-14:00
Junior Enterprise Event
Millennium Forum
Schools
10:00-11:30
ABC Design Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
11:00-16:30
Babble
An Culturlann
£3
11:30-13:00
ABC Export Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:30
ABC eBusiness Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
UK City of Culture – What Have We :earned?
Verbal Arts Centre
15:30-17:00
ABC Sales Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
18:00-19:30
TMED Challenge Pitches
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
19:30-21:30
Cafe Scientifique
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
21:00-00:00
Culture Glitch present the Pre-Conference MeetUp
Sandinos
Free
14:30-17:00
THURSDAY
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-17:00
Belfast Media Festival
Playhouse
Registration Req'd
10:00-11:00
Social Media in Business: Quality not Quantity
Shipquay St
Registration Req'd
10:00-11:30
Exporting to Asia Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
10:00-12:00
Funders, Fans, Followers (Sheffield Doc/ Fest)
Playhouse
Registration Req'd
10:00-14:00
Lightbulb Photography Workshop
Shipquay St
£25
11:00-13:00
Practical Multimedia Production
Shipquay St
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
Where Social Media is the Storytelling Platform
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
11:30-13:00
Exporting to North America Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:00
Foresight: The Future of the Music Industry
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-16:00
Debate: What is a Digital Society
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
15:00-16:00
Foresight: The Future of Games
INI PopUp Office
Free
15:00-18:00
Banter Salon
The Bentley
Free
16:00-17:00
Launch of Cinemagic Atlantic
Playhouse
Free
16:00-17:00
Foresight: The Future of Tourism
INI PopUp Office
Free
16:00-18:00
Digital Women in Business
Learning Pool Cottage
Free
18:00-20:00
What Can BECTU do for You?
Craft Village
Free
19:00-21:00
Screening: Tapestry of Colours
Orchard Cinema
Free
20:00-22:00
Toody Threedy Animators MeetUp
Craft Village
Free
20:00-00:00
Liverpool Sound City Showcase
Sandinos
Free
20:00-00:00
MPC Party
TBA
TBA
Free
At a Glance friDay
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
saturDay
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-11:30
Skills Workshop: Sales for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUP Office
Free
10:00-14:00
Lightbulb Photography Workshop
Shipquay Street
£25
10:00-16:00
Seagate Presents CultureTECH Junior Family Day
The Venue
Free
10:00-18:00
International Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence
University of Ulster
Free
10:00-13:00
Intelligent Digital Storytelling
Millennium Forum
Registration Req'd
10:00-14:00
Lightbulb Photography Workshop
Shipquay Street
£25
10:00-15:00
Belfast Media Festival
Playhouse
Registration Req'd
10:00-18:00
Mu by Sensum
Foyleside
Free
10:00-20:00
Off the Page: Storytelling Without Borders
Shipquay Street
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
Debate: Are we Getting Digital Literacy Right?
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
How to Release Music Digitally (Properly)
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
Music for Video Games
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
11:30-13:00
Skills Workshop: Fundraising for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
10:00-18:00
Mu by Sensum
Foyleside
Free
11:00-16:00
CoderDojo 500
The Venue
Free
12:00-13:30
Creating Audio Drama
Shipquay Street
Free
13:00-15:00
Allingham Arts Festival Launch
Craft Village
Free
13:00-17:00
Glasgowbury Picnic
Guildhall Sq
Free
13:00-17:00
SYNC – Music Promise in the Commuinty
Glassworks
Free
13:00-17:00
BandApp Stage
TBA
Free
Inheritance
The Walls
Free
12:00-17:00
7 Rooms
TBA
Free
14:00-15:00
14:00-15:00
Skills Workshop: IP for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:30
Creatively Mobile: Composing Text Poems on Your Mobile
Shipquay Street
Free
14:00-17:00
Stravaganza Sonic Session
Univeristy of Ulster
Registration Req'd
15:00-16:30
The Elephant Calf
Waterloo Place
Free
15:00-17:00
SYNC – Music Promise in the Community
Craft Village
Free
14:00-15:00
Future Education: Case Study
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
14:00-15:30
Great Music Videos on a Budget
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
14:00-15:30
Next Generation Creative Tools
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
14:00-17:00
Introduction to DIY Electronics
Nerve Centre
€39
15:00-16:00
Skills Workshop: Winning Tenders for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
15:00-16:00
Future Education
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
15:00-18:00
Banter Salon
Nerve Centre
Free
15:30-17:00
Music Tech Showcase
Nerve Centre
Free
15:30-17:00
Upside Down – Starting a Creative Business in an Industry ...
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
16:00-17:00
Skills Workshop: Recruitment for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
17:00-19:00
Other Voices Challenge Pitch Sessions
Nerve Centre
Free
17:00-19:00
PRS for Music x IMRO – Media Writing Showcase
Nerve Centre
Free
17:00-21:00
Reset Industries WarmUp ft. Kaidi Tatham, Kabdriver, Defcon
Craft Village
Free
19:00-21:00
Music Industry MeetUp sponsored by BandApp
Nerve Centre
Free
19:00-21:00
Screening: Music and Chat from the Oak Grove ….
Orchard Cinema
Free
19:00-19:00
GameCraft 24hr Event
Millennium Forum
Registration Req'd
19:30-21:00
Lilliput Theatre Co presents Farewell to the Foyle
Ebrington
Free
19:30-01:00
DANI Awards Gala Dinner
St Columb's Hall
Advance Ticket
20:00-22:00
Stravaganza Performance
Foyle Theatre, NWRC
£10 / £6 con
20:00-01:00
Super Fun Happy Games Bar
Cafe Soul
£3
20:00-01:00
Jetplane Landing + More Than Conquerors + Axis Of
Glassworks
£8
21:00-01:00
Rudimentary Records presents Bass Clef + guests
Gweedore
£5
21:00-01:00
Champion Sound showcase ft Ryan Vail, Unknown + guests
Sandinos
£5
15:00-18:00
Banter Salon
Craft Village
Free
17:00-19:00
The Last of the Name
Sandinos
Free
17:00-21:00
Jika Jika WarmUp ft Paolo Mojo, Pincer Movement ++
Craft Village
Free
18:00-21:00
The Shadows Project presents A Midsummer Nights Dream
Orchard Cinema
Free
20:00-01:00
ROTOR Launch Party ft Psycatron, DJ Tu-Ki, Sunken Foal
Sandinos
Free
20:00-01:00
FUSE at The Jammhouse with Oh Yeah! Music Centre
Playhouse
£3
21:00-23:00
90 Second City Screenings
Craft Village
Free
21:00-01:00
La Musique Sixth Birthday Party
Glassworks
£10
21:30-01:00
Bounce Events presents Real Times ft Kaidi Tatham, Kwa ++
Cafe Soul
£5
sunDay
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-17:00
Waiting for Artificial Intelligence
University of Ulster
Free
11:00-13:00
Jammhouse Brunch
Sandwich Company
Free
14:00-20:00
CultureTECH Closing Party
Craft Village
Free
20:00-21:30
Lit Word Bits
Craft Village
Free
21:00-00:00
Walled City Records After Party
Sandinos
£3
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Ongoing
SEAGATE PRESENTS CULTURETECH JUNIOR Various Locations Throughout The Week
CultureTECH Junior will bring the best of science, technology and the digital world to the young people of the city across a week-long programme of activity - both in-school and out - with the potential to reach thousands of kids. The highlight of that programme is a 3-day exhibition in The Venue at Ebrington, featuring hands-on exhibits, challenges and events for both primary and secondary schools. The Venue will host students from over 20 schools on Thursday and Friday before flinging its doors open to the public on Saturday, September 14th. And it’s all completely free, thanks to the kind support of Seagate and our partners.
With generous support from
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Ongoing
We are delighted to being hosting the very first visit of Teen Tech to these shores. Hosted by former Tomorrow’s World presenter, Maggie Philbin, Teen Tech will take place across two days at The Venue at Ebrington with over 600 students from secondary schools across the North West being invited to take part. TeenTech events are highly interactive experiences designed to inspire young teenagers and their teachers about careers in the contemporary world of Science, Engineering and Technology. Each TeenTech event gives Y8/Y9 students and teachers the opportunity to try their hand at experiments, to handle leading edge technology and, most importantly to spend time with the Engineers, Technologists and Scientists influencing their 21st century lives. Attending a TeenTech event is a powerful intervention just before students make GCSE subject choices, dispelling gender stereotypes and shifting perceptions of careers teenagers may have considered “difficult”, “geeky” or “boring”. We actively encourage young people of all abilities by highlighting different STEM career prospects from apprenticeships to entry level technicians and graduates.
Fresh from their BBC Radio 1 involvement, Bounce Education will be hosting workshops and a special music challenge involving participants from both primary and secondary schools using music elements from a DJ Tool Kit provided by Kaidi Tatham to produce beats and grooves to be performed with at the Real Times event. Further Education students will also be set the challenge of creating path blazing arrangements The most original productions will be given the opportunity to compose and perform live remixes.
A series of innovative workshops and tutorials will take place in schools between the 9th and 11th of September hosted by the University of Ulster’s Department of Widening Access and Participation. Key Stage 2 pupils will design digital stories and Apps using cutting-edge technology to enthuse pupils. A showcase of these pupil projects will then take place at the CultureTECH Junior exhibition between the 12th and 14th of September at The Venue, Ebrington.
CultureTECH Junior will also be travelling into schools throughout the week of the festival. Drawing on the wealth of local and international talent that makes up the main conference and workshop programme, we’ll be hosting events in secondary schools and community organisations throughout the city - helping us reach thousands more young people.
WE’RE ALSO HOSTING A HUGE CODERDOJO EVENT (PAGE 50) AND TWO DAYS OF EVENTS WITH YOUNG ENTERPRISE (PAGE 17)
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Ongoing
Stravaganza Arts Lab is an intense week of experimental music, movement and multimedia workshops for people with and without disabilities. Stravaganza is an inclusive arts organisation, bringing together people with and without disabilities, to engage in creative processes of reciprocal learning while pushing boundaries through live research to enable them as artists.
Workshops September 9th – 13th Venue: University of Ulster, School of Creative Arts and Technologies
STRAVAGANZA ARTS LAB City-wide Throughout The Week
Performance Friday 8.00pm September 13th Venue: Foyle Theatre NWRC
Stravaganza Sonic Session Saturday 2pm-5pm September 14th Venue: University of Ulster School of Creative Arts & Technologies
Audio Visual Installation: “200 Visions 200 Voices” September 9th – 15th Venue: TBC Supported by: Culture Company Music Promise, Big Lottery Culture for All, CRC, DCC Good Relations, NW Volunteers, Lloyds TSB, CultureTECH www.stravaganza-ni.org
Ongoing The Digital Arts and Humanities Doctoral programme is the world’s largest ever programme to train a new generation of research students in the application of new media and computer technologies in the arts and humanities. Digital tools offer an opportunity to ask new, often radical, questions about humanities research. The Digital Arts and Humanities PhD programme provides an opportunity for students to explore how “digital” is changing the face of the “arts and humanities”.
DIGITAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES PHD INSTITUTE University Of Ulster Wednesday – Friday
The programme has over 60 students recruited from all over the world. The students come from all continents, in addition to Irish students there are students from India, South Africa, Turkey, USA, Canada and other countries. Seminars:
September 11 – 13 Venue: University of Ulster Participating students only Performance:
Thursday September 12th Venue: TBA Free to the public For further information visit our Events Page at: http://dahphd.ie/schedule/events/
Talkaoke is a pop-up talk show that is set up in festivals, clubs, galleries, conferences and on the street. It’s an illuminated round table with an enthusiastic host sitting in the middle on a swivel chair. Participants sit around the outside and are given the microphone whenever they want, coming and going as they please. The conversation is a journey from one unexpected subject to another. It can be topical, funny, deep, out-there, or all of the above. The participants come up with the topics and the host keeps everybody engaged. It’s a great chance to hear the latest ideas that people are talking about and to discover new ones.
Talkaoke will be travelling across the city from Thurs-Sat and popping up in lots of public spaces - so come find us, grab a seat and get talking.
Free to the Public
TALKAOKE City-Wide Thursday-Saturday
Ongoing
Throughout the week of CultureTECH we’ll be transforming some space in Foyleside, one of Northern Ireland’s biggest shopping centres, into a popup screening and gallery space. From morning to evening expect short film screenings, interactive exhibitions, free-to-play video games and the odd public workshop - all completely free and suitable for the whole family. Some of the projects on display include: The Internet Cat Video Film Festival Does exactly what it says on the tin - internet cat videos, on a big screen, as shown at the world’s first Internet Cat Video Film Festival.
FOYLESIDE GALLERY Foyleside Shopping Centre Throughout The Week
Digitally Enabled User Experiences A selection of work from the recently graduated School of Creative Arts & Technologies, Design students from the Magee Campus, University of Ulster will be exhibited. It shares inventive thinking on digitally enabled user experiences. This specific work ranges from augmented reality-enabled Walled City maps and first aid e-learning for kids, to immersive games related content and digital human modelling. Come along and experience these interactions for yourselves. Open your mind to what can be achieved with creative multiple-disciplinary design thinking and technological developments.
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Keyframe KeyFrame Fame is a team orientated, time restricted, animation event. Participants are allocated 48 hours to plan, create and produce a short story. And many more. The gallery will be open normal Foyleside hours – Monday to Saturday - and is 100% free.
Free to the Public
Ongoing CultureTECH are delighted to be working with Downtown Radio, Northern Ireland’s most popular commercial station, to host “Sound of the Summer”. Throughout the month of August, Downtown Radio will invite singer-songwriters from across the region to submit their best original material before selecting a shortlist of the top 5. Each of these acts will be invited to perform live on Downtown - from the station’s Foyle studio in Foyleside Shopping Centre - one each day, across the week of CultureTECH. An overall winner will then be selected by an industry panel and get the chance to support a host of well-known Irish acts as part of the Glasgowbury Picnic in Guildhall Square on Saturday, September 14th.
SOUND OF THE SUMMER WITH DOWNTOWN RADIO Foyleside Shopping Centre Throughout The Week
There’ll be daily performances in Foyleside throughout the week from 3-4pm Submission guidelines and terms are available online at www.culturetech.co/downtown and www.downtown.co.uk
Mu_ is an interactive music project (developed by Sensum) that uses your body to compose a unique song. You are the conductor. You are the orchestra.
Through the use of sensors Mu_ puts you at the centre of creativity where your heart rate, emotions and movement depict how your personal ‘biosong’ will grow and change, with your body controlling the musical elements. As the music unfolds so will your individual artwork How this is produced is entirely up to you. If you’re a hardcore raver, get your heart rate moving. If you’re a hippy at heart, slow everything down. You control what happens.
MU_BY SENSUM Foyleside Shopping Centre Friday – Saturday
Free to the Public
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Ongoing
DREAMSCAPE Throughout the week City-wide Dreamscape is an urban art project which distributes items of significant artistic and cultural value to the community for free. The project examines the relationship between the use of public space as an artistic fabric and creating accessible art through open source digital mediums. CultureTECH 2013 will see a series of urban artworks explode throughout the city featuring work from local and international artists and musicians. Each artwork will have its own theme and distribute a unique object of creative significance that the spectator can download and enjoy! Keep your eyes peeled....the dreamscape is coming.
Free to the Public
CHOORPY: MUSIC IN NEW SPACES Throughout the week City-wide Organised by Choorpy, “Music in New Spaces” is an open call for artists from across the region to come and play an intimate gig during the CultureTECH Festival - in interesting new spaces across the city. Simply create a free profile on Choorpy.com, upload some content (video, audio, pics etc...) and then we’ll select the coolest three acts to perform. Once all three are in place, Choorpy will unveil the locations of the gigs which will take place across the week of CultureTECH - and after the event each artist will receive a detailed review of their performance to add to their Choorpy profile. Submissions open on July 31st
Free to the Public
ACOUSTIC MUSIC TRAIL Wednesday-Saturday, Various The Jammhouse with Full Circle Productions are filming 20 acoustic music videos across the city between the 11th and 14th September. This is a chance for great local artists to showcase their songwriting and performing across the city. Who knows where you’ll happen upon these recordings? We have such a wealth of talent, great songwriters and great singers. This will be a fabulous collection of 20 of our best local performers on film for CultureTECH. Each artist will sing one song and all videos will be available on the CultureTECH site.
Free to the Public Partner: Jammhouse, Full Circle Productions
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Ongoing
BABBLE An Culturlann, Monday - Tuesday BABBLE is a magical journey of lights, soft textures, playful baby-led interaction and the story of a very curious fish who goes to the ends of the earth to find a friend. It’s a magical world of voices and moving pictures - for babies aged 0-18 months and their grown-ups Presented by Northern Ireland’s longestrunning theatre company making work for children, BABBLE has been developed in creative consultation with local Belfast nurseries and a speech therapist and is performed inside Replay’s special Bubble - an extraordinary portable indoor performance space. A vocal wonderland made from live voices and video, with music by awardwinning composer David Goodall, this unique adventure for babies promises to delight our very youngest audience members! “Bewitching…..gorgeous….” CULTURE NI “Beautiful. A very special moment with my baby.” PARENT Produced by Replay Theatre Company: Making Adventures for Younger Audiences since 1988
Show times:
MOMENTOUS TIMES Centre for Contemporary Arts WITHOUT Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm Echo Echo Dance & Movement Studios Tuesday and Wednesday As one of the longest and most widereaching strikes in Irish history, the Dublin 10am-6pm Lockout in 1913 has prompted us to Thursday & Friday 10am-9pm consider conditions of labour and the role Saturday 10am-6pm of representation in shaping work and workers’ rights during three periods. Sunday 1pm-6pm Momentous Times is an exhibition, a public forum, and a publication, that explore the past (1913), examine present (2013), and speculate about future (2113), through new and recent projects by Sarah Browne, Aideen Doran, Colin Darke, Marianne Flotron, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Olivia Plender, Hito Steyerl, amongst others. A recurrent theme in works about the present and future conditions of work is the role of digitalization and the creative industries.
Partner: CCA Gallery
”Without” is a seven-screen video installation with sound. Over the past year London-based choreographer Rosemary Lee has been working with Echo-Echo Dance on the creation of a unique video installation filmed from LondonderryDerry’s city walls. Featuring over 350 local inhabitants - from tea-dancers to skateboarders and school children to cyclists - they danced, moved, glided and reclaimed the streets regardless of real or imagined walls and boundaries. The resulting seven-screen video projection, with specially commissioned sound score by Graeme Miller, captures a spectacular panoramic view and intimate portrait of the city. With support from the Culture Company 2013 and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in association with Artsadmin. By Rosemary Lee in collaboration with Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company.
Monday Shows: 1:30, 2:30, 3:30
Free to the Public
Tuesday Shows: 11:00,12:00, 2:30 3:30
Partner: Echo Echo Dance Company
£3 for baby and grown up
Ongoing
Mobile Republic: Digital Caravans is a new touring commission by AND and its biggest and most ambitious interactive public realm project to date. Featuring a touring convoy of five interactive caravans that when grouped together creating a central event space, the caravans feature new commissions by a range of international artists, architects, engineers and activists; London Fieldworks, Hellicar & Lewis, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Bureau A and Julian Oliver.
MOBILE REPUBLIC: DIGITAL CARAVANS Waterloo Place Thursday – Saturday
Together, these bespoke artists’ commissions look at the colliding forces of nature, industry, extinction and a world where future technologies can be sustainable and responsive. With onboard artists to entertain you with food, film and fascinating ideas.
Look for the ring of caravans in Waterloo Place from Thursday-Saturday, there’ll be live music and artist performances daily until 5pm Free to the Public
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Ongoing
GAMES AT CULTURETECH
In partnership with the CultureTECH Festival and Multiplay, the Millennium Forum will be Northern Ireland’s video games HQ this September as it hosts one of the largest gaming events ever held in the city.
MULTIPLAY GAMES BASH Millennium Forum Thursday-Saturday
Huge MineCraft tournaments - including Hunger Games, Walls and Parkour mods TrackMania, FIFA, fighting games, retro arcades and team battles abound across 72 hours of gaming madness.
CultureTECH will be showcasing the very best in what gaming has to offer, with public games zones throughout the city, free-to-play casual gaming stations and dozens of tournament events across a mix of genres and platforms. Most events are completely free and open to the public and there will bee games, tournaments and showcases suitable for everyone from children and families to casual players and serious gamers. You might even catch a little live music and entertainment thrown in for good measure.
CITY ARCADE City-Wide Thursday-Saturday
At the first CultureTECH Festival, way back in 2012(!), we invited local games developers to show off their wares at a popup arcade in Foyleside - and hundreds of people came along to play, and hundreds more for a quick peek. This year we’re going even bigger in partnership with gaming supremos Multiplay. We’re going from one arcade to SEVEN across the city centre at venues including Foyleside, Richmond Centre, Craft Village, Millennium Forum and more. Family friendly games include TrackMania, FIFA and Minecraft Parkour tournaments. And for the grown-ups and hardcore gamers, you can get stuck into some Call of Duty or Massive On-line Battle Arenas. Either way, it’s all free - courtesy of CultureTECH.
Free to the Public
At a glance MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY by the hour Monday
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-14:00
Junior Enterprise Event
Millennium Forum
Schools
13:30-16:30
Babble
An Culturlann
£3
19:30-21:30
Cafe Scientifique
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
20:00-00:00
World's Apart
Sandinos
Free/£3
Tuesday
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-14:00 Junior Enterprise Event
Millennium Forum
Schools
10:00-11:30 ABC Design Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
11:00-16:30 Babble
An Culturlann
£3
11:30-13:00 ABC Export Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:30 ABC eBusiness Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:30-17:00 UK City of Culture – What Have We :earned?
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
15:30-17:00 ABC Sales Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
18:00-19:30 TMED Challenge Pitches
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
19:30-21:30 Cafe Scientifique
Verbal Arts Centre
Free
21:00-00:00 Culture Glitch present the Pre-Conference MeetUp
Sandinos
Free
wednesday
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-18:00
Digitally Enabled User Experiences
Foyleside
Free
10:00-11:30
Exporting to Great Britain Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
10:00-11:30
The Culture of Technology
St Columb's Hall
Conference
11:30-13:00
Digital Innovation in Archive
The Bentley
Conference
11:30-13:00
Fostering Startup Innovation
St Columb's Hall
Conference
11:30-13:00
Technology and the Performing Arts
The Bentley
Conference
11:30-13:00
YouTube Killed the TV Star
Playhouse
Conference
11:30-13:00
Exporting to Europe Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
13:00-14:00
The Lunchtime Conversation: Wilson Kriegel
Millennium Forum
Free
14:00-15:00
Foresight: The Future of Publishing
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:30
(Crowd)funding Innovation
St Columb's Hall
Conference
14:00-15:30
Remix the Museum
The Bentley
Conference
14:00-15:30
The Art of Information: Data, the Dark Matter ….
St Columb's Hall
Conference
14:00-15:30
The Future of Audience Engagement
The Bentley
Conference
14:00-15:30
Become the Story
Playhouse
Conference
15:00-16:00
Foresight: The Future of TV
INI PopUp Office
Free
15:30-17:00
The Moving Picture Company Showcase & Launch
St Columb's Hall
Conference
16:00-17:00
The Future of Animation
INI PopUp Office
Free
18:00-20:00
The Bluffer's Guide to Angel Investing
St. Columb's Hall
Free
20:00-00:00
Viral Video Disco
Sandinos
Free
Monday
CULTURETECH JUNIOR ENTERPRISE EVENT Millennium Forum 10:00-14:00 Young Enterprise Northern Ireland in partnership with Enterprise North West will be hosting two 1-day events for local schools as part of the CultureTECH Festival. These events will invite students to participate in a series of interactive workshops supported by industry experts, exploring entrepreneurship in the digital industry covering the following areas: Exploring business opportunities across the digital sector Understanding how digital business startups are financed and work in practice Exploration of an early-stage digital business idea/concept The events will be held in the Millennium Forum in Derry on the 9 & 10 September - if you would like your school to be involved please contact olive.ferguson@ yeni.co.uko the Pblic This event is supported by Seagate and Invest Northern Ireland. The prize for the best project is kindly supported by IEET
Schools Only Partner Seagate, Invest NI
CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE Verbal Arts Centre, 19:30-20:30 Café Scientifique, the science chat forum, has developed an entertaining programme of informal conversations aimed at demystifying science - especially for CultureTECH. Our Café Scientifique programme at CultureTECH will focus on where Science and Technology meets Culture and the Arts. University of Ulster psychologist Professor Siobhan O’Neill, who is spearheading the local Café Scientifique initiative, says:
WORLDS APART: WHERE CLASSICAL MEETS METAL AND “ROCK BAND” NIGHT Sandinos 20:00-01:00 Symphonic Metal band ‘Selene’ will be bringing their cinematic sound to life on stage with “Worlds Apart” a concert blending Classical Music with Metal. To make this a truly unique experience the band will be performing live alongside Scála Strings, adapting both their own songs and others for a night to be remembered.
“We are very excited about the programme for CultureTECH and we will explore how the pervasiveness of technology impacts on the individual and wider society. We will also explore how scientific concepts can be communicated better through arts and culture’
Selene combine soaring operatic vocals, large cinematic arrangements and hard hitting melodic metal to create a powerful unique sound ranging from roaring timpani, delicate piano and head-banging solos, all within a single track.
Cafe Scientifique has received support from the Culture Company and these talks and events form part of the City of Culture programme of events for 2013.
Preceding this, ‘Rock Band’ will be set up on stage for anybody to play. Fully kitted and connected through the venue’s sound system, it is your chance to have your very own rock star experience.
Café Scientifique Derry~Londonderry events will be held in Bloom’s Café at 7:30pm on both Monday and Tuesday night during CultureTECH
Free to the public Partner: Café Scientifique
Free before 11, £3 after Free with Conference + Music Pass
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Tuesday
INVEST NI TUESDAY SESSIONS Invest NI Pop Up ABC WORKSHOPS In each of our ABC workshop sessions, supported by Invest NI, industry professionals will be introducing major topics in a simple to understand style - designed to help you make a start in design, sales, e-business or export. These entry level sessions are open to all kinds of businesses and assume no prior knowledge.
ABC DESIGN
10:00-11:30
Speaker: Stephen Shaw, Big Motive
ABC EXPORT
11:30-13:00
Speaker: Philip Gilliland, Caldwell Robinson Solicitors
ABC EBUSINESS
14:00-15:30
Speaker: Denis Finnegan, Finn Media
ABC SALES
15:30-17:00
Speaker: Siobhan Gallagher, Shout! Sales
Free to the Public Partner: Invest Northern Ireland
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UK CITY OF CULTURE: WHAT ARE WE LEARNING? Verbal Arts Centre 14:30-17:00 Voluntary Arts Ireland and RSA Ireland invite you to participate in a reflective ‘civic conversation’, hosted by the Verbal Arts Centre. The focus of our conversation will be on the Derry~Londonderry experience of being UK City of Culture 2013, considering questions such as: What can the City of Culture 2013 experience make possible? How can the independent-minded, punk spirit of many of the City’s arts organisations be re-kindled? How can the arts be more to the fore in learning. How can citizens of Derry, especially the young, be involved with the process of writing the new arts story for this city? Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA will provide a keynote provocation and participants will be invited to engage in creative conversation with key decision makers from across Northern Ireland. A light lunch will be available from 1pm. This is a free event but please register in advance Speaker: Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA
Free to the Public Partner: VAI, RSA, Verbal Arts Centre, Arts Council NI, Lottery Funded
TMED CHALLENGE PITCHES Verbal Arts Centre 18:00-19:30 Since early May, C-TRIC, the Clinical Translation Research and Innovation Centre - in partnership with HSC Innovations and CultureTECH - has been on the hunt for innovative new ideas from the creative and digital industries to address unmet needs in health and wellbeing. The programme has been designed to help foster greater collaboration between the creative industries and healthcare with a view to developing promising new product / service solutions for the health and wellbeing market. Since May they have been inviting submissions from across the UK and Ireland - with a prize package including incubation support, funding advice, research support and a cash bursary to support the project. This session will see a handful of shortlisted projects pitch to be crowned the winner. Come and join the audience - boo, hiss and cheer - and hopefully get a peek at the next big idea in health and wellbeing.
Free to the Public Partner: C-Tric, HSC Innovations
Tuesday
CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE Verbal Arts Centre, 19:30-20:30 Café Scientifique, the science chat forum, has developed an entertaining programme of informal conversations aimed at demystifying science - especially for CultureTECH. Our Café Scientifique programme at CultureTECH will focus on where Science and Technology meets Culture and the Arts. This second night of Cafe Scientifique will also act as meeting place for our international speakers and out of town delegates – so make sure to come along and say hello.
CULTURE GLITCH PRESENT THE PRECONFERENCE MEET UP Sandinos 20:00-23:30 Come join the CultureTECH team and a bunch of our international speakers and delegates for a few sociable drinks and wee bit of music from local electronica collective Culture Glitch - ahead of the CultureTECH Conference the following day. These guys always put on a great night and are responsible for putting out some of the most exciting electronica being made in the North West today. We really shouldn’t make this a big one but we’ll leave that up to you. This one’s open to the public too, so make sure to drop by and say hello.
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Free to the public Free to the public
Partner: Culture Glitch
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The Conference
THE CULTURE OF TECHNOLOGY St. Columb’s Hall 10:00-11:30
DIGITAL INNOVATION IN ARCHIVE The Bentley 11:30-13:00
FOSTERING STARTUP INNOVATION St. Columb’s Hall 11:30-13:00
Is there such as a thing as digital culture and is it leaking into real life?
Digitisation and digital archive projects are becoming a vital tool in preserving - and increasingly accessing - our shared past. In this session Northern Ireland's own Aetopia will showcase two recent projects which are helping bring previously unseen archives to the world stage.
What does it take to grow a startup community? In this session we’ll hear from a range of speakers involved in nurturing startup communities and fostering innovation across everything from hacker spaces to accelerators and investment funds to corporate intrapreneurs.
From hashtags on TV to meme culture in art galleries, in this session we’ll meet a number of industry practitioners working at the intersection of arts, culture and technology with a view to exploring how our collective culture is being influenced by the web and digital technologies. Format: This will be a presenter-led session featuring individual 20-30 min one-on-one interviews with each of our speakers followed by a very informal group Q&A. We’ll also get to kick off the day in style with some cat videos!
With input from the Lee Miller Archives and the BT Portrait of a City project (part of the UK City of Culture 2013 programme) this session will cover everything from best practice to rights issues, and monetisation to the stories behind the images. Speakers include: Aidan McGrath - Aetopia
Speakers:
Kirsty Osborn - BT Potrait of a City
Scott Stulen - Programmer, The Walker Art Centre and the Internet Cat Video Festival.
Ami Bouhassane - Registrar & Trustee Lee Miller Archives (granddaughter of Lee Miller)
Drew Hemment - founder, Future Everything
Kerry Negahban - Reproduction Rights Negotiator - Lee Miller Archives
Conference Pass Req'd
Conference and Music Pass
Partner: Invest NI
Partner: Invest NI, Aetopia
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The session will include interviews with each of our speaker Jay Onda, NTT Docomo followed by a very informal Q&A session.
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI
This year’s CultureTECH Conference sessions are supported by Invest Northern Ireland
YOUTUBE KILLED THE TV STAR The Playhouse 11:30-13:00
TECHNOLOGY AND THE PERFORMING ARTS The Bentley 11:30-13:00
For a long time digital technologists have predicted the death of the linear TV. Now YouTube has revolutionised the content landscape, offering new talent access to a global audience and providing established producers with tools to cash in on IP and develop new properties.
From projection mapped stage design to motion tracked dance performances, the performing arts are increasingly making exciting use of technology in interesting, and often groundbreaking, ways. But at the heart of live performance is the authentic interaction with the audience, so we have to ask do new technologies improve this or get in the way? Are new technologies helping the arts world engage with new audiences or are we simply using tech for the sake of it?
TV producers are less concerned about the traditional overnight ratings and more how to increase engagement with fans to generate excitement and talkability around their projects. The future of content is being written as we speak. Moderator: John Farren, Creative Director, 360production
Conference and Music Pass Partner: 360 Production, Invest NI
Across this session, we’ll hear from practitioners from theatre, dance and music - all using technology in unique and interesting ways. We’ll also get a chance to check out some new technologies that might just be making their way to stage near you soon. This session is being curated by The Barbican
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI
THE LUNCHTIME CONVERSATION: WILSON KRIEGEL Millenium Forum 13:00-14:00 Wilson is the President/COO of Paltalk, a leading video group chat consumer technology company based in New York with 10 million active users globally. Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/ OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million. Prior to OMGPOP/Zynga, Wilson was the Vice President of Marketing, Business Development & Advertising Sales for Outspark, a leading mmorpg freemium US publisher & platform in San Francisco. He also served as Executive Vice President & General Manager at Curse Inc.; the largest online MMO game portal focused PC online MMO’s and Freemium games. Mr. Kriegel was a part of the founding team & Vice President of Business Development of IGA Worldwide, a leading in-game advertising services company, in the U.S. He founded of GameTimeNation, the first video game entertainment service company. Mr. Kriegel began as a financial analyst for the Enron Corporation.
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI
Conference
REMIX THE MUSEUM The Bentley 14:00-15:30 The way in which people engage with cultural and artistic works is often defined by the museums, galleries and spaces in which those works reside and the host institutions attitude towards their collections. These spaces are the original curators but like everything else, they’re changing. Hack days and Museum Labs are helping Museums to develop, change and adapt. Remix The Museum showcases regional, national and international best practice to an approach to help foster openness, innovation and change for cultural institutions. Developed in partnership with the University of Ulster’s Centre For Media Research, this session will hear from both academics and practitioners on the use of Hack Days as a way to mix and remix content and encounters in Museum Spaces. Speakers: Don Undeen – The Met (NYC) Samuel Bausson – Museomix/Muséum of Toulouse, Mar Dixon – Museumix UK Oonagh Murphy – Freelance Arts Manager Hosted by: Alan Hook – University of Ulster
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI, University of Ulster
(CROWD)FUNDING INNOVATION St. Columb’s Hall 14:00 -15:30 How is Crowdfunding shaping startup financing? Crowdfunding, pioneered by companies such as Kickstarter, is starting to have a major influence on how startups raise finance. This session brings together a number of industry experts, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss how large the market can be, and how companies can benefit from crowdfunding campaigns. Our panel will be discussing how legislation is changing in the USA to change angel investing forever, and how the UK and EU is miles ahead when it comes to equity crowdfunding. Speakers: David Drake – The Soho Loft Jason Best – Crowdfund Capital Advisors Thomas Davies – Seedrs
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI
DATA, THE DARK MATTER OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE St. Columb’s Hall 14:00-15:30 Culture Shock CEO & Founder and Debra Anderson, and Executive Producer Greta Knutzen, will lead a workshop on The Art of Information: Data, The Dark Matter of the Digital Universe. The workshop will explore and showcase the creative uses of technology through rapid prototyping of real-time data visualization applications, data driven transmedia projects and digital platforms and dynamic interactive works of art that celebrate the intersection of data and storytelling. Anderson and Knutzen successfully launched the first Big Data undergraduate survey course at The New School for Public Engagement in January 2012. They co-create and co-instruct the course which has included guest experts from UN Global Pulse, Bloomberg Ventures, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Whitney Museum of American Art, Columbia School of Journalism, Lance Weiler and the Harmony Institute. Speakers: Greta Knutzen – Culture Shock Debra Anderson – Culture Shock
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI
This year’s CultureTECH Conference sessions are supported by Invest Northern Ireland
THE FUTURE OF AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT The Bentley 14:00-15:30 Whether you’re a musician, a venue, an artist or an event organiser - we all have audiences and technology is changing how we can - and do - engage with them. So what does best practice in audience engagement look like in 2013? And what will it look like in 2014 and beyond? This session will include interviews and presentations with practitioners from both sides of the conversation - the tech companies creating new engagement tools and the organisations using them. We’ll also take a peek at some new startup companies which are aiming to change it all Speakers: Julii Oh – Marketing Manager, NY Philharmonic Stephen O’Reilly - Mobile Roadie & TopSpin Media Sharna Jackson - Editor, Tate Kids
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI, Culture NI
BECOME THE STORY The Playhouse 14:00-15:30 Have we reached equilibrium between science and art? Between technology and creativity? For now we’re pushing the red button and scanning QR codes, using mobile devices to ‘lol’ and comment on lunch. But there’s a bigger story and the scenes are building fast. Where smudged swiping glass and ‘likes’ give way to true immersive experiences, highly visual, BIG IMPACT, where interactive is no longer something from which you unplug, where reality and fiction blur. What will happen then? Find out what’s real and what’s not at Firebrand’s hang out. Join Firebrand’s digital thought leaders Matthew Scott and Jeremy Forsberg with special guests Gina Fegan, Film Producer, UKTI and BAFTA and Quinn Buchanan, leading Gamification visionary to reveal your future role in the digital narrative. Speakers: Matthew Scott – Firebrand Jeremy Forsberg – Firebrand Gina Fegan Quinn Buchanan
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Firebrand Digital, Invest NI
THE MOVING PICTURE COMPANY (MPC) SHOWCASE St. Columb’s Hall 15:30-17:00 Oscar-winning (Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects, Life of Pi) studio MPC have been one of the global leaders in VFX for over 25 years and counting, with industry-leading facilities in London, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York and Bangalore. Some of their most famous projects include blockbuster movies such as the Harry Potter franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Prometheus and Life of Pi, Man of Steel and famous advertising campaigns for brands such as Evian, Cadbury, Sony, Coca Cola and John Lewis. Come join them as they unveil their brand new transmedia division in partnership with Derry-native Hugh McGrory. You’ll also get a glimpse of a VERY exciting new project for 2014 - and find out how you can get involved. Speakers: Justin Brukman - Executive Producer, MPC New York Hugh McGrory - Creative Director, Culture Shock Debra Anderson - CEO, Culture Shock Great Knutzen - Executive Producer, Culture Shock Dave Hodge - Creative Director, Finger Music Chris Dabbs - Streaming Tank
Conference and Music Pass Partner: Invest NI
Wednesday EXPORTING The island of Ireland - north or south - isn’t a big place, particularly if you’re in the tech or media business. So it should go without saying that exporting is fundamental to your business. It should, but many businesses struggle to make that break through into major potential new markets. And even if you’re selling online, local knowledge can make all the difference.
Working across four key markets (Europe, N America, Asia and GB) our export sessions will explore, in partnership with Invest NI, how your business can take those first steps - and, if you’re already exporting, you can do even more.
INVEST NI WORKSHOPS Invest NI Pop Up
Exporting To Great Britain
10:00-11:30
Exporting To Europe
11:30-13:00
FORESIGHT Want to know what's coming down the line in your industry? What will we be looking at in 3 years - or even 3 months - time? Across six Foresight workshops, supported by Invest NI, we'll be asking forward-thinking industry pros and commentators for their take on the latest trends across publishing, tourism, TV, games development, animation and music. Each Foresight session will be based around an expert one-on-one interview with input from speakers drawn from across the CultureTECH Festival week - so if you miss them the first time, you might just catch them here.
FORESIGHT: THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING
14:00-15:00
Speaker: Hugh Odling-Smee, Whittrick
FORESIGHT: THE FUTURE OF TV
15:00-16:00
Speaker: Idan Cohen, Boxee
FORESIGHT: THE FUTURE OF ANIMATION
Workshop Pass Partner: Invest NI
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16:00-17:00
Wednesday next Google or had they invested the equivalent of Betamax video tapes? Join the audience and find out. Indeed you will have the chance to place your imaginary money on the companies and see how you might have fared as an investor.
THE BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO ANGEL INVESTING St Columb’s Hall 18:00-19:30 A quick introduction to the world of business angel investment – how to get it for your company or how to become an angel. You’ve seen Dragons’ Den, now this is your chance to find out what it’s really like – and whether it’s for you. If you might have a company which would benefit from angel investing, or if you think you might have what it takes to be a business angel, come along and find out all about it from the experts – in a really fun way. This event, which is open to anyone to attend, will explain angel investing in really simple terms. You will see two re-enactments of real company pitches, have the good and points explained to you and then get an update on what really happened. Did they get their money? Did they become the
This event will be presented by Alan Watts, Director of Halo – the NI business angel network – and Nelson Gray who is a seasoned angel investor and worldwide speaker on angel matters. It will be presented in a light-hearted manner and will definitely be a lot of fun. And you’re guaranteed not to lose any real money!
Free to the Public Partner: Halo & Invest NI
/V/IRAL /V/IDEO /D/ISCO Sandinos 20:00-01:00 First featured as part of the School of Media Film and Journalism’s start of term proceedings and developed by the Interactive Media Arts course and the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster, the /v/IRAL /v/ IDEO /d/ISCO is a video mashup party, reappropriating croudsourced viral videos to create a set played out on the big screen to drink and dance to. The /v/IRAL /v/IDEO /d/ISCO is not a video installation, it is not a work of art, it is not a comment on remix culture, the status of medium inside visual culture, an exploration of the spaces between club culture and the internet or a piece of research into the blurring of media boundaries. /v/IRAL /v/IDEO /d/ISCO is a party.
Free to the Public Partner: University of Ulster
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At a glance THURSDAY by the hour THURSDAY
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-17:00
Belfast Media Festival
Playhouse
Registration Req'd
10:00-11:00
Social Media in Business: Quality not Quantity
Shipquay St
Registration Req'd
10:00-11:30
Exporting to Asia Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
10:00-12:00
Funders, Fans, Followers (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Playhouse
Registration Req'd
10:00-14:00
Lightbulb Photography Workshop
Shipquay St
ÂŁ25
11:00-13:00
Practical Multimedia Production
Shipquay St
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
Where Social Media is the Storytelling Platform
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
11:30-13:00
Exporting to North America Workshop
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:00
Foresight: The Future of the Music Industry
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-16:00
Debate: What is a Digital Society
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
15:00-16:00
Foresight: The Future of Games
INI PopUp Office
Free
15:00-18:00
Banter Salon
The Bentley
Free
16:00-17:00
Launch of Cinemagic Atlantic
Playhouse
Free
16:00-17:00
Foresight: The Future of Tourism
INI PopUp Office
Free
16:00-18:00
Digital Women in Business
Learning Pool Cottage
Free
18:00-20:00
What Can BECTU do for You?
Craft Village
Free
19:00-21:00
Screening: Tapestry of Colours
Orchard Cinema
Free
20:00-22:00
Toody Threedy Animators MeetUp
Craft Village
Free
20:00-00:00
Liverpool Sound City Showcase
Sandinos
Free
20:00-00:00
MPC Party
TBA
TBA
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Thursday
Is it time up for Broadcast Television? This year the Belfast Media Festival is going back to basics, focussing all our attention around television and its future. If you’re interested in joining the debate around the future of TV content, distribution and technology, then please register now on the Belfast Media Festival website (www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk) as places are limited. There will also be the usual opportunities to get hands-on with current and new broadcast technology and free camera training workshops from the BBC Academy. Sessions will also include debate around diversity in the creative industries including a showcase screening of Zhenia Mahdi’s thought-provoking ‘Tapestry of Colours’ and there will also be debate and insight around funding for Indies, a session on the Irish Language, and our usual highlight session ‘Meet The Commissioners’. We’re also delighted to announce a new venture: The BMF Showcase.
BELFAST MEDIA FESTIVAL @ CULTURETECH The Playhouse Thursday, 10:00-17:00 Friday, 10:00-15:00
This event, taking place on the morning of Thursday 12 September from 1000-1300 is aimed at graduates, students and any young person interested in a career in the creative industries. There will be media professionals from all sectors to talk to, demonstrations of camera and digital equipment. The BBC Academy and Channel 4’s 4Talent will be present to tell you all about their new initiatives, including exciting new apprenticeships around technology. The BBC Academy will also be running a session ‘Getting In’, giving you tips and advice on how to make that final breakthrough into the industry. Speakers include:
Thursday 12th Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive, City of Culture Peter Johnston, Director, BBCNI John Farren, 360 Productions Julian March, Director of Online, ITV Maggie Philbin, CEO Teentech CIC Frank Ash, Creative Consultant, BBC Academy Máire Bhreathnach, Below The Radar Tom Collins, De Facto films For updates on the programme or to register to attend visit www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk
Thursday
FUNDERS, FANS, FOLLOWERS The Playhouse 10:00-12:00 Do you want to enhance your knowledge on how to access international funding and audiences for films and digital media, in both traditional and radical new ways? Come to a FREE 2-hour crash course hosted by the team from the Sheffield Doc/Fest, providing practical advice on accessing film and digital media funding and engaging directly with audiences hungry for new kinds of media. The session will cover crowdfunding, direct distribution and marketing to audiences/fans, and creating interactive media that excites. The workshop will enable film and digital professionals to get up to date on who funds what, how to approach them, and understanding what audiences want right now.
Workshop Pass Partner: Sheffield Doc/Fest
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LIGHTBULB PHOTOGRAPHY - USING YOUR SMARTPHONE AS A CAMERA Workshop Time: 10:00-14:00 Lightbulb photography is a one-day workshop which aims to show you how to unlock the potential of your smartphone as a camera. As more and more people use their Smartphones instead of a camera, this course aims to teach you how to get the best out of your device, including tips and tricks for better mobile photography and recommended apps to add a professional edge to your images.
PRACTICAL MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION Workshop 11:00-13:00 Learn to shoot, edit and upload in a day. This is a short introduction to the series of courses run by Willis McBriar and Louise Friel, training Associates at Viewdigital. org, aimed at practitioners in the Community and Voluntary sector. As the title says these are ‘hands-on’ workshops where anyone unfamiliar with the use of video for social media can quickly learn how to use cheap cameras and free (or nearly free) software to deliver their message to Youtube or Vimeo and then publicise it using Facebook and Twitter.
Light Bulb Photography will host three workshops during CultureTECH, facilitated by local artist John Deery, Lecturer in Photography and Digital Imaging at NWRC.
The workshops come in two varieties, one, which uses iMovie as the editing package, suitable for Apple computers, has been successfully delivered to The Bytes Project and RNIB. The other version of the course uses a web app, Wevideo and is suitable for practically any computer and can even run on Android tablets. The rapid development of Wevideo, which is free to use in its most basic form, creates the possibility of very rapid learning for many users who may have been put off by the complexity and cost of desktop editing.
Pay on the Door: £25
Workshop Pass
Partner: Lightbulb Photography
Partner: View Digital
The workshops run from 10am - 2pm and include an introductory session, hints and tips, a local ‘Photo Walkabout’ getting hands-on experience and advice, followed by a review and processing session, where each student leaves with a print of their work.
Thursday EXPORTING The island of Ireland - north or south - isn’t a big place, particularly if you’re in the tech or media business. So it should go without saying that exporting is fundamental to your business. It should, but many businesses struggle to make that break through into major potential new markets. And even if you’re selling online, local knowledge can make all the difference. Working across four key markets (Europe, N America, Asia and GB) our export sessions will explore, in partnership with Invest NI, how your business can take those first steps - and, if you’re already exporting, you can do even more.
INVEST NI WORKSHOPS Invest NI Pop Up
Exporting to Asia: 10:00-11.30 Exporting to North America: 11.30-13.00 FORESIGHT Want to know what’s coming down the line in your industry? What will we be looking at in 3 years - or even 3 months - time? Across six Foresight workshops, supported by Invest NI, we’ll be asking forward-thinking industry pros and commentators for their take on the latest trends across publishing, tourism, TV, games development, animation and music. Each Foresight session will be based around an expert one-on-one interview with input from speakers drawn from across the CultureTECH Festival week - so if you miss them the first time, you might just catch them here.
Foresight: The Future Of Music: 14:00-15.00 Speaker: Andrew Ferris, Smalltown America
Foresight: The Future of Games: 15:00-16.00 Speaker: Aaron Taylor, GoPrezzo
Foresight: The Future of Tourism: 16:00-17.00
Workshop Pass Partner: Invest NI
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Thursday
WHERE SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE STORYTELLING PLATFORM Learning Pool Cottage 11:00-13:00 ’Where Social Media is the storytelling platform’ is a presentation and seminar exploring how social media tools can be used to tell immersive online stories.
DEBATE: WHAT IS A DIGITAL SOCIETY? Learning Pool Cottage 14:00-16:00
DIGITAL WOMEN IN BUSINESS Learning Pool Cottage 16:00-18:00
Just about every city on the planet has some kind of digital strategy. It’s a pretty easy thing to say but it’s much harder to clarify exactly what that means - what is a digital city?
Meet three members of Women In Business NI who run successful digital businesses in Northern Ireland.
The presentation will be focused on a theatrical performance created by Marcus Lilley called ‘The Darkened City’ (2011) a Neo Noir immersive experience where audiences follow the central character in his life as a photographer on Twitter in a fictional city rife with corruption. ‘Harry’s Return’ is the 2013 sequel where Harry returns to the city with only an Iphone to document his story, will Harry survive the unforgiving city a second time?
Is it about access to public servants? Is it about digital services? Is it about fostering a startup community? How about broadband connectivity and wifi access?
Marcus Lilley is the founder of FutrSocial, a creative social media agency based in in the South West of England.
Workshop Pass
The presentation will give an overview of the process behind the making of ‘The Darkened City’ including the writing process and character development, followed by a seminar on the future possibilities of social media as a storytelling platform.
This session will bring together individuals and organisations from local councils to national thought leaders for a series of (very) short presentations and then a curated debate.
Partner: Learning Pool
Jacqueline McGonigle is the founder of the popular website www. whatsonni. com. She is also the Mid Ulster Ambassador for Women in Business NI – the largest and fastest growing business network for female entrepreneurs and business leaders in Northern Ireland, as well as being an ambassador the Ulster Bank’s Business Women Can initiative. Naomh McElhatton is the CEO of DANI – Digital Advertising Northern Ireland, who provide digital advertising and marketing solutions through NI, Ireland & UK. Naomh is also the cofounder of the Digital Exchange, a Stem Ambassador , Associate Lecturer for the University of Ulster’s Post Graduate Digital Communications & Media certificate and founder of the DANI Awards.
Marcus Lilley - FutrSocial
Janette O’Hagan is the co-founder and Director at Heatboss, an innovative new start specialising in wireless heating controls. She is heavily involved in managing the development of the Heatboss product range and bringing the business into successful commercialisation.
Workshop Pass
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Speakers:
Partner: Women in Business NI
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Banter is a series of discussions, talks and conversations – presented by Jim Carroll of the Irish Times. In short, we talk a lot. Since July 2009, we have covered such topics as books, food, campaigning, photography, football, politics, TV, climate change, new businesses, masculinity, craft beers, running, music festivals, David Bowie, technology, radio, Madonna and much, much more Confirmed Banter guests across the week include:
BANTER SALON Thurs 15:00-18:00 The Bentley Friday 15:00-18:00 Nerve Centre Saturday 15:00-17:00 Craft Village
Fiona McAnena – Clearhound Fred Bolza – Sony Sam McGregor – Signature Brews Jay Onda – NTT Docomo Wilson Kriegel – Paltalk Aaron Taylor – GoPrezzo Stephen O’Reilly – Mobile Roadie Adam Perry – BandApp & Bloodhound Gang Colin Doran – BandApp & Hundred Reasons Brendan O’Driscoll – Soundwave Michael Spencer Jones – Photographer
Free to the Public Partner: Banter Salon
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LAUNCH OF CINEMAGIC ATLANTIC Playhouse 16:00-17:00 Cinemagic Atlantic is a project that looks to develop long lasting meaningful links with students and staff from schools in Northern Ireland and the United States. In 2013 34 students and staff from 6 Special Schools teamed up with schools in America to explore the area of Cultural Diversity through the medium of Moving Arts with a shared focus on developing friendships and learning from professionals. The students experienced workshops focusing on various areas of the animation industry including; story boarding, set design, character creation, capturing and editing. One of the key themes of this project was to allow the students to have opportunities to explore, experience, exchange and express themselves in ways they might never have been given the opportunity to do before. Cinemagic Atlantic 2013/2014 will officially launch at CultureTECH and everyone's invited.
Free to the Public
WHAT CAN BECTU DO FOR YOU? Craft Village 18:00- 20:00 BECTU is the independent trade union for those working in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure and interactive media. The union represents staff, contract and freelance workers. http://www.bectu.org.uk/home The NI freelance branch is hosting this social but it is open to everyone whether working for a major employer, freelance or seeking work in the creative sector. This reception is an opportunity for students and young people wanting to make a career in the industry to meet with experienced workers. There will be guest speakers who will reflect the contribution BECTU and Derry have made to broadcasting. We look forward to talking with and meeting you. Feel free to contact us with any questions or queries. willis.mcbriar@ gmail.com
Free to the Public
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Partner: BECTU
SCREENING: TAPESTRY OF COLOURS Orchard Cinema 19:00-21:00 Screening + filmmaker Q&A Tapestry of Colours is an emotive feature length documentary produced and directed by artist and filmmaker Zhenia Mahdi-Nau, which explores the fusion of cultures in Northern Ireland and reveals the truth behind modern immigration in Northern Ireland and the impact on a society which has undergone radical demographic changes in the recent years. The film features personal and moving interviews with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures, set against colourful and unusual festivals with a very strong emphasis on music. This 80-minute story brings a strong local angle to a world-wide phenomenon that is replicated in many parts of the world and aims to make a difference in viewers’ hearts and minds by delving into the thoughts and emotions of individuals from different religious and ethnic backgrounds who have chosen to make Northern Ireland their home. From answering practical concerns such as “why do these people come here to take our jobs?” to addressing the damaging impact that labelling other cultures has on society as a whole, the film takes the public through a soul-searching journey.
Free to the Public Partner: Foyle Film Festival
Thursday Toody Threedy is a monthly event held on the second Thursday of every month in Belfast – by animators for animators. In a CultureTECH special the meetup will be decamping to Derry~Londonderry for a casual get together and a few sociable “refreshments”. The event is open to all animators, industry professionals and students – but interested CultureTECH attendees can come down for a nosey too. There will be work from some of NI’s most promising young animators on display and if you’d like to show your own work just bring it along on a laptop, iPad, iPhone or USB.
6.30pm-8pm – Animators hangout and panel session (Craft Village Cottage)
TOODY THREEDY Craft Village 20:00-22:00
8pm-late – Toody Threedy NB: If you’re coming up from Belfast, there’ll be a bus leaving from UU on Thursday morning to go to the Belfast Media Festival at CultureTECH and returning to Belfast late Thurs pm
Free to the Public
LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY SHOWCASE Sandinos 21:00-01:00 Liverpool Sound City are over the moon to be at CultureTECH for the second year, hosting a showcase of some of the best artists from Northern Ireland who have played at the festival during the last 6 years. Liverpool Sound City (1st, 2nd, 3rd May 2014) is a world renowned 3 day international music, media and technology conference and live arts and music festival. Hosting over 360 artists performing to an audience of 41,000 music fans over 3 days and 3,412 industry professionals, it packs controversial debate, unparalleled networking, amazing music, ground breaking film, fantastic photography, eclectic art, an Expo, and even a football tournament into 3 inspirational days and hedonistic nights in the world’s most legendary music city. www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk
Free to the Public
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Shhhhh ....... CultureTECH and MPC are planning a party. Thursday night 20:00-Late
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At a glance FRIDAY by the hour friDay
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-11:30
Skills Workshop: Sales for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUP Office
Free
10:00-13:00
Intelligent Digital Storytelling
Millennium Forum
Registration Req'd
10:00-14:00
Lightbulb Photography Workshop
Shipquay Street
£25
10:00-15:00
Belfast Media Festival
Playhouse
Registration Req'd
10:00-18:00
Mu by Sensum
Foyleside
Free
10:00-20:00
Off the Page: Storytelling Without Borders
Shipquay Street
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
Debate: Are we Getting Digital Literacy Right?
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
How to Release Music Digitally (Properly)
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
11:00-13:00
Music for Video Games
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
11:30-13:00
Skills Workshop: Fundraising for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
12:00-17:00
7 Rooms
TBA
Free
14:00-15:00
Skills Workshop: IP for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
14:00-15:00
Future Education: Case Study
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
14:00-15:30
Great Music Videos on a Budget
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
14:00-15:30
Next Generation Creative Tools
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
14:00-17:00
Introduction to DIY Electronics
Nerve Centre
€39
15:00-16:00
Skills Workshop: Winning Tenders for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
15:00-16:00
Future Education
Learning Pool Cottage
Registration Req'd
15:00-18:00
Banter Salon
Nerve Centre
Free
15:30-17:00
Music Tech Showcase
Nerve Centre
Free
15:30-17:00
Upside Down – Starting a Creative Business in an Industry ...
Nerve Centre
Registration Req'd
16:00-17:00
Skills Workshop: Recruitment for Digital Entrepreneurs
INI PopUp Office
Free
17:00-19:00
Other Voices Challenge Pitch Sessions
Nerve Centre
Free
17:00-19:00
PRS for Music x IMRO – Media Writing Showcase
Nerve Centre
Free
17:00-21:00
Reset Industries WarmUp ft. Kaidi Tatham, Kabdriver, Defcon
Craft Village
Free
19:00-21:00
Music Industry MeetUp sponsored by BandApp
Nerve Centre
Free
19:00-21:00
Screening: Music and Chat from the Oak Grove ….
Orchard Cinema
Free
19:00-19:00
GameCraft 24hr Event
Millennium Forum
Registration Req'd
19:30-21:00
Lilliput Theatre Co presents Farewell to the Foyle
Ebrington
Free
19:30-01:00
DANI Awards Gala Dinner
St Columb's Hall
Advance Ticket
20:00-22:00
Stravaganza Performance
Foyle Theatre, NWRC
£10 / £6 con
20:00-01:00
Super Fun Happy Games Bar
Cafe Soul
£3
20:00-01:00
Jetplane Landing + More Than Conquerors + Axis Of
Glassworks
£8
21:00-01:00
Rudimentary Records presents Bass Clef + guests
Gweedore
£5
21:00-01:00
Champion Sound showcase ft Ryan Vail, Unknown + guests
Sandinos
£5
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Friday Entrepreneurs have to wear a lot of hats - salesperson, accountant, HR manager, tea maker and marketing guru to name just a few. Nobody can be expert at everything and, as your business grows, you’ll want to fill those roles with the best people you can find.
In the short term however, getting your business up and running - and making it a success - means honing your skills in a variety of areas. Across five key topics, the Skilling It workshops - in partnership with Invest NI - will focus on quick tips and strategies that digital entrepreneurs can apply to their businesses right away.
Skilling it: Sales for Digital Entrepreneurs
INVEST NI “SKILLING IT” WORKSHOPS Invest NI Pop Up
10:00-11:30
Presented by: Sam Barbee, Learning Pool
Skilling it: Fundraising for Digital Entrepreneurs
11:30-13:00
Presented by: Forde-Campbell LLP
Skilling it: IP for Digital Entrepreneurs
14:00-15:00
Presented by: Forde-Campbell LLP Skilling it: IP Winning Tenders for Digital Entrepreneurs
15:00-16:00
Skilling it: IP Recruitment for for Digital Entrepreneurs
16:00-17:00
Workshop Pass Partner: Invest NI
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Friday On Friday, 13th September, Social Innovation Camp will bring together 30 or more people from Northern Ireland together with a range of writers, comic artists, editors, and publishers for an experiment in storytelling. We will put together teams of 5-6 people who will be given a set of constraints and prompts and told to create a story – in any form imaginable – from it. This could be an app, a book, an animated video, a comic, or anything. What we’ll do Teams will be given food, space, and a number of prompts. Each team will also receive a specialist mentor, in the form of a real working writer, editor, comic artist, or game designer.
OFF THE PAGE: STORYTELLING WITHOUT BORDERS The CultureTECH Workshop 10:00-18:00
Story bits will be uploaded to a website during the day, and some prizes will come out at the end of the day. The mentors – writers, artists, agents, and editors – will run a series of workshops TBA. At the end & after the day Teams will present what they’ve done at the end of the day, and we’ll work with teams to turn their idea into an ebook or website as appropriate with further help. Interested? Sign up to get involved by emailing offthepage@sicamp.org Who’s involved: Off the Page is a project of the Social Innovation Camp, funded by the Building Change Trust in association with the BIG Lottery. The Kitschies and Clarion Publishing are generously offering support.
Today’s speakers at the Belfast Media Festival @ CultureTECH include:
BELFAST MEDIA FESTIVAL – DAY 2 The Playhouse 10:00-15:00
Ralph Rivera, Director of Future Media, BBC Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Creative Diversity, C4 Susan Lovell, Head of TV Commissioning, BBCNI Micheál O’Meallaigh, Commissioning Director, TG4 Jeff Ford, Director of Content, TV3 Michael Wilson, Managing Director, UTV Dermot Horan, Director of Broadcast and Acquisitions, RTE Ralph Lee, Head of Factual, C4 Damian Cavanagh, Daytime Commissioner, BBC Niamh O’Connor, RTE Greg Maguire, Professor of Animation, University of Ulster; CEO Inlifesize Linda Green, BBC Academy For updates on the programme or to register to attend visit www.belfastmediafestival.co.uk
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INTELLIGENT DIGITAL STORYTELLING Millennium Forum 10:00-13:00
Intelligent digital storytelling focuses on bringing together the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital storytelling in order to get computers to understand and tell stories. Dr. Roger Schank is one of the world’s pioneers in digital storytelling having developed some of the world’s first storytelling and story-understanding computer programmes in the 1970s with his research team at Yale University. Digital storytelling features in The Loebner Prize in AI where the world’s best chatbots compete in generating and responding to story lines. Storytelling is pervasive in film and computer games and an interesting avenue for the future is how robots can understand and tell stories with each other and with people.
10.00am “Designing ambient sound for films and video games’’ Dr. Minhua (Eunice) Ma, Reader in Scientific Visualisation, Digital Design Studio, University of Glasgow, Scotland. 10.40am “Robot war stories: latest news from the front line...’’ Prof. Noel Sharkey, Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, University of Sheffield, England.
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11.20am “23 years of The Loebner Prize --a personal reminiscence’’ Dr. Hugh Loebner, International Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), New York, USA. 12.00pm “Online story centred curricula: real learning requires real work’’ Dr. Roger Schank, John Evans Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University & CEO, Socratic Arts, Florida, USA. Workshop Pass Partner: Loebner Prize, University of Ulster
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@ Nerve Centre @ CultureTECH is part of the Nerve Centre’s NoCry2 project, supported by the Northern Periphery Programme and the European Union’s Regional Development Fund. All sessions take place in the Nerve Centre and are free to attend. Registration is required. Visit www.culturetech.co/ prog for more info.
HOW TO RELEASE MUSIC DIGITALLY (PROPERLY) Nerve Centre 11:00-13:00 The internet has enabled anyone - from major label to bedroom DJ - to sell their music online. This has created great opportunities but it’s also created even greater competition, with everyone clamouring to be heard. This panel will look at today’s marketplace and give advice on tried and tested methods of getting your music out there, and more importantly, getting it noticed and getting it sold. We will cover the importance of social media for artists and how to build your own audience; we’ll take a look at the many methods of bringing your music to market and the pros and cons of each; and we’ll finish up by taking a peek at life beyond the MP3 and where we go once it’s gone .... The session will include a curated discussion followed by a Q&A session with the panel. Speakers:
MUSIC FOR VIDEO GAMES: JABA MUSIC AND HALO 4 Nerve Centre 11:00-13:00 Video game soundtracks have moved on a bit from the Tetris theme tune and now regularly feature in music charts across the globe. Barry Campbell and James Cassidy know more than most about the industry having secured the services of Neil Davidge to compose and produce the score of the record breaking video game ‘Halo 4’. They are also Microsoft’s worldwide licensee for the Halo 4 soundtrack - which charted in the US Billboard Top 50 charts in November 2012 at the highest ever position for a video game soundtrack. Barry and James will be joined in this session by games developers who’ll explain their approach to creating - or sourcing - a great soundtrack. So if you’d like to know more about how you can use music in your games - or are a musician keen to learn about this growing market make sure you’re here.
Thomas Quaye - CEO, Planet Mu
www.jabamusic.co.uk; www.7Hzrecordings.com
Lyndon Stephens - Champion Sound Music/Champion Sound Recordings
Speakers:
Timmy Stewart - Extended Play
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James Cassidy – Jaba Music
Ryan Vail - Culture Glitch/Champion Sound Recordings
Barry Campbell – Jaba Music
Registration req’d
Partner: Nerve Centre
Partner: Champion Sound, Nerve Centre
Registration req’d
GREAT MUSIC VIDEOS ON A BUDGET: A HOW TO WITH WINDOW SEATS Belfast band Window Seats have a great track record of making music videos on a budget. In this seminar, they will talk about their insights and methods of music video production. They’ll be speaking about what is involved when band members step up to be video producers. The panel will also consist of other innovators in the world of music videos.
Registration req’d
Partner: Nerve Centre
Nerve Centre 14:00-15:30 INTRODUCTION TO DIY ELECTRONICS FOR MUSICIANS In this practical, Introduction to DIY Electronics for Musicians workshop, we will present participants with the knowledge, skills and concepts required for making and modifying the analog equipment they use on a daily basis. We begin by covering the basics of electricity, and introduce analog components, explaining how they function within a circuit. We then introduce participants to the tools and skills required for DIY electronics, including the proper way to solder and prototyping on a breadboard. We finish up the workshop by building a pocket sized, portable guitar amplifier, that the participants take home with them.
Nerve Centre 14:00-17:00
Tickets just €39 in advance from www.maker.ie or free with a Conference Pass Partner: Maker
NEXT GENERATION CREATIVE TOOLS Technology is changing and creativity is changing with it. This has spawned a new generation of content creators who are discovering new ways to produce and perform. With particular attention to music and visuals, this panel brings together some of the industry innovators to discuss new approaches, methods and tools they’ve designed to keep creativity interesting. This session is presented in partnership with ROTOR, winners of the SeedComp StartUp Competition at CultureTECH 2012 Speakers: DJ Tu-Ki - Ernet Nathorst-Bös, Founder at Propellerhead - Tim Redfern, CTO at ROTOR - Julien Bayle, Digital Artist
Nerve Centre 14:00-15:30
Registration req’d Partner: ROTOR, Nerve Centre
MUSIC TECH SHOWCASE Music technology is quickly becoming one of the UK and Ireland’s hottest sectors with names like Last.fm, Bandapp, Songkick, Detour, Soundcloud, Beatport and many more leading the charge. In this showcase session, we’ve invited a bunch of the most exciting new crop of music tech startups to come and show us their wares in 10 minutes or less. Participating startups include: Soundwave (Dublin) - 45Sound (Dublin) Inflyte (Belfast) - Rotor (Derry) Bandwagon (Singapore) + more to come
Registration req’d Partner: Nerve Centre
Nerve Centre 15:30-17:00
UPSIDE DOWN - STARTING A CREATIVE BUSINESS IN AN INDUSTRY IN FLUX The Music business is a rapidly changing place; vinyl is on the rise, YouTube is being seen as an ever increasingly important revenue stream and the live music is, in many ways, bigger than ever. This session will take a good look at some of the models that are currently working by examining a few recent success stories including Boiler Room, Amazing Radio and Majestic Casual. As an industry that is in flux it’s a very uncertain time, some may say that it’s not a good time to start a creative business, but it is often in these turbulent periods that new companies with fresh business models can gain a foothold. Speakers:
Nerve Centre 15:30-17:00
Matt Jamison - CEO, Amazing Radio - Lyndon Stephens - Champion Sound Music/ Champion Sound Recordings - Oisin O’Brien - DSNT - Kyle Marino – Soundspace
Registration req’d Partner: Champion Sound, Nerve Centre
OTHER VOICES CHALLENGE PITCH SESSIONS Earlier this year Other Voices wowed Derry with something a little special in The Glassworks and throughout the town - before doing the same in a gorgeous music hall in London’s East End. They also took that opportunity to launch the Other Voices Digital Challenge - a three month search for exciting new ideas (in partnership with CultureTECH) in the worlds of music technology, social media and big data that could be incorporated into the Other Voices live experience, TV show and online presence.
Nerve Centre 17:00-19:00
On Friday, September 13th, the shortlisted ideas will be pitched to the judges in short 10 min presentations, before the two best ideas receive €5000 each to help them implement those ideas at Other Voices in Dingle this December.
Free to the Public
PRS FOR MUSIC X IMRO - MEDIA WRITING MENTORSHIP SHOWCASE Music Organisation are teaming up with CultureTECH are teaming up to offer a media writing mentorship that will run during this year’s CultureTECH festival. The mentorship will see 12 songwriters or composers working to compose a piece of music to a brief over a 30 hour period, working with mentors before showcasing their work as part of the CultureTECH festival. The mentoring sessions begin on Thursday morning from 10am and are by invitation only (see above) The final showcase takes place on Friday at 5pm and is free and open to the public
Nerve Centre 17:00-19:00
Partner: PRS for Music, IMRO
MUSIC INDUSTRY MEETUP Too early to go out, too late to go home? Not a problem. Come hang out with our music industry speakers and delegates from throughout Friday’s lineup and grab a couple of drinks before heading out for the night. It’s the perfect chance to ask the question you forgot to ask, pitch your best ideas or just make some new contacts. Rumour has it that the drinks and tunes are kindly sponsored by BandApp!
Daytime event attendees only.
Masons 19:00-21:00
Partner: BandApp
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DEBATE: ARE WE GETTING DIGITAL LITERACY RIGHT? Learning Pool Cottage 11:00-13:00 Digital literacy researchers explore a wide variety of topics, including how people find, use, summarize, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies. Research also encompasses a variety of hardware platforms, such as computer hardware, cell phones and other mobile devices and software or applications, including web search or Internet applications more broadly. As a result, the area is concerned with much more than how people learn to use computers. (As ripped from Wikipedia). What we’re interested in is a simple question, how do we get more people using the technology that’s at their hands? And how do we widen access to those technologies? This session is a debate. We’ll be inviting key experts to give us their take on the subject and then we’ll thrash it out between them and the audience. Fisticuffs may ensue.
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Partner: Learning Pool
7 ROOMS Venue TBC 12:00-17:00 A visual installation containing the dark childhood memories of real happenings and recurrent dreams. Set in an abandoned asylum, the work reflects a reality, illusion and delusion through the juxtaposition of film and a live, electronically engineered soundtrack. “The Dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul”....Carl Jung Live Score performed by Prima Quartet Music and electronics composed by Cobi Van Tonder Visual Installation filmed and Edited by Dermot McGowan and Matthew Logue
Free to the Public
CASE STUDY: DIGITAL CREATIVE EDUCATION AT SOUTH WEST COLLEGE Learning Pool Cottage 14:00-15:00 Paul McGovern from South West College will present a short case study on the changing face of digital creative education – examining how SWC and other academic institutions need to adapt to the demands of industry in the field of game design and animation / visual effects and what the college are doing to support that.
Free to the Public Partner: Learning Pool
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FUTURE EDUCATION Learning Pool Cottage 15:00-17:00 Education, like everything else, is changing. The use of technology has had an obvious (and growing) impact incorporating everything from e-learning to m-learning, and probably most of the letters in between. But is the use of technology the only question we need to be asking? This session, delivered in partnership with Learning Pool, will take a more holistic approach and dive into everything from technology in learning to the ways in which we engage kids online, and new educational trends to getting young people excited about science, engineering and learning code. Speakers: Sharna Jackson - Editor of Tate Kids John Peto – The Nerve Centre
Free to the Public Partner: Learning Pool
SCREENING: MUSIC DANCE AND CHAT FROM THE OAK GROVE ON THE BANKS OF THE FOYLE Orchard Cinema 19:00-21:00
LILLIPUT THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT “FAREWELL TO THE FOYLE” Ebrington Parade Ground 19:30-21:00
This film screening demonstrates one man’s quest to show his UK City of Culture 2013 through music, dance and chat. Roy McCullough starts his journey on the beautiful River Foyle to show potential visitors to the city its many charms…
Lilliput Theatre Company, as part of the CultureTECH Festival, presents a multimedia performance pageant “Farewell to the Foyle” by playwright Martin O’Loinsigh.
Using an audio extract from the film, Roy says “I want to welcome you to my city which has had many names over the years including Doire, Londonderry, Derry, the Maiden City and even Legenderry but I hope it will become even better known as the first UK City of Culture 2013. The film features the Britannia Concert Band, The Londonderry Musical Society, The Doire Calgach Singers and the Porters School of Irish Dancing and interviews with the members of these groups. After the screening there will be an opportunity to talk to Roy and John on the making of the film…
Free to the Public Partner: Foyle Film Festival
“Farewell to the Foyle” tells the story of a family of Derry dockers forced to confront the issues of leaving home to find a future in an uncertain world where the story of the parting of a family unit has resonance in the past as well as the changing world of Derry in the 21st century. Using image projection, drama, music and audience participation, “Farewell to the Foyle” creates an emotive narrative of Derry’s past, present and future. Lilliput Theatre Company, Ireland’s premier learning disability theatre company is proud to present “Farewell to the Foyle” as their contribution to Derry~Londonderry’s City of Culture year.
Free to the Public
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Friday Kaidi Tatham, Cull, Kab Driver, Defcon The Reset collective comprises Kab Driver, Defcon, Brian Greene & Kaidi Tatham. Their Belfast events of special guests, live collaborations and upbeat party vibes quickly established itself as an unmissable night. 2012 saw the launch of their boutique label – ‘Reset Industries’ – which deals mainly in ballsy, soulful electronic music. In June this year they released “Time Swap” 12” EP from French artist !tems, a fusion of 2 step tinged house and funk fused with hypnotic soul and jazz samples, embedded with layers of sub bass that King Tubby would be proud of.
THE RESET INDUSTRIES WARMUP The Craft Village 17:00-21:00
At CultureTECH Reset presents the jazz commando badman Kaidi Tatham performing some improv and recent solo work with live keys and flute, special guest and outrageous human beatbox talent Cull (Vinyl Kombat), and Reset residents Kab Driver and Defcon performing some of their past releases and newer material incorporating elements of funk, dub, house, jazz and electronica in 3d! Free to the Public
The Super Fun Happy Games Bar is taking over Cafe Soul for a one-off night of retro games related revelry! Featuring DJs, chipmusic, live performances, 8bit art, interactive installations and plenty of retro consoles! And it’s a bring your own event! Lineup Includes: Chipzel - an independent Northern Irish chip-musician who indulges in the use of Gameboys to create energetic, melodic dance tracks. KaraKara - is the alias of experimental hip-hop musician, electronic beat-maker, mashup producer, DJ and designer Kieron Dold.
SUPER FUN HAPPY GAMES BAR Café Soul 20:00-01:00
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Qpop - a psychedelic/cyberpunk/experimental/concept-based audiovisual electronic art entity, incorporating VJing, DJ mixes, improvised electronic music, circuit bending and interactive sculptural elements. Jef Jef Jef - live video mixing and the art of the theatre, Jef is a VJ & general McGuyver that makes festival fun out of found objects. Zyme - bringing joypad-generation tunage to clubgoers & festival audiences with frantic chiptune parties. Prizes and surprises for the best cosplay Outdoor marquee Bring your own Booze (did we say that already?) Drink, dance and play video games! Brought to you by Derry Productions, Global GameCraft co-Organiser Vicky Twomey Lee & the cool people at the Gamepak Collective.
Tickets just £3 on the door or free with Conference + Music Pass
Friday Game developers from all over will gather together in Derry, to pour forth their creative juices in an extravaganza of game development talent that hasn’t been seen since…well, since the last GameCraft! Participants, either individually or as a team, have a whole 24 hours to create a game centred around a random theme to be announced on the day.
GAMECRAFT Millennium Forum 19:00 FRI -19:00 SAT
It will be exciting, it will be intense, it will be… slightly pungent, frankly. But it will be worth it! After 24 hours, a panel of highly trained judges (at least, they look highly trained, they are all wearing monocles) will examine each of the submitted games and select a few stand-out entries to be awarded some awesome prizes. While the games are being pinched, prodded, and poked, we’ll all have some well-deserved refreshments and a bit of time for the allimportant networking. Participants are free to come and go as they need - whether that’s to grab a few beers or a few hours sleep - be we’ll be here round the clock. So if you want to work straight through, bring a pillow! Good luck and may the most ridiculous game win! http://dublingamecraft.com/events/derry-gamecraft/ 7PM FRI to 7PM SAT GameCrafting 7PM SAT to 10PM Game play and judging Registration Req'd Partner: GameCraft Dublin
By the way .... we're working on something very special for this one. We hoping to bring in one of the world's biggest games companies to help make this the biggest GameCraft event ever. Watch this space
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The DANI Awards are the Northern Ireland’s premier Digital Industry Awards, celebrating excellence within the digital sector. The DANI Awards are your opportunity to shine and demonstrate the outstanding work in your field. Now entering their 3rd year, the DANI Awards connects the Province's digital leaders through its annual ceremony. Any company within NI or working with an NI business, whether public or private sector can enter the DANI Awards, regardless of size. The DANI Awards has a range of categories suited to a wide variety of organisations; from large private and public companies through to thriving entrepreneurial businesses, promising start-ups and established SMEs.
DANI AWARDS ST. COLUMB’S HALL 20:00-01:00
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It is also an absolutely huge night out. Expect black tie glamour, food, drink, live music and brilliant local DJs to help you make some shapes on the dance floor. More info at www.thedaniawards.co.uk
Advance ticket only via www.culturetech.co
Friday
Jetplane Landing are possibly the least technical, certainly the least digital, but possibly the most unmissable thing happening during CultureTECH 2013. Formed in 1999 by Andrew Ferris and Jamie Burchell along with guitarist Cahir O’Doherty (Fighting With Wire), the band are most noted for their classic post-hardcore album ‘Once Like A Spark’ a masterpiece of the genre that has influenced scores of rock bands since its release in 2003. This is the band’s first full appearance in Derry for over eight years, in support of their latest record ‘Don’t Try’; they are joined by Smalltown America label mates More Than Conquerors and Axis Of. If you fancy going buck mental on the Friday night - the Glassworks will be the only place to be. £6 Early Bird | £8 Advance
JETPLANE LANDING + MORE THAN CONQUERORS + AXIS OF The Glassworks 20:00-01:00
Free with Conference+Music Pass wegottickets.com/event/229657
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Friday Ryan Vail ( Live ), Unknown ( Live ), Tom Quaye ( Planet Mu ), Lyndon Stephens ( Champion Sound ), Visual Show by DSNT Local lad Ryan Vail needs little introduction but this will be a rare chance to catch him play live in a venue that's dear to his heart. Unknown is his label mate on Champion Sound Recordings a man who has caught the ear of Mmoths, John Talabot Ben Pearce and who will tonight play live. The label bosses of Planet Mu ( Tom Quaye ) and Champion Sound ( Lyndon Stephens ) will also play a fine selection of tunes for your listening and dancing pleasure. Visual show by award winning Belfast collective DSNT
£5 ON THE DOOR or free with Conference + Music Pass
THE CHAMPION SOUND SHOWCASE Sandinos 21:00-01:00
Bass Clef, T-Woc, Sina, Yoru + guests For one night only, Belfast label Rudimentary Records brings together some exceptionally tasty talent for a night of beats, bass and so on. The label has a simple plan, to release music representative of the sounds and styles they have been promoting over the years both at live events and on their radio show. Not sticking exclusively to one style over another, Rudimentary explores deep bass related music, from dubstep, to dub-techno, drum and bass, and anything else in between. The focus for the label is quality, depth and longevity over trying to tap into “the in sound” and some dancing!
RUDIMENTARY RECORDS PRESENTS BASS CLEF Gweedore Bar 21:00-01:00
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Tickets just £5 on the door or free with Conference + Music Pass
At a glance SATURDAY AND SUNDAY by the hour saturDay
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-14:00
Lightbulb Photography Workshop
Shipquay Street
£25
10:00-16:00
Seagate Presents CultureTECH Junior Family Day
The Venue
Free
10:00-18:00
International Loebner Prize Contest in Artificial Intelligence
University of Ulster
Free
10:00-18:00
Mu by Sensum
Foyleside
Free
11:00-16:00
CoderDojo 500
The Venue
Free
12:00-13:30
Creating Audio Drama
Shipquay Street
Free
13:00-15:00
Allingham Arts Festival Launch
Craft Village
Free
13:00-17:00
Glasgowbury Picnic
Guildhall Sq
Free
13:00-17:00
SYNC – Music Promise in the Commuinty
Glassworks
Free
13:00-17:00
BandApp Stage
TBA
Free
14:00-15:00
Inheritance
The Walls
Free
14:00-15:30
Creatively Mobile: Composing Text Poems on Your Mobile
Shipquay Street
Free
14:00-17:00
Stravaganza Sonic Session
Univeristy of Ulster
Registration Req'd
15:00-16:30
The Elephant Calf
Waterloo Place
Free
15:00-17:00
SYNC – Music Promise in the Community
Craft Village
Free
15:00-18:00
Banter Salon
Craft Village
Free
17:00-19:00
The Last of the Name
Sandinos
Free
17:00-21:00
Jika Jika WarmUp ft Paolo Mojo, Pincer Movement ++
Craft Village
Free
18:00-21:00
The Shadows Project presents A Midsummer Nights Dream
Orchard Cinema
Free
20:00-01:00
ROTOR Launch Party ft Psycatron, DJ Tu-Ki, Sunken Foal
Sandinos
Free
20:00-01:00
FUSE at The Jammhouse with Oh Yeah! Music Centre
Playhouse
£3
21:00-23:00
90 Second City Screenings
Craft Village
Free
21:00-01:00
La Musique Sixth Birthday Party
Glassworks
£10
21:30-01:00
Bounce Events presents Real Times ft Kaidi Tatham, Kwa ++
Cafe Soul
£5
sunDay
EVENT
VENUE
ACCESS
10:00-17:00
Waiting for Artificial Intelligence
University of Ulster
Free
11:00-13:00
Jammhouse Brunch
Sandwich Company
Free
14:00-20:00
CultureTECH Closing Party
Craft Village
Free
20:00-21:30
Lit Word Bits
Craft Village
Free
21:00-00:00
Walled City Records After Party
Sandinos
£3
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Saturday
SEAGATE PRESENTS THE CULTURETECH JUNIOR EXHIBITION FAMILY DAY The Venue 10:00-16:00
The CultureTECH Junior Exhibition at The Venue, sponsored by Seagate, is one of the biggest science, technology and media events every held in the North West and for one day only, it’ll be open to the public and completely free! Come and get hands on with exhibits, events, experiments and challenges from: Allstate NI, BBC, Bombardier, Cahoots NI, CERN, C-Tric, Discover Science and Engineering, E&I Engineering, Engineers Ireland, Fire Service NI, Fresh Made Media, Henderson Music, Institute of Physics, Intel Ireland, JVC, Learning Pool, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Nerve Centre, North West Regional College, Northern Ireland Science Park, NuPrint, Samsung, Seagate, Sentinus, Shaun Whoriskey (3D Animator), Sligo Innovation Centre, St Ceciliaʼs F1 challenge, STEM Aware, STEM Bus, Sync NI, Troll Inc, University of Ulster, VIEWdigital.org, W5, Western Health and Social Care Trust
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Free to the Public
Saturday
FEATURED EXHIBIT: CERN: “Accelerating Science” The Venue, Thursday-Saturday
FEATURED EXHIBIT: STEAM City @ The Nerve Centre The Venue, Thursday-Saturday
The CERN exhibition covers 100 square metres providing an overview of; The laboratory and its Member States, The LHC accelerator, The 4 large LHC experiments, Technological “spin-offs” derived from particle physcis research. Two models show respectively the cross-section of the LHC magnets and the complexity of a Particle PhysIcs Detector.
The Nerve Centre’s Creative Learning Centre and FabLab projects will be bringing some STEAM to CultureTECH Junior. Get hands on and explore 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and Mobile Technologies as we put the Art into STEM and bring a digital creative dimension to learning, making and doing for students and teachers across the Key Stages.
A short film “The Big Bang” projected inside the first quadrant of the exhibition, takes the visitor on a trip from the very first instants of our Universe through to the present day research being done at CERN and by the Large Hadron Collider.
CoderDojo is a global network of free computer coding and programming clubs for young people, with an emphasis on free-source tools and shared open learning between clubs. Forbes Top 30 under 30 entrepreneur James Whelton co-founded the movement when he was still at school in Cork just over two years ago. It has shot across the world since then, and the Derry dojo was set up last year, meeting fortnightly during term at Magee College, University of Ulster. As part of Seagate’s CultureTECH Programme, Derry CoderDojo - supported by the CoderDojo movement’s global team Hello World Foundation - is holding a Monster CoderDojo session to bring hundreds of young coders together at The Venue in Derry on Sat Sept 14th. Planned sessions include:
CODERDOJO 500 The Venue 10:00-16:00
11am to 1pm:
2pm to 4pm:
• Coding and Innovation • CoderDojo Divas (Coding for girls) • Scratch for Beginners,
• HTML • Scratch for Beginners • Showcase – a chance to see what young coders can achieve…
We will have a surprise guest at lunchtime as well. Registration details will be posted at the end of July from: http://zen.coderdojo.com/ dojo/135 and on http://coderdojo.com/ so keep a lookout! All ages welcome but please bring a parent or guardian if you are under 16.
Free to the Public
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Saturday
MULTIPLAY GAMES BASH Millennium Forum 10:00-20:00
From Thursday to Sunday, we’re turning the Walled City into a massive games arcade with free-to-play games and tournaments as we host one of the largest gaming events ever held in the city. But Saturday is where it all comes to a head. Huge MineCraft tournaments - including Hunger Games, Walls and Parkour mods - TrackMania, FIFA, fighting games, retro arcades and team battles abound across 72 hours of gaming madness.
CITY ARCADE City-wide 10:00-18:00
CultureTECH will be showcasing the very best in what gaming has to offer, with public games zones throughout the city, free-to-play casual gaming stations and dozens of tournament events across a mix of genres and platforms. Most events are completely free and open to the public and there will be games, tournaments and showcases suitable for everyone from children and families to casual players and serious gamers. Games tournament supremos Multiplay will be hosting throughout and will be bringing along some of the biggest games publishers on the planet to take part.
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So, if you’re into games, or know someone who is, this is the only place to be on Saturday. www.multiplay.co.uk Free to the Public
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INTERNATIONAL LOEBNER PRIZE CONTEST IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE University Of Ulster 10:00-18:00
The Imagineering Quarter and CultureTECH 2013 are hosting, for the first time on the island of Ireland, the International Loebner Prize 2013 Contest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to find the world’s best conversational chatbot computer program in collaboration with universities in the USA (New Mexico), Denmark (Aalborg), France (LIMSI-CNRS), England (Exeter, Sheffield) & island of Ireland (The Queen’s University of Belfast, UCD, DCU) and co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society UKRI chapter. Each year an Annual Prize & Bronze Medal is awarded to the most humanlike computer. All prizes are sponsored by New York Philanthropist, Dr. Hugh Loebner. Loebner Prize 2013, in collaboration with Foyle Learning Community and TeenTech CIC, also includes a Junior Loebner Prize in which the Junior Judging Panel consists of school pupils between 12 and 14 years old. Loebner Prize 2013 will be broadcast on `Head Squeeze’, 360 Production & BBC Worldwide’s YouTube channel and across media channels from the USA, France, Germany, Austria, UK and Ireland. Free to the Public Partner: Loebner Prize, University of Ulster
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Saturday
CREATING AUDIO DRAMA The Culturetech Workshop 12:00-13:30 This is a creative workshop designed for actors & storytellers, guiding them how to make the most of their skills and resources to create short radio dramas and audio based performance art. Facilitated by actor and writer Amanda Doherty (The Fall, Kabosh Theatre, Peace Camp) and sound designer Daniel Acheson (Lamb Films, Game of Thrones), participants will be led through the process of creating their own short dramas or stories and turning them into dynamic pieces of audio using a mixture of everyday materials and audio technology. This workshop is a fusion of imagination and technological know-how where participants will arrive with ideas and leave with a lasting copy of their work. Please bring your imagination!
Free to the Public
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ALLINGHAM ARTS FESTIVAL LAUNCH Craft Village 13:00-15:00 Festival launch & Public Screening of “A Walk With Allingham” “A Walk With Allingham” is short film by a team of multidisciplinary design students and staff from Design At Magee, University of Ulster. Come along and find out more about this unique poet from Ballyshannon. Discover why the Allingham Arts Festival is embracing digital storytelling through multiple design disciplines while still encouraging the art of creative writing and painting.
Free to the Public Partner: Allingham Arts Festival
STRAVAGANZA SONIC SESSION University Of Ulster 14:00-17:00 Stravaganza Arts Lab is an intense week of experimental music, movement and multimedia workshops for people with and without disabilities. Led by the best of local, national and international tutors, participants will explore a combination of traditional art forms and accessible cutting edge technologies to create an eclectic performance for theatre. Saturday events will feature presentations from innovators in the field of accessible creative technologies.
Registration Req'd Partner: University of Ulster
Saturday
CREATIVELY MOBILE: COMPOSING TEXTPOEMS ON YOUR MOBILE The Culturetech Workshop 14:00-16:30
INHERITANCE Walled City 14:00-15:00 ‘Inheritance’ is an original piece of performance art, created for CultureTECH 2013 by Amanda Doherty. Following a fictional narrative, this dynamic piece of theatre examines both the cultural and social climate which we have inherited and that which we are leaving behind. Led through their ears, audience members will be provided the opportunity to download the pre-recorded podcast for the show which leads them through both the dialogue and the surrounding landscape of the Derry walls as silent live performance takes place in front of them. The performance begins at 2pm from the City Walls facing the Guildhall. www.AmandaDoherty.com
Free to the Public
This interactive workshop offers exciting ideas for using your mobile phone to compose and send creative, humorous and inspiring messages. We will play with ideas, words and text-language. The workshop is for people who enjoy texting and want to use their phones more creatively. No experience of writing poetry needed, just an open mind and a mobile phone. You’ll also get a free pack of 30 textpoem cards, valued at £10.00, and suggestions for creating your own pack. Facilitator: Shelley Tracey, writer, textpoet, and author of articles about the innovative new digital art of textpoetry. Places are limited so please contact Shelley to reserve your place.
the ELEPHANT CALF Mobile Republic, Waterloo Place 15:00-16:00 The Elephant Calf is a noise/improv duo consisting of Marcin Pietruszewski on laptop and Lorcan Doherty on violin and laptop. They use horsehair and live coding to produce swirling masses of digital dust filled with sirens, drones, pulses and scrapes. Their freely improvised performances explore the physicality of sound and the integration of acoustic and electronic soundworlds. Following a lengthy gestation period The Elephant Calf was born in October 2012 and has performed in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London. Come check them out in this rather unique venue.
Free to the Public
www.creativetextpoems.co.uk
Free to the Public
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Saturday
Last year Duke Special, Soak, Amidships, Best Boy Grip and Our Krypton Son held court over Guildhall Square on the last day of CultureTECH. We may have got a little damp, but it was a blast. This year we hand the reins over to Glasgowbury for the afternoon, who promise to bring a slice of their Small But Massive weekend to the city. There’ll also be performances as part of the Music Promise and some special guests popping in to say hello. And seeing as how we’ll have no fewer than four stages across the city centre, music throughout the day in the Craft Village, our City-wide games arcade in full flow, a huge games tournament taking over the Millennium Forum, street musicians all over the shop and the Seagate CultureTECH Junior Science and Tech exhibition in The Venue - this Saturday might just be one to remember. Full lineup released in July Free to the Public Partner: Glasgowbury
GLASGOWBURY PICNIC Guildhall Square, 13:00-17:00
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Saturday
The Music Promise is putting music and creativity at the heart of children and young people’s lives this Culture year. As part of the educational arm of the City of Culture, The Music Promise is engaging young people in music making and performance to grow and showcase the incredible talent of a new generation. In schools and communities there are countless opportunities to learn new skills, hone talent and step onto stages great and small. CultureTECH offers an extraordinary opportunity for our young people to realise their Music Promise and shine on stages across the city.
THE MUSIC PROMISE City-wide 13:00-17:00
Performances will take place across the week in Foyleside and at various outdoor locations across the city with events culminating in young people from across the city taking over CultureTECH stages in Guildhall Square, Waterloo Place, the Craft Village, the Walls and the Glassworks on Saturday, September 14th, 1-5pm Free to the Public Partner: Music Promise, City of Culture 2013, Nerve Centre, Alleycats
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Saturday BandApp is undoubtedly one of the most exciting music tech companies in the UK right now, helping bands and artists of all shapes, sizes and genres create professional apps to promote their work. And all entirely free. To celebrate their involvement in CultureTECH 2013, BandApp will be hosting their very own city centre stage on Saturday, featuring some of the most exciting young bands on this island, who are currently using the BandApp platform to connect with their fans.
BANDAPP STAGE The Walled City 13:00-17:00
And just to make it a bit more interesting, BandApp will be hosting an open call via their site to find a few new acts to add to the lineup - so if you’re interested in playing at CultureTECH, head over to BandApp now and get started. www.bandapp.com
Free to the Public
One of Derry’s most consistent club events, JIKA JIKA! joins the CultureTECH party hosting their own outdoor(and covered) party on Saturday 14th September. Globetrotting DJ and one of Derry’s favourite adopted sons, PAOLO MOJO performs a very special FREE set at the Craft Village from 5pm-9pm alongside Pincer Movement & the Jika Jika! Residents. Admission is FREE and there will be some freebies to give away for the main event at the Basement. Get there early as numbers are limited!
Free to the Public
THE JIKA JIKA WARMUP ft PAOLO MOJO The Craft Village 17:00-19:00
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Saturday
THE LAST OF THE NAME Sandinos 17:00-19:00 The Last of the Name is a multi-media creation which combines social history with contemporary music, visuals and technology. It is inspired by the book by Clonmany weaver Charles McGlinchey who died in 1955. His book has been hailed by Brian Friel, and by Seamus Heaney – who described it as “full of emotional truth and the beauty of immediate, trusting speech, overbrimming with folklore of great imaginative richness”. This performance will include: • the words of Charles McGlinchey, • the music and songs of Finbarr Doherty, and the visuals of Inishowen • the places and the people – mixed live by VJ. The event will be filmed for a trans-media web-documentary by Culdaff-based iSeanachai.com. Digital story-telling that is eloquent, poetic and dynamic – this performance is not to be missed.
Pay on the door Admission: £5
SCREENING: THE SHADOWS PROJECT PRESENTS A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Orchard Cinema 18:00-21:00 The Shadows Project is a collective of local filmmakers set up by Colm S. Herron. The name and ethos of the project is inspired by the Independent filmmaker John Cassavetes who believed that you don’t need lots of money to create good drama. This project is aimed at encouraging selffinanced filmmakers to join forces and pool their resources in order to help each other in a mutual way and produce high quality films of varying styles.
SCREENINGS: 90 SECOND CITY Craft Village 21:00-23:00 90 SECOND CITY challenges multidisciplinary designers and filmmakers to create high calibre moving image/ animated shorts. Following its successful debut at the Craft Village in 2012, this short but sweet showcase is back, and delighted to be featuring at CultureTECH 2013. This year’s theme is ‘My Place’ For information on how to enter visit: www.culturetech.co/prog
Free to the public Free to the Public
This showcase will be previewing a collection of shorts by local directors, producers, writers and actors. To name a few ‘The Fare’ which is written and directed by the groups founder Colm S. Herron and ‘Frozen Sun’ which is written and directed by another member Sean Coyle. The night will also premiere a feature length adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream; adapted for the screen and directed by Caroline Breslin.
Free to the Public
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Saturday FUSE at the Jammhouse brings together the best in new talent in both film and music. FUSE is a showcase of new short films with a strong link to music - music documentary, music videos, animated films with an original score and anything in between. There will also be performances from the hottest music talent in Derry and Belfast thanks to the support of The Jammhouse and the Oh Yeah Music Centre. We are now calling for film submissions from those who would like their film shown at this great event. The only thing we ask is that music be an integral element to the film. PLUS we have a fantastic opportunity to award ÂŁ500 to a team of filmmakers and musicians to make an original film and score to be performed live at the screening of the film at FUSE. Make sure you go to our website for more info:
FUSE AT THE JAMMHOUSE The Playhouse 20:00-23:00
http://fuselive.co
Pay on the door just ÂŁ3
PSYCATRON DJ TU-KI SUNKEN FOAL + GUESTS To celebrate the demo launch of their music video generator, Rotor are hosting a genre-hopping music event that with acts ranging from hip-hop and electronica to techno and indie. With performances from the likes of DJ Tu-Ki (former Corona World DJ Champion), Sunken Foal, Psycatron plus more surprises to be announced, this free event promises to deliver a show like no other. Rotor will also be showing off their unprecedented live visual capabilities for extra entertainment.
ROTOR LAUNCH PARTY Sandinos 21:00-01:00
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This is going to be one to remember.
Free to the Public
Saturday CELEBRATING 6 YEARS OF LA MUSIQUE AT CULTURETECH Derry clubbing institution La Musique celebrates its 6th birthday at this year’s festival, with a huge party at The Glassworks music venue on Saturday 14th September. Since its beginning in 2007, CultureTECH La Musique have focused on new and local talent, bringing some of the rising stars of electro and disco to Derry, including Alex Metric, Strip Steve, Evil 9, The Japanese Popstars, Hystereo, Punks Jump Up, Grum, JoeFarr and lots more. In teaming up with CultureTECH, La Musique’s 6th birthday party promises to be something special, with the full line up released mid July.
LA MUSIQUE’S 6TH BIRTHDAY PARTY The Glassworks 21:00-01:00
£10 or free with Conference + Music Pass
This is the most innovative and exciting collaboration in our 14 year existence! International producer, composer, musician KAIDI TATHAM, (Bugz, Agent K, Barrio 54) + guests, KWAmE, BT48 design, Void and YOU. We will film, screen and online stream from the walled courtyard of Café Soul. Our special gathering features real time • Creation of beats & grooves backstage using a DJ Tool Kit provided by Kaidi Tatham • Remixes with LIVE MUSICIANS on stage with YOUR dance-floor forming part of THE performance • Bespoke poster design
BOUNCE EVENTS PRESENTS: REAL TIMES Café Soul 21:30-01:00
Three performances, three screens, all streamed LIVE ONLINE. This special gathering will also be recorded for a Bounce Radio CultureTECH Special. W: www.bouncindj.com F: Facebook.com/BounceCulture
Doors 9.30pm | £5 or free with Conference + Music Pass Bring your own refreshments
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Sunday We have been waiting for Artificial Intelligence (AI) since time began and Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Minsky and McCarthy first discussed it. AI has appeared in many science fiction books and films such as `2001: A Space Odyssey’, ‘Blade Runner’ and `The Terminator’. Many predicted we would have AI by the year 2000 and for 23 years now people have been desperately seeking to pass The Turing Test and win The Loebner Prize in AI. No computer programme has yet won the Loebner Grand Prize of US $100,000 (& 18kt solid Gold Medal) or the Silver Medal Prize of US $25,000 (& Silver Medal)! In this workshop comprising presentations and panel discussions by leading academics and industrialists from the USA, UK and Ireland we will ask the following pertinent questions:
WAITING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: DESPERATELY SEEKING THE LOEBNER PRIZE University Of Ulster 10:00-17:00
• - What is AI? • - Does `The Turing Test’ test for AI? We will also investigate the mathematical and computational foundations of AI and demonstrate commercial applications in online learning, computer games, sentiment analysis, digital storytelling, audio streaming, hiding information in images, smartphone companions, industrial design and robot warfare.
Registration req’d Partner: Loebner Prize, university of Ulster
So come Sunday afternoon we’ll be (mostly) done with CultureTECH 2013. Come join the team, speakers, performers and everyone else who helped make it all happen for a few sociables and music throughout the day. Nothing formal, just a gathering of tired and emotional folk all soaking up the sunshine. You’ll also catch the ultimate DJ battle as the CultureTECH Team go head-to-head on the decks for your applause and ultimate bragging rights.
Free to the Public
THE OFFICIAL CULTURETECH CLOSING PARTY Craft Village 14:00-20:00
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Sunday
WALLED CITY RECORDS PARTY Sandinos 21:00-23:30
JAMMHOUSE BRUNCH The Sandwich Company, Bishop Street 11:00-13:00 The Jammhouse presents Sunday Brunch at The Sandwich Co. in Bishop Street. On the 15th September there will be a special brunch with guest musicians and a good deal on your breakfast!. This event happens every week with a new artist each Sunday. Come along for some nice music to your brunch and a “chin wag” on all the amzing events you attended at CultureTech! Our special musical guest will be announced closer to the beginning of CultureTECH. https://www.facebook.com/pages/ Jammhouse-Brunch-at-Sandwich-Co
LIT WORD BITS Craft Village 20:00-21:30 James King has been developing his practice through the modes of performance art & sound poetry. He has reflected on this work through poetic writings & visual imagery. This event will include readings of poetry & performance of vocal sound improvisations which will be complemented by projections based on James’ illustrations & typewritten texts, animated and mixed live by Jamie King.
Walled City Records will be hosting the CultureTECH after-after party in Sandinos back bar on Sunday 15th September. Some of Derry’s finest acts will take to the stage including some of Walled City Records own artists. This night will be the perfect ending to this years CultureTECH festival and if you are a fan of local music, this night is not to be missed.
Adm: £3 pay at the door or FREE with Conference + Music Pass Doors: 9 - late
The audience will have a total, synchronised experience combining word, imagery and original vocal experimentation.
Free to the public
Free to the public Partner: the Jammhouse
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