This Is Arts Derbyshire

I am off this week to talk at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven. Last year this was the most inspirational and exciting event I attended all year. Partly because I was able to mix a healthy dash of music with a great symposium on data and some good interactive art.

It’s but one week until this year’s Playful, and all the arrangements are coming together. It’s going to be a great day filled with talks from a wide variety of fields from gaming to doodling to science fiction writing.…

We’ve been working with Birmingham City Council for a while now on visualising their call-centre data so that the public can see how the council is performing in areas relevant to them. The project goes live today.
The dashboard…

This week the Derby Mill will be pretty quiet. Greg, Richard and Toby are off to Amsterdam for the Picnic Festival. It’s the first time we’re going to the festival and we’re all pretty excited.
Toby is doing a talk on…

Today we’re ‘releasing’ a new ‘thing’. It’s an experiment…a prototype…we’re not sure what it is yet…
Throughout the summer we’ve been playing with existing locative platforms. A lot…

In the same week that we got to remix Chromaroma for the V&A Museum in London, we also started our appearance in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The new exhibition, Talk To Me, focuses on “the communication between people…

Last year we worked on a Making Future Work commission from Broadway Nottingham and Arts Council England. We looked into Open Public Data in the East Midlands. We talked to data owners and compiled research (which we’re still…

Time is a big part of the Mudlark studio. Barnes is all about the future — jetpacks and that — whilst Richard is obsessed with time travel (even running a micro-publishing imprint for it). I’m stuck in time, having spent too…

Today we’re ‘releasing’ a new ‘thing’. It’s an experiment…a prototype…we’re not sure what it is yet…
Throughout the summer we’ve been playing with existing locative platforms. A lot…

The British Council asked us to curate, develop and help produce a six week long event in Bangkok for March/April 2011 focusing on 3D animation work, game design, modern game production and video developments.
We were asked to develop…

We’re pretty darned chuffed to have been one of four companies to take part in a new project in the East Midlands run by Broadway Cinema in Nottingham and funded by the Arts Council. It’s called ‘Making Future Work’…

Chromaroma is a game that shows you your movements and location as you swipe your Oyster Card in and out of the Tube.
It connects communities of people who cross paths and routes on a regular basis, and encourages people to make new…