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About #enactcov

What is it? Enact is a location based experience played with mobile devices. Enact takes players on a journey around Coventry in which challenges are issued at each location. The players must consider a conflict and enact a resolution. Answers can be in the form of text sms messages, voice mail recordings, twitter updates, mobile pictures, sound recordings or music. The choices and actions of...

May 30th

Coventry Mysteries Festival 2012

We are really excited to be a part of this years Coventry Mysteries Festival Fore more information about the festival please visit On the web: http://www.coventrymysteries.com/ On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coventry-Mysteries-Week-Festival/206789386021965?ref=ts On Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/covmysteries

May 30th

May 24th

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“The weskits gothe eyeur to the walle”

– (The weakest goes ever to the wall) The Weavers Pageant, Coventry Mystery Play circa 1500.

May 14th

“Programmers write - not ‘sequences’ [of instructions] - but...”

– Minksy, M (1969) Perceptrons. In Colson

May 14th

Apr 2nd

Tied to a device in your hand

We’ve had a few people asking about the setup for our presentation on Saturday, particularly how we were controlling the presentation. We were both using Android phones bluetooth synced to our laptops both running the Presenter app. We’ve generally found this route much better than a dedicated handheld clicker, firstly because it only costs a couple of quid, secondly because it works...

Mar 13th

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Inputs :: Outputs Our #TEDxWarwick Prezi

Mar 13th

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Mar 13th

“First and foremost, then, all play is a voluntary activity. Play to order is no...”

– Huizinga, J (1955) Homo Ludens. Beacon Press

Mar 7th

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Mar 7th

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Jan 19th

2012

Happy New Year everyone !! We have several exciting projects lined up for 2012 and we are only just beginning the year! Watch this space for more news and updates - don’t forget to follow us on twitter @ludicrooms and ‘like’ us on facebook

Jan 3rd

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LR007 - Fargo Space // Video Blog 4a A very little tease. In the dark.

Nov 24th

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LR007 - Fargo Space // Video Blog 4 Getting a bit out of sequence here. We don’t want to give too much away yet but its fair to say this is the starting point for one of the Fargo pieces.

Nov 24th

Nov 21st

Technology Playspace this Sunday

On Sunday the 27th November 2011 we will be hosting the Fargo Hack Play Space, an informal exhibition and sharing of new work from our residency at Fargo Space. We love watching people play with the Don’t Touch Screen at Warwick Arts Centre; that little moment of joy people feel as they realise they are in control of the piece, no matter the technology. We were keen to try and create...

Nov 21st

Nov 9th

Tickets for #fargospace Circuit Bending workshops...

http://lr007.eventbrite.co.uk/ Join with us as we explore everyday electronics and the possibilities that they hold. Each group of participants will take apart an electronic gadget/toy and learn the necessary new skills to enable its repurpose. The modified gadget will be taken home as a souvenir. To enable as broad an audience as possible we have offered the workshop on a pay what you can...

Nov 9th

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LR007 #fargospace Video Blog 2 It’s playtime. We have some lovely electronics toys today.

Nov 4th

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LR007 - Video Blog 1 We’ve just picked up the keys. Been working on other things all day but couldn’t resist going over with a bit of tech once the light started fading.

Nov 1st

LR007 - Fargo Hackspace

When you’re working in the creative sphere, it is often the case the you will spend months working on something before you are ever allowed to talk about it properly. Without the right funding, that idea might never happen. By the time it comes together you are ready to explode. So many plans to share. This is one of those moments. We’ve been working for the last few months on...

Oct 31st

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Sep 27th

Sep 22nd

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Sep 12th

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A little teaser from our very first tests of #lr006 at Warwick Arts Centre. Can you guess what it is yet?

Aug 17th

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Touch Me! Play With Me!

Something exciting is coming to Warwick Arts Centre this forthcoming term.. keep your eyes peeled in September.

Aug 15th

#LR005 Final Performance

Today we were overwhelmed by the support of local family and friends in Stoke Aldermoor who turned out for the final sharing from our two week summer school in Aldermoor Farm. Thank you so much for showing up. The performance was great, if you missed it, here’s a few snaps.

Aug 6th

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Aug 2nd

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Jul 31st

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LR005 Day 5

Today’s dynamic is …..”Blissful Productivity” Playing games is …. you know… fun! Today the ‘Audio pupils’ learnt to use new software on the iPad. This enabled them to decide which tool suited their style and performance best. They then spent the day learning and refining their performance. Some used RJDJ Voyager, some used LoopJ and other used...

Jul 29th

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LR005 Day 4

Today’s dynamic is… “Appointment Dynamic” Today the pupils learnt about being in the right place at the right time. For our performance, timing is key, so we rehearsed all together practicing changing visuals, sound and dance all at the right time for maximum performance effect.

Jul 29th

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Jul 28th

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Game Plan Visualism… Some customized patches, loop play and live keystoning from day 1 of #lr005. These VJs are between 7 and 10 years old and have been using AVMixer Pro for just over an hour.

Jul 27th

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LR005 Day 3

Today’s dynamic is… “Communal Discovery” We’ve played ‘Team Tails Tag’ outside, bounced balls on parachutes and worked together to make towers out of paper. We’ve also jammed out rehearsed VJ sets with live iPad performances on Interactive LoopJ and RJDJ Voyager.

Jul 27th

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LR005 Day 2

Today’s dynamic is… “Progression Dynamic” We have introduced a leaderboard, and all of the the players are being given plenty of opportunities to level up.

Jul 27th

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Jul 27th

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LR005 Day 1

Our two week summer residency at Aldermoor Farm Primary School in Coventry has begun today. As ever, we’re not entirely sure what we will have made together by the end of these two weeks, but hopefully it will take shape here. The focus of this project is to explore the nature of games. In order to get the ‘juices flowing’ each day we are introducing one game dynamic to the...

Jul 25th

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Talking Birds Fargo Space Programme

We’re very pleased to announce that in November 2011 we will be taking part in the FarGo Space programme, curated by Talking Birds. FarGo Space is a former light-industrial unit that has been transformed by all sorts of interesting people over the last 18 months. We are taking the opportunity of working in a new ‘dirty’ space to spend a month in research and development. The...

Jun 3rd

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Apr 18th

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Jan 28th

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LR003 - R&D Lab 2

Dec 22nd

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Over the weekend of Friday 17th - Sunday 19th December 2010 we conducted the second of our Window Works Research and Development labs. One of the best discoveries was the potential for the Window as a music making interface. In these videos we are playing with different Reaktor instruments, using Processing to send a OSC signal from Community Core Vision.

Dec 22nd

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Where is this Smithford Way then?

Dec 15th

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Installed in Stoke on Trent city centre for 6 weeks over the christmas period, this piece was commissioned as part of the Light Night event on 18th November 2010. Window Works is a new digital media installation that utilises the display area of a shop window as an interactive interface. Visitors touch and interact with the window and moving domes of light are created and manipulated, splitting...

Dec 13th

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Dec 13th

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Nov 12th

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Nov 12th

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LR002 Build Day 1. We’re here in Stoke-on-trent for our first day of the physical build.

Nov 11th