Random String 2021: The Canal Network(ed)
Ludic Rooms are absolutely delighted to announce Random String: The Canal Network(ed) for UK City of Culture 2021. Connecting artists, technologists and local communities along the Coventry Canal throughout 2021. Creative activities outdoors and online; performances,...
Data Miners: Digital creative skills and new directions
Data Miners is a free project run by local arts organisation Ludic Rooms, for unemployed people to explore ways in which they can gain more control over data and make something creative. The project is funded by the European Social Fund and the Education and Skills Funding Agency, and supported by the Local Enterprise Partnership.
Permission to Play at the Wellcome Collection
Reflecting on an incredible weekend – exhausting and inspiring in equal measure – for the Permission to Play weekender at the Wellcome Collection. We built an interactive playspace from cardboard boxes, centred around a carousel of interactive activities that challenged visitors to use different technologies to challenge issues of democratising access and invitation to play.
Light Painting from Canoes!
For the next two weeks we are playing with sound and light on Coventry Canal in a series of R&D sessions - watch out for updates as the project develops.
Positive Placards at #imaginebridge
We had an amazing weekend at #Imaginebridge making placards with positive messages and calls to action to make positive change in the world. Here are just a small selection that were made over the weekend.... [gallery...
MI:labs returns to Warwick Arts Centre this October
Established in Spring 2018, the vision for MI:labs was to try to establish a regular group in Coventry for young people interested in digital arts and media. Think of it like a youth theatre for digital media. We work in a devised way, co-creating new work each term inspired by the programme at WAC. We respond to live briefs from industry professionals and cultural organisations, so far producing work for Godiva Festival, Coventry Cathedral as well as different spaces in WAC itself.
Speaking Truth to Power…Playfully
In this time of protest and direct action, Ludic Rooms is inviting you to experience the power of placards to build bridges and do good. We’re pleased to have been invited to respond to Imagineer Productions’ hugely ambitious BRIDGE project - a...
Paddling Light – canoeing at night!
Paddling Light is a new project LR have developed with Mercia Canoe Club that aims to get more people active on the Coventry Canal. Funded by Coventry City Council’s Sports & Culture Innovation Fund aims to celebrate our...
Projectors for Hire
Ludic Rooms have a number of projectors for hire at very competitive rates. We have 2 Hitachi CP-X1200 (3500 lumens, 800:1 contrast, 1024x768 resolution) and our impressive Sony VPL-FH500L (7000 lumens, 2500:1 contrast, 1920x1200 resolution). Contact...
We need a freelance illustrator / animator
We are working alongside other local arts organisation to develop an artist-led vision for the regeneration and revitalisation of the Coventry Canal. At the heart of this is CAN, a unique new space dedicated to community creativity. We would like to collaborate with an illustrator / animator to produce assets that can be used to communicate our vision for the transformation of Coventry Canal Basin and the wider Coventry Canal area.
Random String skills in action!
The Random String Fellowship is a really important part of our work in supporting the development of creative tech skills in artists. It is great to see how our Fellows continue to develop their skills. Tonight we got to see Julia Snowdin's (RS Fellow...
Godiva Festival 2019 – Come play with us in the Experi-Tent!
We’re delighted to announce that for the first time Ludic Rooms will be filling a whole festival tent with our special blend of creative fun, technology, making and play. We call it… The Experi-Tent.
There’ll be tinkering opportunities for all ages; a marble run that you can help to build, knock down and re-build again; beautiful eye-popping digital images that you can peek at and play with; a VR experience shared by the Lanchester Interactive Archive; a play space that can be hacked and modified; as well as making loveliness provided by the Community Studio Van – a joint project between Coventry University and Warwick Arts Centre.