Go to Lovebytes – A Festival of Digital Creativity and Culture

• 27 January – 16 June 2010
• Sheffield UK
• http://www.lovebytes.org.uk

Some highlights:

Code:Craft. 27 Jan – 16 Jun. Exhibition at Millennium Gallery. Free Admission.

A new exhibition of software based digital art and design by 7 international artists at Sheffield’s premier craft and design gallery.

Including works by C E B Reas, Golan Levin, Mehmet Akten, Daniel Widrig, David Dessens, William Ngan and Daniel Brown.

We Love Technology. 12 Feb. Day conference at Electric Works.

Presenting the latest adventures in the creative use and misuse of emerging technology. Ten informal presentations by pioneering artists, designers and technologists exploring the theme of digital craft.

Speakers include: Mehmet Akten, Simon Blackwell, James Boardwell, Crispin Jones, William Ngan, Steve Symons.

£20 Register here: http://bit.ly/7IQCgv

Sonic Materialities. 12 Feb. Live performances at Sheffield’s Winter Garden and Millennium Gallery. Free Admission.

An evening of extraordinary sonic experience in Sheffield’s prestigious Millennium Gallery and Winter Garden. Featuring performances by three leading artists who work with sound in radically divergent forms: the machine-like, natural and synthetic. With Francisco Lopez, Russell Haswell, Mark Fell.  Plus late opening of Code:Craft.

Tools and Techniques. 13 Feb. Open source workshop at Access Space.

An afternoon of presentations and demonstrations featuring Open Source software and methods.

Meet the Artist – Mehmet Akten. 13 Feb. Artist’s talk at Millennium Gallery.

Find out what inspired artist Mehmet Akten to make his interactive installation Body Paint in the Code:Craft exhibition and how he went about creating it.

 

apply for the BBC Trainee Technologist program

This is an exceptional opportunity for the best candidates with a passion for technology to join our award winning teams and an organisation respected throughout the world for its long history of technological innovation.

Ideally you’ll need to be an academic achiever with a minimum of a 2:1 or equivalent with a real passion for technology, gained either through your studies or your interests.

The training period lasts for two years after which we would hope that you gain successful promotion to Technologist. During this period, you will attend a mix of BBC Training courses, including seven weeks at our Training and Development Centre in Evesham and project specific training, as well as learning on the job. You will undertake three project placements in a variety of teams both within Research & Development or in the wider BBC technology areas – each placement lasting approximately eight months.

APPLY: https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?newms=jj&id=30974

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/careers/trainee-technologists.shtml

 

apply to be a BBC Technology Industrial Trainee

The industrial placement is created to help degree students or Post Graduates gain industrial experience for a period of 6 or 12 months. We offer on the job training, in which you will be given a project to complete depending on how your skills match the available projects. You could be working on production technology, communications systems, transmitters, receivers, or new types of domestic equipment.

We have projects that offer you the chance to use software skills or to develop circuits and systems. Typical projects include interactive television, new audio and video coding techniques, new broadcasting systems and advance modulation technology, virtual production (including 3D image creation), speech synthesis, communications and next generation IP and wireless networks, and monitoring systems. You could also become involved with implementation working with BBC professionals to put technology developments into practice in the organisation. Therefore, we are also interested in students who have a sense of how the media business operates.

APPLY: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/careers/industrial-trainees.shtml

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/careers/industrial-trainees.shtml

 

apply for the Media Foundation placement scheme

… a number of placements at the BBC as part of the Media Foundation placement scheme (MFPS). MFPS is a positive, action training initiative which seeks to address issues of cultural diversity and the under representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the media industry within the North West Region and is now open for applications.

MFPS provides talented individuals from the North West the opportunity to gain skills, experience and networks to kick-start a career in Media and Broadcasting.

A range of full-time placement roles are available including hands-on training for up to 12 months with a training allowance to help while you train, as well as additional support and mentoring.

The scheme is a Pre entry level scheme; however there maybe may be a number of high level opportunities for training and a training allowance attached to each of these. The salary and level is based on each individual training profile.

You can apply for the scheme if you are:-

• From a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Background
• Over the age of 18
• From the North West Region
• A UK resident or have the right to work or train in the UK
• Interested in gaining hands-on work experience in the Media & Broadcasting Industry

If YOU or someone you know would like to apply, click on the link http://www.northwestvision.co.uk/page/applications-mfps

Please note a number of training positions are continually being added on to the site – so please keep checking accordingly.

Media Organisations have come together to offer a number of opportunities across media, from TV to radio Production through to HR. We are working in partnership with ITV, LIME Pictures and Activedio , alongside North West Vision and Media.

MFPS has developed this Positive Action Training Scheme in accordance with the Section 37 and 38 of the Race Relations Act 1976 to encourage the potential of Black and Minority Ethnic groups in Positive Action Training in areas of employment where there is shown to be an under-representation.

 

go to a Leeds Met Gallery talk

Join us for our talks in exploring connections and practice.

• Tuesday 6 October, 1-2pm
  Simon & Tom Bloor in conversation with Gavin Wade
  Linking with Simon & Tom’s show As long as it lasts the artists will be in conversation with Gavin Wade Director of Eastside Projects. The discussion will cover their practice, the ideas behind their work and the current show.
• Wednesday 7 October, 1-2pm
  Heidi Schaefer
  Heidi will discuss her practice in relation to the Testbed commission and her journey to the exhibition Old Wars New Wars.
• Monday 12 October, 1-2pm
  Patrick Lowry
  Relating to the exhibition, Souvenir, Patrick will be giving a talk about his work and practice.

 

produce, write and present a short film about the city of Leeds

• email an entry form by 30th September 2009

We are looking for budding film directors, travel writers and presenters with a passion for Leeds to produce a short film on the city.

The winner’s films will feature on the website as The Voice of the City and provide an informal guide to why you think visitors should love Leeds. As well as the film, you’ll produce weekly blogs, showing off your local knowledge and giving insiders tips on how to love Leeds more.

Four winners will be chosen to be the Voices of The City. The prize for these lucky winners will be a free two-night weekend break for two people at a four-star city centre hotel and a camcorder to help you create your final film in style, and give you plenty of ideas for your weekly blog.

The Voice of the City

 

pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement and attendance to a BBC workshop

• Deadline: Monday 31st August, 5pm

Another competition from b.tween.

Key aim:

• Pitch a prototype product based on existing web-based technologies that will work on a TV screen
• Use BBC programming to drive your product

The winning pitches will be linked to North West companies who will manage build of prototypes and then submitted these back to the BBC later in 2009

What we need from you:

• 500 word seed idea
• Representative image
• A full biography

Ideas will be judged on technical feasibility, response to the brief, format innovation and entrants’ ability to deliver

See the full brief & upload your idea

 

pitch a digital media idea in ‘Branding Talent #2′ and win £1000

• Deadline: 07/09/09

Open to small creative companies and freelancers from across the digital media industries.

Shop Direct are looking for new ways of connecting with consumers in a genuinely exciting new fashion retailing experience.

This includes (but not exclusively):

• applications; platforms; communications ‘products’; social media applications; rich media applications; content vehicles, relevant new functionalities; ‘widgets’
• Usable innovation in the space where digital media, technology, data, personalisation and content can be leveraged in new ways to drive a combination of shopping and connecting online

See the full brief & upload your idea

 

seek venture capital from Connect Yorkshire

• Deadline for receipt of applications is 4th September 2009.

If you are thinking of starting a new technology company, this competition for early-stage business support and venture capital might be of interest.

Inv£storQuest is a rare opportunity to put your proposition in front of venture capital investors. It can normally take hundreds of emails, phone calls, letters etc to get in front of one single VC. Inv£storQuest gives you the chance to present to up to four VCs in one day.

This challenge is exclusively for innovative high growth and technology entrepreneurs in the Yorkshire and Humberside region and offers access to investment from a group of  venture capital funds. The aim of the challenge is to encourage people seeking early-stage funding and business support to put their ideas forward…

Selected companies will have the chance to step up to the hot spot and present their business proposition to a panel of investment funds interested in early stage opportunities at the event. The funds involved so far are the Viking Fund,  YFM Group and Aquarius Equity Partners.

In addition each presenter will have the chance of winning up to £1000 of top level Intellectual Property, Accountancy or Legal advice from three of our Sponsors (£3000 in total).

See the Inv£storQuest Investment Challenge page for more details.

Deadline for receipt of applications is 4th September 2009.

Mentoring Day: 18th September

Event Date: 23rd September
Venue: Leeds

 

submit a film to the Bradford Animation Festival

• You can submit your film online until Friday 24 July 2009.

Taken from http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/baf/2008/baf09.asp :

BAF09
11-14 November 2009

The National Media Museum is proud to present the 16th edition of the UK’s longest-running and biggest animation festival. Host to screentalks, workshops and special events led by some of the industry’s top names, the festival’s high point is the annual BAF Awards, which celebrate the very best in new animation from around the world.

We are now open for BAF09 entries. You can submit your film online until Friday 24 July 2009. Use our dedicated online submissions form to enter.

The box office will open for BAF bookings on Monday 7 September 2009

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/baf/2008/baf09.asp

BAF Game 09: The Art of Gaming
10-11 November 2009

Now in its fifth year and going from strength to strength, Bradford Animation Festival’s splinter strand returns with its own dedicated dates for 2009. BAF Game continues to explore the overlaps between the worlds of video games, animation and film and is organised in strong partnership with the University of Bradford and Screen Yorkshire’s Game Republic.

Running over two days, BAF Game will feature talks, discussions, screenings and workshops led by industry experts that explore the creative side of gaming in all its forms. Several award-winning speakers are already confirmed and themes for discussion include independent gaming and the challenges of setting up your own studio. More programme details over the summer.

The box office will open for BAF Game bookings on Monday 7 September 2009.