Web Weekend: Programme

Detail from data visualisation of the V&A website home page, created using an applet by Marcel Salathe.

Friday 15 July 18.30–22.00
Saturday 16 July 10.30–17.00
Sunday 17 July 10.30–17.00

#webweekend

An exciting weekend of free, fun and interactive events to celebrate the V&A's new website. Visitors explored how the web connects people, places and ideas, encourages communication, enables collaboration and creates communities.

MUSIC

DJ Tomoki Tamura & VJ Taro Mikami
Grand Entrance
Friday 18.30–21.50
DJ and producer Tomoki rocks the floor in top venues such as Fabric, Ministry of Sound and Plastic People. His own party HOLIC quickly became one of the most important events both in London and at Japan's top club, Womb. VJ Taro Mikami is a Director, CG designer, Co-producer of Yellow Film Production, and a founder of the visual crew VJ emw.

DJ Gabriele Lampis
Gamble Room, Cafe
Friday 18.30–21.50
DJ Laps spins and eclectic set for visitors in the V&A Cafe.

INSTALLATIONS

Dimensions Variable by Sophie Clements
Raphael Gallery
Friday 18.30–21.30, Saturday & Sunday 10.30–17.00
Clements manipulates time to create highly constructed light objects that grow from their surroundings, producing collages that rely on chance interactions.

Dot by Ed Firth (AKA Fat Butcher)
Room 47f
Friday 18.30–21.30
Dot is a short audiovisual experiment inspired by the journey of the web from the pages of a Victorian handbook to today's global ubiquity.

WORKSHOPS & GAMES

V&A PLAY game by Mudlark
Throughout the Ground Floor of the Museum
Throughout the weekend

To play this game you'll need a smart phone running the SCVNGR app. Download the app onto your phone in advance here: www.scvngr.com

Beat Jigsaw, Peep Show and VJ Table by Boredbrands Digital Funfair
Ground Floor, Sackler Centre
Friday 18.30–21.30, Saturday & Sunday 10.30–16.30
Digital Funfair combines new media, dance music, film, stuff found lying around in the street, and, for this weekend only, stuff from the V&A website, to create an experience which people will remember for a long time. It's empowering media for all the family. Largely funny and occasionally funky.
www.digitalfunfair.co.uk

Chromaroma, by Mudlark
Grand Entrance
Friday 18.30–21.30
Sackler Corridor
Saturday & Sunday 10.30–16.30
Chromaroma is a game showing 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 journeys and use public transport in a different way. It also opens up the beauty in the city's transport flows and reveals some of the mysteries of travel.

Le Cadavre Exquis by Brendan Oliver & Brendan Randall
Sackler Centre Reception
Friday 18.30–21.30, Saturday & Sunday 10.30–16.30
‘Le Cadavre Exquis’, a digital reinterpretation of The Exquisite Corpse, is an interactive installation that aims to create an entirely user-generated stop-frame film where the audience become actors & narrators. Participants record stop-frame scenes that respond to the previous submission before being added to the constantly evolving film and website.

API Workshop with Rich Barrett-Small, V&A Web Team
Design Studio, Sackler Centre
Friday 19.00 & 20.00 (*also live broadcast*), Saturday 10.30 & 12.30 (sessions last approximately 45 minutes)
An introduction to the API (application programming interface) that powers the V&A's gallery interactives and the Search the Collections website. Build a custom web page with Javascript, HTML and CSS. Coding skills not essential. Places are limited

Generative badgemaking with sketchPatch
Digital Studio, Sackler Centre
Friday 18.30–21.00, Saturday & Sunday, 10.30–16.30
Using the programming language Processing, learn the basic principles of computer programming and enjoy an introduction to generative art with an element of serendipity. A fun and easy way to play, learn and collaborate with computer programming. Design generative art pieces, and at the end of the workshop we'll print your masterpieces and turn them into badges! Places are limited
www.sketchpatch.net

Wikilounge with Wikimedia UK
Seminar Room 2, Sackler Centre
Saturday only, 10.30–16.30, drop-in
With introduction to Wikipedia sessions at 11.00; 12.30; 14.30 & 16.00
We all use Wikipedia every day, but how does it work? Who writes the pages? Meet editors from Wikimedia UK, learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, and collaborate with them on a project to improve the Tipu's Tiger page. Places are limited

TALKS & DEMONSTRATIONS

Karsten Schmidt & Daniel Hirschmann, Technology Will Save Us & Projectflo.ws
Art Studio, Sackler Centre
Friday 18.30–21.30 (drop in), Saturday timings 10.30–16.30
Technology Will Save Us will be pulling live images and text from the web and inviting people to paint the V&A with them by using their newest plaything: The Light Paintbrush! Join in some truly colorful light painting fun. Karsten Schmidt's Projectflo.ws demonstrates the impact of free culture on digital art production and creativity. Places are limited

The Retroscope, by Chris Wild
Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre
Friday 19.00–19.45 (*also live broadcast*), Saturday 11.00–11.45
According to Chris, a Retronaut is 'someone who goes back in time using just perception'. He will be talking about his project, The Retroscope, that showcases material that 'dissolves the barrier between the present and the past' and showcases this material in capsules. Become a Retronaut by recommending something you've seen online or bring along images to add to the Retroscope. Places are limited.
www.howtobearetronaut.com

Live Skype hook-up with Peter Edwards of Casper Electronics
Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre
Friday 20.00–20.45, Saturday 14.00
Peter Edwards, an American artist, musician, and teacher, joins the fun via Skype. He's been exploring the field of circuit-bending and musical electronics since 2000  and will demonstrate some of his findings for us, live from the US. Places are limited.
www.casperelectronics.com/about

Katy Beale & Mia Ridge, Culture Hack
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Friday 19.30–20.15
Katy and Mia explore the idea of museums as objects, stories, experiences, people and places. If you could take objects out of the museum, where would you put them? If you could have access to any part of the museum, what would it be? You'll hear about recent Culture Hacks and then create your own paper prototypes, bringing to life your own simple solutions or seemingly impossible ideas.
www.culturehackday.org.uk

rAndom International In Conversation
Staircase U (between Glass & Ceramics)
Friday 20.30–21.00
Join rAndom International as they discuss the process of designing and installing their new work here at the V&A. Hear about the process of developing an interactive installation that translates motion into light.

Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Friday 20.30–21.15
Discover Futherfield's Media Art Ecologies programme, which aims to stimulate practice and debate about ecological approaches to work at the intersection of art, technology and environment. Be inspired to create generative alternative visions of sustainability and propserity through creativity and collaboration.

Dorkbot
Lecture Theatre
Friday 18.30–21.30
A special series of presentations featuring the scientific and slightly irrational. Participants include: Dan Stowell (Automatically generating dubstep);  Rain Ashford (e-Material Girl); Joel Gethin Lewis (Persuading global brands to Open Source); Mark Pilkington (Flying Saucers are (almost) Real!); Mike Harrison (Chrominoes)

opendorks with Dorkbot
Sackler Centre Lunchroom
Friday 18.30–21.30, Saturday 10.30–16.30
Presenters include: Rain Ashford (wearable technology and electronic art); 'Jag', S Jagannathan, ('din', a free software musical instrument for GNU/Linux); Katiushka Borges ('Sensory Connection')
http://rainycatz.wordpress.com; http://dinisnoise.org/; http://www.wooloo.org/mamasonga

Computer Art from the V&A collection, by Melanie Lenz
Prints & Drawings Study Room
Friday 19.15–20.00
Take a closer look at the innovative computer-generated art of digital pioneers and contemporary artists. Join V&A curator Melanie Lenz to learn about their experimental practices and creative processes and explore ideas about language, data visualisation and connectivity. Ticketed event: Tickets are available from the Information Desk at the Grand Entrance from 18.30.