About : Graffito is an iPhone/iPad app for collaborative drawing, an experiment in massive crowd-made graffiti. This eBook introduces the project and the team behind it, with photos and screengrabs of it in action at 2010’s Vintage@Goodwood festival.
BigDog Interactive is a small company of creative computer programmers who invent mobile applications, interactive art installations and live events.
Proboscis is an artist-led studio combining artistic practice with commissioning, curating, design and consultancy to explore social, cultural and creative issues.
Proboscis Newsletter October 2010 | newmediafix.net [...] by Mandy Tang http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=2171 Graffito by BigDog Interactive & Proboscis http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=2146 Topographies and Tales StoryCubes by Alice Angus &… Comment posted on 10-26-2010 at 14:00
Graffito @ Tent Digital | Proboscis [...] adding to drawings by others, perhaps due to the more focused interaction in a smaller space. The eBook created… Comment posted on 9-29-2010 at 14:19
Graffito at London Design Festival | Proboscis [...] created a special Diffusion eBook about the project for the event – where we’ll have some PPOD printed copies… Comment posted on 9-17-2010 at 09:55
We’ve been working to improve both the illustration and instructions on How to Make Diffusion eBooks. The fruits of our efforts are now online and we welcome feedback from readers regarding their clarity or ways they could be made even better. The wonderful new illustrations have been created by Carmen Vela Maldonado who is currently on an internship with Proboscis.
On Friday 30th November, an informal evaluation of the Diffusion Generator Case Study Residency programme took place at the Proboscis studio. Those who participated included Bev Carter, artist and community development consultant; Paul Goodwin, a writer, curator and urban researcher; Andrew Hunter, artist, writer and the Director/Curator of RENDER, University of Waterloo, Canada; Michelle Kasprzak, curator, writer, artist and the Programmes Director of New Media Scotland and finally Tony White, a writer – author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber and Faber), and the non-fiction work Another Fool in the Balkans (Cadogan). They were hosted by Karen Martin who facilitated the residency programme, Phil Ayres, an architect, programmer and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture (programmer of the Generator), Giles Lane, Alice Angus, Orlagh Woods from Proboscis.
The day began with an informal look at the different approaches and processes taken by each of the participants in the residency programme, exploring and sharing how they each used the Diffusion Generator to create and publish eBooks (as well as the occasional StoryCube). These included two way communications between children in the UK and Nigeria, a way to collate research for a book creatively, as a means to document an exhibition and research programme, as a visual journey through the city, as a series of interviews with curators and as a storytelling device.
In the afternoon, several other people were invited to take part in a larger discussion to explore other ways the Generator could be used. Among our guests were Linda Doyle of Trinity College Dublin, Michael Bhaskar of Pan Macmillan, Ellie Smith and Charles Beckett of Arts Council England, London.
Some of the various ideas for future uses of the Shareables and Generator included:
as an evaluation tool for conferences or events
within galleries or museums as interpretation tools
for community engagement projects
for internal marketing within organisations
as a brand consulting tool
to collect conversations and feedback dialogues
for a short story competition
to promote emerging writers alongside mainstream first publications
for sampling ideas
for rapid publishing of poetry slams
and as educational tools
A more detailed evaluation will be published as an eBook in the new year.
Biogeek29 yo, I LOVE BIOLOGY! especially diffusion. like biology is totally an art, if i could i would… Comment posted on 1-11-2010 at 16:37
Biogeek29 well i wish i was there and i love talking about diffusion. tell me when the next one… Comment posted on 1-11-2010 at 16:34
Michael Bhaskar Thank you for having me over; it was an extremely enjoyable afternoon. I wrote on our blog how I thought… Comment posted on 12-20-2007 at 12:28
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[...] by Mandy Tang http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=2171 Graffito by BigDog Interactive & Proboscis http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=2146 Topographies and Tales StoryCubes by Alice Angus &…
Comment posted on 10-26-2010 at 14:00
[...] adding to drawings by others, perhaps due to the more focused interaction in a smaller space. The eBook created…
Comment posted on 9-29-2010 at 14:19
[...] created a special Diffusion eBook about the project for the event – where we’ll have some PPOD printed copies…
Comment posted on 9-17-2010 at 09:55