hello world http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CiB-Google-copy-32x32.jpg hello world http://www.createdinbirmingham.com 32 32 Feedback on Hello Digital/Hello World http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/10/29/feedback-on-hello-digitalhello-world/ http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/10/29/feedback-on-hello-digitalhello-world/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:04:40 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=2219 [Read more...]]]> If CiB posts have been a little light over the past few days (and they have) then it’s been because I was doing a blogging/social reporting job for Hello Digital and the associated conference, Hello World.

As a result there’s plenty of stuff (reports from conference sessions, short interviews with speakers, photos and a liveblog) to browse through on the Hello Digital blog.

Personally, I very much enjoyed the whole thing, but that kind of feedback won’t necessarily make for a better event next year.  So, it’s good to see the organisers are already soliciting feedback via their blog.

If you’ve got any gripes, suggestions or requests for more of the same (I thought the calibre of speakers was particularly good) then let them know in the comments on their blog.  Or here if you like, and I’ll pass comments on.

To get you started, I’d ask for:

  • The programme (or some of it, or at the very least the dates) to be announced earlier
  • Better (and open) wireless internet provision
  • Conference sessions to be streamed live to the internet
  • More fringe/evening events to be provided/encouraged
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At 8pm on Friday 24 October, the Songwriter’s Cafe is making a return, featuring:

It’ll be at The (ex-Orange) Studio in the city centre and will be hosted by Paul Murphy & Gary O’Dea.

The Songwriter’s Cafe

started in the autumn of 1996 to encourage the art of song writing by establishing a regular dedicated high profile performance platform for local songwriters, a rare thing in those days

With the Hello World after party ending at 8pm there’s talk in certain quarters of trying to move things along here afterwards.  It may be worth reserving your free tickets now if you’re interested in going.

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Hello World is:

Birmingham’s international digital media conference, held at Millennium Point from October 23-24 as part of the Hello Digital festival

Tickets at the talks are free but, given the calibre of some of the speakers (impressive bods from Flickr, Pixar, Channel 4 and so on), really will need to be booked online pretty sharpish.

Here’s the line-up.

Thursday 23 Oct:

Friday 24 Oct:

]]> http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/10/09/the-hello-world-conference/feed/ 3 Balena Project and Hello Digital http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/04/balena-project-and-hello-digital/ http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/04/balena-project-and-hello-digital/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:25:24 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=2024 [Read more...]]]> I’ve been feeling a bit off-colour the past couple of days, so apols for the lack of decent posting.  If anything’s going to raise my spirits it’s the prospect of a sodding great whale and a huge robot both turning up in the city.  It’s like Power Rangers or something.

The former comes courtesy of Claudia Losi’s Balena Project as presented by Ikon Gallery (and previously alluded to).  A 25ft cashmere whale will be deposited by the escalators in The Mailbox from 24 Sept to 26 Oct.  This is what it looks like:

Hmm, so it doesn’t look like a fearsome, city-levelling villain, more like me flopped on my sofa feeling sorry for myself.

Meanwhile, flyers for Hello Digital (a mere 6 weeks away and still no-one knows quite what it is) will apparently be distributed around the Bullring tomorrow by a giant robot.  Brilliant!

I’ll write something about Hello Digital when I know what’s going on but details have been trickling out:

  • It’ll be happening predominently at Millennium Point and will be free to attend
  • SCAMP will kick things off on the first night with an “electro-acoustic and live visual performance”
  • An international digital conference called ‘Hello World’ will take place on 23-24 October
  • There’ll be an interactive ‘Field of Light‘ from the Plus Expo people, controllable via a microsite (this sounds dead cool)
  • Capsule’s ‘Home of Metal‘ project will launch at Wolverhampton Art Gallery on Saturday 25 Oct
  • Baskerville: The Animated Movie will get it’s premiere
  • Killriculum seems to involve getting kids to watch scary short films while lying in coffins
  • Digital Storytelling is “a touching vision of the world we live in”. Hmm, sounds very worthy
  • The Light House in Wolverhampton, in association with 4Talent, will be screening “contemporary and classic film from the Film4 back catalogue”

So far the Hello Digital blog and Twitter are up and running and the main site is due to go live any minute now.  Meanwhile here’s the flyer:

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