The iSpy Brighton Family Treasure Hunt
The family iSpy treasure hunt gets you to explore Brighton's North Laine. Your mission is to find art, sculpture, objects and buildings and to answer questions in order to receive points.
Dropbox Design Mashup
The Dropbox Design Mashup is an exciting and creative collaborative working process which invites anyone interested in digital to get involved in creating a mashed up design.
DAVID BLANDY – Odysseys
Lighthouse and Phoenix Brighton are delighted to present recent works by David Blandy in a special exhibition curated for Brighton Digital Festival.
ARTIST TALK – DAVID BLANDY
Leading Brighton based artist David Blandy talks about his work in his latest solo exhibition.
‘Animated Learning’
A series of animated short learning films, exploring issues such as history and the environment, will be shown at Brighton and Hove libraries.
Constant Dullaart
Permanent has commissioned work by Constant Dullaart to be presented on its new online platform e-PERMANENT.
ERROR_IN_TIME() BY NANCY MAURO-FLUDE + LAUNCH OF e-PERMANENT
Our computers know us more intimately than lovers—but this is a lopsided relationship. Behind their user-friendly facades, what do we know of the operating systems that drive our daily fix?
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The Geekest Link – Brighton Digital Festival Special
Brighton's premier science fiction/fantasy based pub quiz brings you a Brighton Digital Festival Special!
Come along & bring your (geeky) friends to test your knowledge of all things sci-fi!
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PixelPyros – digital fireworks display
- event, Free, Performance
- Jubilee Square
The official Brighton Digital Festival launch event, PixelPyros is a digital fireworks display projected onto Jubilee Library that the audience controls with motion detection sensors.
Reasons to be Creative
- conference, Education
- Brighton Dome
'Reasons' is a festival for creative artists, designers and coders. Bringing together the best minds from the worlds of art, code, and design. Expect 3 days packed with talks, networking, inspiration
Brighton ALT.NET
Brighton ALT.NET is a monthly meetup for .NET developers in Sussex. We have a special show-and-tell September session for Brighton Digital Festival.
Pigs Might Fly
- Art, Uncategorized
- Coachwerks, 19 Hollingdean Terrace, BN1 7HB
Solar powered, endlessly cheerful little piggys. Using obsolete unwanted technology to create a flying drove of swine.
Hacks/Hackers Brighton – September meet-up
- Meet-ups
- The Eagle
A meet-up of hacks (journalists) and hackers (developers) who are gathering to hear from a couple of speakers and share ideas
Bring Your Own Beamer: Lab Day 1
An afternoon of video editing and creating generative computer art, in preparation for a riot of DIY projection within the underground tunnels of Brighton Dome.
Adventures in (The) Space
For this year’s Digital Festival, Sarah Pickthall co-curator of PUSH ME and Fabrica are joining forces to create an event that explores the opportunities that digital offers to disabled creatives.
Talk: Emilie Giles “MzTEK and the Chi-TEK Project – Women, Art and Technology” (Free Event)
Emilie Giles will discuss her groundbreaking work with MzTEK who provide a fantastic learning community in technology and arts for women. (Free Event)
Skillswap sells the sausage and the sizzle
Alan Colville and John Willshere on sausages. And sizzle.
ACUMEDIA
- Meet-ups, Performance
- Latest Music Bar
ACUMEDIA presents 'Is Copyright Fit For The Digital Age?'.
Networking, debating and music from Brighton's finest creative talent.
Brighton SF
- event, Performance
- Pavilion Theatre
An hour and a half of chat and readings from leading authors of speculative fiction.
The Undercliff
6th & 9th September: Contemporary Arts Event involving: guided tour, photography exhibition & short poetic audiovisual film of the communities' narratives projected onto the cliff face.
IMPROVING REALITY 2012
- conference, event
- Pavilion Theatre, 29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG
Improving Reality 2012 is a half-day conference which playfully and critically looks at how designers, artists, and makers are using various technologies to shift our perceptions of reality.
Art & Chat
An informal weekly session at the Lord Nelson. Digital artists/enthusiasts/etc & the public are invited to present, experience and discuss digital technologies based art works/ideas/projects/etc
Made in Brighton: Games Gone Global
- conference
- Brighton Ballrooms (aka Proud Cabaret)
"Made in Brighton: Games Gone Global" brings together Brighton's game development community to learn from, and be inspired by, our own home-grown talent. This one-day conference for professional or amateur members of the game development scene hosts talks covering game design, production, business and more.
dConstruct
- conference, event
- Brighton Dome
dConstruct 2012 is a gathering of smart and entertaining people poking at the intersection of technology and culture.
New Cabinets for New Curiosities
We’ve opened up some of our collections data, and invited coders and digital artists to see what they can build from it. Come to the South Balcony of Brighton Museum, and see what they have made
Digital Day Surgeries
- Education, Uncategorized
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
Drop-in, call-up, contact-us surgeries for anyone with questions about digital technologies. Whatever the tech question/problem is - we'll try to help.
Swimming with Plankton in 3D
'Swimming with Plankton in 3D' is an immersive underwater adventure into the microscopic world of plankton, originally commissioned for Kew Gardens as a permanent exhibit in 2004.
Workshop: An Introduction to Working with Soft Circuits for Women with MzTEK
Join us at Phoenix Brighton for an introductory workshop with MzTEK and learn how to create soft circuits to make stitched or wearable electronic and interactive artworks.
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Brighton Mini Maker Faire
Brighton Mini Maker Faire is the free interactive festival of creativity and invention. Projects, talks and hands-on workshops for all ages. Come along and learn how much fun making can be.
Coderetreat Brighton 2012
Join us at the Skiff for a free day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design - a proven, highly effective way to improve your coding skills.
Pop-up digital newsroom
A team of roaming reporters will "pop-up" at various locations in Brighton and gather stories by talking to people and share news digitally
Brighton Mini Maker Faire: After Dark
- event
- Brighton Dome Foyer Bar
Lasers! Music! LEDs! Continue all the fun of the faire at Brighton Mini Maker Faire: After Dark.
IndieWebCampUK
- conference, Education, Meet-ups
- The Skiff
Own your data.
Rather than posting content on third-party silos of content, we should all own the content we're creating. Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to silos.
Join us at The Skiff for a day-long BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web.
The Digital Art GONG Show 2012
Yes but is it Art?
The Fortune Cats present The Digital Art GONG Show 2012
Business Beyond the City
- event
- The restaurant at Drakes
This exclusive event offers Brighton & Hove business owners and managers who have had great success outside the City the chance to swap ideas, and hear from Andy Budd of Clearleft.
UX Brighton
- Free
- Fabrica
September’s UX Brighton will get physical. Our talks this month will focus on what it means to design great experiences for web-enabled objects and screen-free gadgets.
Bring Your Own Beamer: Lab Day 2
An afternoon of video editing and creating generative computer art, in preparation for a riot of DIY projection within the underground tunnels of Brighton Dome.
Tales of the Creative City: What Brighton Fuse might be telling us about the future of the Creative, Digital and IT sector
- event
- Sallis Benney Theatre
Tales of the Creative City is a chance to hear some of the stories, thoughts and interim findings from the Brighton Fuse research project.
PreFab
PreFab is a series of workshops covering all kinds of skills from traditional art and bookmaking to CAD. The workshops will be run at FabLab Brighton's newly decorated space at Rodhus Creative Studios
Talk: Alex May “Painting with Light” (Free Event)
Artist Alex May will discuss his creative practice working with code and his new project “Painting with Light” which aims to develop a new paradigm in video mapping, working within a fine art context.
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Brighton Digital Marketing Festival
Brighton Digital Marketing Festival (BDMF) is a free event for digital marketers. Attendees receive a full day of education at various well known locations across the city.
Kids’ Code Club
- Education
- Cogapp (4th Floor) Lees House, 21-33 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3FE
A workshop for children aged 6 to 16 to learn how to programme your computer using Scratch: a free tool designed specifically for kids.
Opus Pericardium
Opus Pericarduim is a new piece of Sci-sound art that aims to unearth the vulnerability of the human heart by translating the rhythm and pulse of life through the digital data of electrocardiogram readings.
SheSays Brighton: What’s Your Story?… identity and image
Do you crumble when someone asks what you do? Do you pull a face when you have to say your job title? Why can't you blow your own trumpet? What's your elevator pitch? Let's do LUNCH!
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Open Coffee Sussex
A place for tech entrepreneurs and owners of growing businesses to meet investors and people that have done it before - over a cup of coffee
CreativeJS
- conference, event
- Lighthouse
The original Creative JavaScript course, covering truly beautiful visual effects with JavaScript and HTML5. Learn how to draw, animate, and create engaging interactive content in the browser.
Art & Chat
An informal weekly session at the Lord Nelson. Digital artists/enthusiasts/etc & the public are invited to present, experience and discuss digital technologies based art works/ideas/projects/etc
Async’s “One Canvas” Hack Night – part one
A collaborative "hack night" for artists, designers and programmers, working together to make an interactive, intricate digital artwork on an infinitely scrollable, zoomable web page.
Mind the Gap
An absorbing video installation based around the aural testimony of 3 women working as prostitutes. Poetry, constructed scenes and dialogue create a space to examine the gaps between experience and selfhood; and between subject and audience.
BrightonSEO
- conference, Free
- The Brighton Dome
BrightonSEO is a free one-day search marketing conference and series of training workshops held, not surprisingly, in Brighton. The next event is taking place the 14th September.
BAD Ass Drupal Weekender
- conference, Free
- United Kingdom
Since our first Drupal event at BDF11 Drupal's adoption rate in Brighton has grown exponentially. Join us & we will transform you from zero to Drupalero over the course of one BAD Ass Drupal weekend!
Digital Day Surgeries
- Education
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
Drop-in, call-up, contact-us surgeries for anyone with questions about digital technologies. Whatever the tech question/problem is - we'll try to help.
Pecha Kucha Night Brighton
- event, Uncategorized
- Lighthouse
This is Brighton's 16th Pecha Kucha Night & for the second year is part of Brighton's annual Digital Festival.
This PKN is an open theme. Each presenter will talk for 6 mins and 40 seconds.
Press Start!
Press Start is an exhibition of video games and art! It showcases the work of three recent graduates from the University of Brighton, each with very different perspectives of video game related art.
Workshop: “Painting with Light” with Alex May
For artists, painters, VJ's, and digital artists who want to easily digitally 'paint' 3D objects with light using a computer and video projector using a new free software.
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Getting started with electronics
- Education
- Rodhus
An introduction to electronic prototyping - using breadboard, understanding schematics, turning a design on paper into an actual working project.
Bring Your Own Beamer
Free exhibition for artists and their projectors. The idea is simple: find a place, invite artists, ask them to bring projectors. No limits to the projections: DIY videos, generative art, anything.
Super Morriso Cycle
Follow Super Morriso as she cycles the Andean mountain range. Can you help her get across the peaks to the Amazon jungle?
Interact online & influence an actual person cycling Peru in real time.
Flash Lit Fiction
- Art, Performance
- The Green Door Store
Brighton's best literary institutions bring you a high-adrenaline night of flash fiction, Twitter story glory and sci-fi visuals at one of the city's best watering hole, The Green Door Store.
CityCamp 2.5
- conference, Free
- Brighthelm Centre
Can we narrow the digital divide in Brighton?
CityCamp is an event for people with ideas that help solve social problems, or change the city for the better.
DAVID BLANDY ANIME SCREENING – PRINCESS MONONOKE
Lighthouse and Duke of York's Cinema are delighted to bring you a one-off anime screening special of Princess Mononoke introduced by David Blandy.
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Persistent Peril vs Calika
- event, Performance
- Lighthouse
Persistent Peril line up alongside Calika in a live digital performance. Each member of PP will control a projector, featuring live animations/visuals, created as a response to Calika’s music.
Talking to the Screen – Older audiences, Conversations and Technology
- event
- Friends Meeing House
A workshop concentrating on the politics of technology and older audiences. There will be a live streaming to participants in a separate location. The conversation will be filmed and photographed.
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Coding For Humans: “Learn to Code”
A one-day workshop for non-coders to learn how to code the core technologies used in websites and web applications - HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
COMIC BOOK WORKSHOP WITH DAVID BLANDY AND INKO
Work with Odysseys exhibition artist David Blandy and his Manga artist collaborator Inko on a crash course in Manga style drawing and comic book story techniques.
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Coding Dojo
- event
- Cogapp (4th Floor) Lees House, 21-33 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3FE
Calling all programmers! Learn to work collaboratively in a relaxed environment, by joining your peers in a group programming exercise called Coding Dojo.
Cherokee Nation Project Launch Event
- Education
- Sallis Benney Theatre
The Cherokee Nation Project is a digital cultural exchange between school students in Brighton, UK and Cherokee school students in Oklahoma, USA.
Is reality broken: Creative games, creative economies and alternative perspectives
Could it be that games and the gamification of education, knowledge exchange and problem (re-) solving hold the key to improving the agility, resilience and employability of graduates, maximising the talent of employees and to design innovation of products, processes andservices? Can we really achieve the epic win of economic growth and prosperity through gaming?
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SCHOOLS WORKSHOP WITH DAVID BLANDY AND INKO
- Education
- Longhill High School and Phoenix Brighton
As part of Brighton Digital Festival 2012, Lighthouse has created a programme of exciting events for young people to take part in, working with artists and technologists to learn about and experiment with technology in creative ways.
POP UP DIGITAL: How the Sharing Economy is using technology to change the world.
In this POP UP Digital event, leading innovators and social entrepreneurs will demonstrate how the new and exciting Sharing Economy is using technology to change the world as we know it.
Read more about POP UP DIGITAL: How the Sharing Economy is using technology to change the world.
Brighton Dome’s SOURCE New Music: Beatabet Takeover
- Performance
- Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre
Brighton Dome's regular live music night hands over the reins to the Beatabet Collective featuring the launch of Bunty's new multimedia project Multimos, includes electronic projections and mapping.
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Brighton Social Media September Meet-up
The September monthly meet-up of Brighton Social Media, an informal gathering of people with an interest in social media from Brighton and surrounding areas.
Art & Chat
- Art, Uncategorized
- Lord Nelson Pub
An informal weekly session at the Lord Nelson. Digital artists/enthusiasts/etc & the public are invited to present, experience and discuss digital technologies based art works/ideas/projects/etc
Cool Content Coming Soon
- conference, event
- Friends Meeting House
This is a half-day, not-for-profit event, for people who work with digital content and want to share ideas with fellow content professionals. Organised by the Brighton Content Strategy Meetup.
STREAMING OUT FOR DIGITAL AUDIENCES – SEMINAR
- conference, event
- Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ
Talks about online streaming in the Arts, aimed at the regional Cultural Sector.
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The dotBrighton Game Jam
- event
- The Skiff
Calling all coders, designers, artists, musicians and big kids! Come along to the dotBrighton Game Jam and make games together over a weekend.
Connected TV Brighton Mini-Conference
- conference
- The Basement
As part of Brighton Digital Festival, Wired Sussex are organising a Connected TV Brighton mini-conference with speakers lined up to cover a range of subjects including social TV, gamification, TV apps, internet enabled TV’s and the future of this convergence.
Digital Day Surgeries
- Education
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
Drop-in, call-up, contact-us surgeries for anyone with questions about digital technologies. Whatever the tech question/problem is - we'll try to help.
FATED DUAL – GAMING TOURNAMENT
The Fight Lab present a battle to the end game tournament, come watch or join the fight
Making your own PCBs
- Education
- Rodhus
Learn how to etch your own printed circuit boards (PCBs) for either your own circuits or ready-made designs from the web.
Technology & My Pocket
- conference, event
- Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
Technology & My Pocket, a weekend - 22-23 September - conference at the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project, exploring technologies and the evolution of how we work.
HACKDAY HACKJAM
TAKE PART IN A ONE DAY HACK EVENT - LEARN CODING AND CREATE GAMES, APPS AND WEBSITES
Sound Screen
- Art
- Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre.
A collaboration between electronic musicians and video artists. A night of live music and projected visuals in the Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre.
Quick Fictions
- Art, Performance
- Latest Music Bar
A night of narratives where every story is under 300 words
CreativeJS for non-coders – web programming for designers
- conference, event
- Lighthouse
Designers and artists can make the best creative coders, but coding can seem scary. This course is aimed at people with no coding experience at all, and want to learn JavaScript for the web.
Read more about CreativeJS for non-coders – web programming for designers
Digital, Media & Technology Open Studios 2012
- event
- Wired Sussex member offices
For 5 days this September, as part of Brighton Digital Festival 2012, many Brighton based Wired Sussex Member companies will be opening their doors so you can see what they do, where they do it, who does what and how.
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The Conscious Machine Version 3.1 by The Fortune Cats
This interactive artwork allows visitors to influence a generative digital process which mirrors human consciousness.
Read more about The Conscious Machine Version 3.1 by The Fortune Cats
Art & Chat
An informal weekly session at the Lord Nelson. Digital artists/enthusiasts/etc & the public are invited to present, experience and discuss digital technologies based art works/ideas/projects/etc
Pixel Playtime presented by RamJam
A fun showcase of animation featuring 'the good, the bad and the ugly' in shorts, promos, content and experimentals from a wealth of talented individuals.
Wired Sussex Home Brewed: In conversation with ‘Culture Shock’ author Will McInnes
- event
- Red Roaster Coffee House
Will McInnes will be talking about his new book Culture Shock, as well as his experience in founding and running social business consultancy Nixon McInnes
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The Power Of LinkedIn
A practical workshop to get you started networking on LinkedIn - Intended for those with minimal or no prior experience.
At the end of the session you’ll have an understanding of how to begin to connect and potentially win contacts and business directly through LinkedIn.
Faulty Sound Art Night
- Art, Performance
- Northern Lights, 6 Little East Street, Brighton
A night of experimental sound and video with performances from Brighton based Digital Media Artists plus special guest from Belgium.
0-1 launch party – A home for your digital soul
On 27 September, 0-1 launches onto the iPhone, a speakable to godlike presence, inhabiting your phone, knowing your pains, desires, fears. Your digital soul.
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LOWDEF DV
A night of short but sweet one-minute videos by a mix of filmmakers, artists and first-timers – proving that ideas and innovation outweigh high-budget production values. Viva la resolution!
International TeachMeet Brighton – from Brighton to Infinity
- conference, Education
- City College Brighton and Hove
Calling educators in Brighton, Hove and beyond! Come and share great teaching ideas and learn how digital technologies are being used globally to support students’ learning. FREE of charge.
Read more about International TeachMeet Brighton – from Brighton to Infinity
Async’s “One Canvas” Hack Night – part two
A collaborative "hack night" for artists, designers and programmers, working together to make an interactive, intricate digital artwork on an infinitely scrollable, zoomable web page.
SCHOOLS WORKSHOP WITH NATALIA BUCKLEY
As part of Brighton Digital Festival 2012, Lighthouse has created a programme of exciting events for young people to take part in, working with artists and technologists to learn about and experiment
Digital Whizz Pub Quiz
- event
- The Caxton Arms
As part of the digital festival and the Brighton Open studios we thought it would be fun to round off the festival and test your newly acquired digital knowledge with a pub quiz to sort the men from the boys. Know your facebook from your facepalm? Reckon you can express the rise of Google in the form of interpretive dance? Like using play-dough to communicate abstract concepts? Then you should join us at the Caxton Arms for a night of silliness and digital-themed trivia!
FILM SHOW & TELL
Back at school Show & Tells were an opportunity for us to present things that we were proud of and talk about them with our peers. In keeping with this tradition, Brighton filmmakers will be screening their films and talking about the process of making them with the audience who will be encouraged to ask questions and give feedback. The 3 films we are screening have been chosen not only because they are excellent, but they are all interesting case studies and should be a great topic of discussion.
GREEN ROOM
Green Room is an informal get together for people working in film and TV. Sometimes our events are discussions and talks, and sometimes we just meet for a drink. This month Green Room will be taking place as part of an evening of film activity arranged as part of Brighton Digital Festival. The event will be an informal get together, however, we will be there to help make connections to ensure that you get the most out of the evening.
Big Data Brighton
“What do we do with all this data??”
Driven by digital interactions, 90% of the data that exists today has been generated in the last 2 years. Big Data Brighton explores the potential of a data-driven world
Collect. Convert. Converge.
- Art, Performance
- The Globe (downstairs)
A night of digital/mixed media installation combined with experimental live sound performance, inspired by lost and found objects and the themes of collection, conversion and convergence.
AUTONOMAPHOBIA
- Art, Performance
- Brighton Media Centres Friese Green Gallery Middle St
AUTONOMAPHOBIA 2D Robot art.
Means fear of human robots
Digital Day Surgeries
Drop-in, call-up, contact-us surgeries for anyone with questions about digital technologies. Whatever the tech question/problem is - we'll try to help.
BarCampBrighton
- conference, Free
- The Skiff
BarCampBrighton 7 will be on 29-30 September 2012 - hosted by The Skiff, it's a free-to-attend 48 hour conference for artists, designers, developers, geeks, makers, social softies & ui freaks
BRIGHTON DIGITAL FESTIVAL CLOSING PERFORMANCE NIGHT
- Free
- Basement
Brighton Digital Festival culminates with a fabulous array of performances to dazzle the senses. Expect the fantastic, the futuristic and the confounding in an evening of music and audio-visual delights and surprises, including the uncanny robot orchestra of Brighton band, Space Dog.
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Meaning
- conference
- The Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
Meaning conference is an annual gathering for people who believe business can and must be better in the 21st century.