Southend on Sea Linux User Group

Meeting every Thursday @ 8pm til late

Southend on Sea Linux User Group

Meeting every Thursday @ 8pm til late

Southend on Sea Linux User Group

Meeting every Thursday @ 8pm til late

AWSoM - the Ambient Weather Sound Machine - uses found-sounds, triggered by the weather on recycled and found technologies to recreate environmental sound and feelscapes. AWSoM will be performed on Two tree Island during Essex Wildlife Trust’s ‘Discovery’ open Day on Sunday, May 20th, 10.30 – 4pm Come along, bring some food, and join our picnic! http://awsom.mediashed.org

Southend on Sea Linux User Group

8:00pm till late

What to know more about Linux or just curious, visit us at the MediaShed in Southend. Educate yourself with the possibilities of Linux, feed your brain not $Gates wallet.

MediaShed
Unit 38 Grainger Road
Grainger Road
South on Sea
Essex
SS2 5DD
Tel:01702 460590

The MediaShed at Enter_Unknown Territories, 26th-29th April 2007

Wednesday - Setting Up: Setting up the Enter Domes on Parkers Piece, Cambridge

DAY 1 - Sunday, 11 March 2006 @ Mediashed, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Those present were:

Drew Hemment: Future Everything (CIC). DJ & events organiser - Futuresonic. Social diversity and interactions
Katherine Moriwaki: Artist and lecturer. Technology in art & media systems
Graham Harwood: Mongrel - widening the scope/availability of media, media art & systems
David Valentine: MediaShed & film making, LFS, E2PROM
Derek Shaw: MediaShed Facilities Manager, SoSLUG organiser and SOSEAN Server Manager
Stuart Bowditch: MediaShed Technical Support and musician - Sundown Multimedia, Telephasic Workshop, E2PROM
Rob Gretton: Sound engineer and DJ - Telephasic Workshop. Member of Sonic Arts Network, currently forming Southend-on-Sea Electronic Arts Network
Terry Slepcevic: Short-film maker and co-runs Retro Gaming events at MediaShed

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Mediashed @ Enter_Unknown Territories

Parkers Piece - 26th - 29th April 2007

Mediashed took part in the Enter_Unknown Territories Festival in Cambridge. We ran a temporary Mediashed space in on of 4 inflatable domes in the public park known as Parkers Piece.

We ran workshops, activities and talks on a variety of subjects including Spy Kiting, Social Telephony, The Networked Image, Video Sniffin', VJing and Retro Gaming, and performances of short films, live music, Audio/Visual experiments and DJing. Alongside all this, the space was open to the public for the whole festival to use and enjoy a selection of recycles computers, free and open source software, with friendly Mediashed personnel to help wherever needed.

Thirty years after Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Futuresonic presents Art For Shopping Centres, exhibition of major, world premier artworks, after which you will never look at a shopping centre the same again. Art For Shopping Centres is the centrepiece of Urban Play, continuing Futuresonic's focus since 2004 on taking artworks out of the galleries and into urban space.

Workshops: 11-13th March 2007 @ Mediashed, Southend.

Festival and Exhibition: 10-12th May 2007 @ Arndale Centre, Manchester