Using tech to enhance and widen accessibility for creatives and audiences
Join Creative Cardiff project manager Vicki Sutton to explore how technology is enhancing and widening the accessibility of art and culture for creatives and their audiences. Vicki will be joined by five Wales-based creatives who will share examples of their innovative approaches. We’ll discuss the technology that’s been developed and how it can enrich creative experiences.
Captions and BSL interpretation will be available for this session.
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More about the creatives
Hannah McPake and Alison John
RISE is a live audio broadcast that takes place at dawn, a time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. A dream like voyage that provokes the listener to reconnect with both themselves and the world around them. The live broadcast is designed to be listened to in your own home and explores themes of ritual, myth and connectivity. Rise was conceived and developed by Hannah McPake, Alison John and Julian Sykes. RISE was created with support from ACW through an individual stabilisation grant.
Hannah is a theatre maker, co-founder of award winning theatre company Gagglebabble and Associate Artist of Theatr Iolo. She has collaborated with yello brick on several digital experiences; voicing EXTINCT and COLD CASE, as well as co-devising and directing FINAL CUT for yello Brick/WMC and NOW/HERE a yello brick/Mess up the Mess collaboration.
Alison is co-founder and producer at Yellobrick which was established in 2012. She has a background in theatre and after training as an actor at RWCMD in 2002, worked in the theatre industry for eight years. After which she began a career in event management, marketing and producing. Highlights include producing BAFTA Games Commended multiplatform game REVERIE and everwake which was shortlisted for Best Design at Cardiff Design Festival. Alison is also co-producer of playARK Festival, an annual event in Cardiff that explores story, games and playful experiences in theory and practice and was Director of ARK LAB, a company that created projects for social good.
Jorge Lizalde
Jorge is a photographer/videographer/projection mapping designer based in Cardiff.
He has designed and helped on set to create live projections, and he has also assisted theatre companies to stream live their R&Ds and Productions. He helped Unlimited to integrate live subtitles and Bsl interpreters during their Zoom Conference calls but also with live streams across different platforms - Youtube, Facebook, etc.
He received a Resilience R&D by Art Council of Wales, to research and look at different technologies (captioning, vibrating sound and LEDs ) and its possible implementations to make art installations and performances more accessible.
Leigh Davies
Leigh Davies is an award-winning Systems Creative based in the UK - Music producer, illustrator, designer, technologist, animator; an all-round whipper-upper of creative goodies who delivers stories and designs experiences. Co-founder of pyka. Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Gloucestershire. Leigh will share information on his projects Playces (an award-winning series of interactive audiovisual instrument-sculptures promoting curiosity, exploration, and play) and The Expression orchestra (a collection of multi-platform digital instruments designed to broaden access to empowering musical performance).
Rachel Stelmach
Creative Technology and Combined Arts National Officer for Disability Arts Cymru. Rachel provides help and support for disabled artists across Wales in the fields of creative technology and combined artforms.
She also provides advice for organisations across Wales that want to work with disabled artists or improve access to their services and venues.