Schedule

10am Welcome

10.15am - 11.15am Rick Prelinger
Redeeming Reuse: The Audiovisual Commons and the Social Contract

11.15 - 11.30am BREAK

11.30am - 1.30pm
Online Archives and Cultural Access
Chaired by Annet Dekker
Rebecca Clemens - Electronic Arts Intermix
Mike Sperlinger - Lux
Poppy Simpson - British Film Institute
Laure Prouvost - TankTV
Paul Gerhardt - Archives for Creativity

1.30-2.30pm BREAK

2.30 - 4.15pm
Artists and Archives
Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead
Vicki Bennett
David Lawson - Black Audio Film Collective
Iain Sinclair
Craig Baldwin

4.15-4.30pm BREAK

4.30 - 5.00pm
Charles Merewether - Now Time: Overcoming Matter

5.00 - 5.30pm
Plenary - all speakers
Chaired by Annet Dekker

Maker Faire

Where and When:

13th March - 14th March

Saturday and Sunday at Centre for Life and Discovery Museum

Centre for Life and Discovery Museum

Life Science Centre
Times Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4EP

+44 (0)191 243 8210
View Website | Email venue

Day Open Time Close Time
Monday Closed Closed
Tuesday Closed Closed
Wednesday Closed Closed
Thursday Closed Closed
Friday Closed Closed
Saturday 10:00 17:00
Sunday 11:00 17:00

(NewcastleGateshead)



Artform:

Exhibitions

Highlights:

Festival Closing Weekend

Maker Faire
Drawbots for Maker Faire. Image Courtesy Newcastle ScienceFest.

Maker Faire, the world’s premiere event for DIY technology and craft, returns to the UK to draw together Newcastle ScienceFest’s opening weekend with the finale of AV Festival 10. This interactive event features robots, power tool drag racing, clever gadgets, garden shed inventions, knitted wonders and the occasional fireball.

£3.95 adults, £10 family ticket. Some activities FREE. Children 4 years and under FREE.

Produced by Newcastle ScienceFest, O’Reilly Media and DGB Events.

See Sounds of Science, artificiel exhibition, and Art and Energy Talks