JAYGO BLOOM Has been commissioned to build an Online Games Consultation Tool as part of a major redevelopment project in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
The project is a collaboration between business partners RAPLOCH URC and the Visual Arts officer Cristina Armstrong of UZ EVENTS and informed within a larger landscape framework ensuring the projects success and sustainability by Architects and Consultants CRISTINA GONZALEZ LONGO and Keith Frazer
We managed to ask JAYGO BLOOM a little about this exciting project..
IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENTS - After a series of new media based workshops with the local youths in their new community centre, the gameplan is now taking form.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES - I hope the game will encourage and inform the direction of ideas generated through play by the local community.
FUTURE - The game will be the first stage towards a very well integrated networked public art work which will be housed within the local landscape.









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Photos from my latest commission in Manchester for the Futuresonic festival.
a Locative media based installation - enabling the online world with an offline
presence.


Above the Bambers Art Space




Bump.me.uk earplugs.


Oklahoma cafe and venue


Warehouse 1830 Manchester's Science and Technology Museum


The Interactive Bump screen.

The project worked on numerous levels - from the free distribution of earplugs
within many of Futuresonics evening performances, to the installed pre fabricated
sound units visibly present around the festival. By far the best location was on
Oldham Street above the shop front of Bambers Art Space ran by Mark Kennedy.
And the end of the project the global web counter read +13000 hits, thats potentially
over 13000 sonic sounds emitted throughout the festival over the three days!
a great success, that will be once again exhibited at F.City in Lancaster this September.

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Check out this work by Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson of unsworn, whom I met whilst participating in the Pixelache Festival last April. they have created what they call a Breather. A solar-powered electronic devicemade from a solar panel, a small circuit, and a speaker. When put into a container and attached to a south-facing wall, it converts solar light into chirping sounds.



Breathers is part of a Desearch and Revelopement programme - that recontextualises technological progress into meaningful artefacts through workshops and interventions on the theme of recycling, reappropriation and de[con]struction, the Breathers project imagines that in the future not only the radio frequencies but also the spectrum of visible light will be available for licensing by private companies.

The Breathers are some kind of sonic grafitti that could be used by free-spectrum activists. By subtly parasiting the private frequencies of the solar spectrum - thus subverting the business model of solar filtering companies - the Breathers articulate a resistance of the commodification of the energy spectrum.

Cuckoo IP is a voice messaging system. The clock's answer phone can be dialled from mobile or landline. Leave a voice message, select a time for the delivery of it. At that time, the cuckoo will emerge from the clock and broadcast your message.

The device uses networking protocols to communicate with a server. Every minute, the clock asks the server if there's any message for that time-slot and request the sound file.



created by the artist Tobie Kerridge