Produced by: Creative Front Cambridgeshire
Hosted by: Anglia Ruskin University
Event managed by: Clare Denham
Partners: Caper, Neon Tribe
Name of hack: Harlow Art Trail
The developers name: Billy Gibson – @BillyGibsonCL
The data they used: Harlow Arts Trust
Short description … Mobile App to discover sculptures in Harlow, view their location on a map and follow art trails around the town.
Name of hack: Sculptour
The developers name: Michael Dales – @mdales, Tim Duckett – @timd, Doris Bremm – @drbremm
The data they used: Harlow Arts Trust
Short description … Fill your art book by visiting sculptures to unlock them in your virtual sticker book. Add your own photos. Share collection via Facebook/Twitter
Name of hack: The Proms audio visualisation hack like thing
The developers name: Alistair MacDonald – @alistair, Leigh Garland – @toychickenFOLLOWS, Andrew Downs – @andrewd23wk, and a supporting cast of others
The data they used: BBC Proms Data
Short description … We are taking the proms performer information to visualise what they have played and when. We then take that visualisation and convert it in to audio.
Name of hack: Venue Data
The developers name: Richard Hall, Mark Cheverton – @ennui2342, Gareth Wild – @Gareth_Wild, Irene Melo – @IreneMelo, Jon Anderson, Mark Thurman, Jane Wilson, Mark Roberts – @markalroberts
The data they used: Cambridgeshire County Council Cultural Insight data, ADeC Cambs-Culture-Asset-mapping data
Short description … Web platform to search and visualise venues for cultural events, along with demographic data for each location. Strategy to improve the “linkability” of venue datasets to increase data value for strategic planning of arts and culture.
Name of hack: Tales you Win
The developers name: @discoverbrevity @drbremm Eric Broadhurst , Marion and Jeremy Harris
The data they used: Unique Data
Short description … A lightweight platform to enable artists to create linear narrative site-specific tales, and for audiences to experiences the tales
Name of hack: Wysing Retreat Visualisation
The developers name: Alasdair North – @alasdairnorth
The data they used: Wysing Arts Centre Escalator retreat data
Short description … A visualisation of what artists do after they’ve been on Escalator retreats. Includes thumbnails of images of their work and linking together artists who’ve collaborated with each other.
Name of hack: Firstsite-Goldrush
The developers name: Gary Aston – @madebysplendid, Diogo Neves – @DiogoSnows
The data they used: Firstsite images
Short description … Treasure hunt game for families
Name of hack: YeBay
The developers name: Stef Lewandowski – @stef
The data they used: RSC Banquo API
Short description … Itemes of importe of which ye may purchase to thine heart’s content. Put together in the final half an hour of the event!
Name of hack: Ulyssize
The developers name: Rachel Coldicutt – @rachelcoldicutt, Stef Lewandowski – @stef
The data they used: Project Gutenberg
Short description … A stream of (artificial) consciousness with apologies to James Joyce. Generates pages of text that are remarkably similar to what you might find in Ulysses. Done to coincide with #bloomsday and the fact that Joyce’s work has just entered the public domain.
Name of hack: JunctionKids
The developers name: Harry Harrold @harryharrold, harry@neontribe.co.uk
The data they used: The Junction audience data
Short description … An Open Heat Map produced from the postcodes of those who’ve bought tickets of Kid’s Theatre events at Colchester Arts Centre
Name of hack: LRB-network
The developers name: Harry Harrold @harryharrold, harry@neontribe.co.uk, Helen Helen Jeffery @imhelenj
The data they used: London Review of Books free article data
Short description … Just a quick thing – this is what happens when you feed Google Fusion Tables a list of names and associated metadata and press “Experiment”. Really, needs some thought into the data you feed it…
Name of hack: Normal For Festivals
The developers name: Marion Catlin – @marionofnorwich
The data they used: Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Short description … A stopframe animation of some thinking-in-paper about a way of presenting festival data
Name of hack: SCVA events
The developers name: @charleyramm
The data they used: Sainsbury Centre
Short description … Some lovely learning about using JSON and templating to re-present event data
Name of hack: Festival Pick List
The developers name: Sutton Sam – @superdeluxesam, Marion Catlin – @marionofnorwich
The data they used: Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Short description … Helps you to define a bespoke itinerary of festival events by selecting dates you are available, what you would like to see. It shows you what’s on, dates, timesThe app works out which performances you should attend, how much it will cost. When you are happy with that you can book and then add to your outlook or google calendar
Name of hack: ColchesterKids
The developers name: Harry Harrold @harryharrold, harry@neontribe.co.uk; Stafford Glover, @ColchesterArts, Staff@colchesterartscentre.com
The data they used: Colchester Arts Centre audience data
Short description … Three Open Heat Maps produced from the postcodes of those who’ve bought tickets of Comedy, Theatre, and Kid’s Theatre events at Colchester Arts Centre
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