January 2010
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Lovebytes 2010 →
Lovebytes returns in 2010 with a cultural festival for the digital age. A season of extraordinary events taking place at some of Sheffield’s landmark venues and public spaces.
Jan 4th
November 2009
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Love Bytes Back! →
We’re looking forward to some fantastic events starting in 27 January 2010.
Nov 27th
September 2009
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We are heroes!
Avatars was shortlisted for the prestigious Talk Talk Digital Heroes Awards. We didn’t win, but we got to the last three! :-)
Sep 30th
July 2009
4 posts
Jul 16th
Digital Art Workshops
Lovebytes delivered a series of public workshops between 27 June and 4 July 2009 aimed at encouraging young people and their parents to get creative with digital technology. These workshops were part of Showcomotion Young People’s Film Festival in Sheffield and built on the methods used in the Avatars project for a broader age range and explored a wider range of technologies and techniques. ...
Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
Jul 4th
June 2009
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Jun 8th
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May 2009
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May 19th
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May 15th
In a nutshell...
Since January, Janet Jennings and Jon Harrison from the Sheffield based digital arts organisation Lovebytes have been working with Y3 children at Hunter’s Bar Junior School on an innovative creative technology project called ‘Avatars’. The project aims to develop creative skills and digital literacy amongst primary aged school children and has resulted in a variety of exciting...
May 14th
April 2009
2 posts
Apr 24th
Apr 24th
March 2009
5 posts
Avatars at Sheffield Children's Festival
We’ve just done a photo shoot at Sheffield Town Hall for the Sheffield Children’s Festival. The Avatars project is going to be featured across a range of festival publicity. Look out for our characters on festival posters and programmes very soon.
Mar 20th
“Can we do some more Scratch on Thursday? It’s my birthday!”
– Y aged 8.
Mar 17th
Stage 3 Workshops
We’re now working with a smaller group of 9 children from Hunter’s Bar Junior School. The children, aged 7-8 yrs, are making interactive art and games using the Scratch programming language. This is the third stage of the Avatars project which goes behind the scenes of character based interactive entertainment and digital media. The children love these hands-on workshops which tap...
Mar 17th
Mar 17th
Making Interactive Art from Scratch
The second stage of our workshops at Hunter’s Bar Junior School involved taking digital images of the characters, that the children had designed, onto the school computers. We then introduced each class to the Scratch programming environment where they were able to create animation and visual effects. About Scratch. It’s FREE! You can download the programme and share your work online...
Mar 17th
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February 2009
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Feb 11th
“The late great Janet Ahlberg could create an enchantingly believable face from...”
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/24/oliver-jeffers-children-s-books-illustrations-joanna-carey
Feb 6th
Feb 6th
Feb 6th
The Big Byte
The Big Byte is a year long-programme of events aimed at introducing digital art and creative technology to a wider audience. The programme is produced by the Sheffield based digital arts organisation Lovebytes and supported by Arts Council England and Screen Yorkshire. Lovebytes is taking a year out from its annual festival to concentrate on developing creative digital skills and digital media...
Feb 6th