Category: Creativate

You have an animated show idea but aren’t sure how to go about pitching it? I can help you with that! I’ll take you through the process of putting together a show deck for your animated show idea, along with sharing my own experiences of getting my own show Moosebox picked up by Nickelodeon and onto web and TV. Having helped with putting many show decks together, I’ll explain what some TV and network execs are looking for when they see a new animated show idea, and also suggest some ways you can give you and your show the best chance of success. This is meant to be an interactive experience involving some structure but also questions and answers.

Credits: Mike Scott

Thuthukani Ndlovu will be hosting a 1 day workshop which provides a hands-on introduction to Artivive App (the augmented reality tool for artists) and pinpoints the potential of AR as a new way for artists to express and differentiate themselves. Participants will be able to use the tool without any prior technical skills. They will learn how to augment photos, paintings, drawings, graffiti or tattoos as well as learning how videos and 3D objects can be overlaid onto a physical space and viewed through mobile devices. Artists will get the chance to create their own animation and they will be guided as they add an AR layer of animation to bring the artwork to life. Participants should have good access to the internet because the platform that will accommodate their work requires a strong bandwidth. Thuthukani will also share some of the work he has done as a digital artist, as well as curated work featuring AR artworks created by other artists with The Radioactive Blog (eg Giving Poetry Wings). This workshop is ideally for Digital/ visual artists, and participants have to RSVP to receive the workshop schedule and link.

Credit: Artivive

Giving Poetry Wings (GPW) is an Extended Reality (XR) digital art exhibition, which showcases collaborative work between 10 selected artists (poets and digital artists based in South Africa and Malawi). The work created will be a result of online workshops hosted by Thuthukani Ndlovu (The Radioactive Blog) from the 12th to the 17th of June 2020. This is the 3rd edition of GPW, and to date, previous work curated in GPW has been featured at Fakugesi African Innovation Digital festival and Brighton Digital Festival, and the GPW program received the “2019 Word N Sound – Innovation in Poetry” award. Last year, the focus was on Digital Art, Poetry and Augmented Reality, but this year the focus will extend to virtually exhibiting the curated work through videos and spoken word. You will be able to enter the virtual exhibition online via Curat10n for the duration of the festival, or by downloading the exhibition for free to view at your own time (During and after the festival). For the best experience, we advise using a computer (and wearing earphones) to access the exhibition. The Exhibition link will be made available here from the 25th of June 2020.

How can you be anyone in ZoomSpace? We will see how very recent (as of mid April) open-source code [1] allows doing live real-time deep-fake in Zoom and Facebook Live. Where does this put us on the axis in between the promised cyberntic utopia and trolling potential: infinity!? Can this be a middle ground between online participation policing and personal privacy? A Significant part of the workshop is a hands-on jam, where we will create deep fakes [2], using online tools which do not require prior coding or machine learning know how [3]. We will also practice playing with live avatars in zoom [4]. This tutorial is will be focused on applicative and creative aspects.

Credit: Eyal Gruss

I will be presenting an introductory course on how to create Instagram and Facebook filters as well as how people can implement their art projects in different ways through Augmented Reality and Social Media.

Presenter: Luke Draper

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Many people will be familiar with that targeted ad that follows them around the web, or that unnerving feeling that Facebook or Google is tracking their every move – perhaps even listening to their conversations. In the age of data vellience, platform providers use such techniques to predict our age, gender and interests. But who does Facebook really think you are? What kind of identity has Google decided you inhabit? This workshop will tackle these questions, by offering participants a chance to engage with their data self. We will discover how our algorithmic identities are created, what they can and cannot know about us, and what we can and cannot know about them. But this is no tech workshop – no experience with data required. Instead, participants will get the chance to creatively collaborate with their data self: through experimental drawing and / or by a writing a short story, based on the selves that social media platforms think they are.

Co-developers and directors:
Dr Tanya Kant
Dr Sophie Bishop

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After her untimely demise in a taxi a young girl finds herself at the Pearly gates. Before her Anubis, Death, Saint Peter, her Ancestors, a host of angels and Styx all awaiting to hear her final confession before she can be led to her final resting place. The audience take on the role of the host of Angels and the Ancestors who are there to help Saint Peter, Death, Styxs and Death determine her final resting place. The narrative is a true confession superimposed on the fictional situation of my death. The fiction provides a context through which to involve the audience and the confession is the performance. By using online social media tools and methods the performance is to be carried out as a guided confession where the actors coax the audience into performing with them and the come to a verdict.

Creator/director and performer: Palesa Matabane
Cast/content creators : Morena Hlatshwayo, George Dywilli, Mahloli Pesa, Matete Phala, Chad Johnston, Hlobisile Mahlangu