Revolution In The Bedroom @ The Hub

 

 

NCCD first ever to celebrate golden age of British video game industry

Revolution in the Bedroom, War in the Playground: Video Gaming 1979-1989
19 Oct 2013 to 5 Jan 2014 at The Hub in Sleaford
Our brand new exhibition will be the first ever to celebrate and explore the rise of the British video games industry. "Revolution" takes a unique starting point - home based or "bedroom" programming. We highlight the importance of the hardware and the creativity of the early pioneers of video gaming and the industry's importance to the arts and creative industries.
You can even go hands on with some of the exhibits and get gaming!
We focus on the golden years of '79 to '89. The gaming art form pioneered during that time is finally being recognised as a genuinely new form of aesthetics and storytelling. These British games wove a rich and diverse 8-bit tapestry full of working class heroes, political satire, and infuriatingly complex puzzles, and the narrative devices and internal physics they pioneered still stand out as innovative and utterly ground-breaking.
Our curators have brought together objects which capture the achievements of the British bedroom programming generation, and the material and promotional artwork that articulates the rich and creative culture that grew around the industry. We have working models of the Sinclair ZX81, ZXSpectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro and the Amstrad, arcade games, video game titles, manuals, user guides and popular fanzines of the time such as CRASH.
Some of the most influential, iconic or ground-breaking British video games from the era, such as Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy are profiled - have a go at Atic Atac, Ant Attack, Manic Miner, The Hobbit and The Wild Bunch. Four newly commissioned films show a series of interviews with never-before seen footage, featuring significant games designers telling their stories directly.
Original artwork and reproductions by iconic designer Oliver Frey are included, and a new commission from Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson, who is producing a major new wall-based work in the exhibition space, will add a highly contemporary view point to the exhibition. The exhibition closes with a profile of some of the current games designed from the bedroom.
For full details and directions etc. see... www.nationalcraftanddesign.org.uk

The Big Draw @ The Hub, Sleaford

The Big Draw @ The Hub, Sleaford

Saturday 5th October 11am-4pm

Get Drawing!

Six designers, six design studios: we’re transforming our Main Gallery for The Big Draw! Meet the designers in the Main Gallery to gain an understanding of just how integral drawing is to the design process. Examine current craft and design practice across textile, graphic, fashion, architecture, product and furniture design. Do your own drawings, imagining what the world will look like in 10 or 100 years. We’ll provide a range of fantastic materials to make your creative ideas a reality from speed and collaborative drawing to large and small scale drawing. (Our shop stocks more drawing materials and sketchbooks). The annual Big Draw festival runs each October in over 1000 organisations in the UK and twenty other countries. It has one aim: Get everyone drawing!

Free, everyone welcome Full details at...

 

http://www.nationalcraftanddesign.org.uk/events

The Gainsborough Packet @ The Hub Sleaford

On 14th September The Hub in Sleaford will be screening a short film, The Gainsborough Packet, followed by a live set from folk musician Robin Grey (www.robingrey.com).

The Gainsborough Packet is the culmination of a year’s research by Matt Stokes, which began with the discovery of a letter within the Tyne & Wear archive, written by an ordinary man named John Burdikin, in 1828. The letter became inspiration for lyrics, music and film created by Stokes and his collaborators (Jon Boden from Bellowhead and composer Alistair Anderson). The Gainsborough Packet engages with folk tradition, contemporary music videos and popular culture and being produced with a particular sensitivity to the shared legacy of folk music in Camden and Newcastle which stems from Stokes immersive research.

 

Robin Grey is based in Hackney and has recently returned from a successful tour of Edinburgh's Fridge Festival, where he racked up 12 gigs in just one week! He draws inspiration from the timeless work of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Ani Difranco amongst many others.

Further details

07788628376



Clare Morgan About time  Now Showing until September 4 @ the Hub Sleaford

Claire Morgan is an award-winning artist working predominantly in sculpture. Her astonishing suspended artworks, for which she has become best known, are manifestations of her obsession for making and her passion for materials. Thousands of hand selected and individually hung elements are arranged in exacting formations. Whilst both beautiful and fascinating, the sculptures also bring with them a sense of wonderment and illusion.

The collection of works developed for About Time, extend Morgan’s preoccupation with ‘change’ and the passing of time. Typified by the use of fragile and organic materials such as seeds, insects, fruit or vegetation, Morgan’s sculptures subtly draw our attention to the transience of everything around us, and comment on the mysterious correlations between death, decay and the persistence of life – often with unsettling results.
More recently, taxidermy animals have been introduced into Morgan’s sculptures - rabbits, a crow and even a fox will inhabit the gallery during the exhibition here at the National Centre for Craft & Design. The creatures, which appear familiar yet at the same time startlingly foreign within the unlikely setting of an art gallery, add to the sense of augmented reality within Morgan’s sculptures. Often poised for movement the frozen animals charge the sculptures with energy - a disrupted moment never to be realised.

“Animals, birds and insects have been present in my recent sculptures, and I use suspense to create something akin to freeze frames. In some works, animals might appear to fly or fall through other seemingly solid suspended forms, or even perch or sit on them. In other works, insects appear to fly in static formations. The evidence of gravity - or lack of it - inherent in these scenarios is what brings them to life, or death.” Claire Morgan
Given the relative youth of Morgan’s career, she has achieved considerable success and firmly established her practice within the international arts arena. Her work are collected and exhibited all over the world with recent exhibitions in New York, Tasmania, Florence, Cologne and Paris to name but a few. About Time is Claire Morgan’s first solo exhibition in the UK since 2008, and therefore represents an rare opportunity to see new and existing works by this artist at the Hub National Centre for Craft & Design, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire NG34 7TW

Details from http://www.thehubcentre.info/   hub@leisureconnection.co.uk
Open 10.00-5.00pm all year round except Christmas, Boxing and New Year Days. Use NG34 7DW for sat navs.

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