2pm–5pm Saturday 24 July 2010 Facilitator: Jason Nelson Cost: Free Bookings: email The Edge This is an advanced workshop exploring the creative/artistic use of Adobe Flash and related software packages. Net artist Jason Nelson will guide participants through building and breaking interactive techniques within Flash, exploring both its myriad of uses and its dangers and [...]
Workshop At the start of May we conducted a well-attended 2-day workshop titled “Making things sense: Urban sensing and physical computing”. The focus was on how to build sensor hardware and how to share sensor information with others. Our attendants ranged from artists, over game developers to PhD students. The workshop was very well received. [...]
4–6pm 13 May or 2-4pm 05 June 2010 Facilitator: Jaymis Loveday Cost: Free Bookings: email The Edge A VJ, or Video Jockey, is an artist who performs with video. It’s like a mixture of video editing, digital art, and playing computer games on stage. Jaymis has been a VJ for over 10 years, has played [...]
We here at The Edge are programmed to work hard but when Steven Martin, our insanely knowledgeable Robowars workshop facilitator, brought in two DIY robot kits for testing, we were away from our computers and building robots before anyone had time to say “ex-term-in-ate”. Getting robot novices like us to test the kit and instructions [...]
2–6pm Sunday 23 May and Friday 9 July 2010 NEW DATE! Facilitator: Jaymis Loveday Cost: FREE Book: email The Edge Video is super hot right now. Cheap video cameras, video editing software, and the internet have combined to level the playing field for production and distribution. All you need to get your video out to [...]
Everything Australian writers need to know about digital publishing (but were afraid to Google) 12pm–6pm Saturday 10 July 2010 Who: Kate Eltham, Queensland Writers Centre and if: book Australia Cost: $30 / $50 Bookings: www.qwc.asn.au or 07 3842 9922 E-books, digital rights, online platforms… authors need to understand the changes happening in book publishing and [...]
Wordpress is a popular blogging software and Content Management System, used to maintain millions of websites around the world—including The Edge.
2pm–5pm Saturday 24 April 2010 Facilitator: Jason Nelson Cost: Free Bookings: email The Edge Poetry and fiction are no longer tied to the printed page. New media techniques and technologies allow writers to rethink their words, to create non-linear, interactive and multi-dimensional works. Using software for video, interface, sound, image and web design, digital poet [...]
3pm–5pm Sundays 11 April, 18 April, 25 April and 2 May 2010 Facilitator: Zenobia Frost (poetry), Chris Somerville (short stories), Benjamin Law (opinion) and Tiara the merch girl (zine making) Cost: $80 per person for the four workshops Bookings: www.expressmedia.com.au In this workshop series, Voiceworks magazine writers will take you on a mini publication ride. [...]
2–6pm Sunday 18 April 2010 (SOLD OUT!) Cost: $95 OR 2–6pm Sunday 30 May 2010 Cost: $95 Book: email The Edge Build your own robot and pitch it against other fighting machines in the ultimate DIY techno war. Think hyperactive, flame throwing bumper cars on a bad day in the apocalypse. The workshop cost includes [...]
Everyone loves something free, and that is exactly what GIMP is.
12–6pm Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May 2010 Who: NICTA What: build your own micro-controller projects and share sensor data Cost: $95 Bookings: email The Edge (cut off date for workshop registrations is Sunday 18th of April) The city is full of information. NICTA is addressing the challenge of getting access to this information to [...]
12-2pm Wednesday 24 March 2010 Cost: Free Facilitator: Andrew Gibbs (Simulcast) Bookings: email The Edge Need to create some motion graphics that will make your friends like you even more? Interested in animation? Not sure what a keyframe is? Fear not! Come to The Edge and learn the basics of Adobe After Effects, the industry [...]
