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Monday 30 May 2022
18:00pm - 19:00pm
Online event
Maker Monday is online 30/05/22 with the fab James Edward Marks, experimental new media provocateur + maker of multi-dimensional motion arts
Birmingham’s highly established Maker Monday returns online on Monday 30th May with the amazing James Edwards Marks.
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James E. Marks FRSA – PlayLa.bZ Co-Founder, Hackstock Founder, PsychFi Artivist, Ravensbourne University London Honorary Fellow
https://twitter.com/jamesemarks | https://twitter.com/GoGenieMo | https://www.linkedin.com/in/psychfi
MdMA / Multi-dimensional Motion Arts for Change
James will talk about his ‘MdMA Continuum’, mind-expanding arts & science of optical illusions in-depth, connecting past & present artificial reality dots, icons, ideas, inspiration & technological inventions. James will showcase how through his work he has helped to discover a deeper human understanding of analogue & digital mixed media communications for societal change, balance & environmental good on spaceship earth.
About James
James is an experimental new media provocateur. Prior to PlayLa.bZ, he co-founded Korean start-up DoubleMe, and launched the Award Winning & Worlds First HoloPortal™ at Ravensbourne University London. His work as a maker of psychedelic, pop culture reference, counter narrative multi-dimensional motion arts experiences has led to him being described by the Sunday Times as a ‘trippy hippy’ technologist and a transformative tech tinkerer.
With a background in the motion arts at British Film Institute, National Film Television Archive, the UK’s lead film organisation, helping open the IMAX in 1990s and award-winning pioneer of web and social video with campaigns generating multi-million views; even saving teenage lives with YouTube brand funded storytelling, now a regular lecturer at Ravensbourne Screen School on Emerging Film Technology.
James broke the world record for a live VR experience at Londons Comic Con, with his social video collaborations for the British Red Cross playing the Pyaramid stage at Glastonbury, recent collaborations featured at Museum of the Moving Image New York, V&A, Tate Modern, London Design Festival, Boomtown Festival, Aesthetica, MozFest, Mobile World. Congress, IBC 50th Anniversary BBC Click & Oxford University Press.
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About Maker Monday
Twitter @Maker_Monday; Insta: makermonday #MakerMonday.
Maker Monday is a highly established event based in Birmingham, UK and powered by STEAMhouse, a new centre for innovation and creation. Uniting talented people from different backgrounds in the arts, science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEAM sectors – to bring amazing new ideas to life.
For all queries regarding Maker Monday, please contact Maker Monday organiser- Tim Wilson – hello@timmy666.com / twitter: @timmy666
About STEAMhouse
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Created in partnership with Eastside Projects and funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Arts Council England, we’re driving innovation and research for major long-term growth across the region. Bringing inventors, entrepreneurs, businesses and craftspeople together to develop exciting new ideas and products.
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