LightTAG legacy

The LightTAG project has now ended. LightTAG enabled 62 young people from across the South East to build confidence and achievement through a unique science and media art collaboration. LightTAG encouraged the young people to tell personal stories about their life and demonstrated how art and science work together through light. Science and art have much in common – both are trying to make sense of the world around us.

You can check out the fantastic work here on this blog and on facebook.

Be sure to check out the beautiful catalogue under the blog Exhibition page and see the LightTAGs created by the young people for the final exhibition.

After an undisclosed amount of emails, more than 1750 images and 22 animations, 23 full days of exciting workshops at 6 different universities and a touring exhibition at 6 galleries, we say goodbye for now. We hope you will enjoy the work produced by the 62 LightTAG artists.

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LightTAG exhibition opening

 

Video documentary of our LightTAG opening by Nicolai Amter

Be inspired by light

To download the press pack, please visit: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/92753/LightTAG%20opening%20press%20pack.zip

You are invited to the official LightTAG grand opening!

Please join us at the official grand opening of LightTAG at BFI Southbank on 11th February. Here you’ll have chance to see the young people’s work and take part in some exciting live activities. Do pass on this invite to anyone you think might be interested. More details to follow.

See you there!

New animations on our Facebook page

We’ve had a busy few weeks and our Facebook page is getting a lot of traffic too! This might be due to the fantastic animations created by the young people we’ve already met at the first two LightTAG workshops.

 

Here’s a preview of our popular Facebook page but do visit yourself: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LightTAG/153178608030961

Workshop at Watermans

Our second workshop is now complete. Taking place at Watermans in west London, we welcomed a group of talented young people who produced some stunning images such as this one, above. Their animations will be uploaded soon too but do keep your eye on our Facebook page and Twitter too.

Clare (LightTAG administrator)

In motion – Canterbury animations

As you’ll see from our last post, we were thrilled with the Canterbury workshop and all the work which was produced.

In addition to the light drawings, the young people also worked on some animations. Here’s one to get you started but do visit our Workshops page for more!

Fantastic feedback

 

A still from a participant's animation

 

We received some great feedback after our Canterbury workshop. Everyone reported that they had a good time and were ‘very impressed’ with the project with the youth worker from Connexions reporting that the feedback they received was also very positive.

In particular, the young people liked:

• The hands-on activities including making the pinhole camera
• The light drawing sessions
• The tour of the science labs which showed them a real life application of light in an accessible way

We too, learned a lot from the participants and are looking forward to seeing them all again at the exhibition.

But there’s a lot of work to do before then with workshops confirmed at Southampton, Surrey and Staines.

See you soon,

The LightTAg team

100% retention on Canterbury LightTAG

The workshop continues to go well as it reaches its final day. Here’s another image from one of the young people which represents a real life story.

All involved are delighted with how it’s been going and with 100% retention rate, things are looking great for the remaining workshops too.

Seeing your name in lights

Wow, the Canterbury group have been very busy indeed! Here is just one of the fantastic light drawings created at the first LightTAG workshop. The workshop ends tomorrow before heading off to the next venue to meet another 12 young people. See more images on our Workshops page.

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