Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices (at Walled City Music Festival)

Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices (at Walled City Music Festival)

Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 9.30am

Inclusive Creativity: Digital Practices (Hearts of STEM 2017) is a public symposium/mini-conference which is being organised by Dr Brendan McCloskey, Prof. Frank Lyons and Dr Brian Bridges, at Ulster University, Magee campus (Derry/Londonderry) on May 31st 2017. The event is being held in association with the Walled City Music Festival with support from Garfield Weston.

The event is FREE to anyone interested in inclusion within the arts, education and community sectors. Booking is via Eventbrite.

Further details here: https://heartsofstem.wordpress.com/inclusive-creativity-digital-practices/

Confirmed Presenters and Artists

  • Gawain Hewitt: Associate National Manager and Research and Development at Drake Music
  • John Kelly: a disabled musician, writer, actor and active campaigner for disability rights, currently working with Drake Music on Research & Development.
  • Prof. Tony Brooks (Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • Prof. Eva Brooks (Director, XLab: Design, Learning, InnovationDepartment of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • London–based sound artist Lisa Hall
  • Luke Woodbury: creative technologist with interests in accessibility: http://www.dotlib.org/about/
  • Eamonn Durey from NI’s FabLab.
  • Shane Byrne is a composer and instrument designer currently pursuing a PhD in electroacoustic music performance at Maynooth Univeristy, Ireland.
  • Koichi Samuels is a musician and electronic music producer, with research and practice expertise in inclusive music, human-computer interaction design, ethnomusicology, and hacker/maker culture; he completed his PhD at QUB in 2015.
  • Denise White is an expert in SEN teaching, and is nearing completion of a PhD at Ulster University, on the relationship between music performance and learning disabilities.
  • Charles Matthews is an electronic musician, gamelan player, and workshop facilitator based in London, working with Drake Music and John Kelly on the creation of a bespoke accessible guitar.
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    Published by bdbridges on 11 May 2017

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