Coders Get Creative
Sat Sep 15, 10:00 - Sat Sep 15, 15:00
ABOUT
WHAT: A fun, interactive workshop, facilitated by experienced artists from Studio41, that gets software developers and digital designers (the tech back-end and front-end) into a gritty space to produce a completed artwork made from recycled, old, broken or otherwise unusable computer or mobile phone parts.
WHO: Software Coders/Software Developers, IT Professionals and Digital Creatives (No previous artistic training is required. Participants may bring a teenage child or a friend or colleague with them who shares their enthusiasm for code or design, but can work alone if preferred)
WHEN: Saturday 15 September 2012 from 10h00 – 15h00
WHERE: The BandwidthBarn, 3rd floor, Block B, Woodstock Industrial Centre, 66 Albert Road (corner Station), Woodstock
COST: R 250 per pack if you are willing to donate your completed artwork* to CITi to auction to raise funds for its Sustainable Software (“IT enables the green economy”) initiative. (R 550 if you want to keep your artwork.) Limited free tickets available to Silicon Cape and CapaCITi 1000 members (*See smallprint below.)
The cost includes a pre-selected colour palette of paint and a mounted board of size 450 x 450 within which the artwork will be produced.
Support and facilitation will be provided by Studio41 - artist Roscoe Reid Masters and two art assistants
Participants should bring tools, pliers, a hammer and a drill with them. There will be some tools available for use as well. Please also collect and bring old, broken, unusable computer and mobile phone parts for yourself and to share with others if you have more. We will supply some as well.
RSVP: Register online at www.quicket.co.za/events/1026-coders-get-creative and either pay online or choose the “pay on the day option” and bring cash on the day. Please ensure that you purchase the correct ticket depending on whether you are a digital designer or software developer/IT Professional.
WHY IS THIS EVENT BEING HELD? The Cape IT Initiative is on a mission to shift perceptions about software development. We want to demonstrate to future coders and the world that:
The Western Cape software development industry is a creative industry; and it is a growing "green" industry (not just in terms of green IT but also because we use sustainable opensource software solutions and open file standards and API's to get startups faster, further
SMALLPRINT: CITi wants to keep the art because by March 2014, our aim is that 110 “creative works” with a “green” or “sustainable software” theme will have been produced by Western Cape software developers, IT Professionals and Digital Designers (ie IT from frontend to backend) for an exhibition to be held during World Design Capital 2014. (These creative works may take a number of forms, including actual artworks, software code, digital art, etc. The next workshop is on Saturday 10 November. The concept will be co-imagined by the participants at the 15 September workshop.)
