1) The Digital Maker Collective is a collaboration between University of the Arts London (UAL) and other organizations to explore digital making and technology through events at Tate Exchange from 2017. 2) The events involved over 150 staff and students from UAL and attracted 2,000 public visitors, growing the Collective's confidence through true collaboration. 3) Participants felt it was an intense but useful learning experience that could advance digital learning at UAL and open critical debate within the arts sector and with industry. 4) Next steps discussed include a Digital Makers workshop, unconference, and exploring how the Collective's work fits within UAL's curriculum to improve digital skills through new models

1. Digital Maker Collective
University of the Arts London (UAL) Camberwell, Chelsea & Wimbledon (CCW)
Reflections on Tate Exchange Events (8 & 22 Feb & 8 & 22 March 2017)
Chris Follows
UAL Digital Learning Manager
Nicola Rae
Artist & UAL Academic Support
Ibrahim Romman
Camberwell BA Graphic Design student
@CCWDigital CCWDigital
#artsDMC #tateJAM @TateExchange
11th April 2017

3. Experimenting with Meet Ups (2015)

4. Invite to be a Tate Exchange Associate (2015)

5. “Digital transformation is inevitable for every sector:
you will either digitally transform your business or
you will be replaced by one that has.
When this transformation happens properly it is messy,
hectic, and produces results no one could predict”
Ben Terrett
Governor, University of the Arts London UAL

6. Teaching Digital & Teaching Digitally

7. A Space to Meet Up & Tech Play (2016)

8. Digital Maker Week (2016)

9. Initial collaboration with the CYLAND team from St Petersburg at Chelsea Maker Week, May 2016. The technical aspects
of emotional recognition technology used in Alexandra Dementieva's Orbis Quartus are being explained here by Alex
and Sergey Komarov who programmed this piece. Photos by Anna Frants, artist and curator at CYLAND.

10. Digital Maker Collective

11. Mozilla Festival (MozFest 2016)
Image by Paul Clarke Mozfest 28-10-16 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/mozfest/30598758376/in/photostream/

12. Collaborative workshop at Chelsea with participants from Hill Mead Primary
School, Brixton, and members of the Digital Maker Collective, supported by
Kim from the London Connected Learning Centre. Various Arduino
functions were practiced and then ideas and possibilities for their uses were
explored through drawing.

13. Tate Exchange Planning (on & offline)

14. Tate Exchange: 150+ Staff & Students

15. Tate Exchange: 2,000 Public Visitors

17. “A space to incubate ideas & practice, work could evolve over four dates”

18. Staff, Students, Alumni, Public & Industry Working Together

19. Collective confidence grew through ‘True Collaboration’

20. An Example of a BaseCamp Activity:
A collaboration between:
CYLAND Media Art Lab (St Petersburg)
Hill Mead Primary School (Brixton)
London Connected Learning Centre
Digital Maker Collective

21. Digital Maker Collective members practicing functions with the Sparkfun kits at TATE EXCHANGE on 8th Feb,
ready for the collaborative workshop on 22nd Feb with Hill Mead School participants and CYLAND.

22. Collaboration between the CYLAND team, Hill Mead School participants and members of the Digital Maker Collective at
TATE EXCHANGE on 22nd Feb. Here we are wiring and coding Sparkfun components ready to place on the
ELECTROACTIVE GRID. Anna Frants who led the CYLAND team from St Petersburg took these photographs.

23. Early stages of populating the ELECTROACTIVE GRID with SparkFun Arduino-based functions including
servo-motored objects, multiple blinking lights, robotic eyes, wind-up chattering teeth and screens.

24. ”Intense learning experience”
Visibility & Social Media Interest

26. “Useful conversations & networking with UAL & industry”
“Advance digital learning at our University”

27. “Open Critical Debate with UAL, Sector & industry”

29. “I’ve learnt more about how to involve the public in highly
technological environments”

30. “I was able to challenge my Ideas”
”Curious to see how I could locate my practice in the new digital era”

31. What Next?

32. Preliminary ideas for the Tate Kids workshop
DIGITAL MAKERS: BE AN INTERACTIVE ARTIST!
on 12th April in the Taylor Digital Studio, Tate Britain.
This collaborative workshop between artist Nicola Rae
and members of the Digital Maker Collective will
explore Arduino functions, interactive musical chairs
using Touch Boards connected to Ableton and live
interactive visualized sound frequencies (Sygyt
Software).

33. #artsDMC
Digital Making Unconference
Southwark Room @TateExchange
17 & 19 May 2017

34. Digital Making in the Curriculum:
Looking at how the work of the Collective fits within courses
True Collaboration and Non-Hierarchy Learning
Communities
Experimental approach to integrating digital
practice in L&T (Teaching Digitally)
Immersive environments & AI art students
New L&T models, pedagogical frameworks
Improve digital literacies and confidence
Art education & public galleries/museums
Critical Media & Critical Arts/Design Digital Practice
Open Practice as Open Research
Relationship between art education & traditional
& emergent tech industries
How can universities better benefit from
home-grown talent?
Explore an enterprise model/strand of the
Collective
New courses through Industry perspectives
on digital e.g. Creative Coding
Open Design and Manufacturing
Knowledge Alliance between HEIs, Makers,
Makerspaces and Manufacturers to boost Open
Design & Open Manufacturing

35. Thank You For Listening
Twitter: @CCWDigital & @UAL
Instagram: CCWDigital #artsDMC
http://digitalmakercollective.org/
https://process.arts.ac.uk/