Visual Highlights:

A virtual choir that projects the head of a singer for each note you play.
A robot whose gestures are triggered by a popular travel card.
Jellyfish musical instrument.

Visitor Information:

4th Takeaway Festival of DIY Media

Control a robot with a travel card, have 30 singers at your beck and call from a piano keyboard and contribute sounds to a live musical performance. Just some of the reasons to visit the Takeaway Festival of Do-It-Yourself Media free and back at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre for its fourth year.

The Takeaway Festival is developed in a partnership between the Science Museum’s Dana Centre and Thames Valley University with the support of an Arts Council Grants for the Arts award and features the Bulb Collective, Marcus Lyall Studio and Ger Ger. A combination of performances, workshops, talks and an exhibition, the two week event is an unparalleled opportunity to experience the work of 30 artists from the US and Europe at the cutting edge of their practice.

The festival is a chance to not only interact with exciting work but to learn how to do it yourself too. In a series of free workshops visitors can find out how to create iPhone applications, zines, video for the web and interactive objects.

The series of talks, performance and workshops run from 19 to 21 May at the Scienc Museum's Dana Centre. The exhibition runs from 19 to 30 May.

Events are free and open to anyone aged 18 and over
To attend a workshop, please come to the Dana Centre at least one hour before the start time to sign up.

Further information: www.danacentre.org.uk and http://www.takeawayfestival.com

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