DigiLab 2024: In Photos
28th November 2024
Some of the imitating the dog team have been in Preston the past couple of weeks, bringing our most recent installation Ribble of Dreams to life for this year’s Encounter Festival. For two days, festival attendees and passers-by could peer into a collection of magical viewing boxes in city-centre shop windows, each containing a different vision and version of Preston landscape – a mix of local histories, some factual, some imagined, made by imitating the dog and the people of Preston.
Indeed, we had the privilege of working with young Preston residents the week before the festival, as our co-Artistic Directors Pete Brooks and Andrew Quicks led multimedia storytelling and 3D multimedia model box masterclasses. Accompanied by Creative Engagement Manager Ben Mellor and the video-tech nous of Matt Tully and Sam Gee, participants were encouraged to create their own stories and learn more about the possibilities of world-building in a digital landscape.
What stories could they come up with, based on the starting blocks provided?
How did they ‘see’ their stories, and could they recreate them in the green screen and multimedia box?
Living in their imaginations made for a brilliant and inspiring weekend, as it always does working with enthusiastic young creators. The pictures below, taken by the ever-excellent Ed Waring, capture that.
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