Young Digitals Festival 2019 (YDF19)
Digital wonder, explorations and experiments.
- VJ-ing
- Glitch art
- Drones
- Arts Award
All events free, no need to book - just stop by any time and get creative. VJ-ing, glitch art, photography, coding and a digital treasure hunt with artists from Peshkar, University Campus Oldham and MakoCreate.
Visitors sampled the UK premiere of the Alternarration Collective's artworks created in response to the Digital Stories brief, and saw artwork created by local games design students at Oldham College.
2019
11am - 3.30pm
Oldham Library
Free · Just turn up
4th
Edition
The programme
- All day
The Ministry of Disinformation
Create your own passport and identity to take through the festival. Collect stamps for every activity and achieve a Discover Arts Award.
- All day
Glitch Art
Play with images with artist Bridget Hines and create your own piece of glitch art, then animate it into a GIF.
- All day
Digital Treasure Hunt
Help Hollie Wimpenny find and photograph objects of importance around the library, using Kahoot to build a trail around the festival.
- All day
VJ for the Day
The library is your canvas. Create and manipulate images with artist Ryan Gilmartin, play with projection mapping and animate the library.
- All day
Code-A-Drone
MakoCreate's workshop: learn to pilot a mini-drone to take off, fly, turn, do stunts and land using block-based coding and Swift. No experience needed.
Artists & partners
Bridget Hines
Glitch Art
Hollie Wimpenny
Digital Treasure Hunt
Ryan Gilmartin
VJ & projection
MakoCreate
Code-A-Drone
Alternarration Collective
UK premiere