Come and get a taste of what’s happening in the minds of some of the city’s leftfield innovators, as we bring Manchester’s visual arts community and thriving digital design sector together in a playful and informal setting.
Ten artists and designers will make lightning-quick presentations about a current project, experiment or source of inspiration – the ideal way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
This time around our speakers are a mix of invited people, nominations from previous speakers and open spots for you. The line-up includes:
- Cherry Tenneson – ‘Artist-informant-cartographer’ of redundant objects and information. (Often seen documenting crumbs and plastic at an everyday desk top)
- Michael Trainor – founder of Pop Empires, Art makers and commissioners of art and events.
- Richard Schofield from weareboy, 3D guys in Manchester serving the creative industries with still and animated 3D CGI, video, and all things ‘motionified’.
- Mark Jermyn and Sally Gilford from one69a, a creative collective who specialise in screen printing, run educational workshops and run live screen printing sessions at events.
- Mishka Henner, Belgian born photographer whose recent work included No Man’s Land and recipient of the world’s smallest photography award! (which seeks to emphasise the importance of coincidence, grace and humility in photography).
- Amanda Bellantara from Kinokokophone, an artist collective that collects and composes sounds, stories and imagery from around the world.
- Drew Hemment from FutureEverything
- Filmmaker, creator and compere extraordinaire Maria Ruban.
Plus more to be announced – including YOU! Following our first event we’ve responded to your requests to include open spots and there will be two available at this event for anyone who wants to present a cool, interesting project they are working on (if you’re a designer please remember to focus on personal projects rather than pitching company work).
A collaboration between Cornerhouse and FutureEverything
What should I talk about?
The aim of Show & Tell is showcase the creativity and imagination of the individuals that make Manchester’s creative scene what it is. We are asking artists and designers to make lightning presentations about a current personal project, experiment or source of inspiration.
To give you an idea, at the last event we had presentation from Hwa Young Jung (who talked about British Things) , Dave Griffiths (who presented Babel Fiche) , John O’Shea (Open Source Swan Pedalo) , Kimchi & Chips (Lit Tree) , plus Brendan Dawes ( from magneticNorth who talked about his “digital shed” and all the fantastic objects he builds at the weekend), John Grant (from Cahoona, who talked about his quest for the perfect burger), Design by Day (who talked about the multitude of personal projects they have started and – for some of them – not finished) and Manchester Modernist Society.
Practicalities
If you want to present just email isabelle.croissant@cornerhouse.org with your name, what you want to talk about and your mobile number.
The presentations format is set up as against a countdown clock, each speaker has exactly 5 minutes and up to 15 slides to illustrate their talk.
PRESENTATIONS:
Presentations should be either in powerpoint or keynote, 5 minutes long and up to 15 slides, on a timer (so no use of remote control etc..). Here is how to set up timers in presentations:
In powerpoint Repeat the following process for each slide you want to set the timing for.
1. On the Slides tab in normal view (view: A way of displaying the contents of a presentation and providing the user with the means to interact with it.), select the slides you want to set the timing for.
2. On the Slide Show menu, click Slide Transition.
3. Under Advance slide, select the Automatically after check box, and then enter the number of seconds you want the slide to appear on the screen.
In Keynote
To have the slides change by themselves, you need to tell Keynote to automatically transition to the next slide after a specified number of seconds. To do this, open the inspector toolbox and choose the Slide Inspector (2nd tab). At the bottom where it says “Start Transition” select “Automatically” and then specify when you want that slide to transition to the next slide by adjusting the number of seconds in the box labeled “Delay”.