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Folly For a Flyover: a building trapped under the east and westbound lanes of the A12, hosting a six week programme of waterside cinema, performance and play. Hand-built with local, reclaimed and donated materials, inspired by the local council estates and red-brick buildings of Hackney Wick, it poses as an imaginary piece of the area’s past. Launching on 24 June, events include bug hotel building using Olympic Park waste materials, a 30 piece East London Brass Band performance and a spectacular family party hosted by Disco Loco. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, the building’s over-sized outdoor steps will double as an auditorium to host a programme of screenings and performances, from animation classics including early Disney through to experimental films including 2001 Space Odessy and Tron (1982) with a live remixed sound track. Folly for a Flyover is conceived, designed and constructed by Assemble CIC, and programmed with the support of The Barbican Art Gallery’s summer exhibition, Watch Me Move. Assemble CIC’s last project, The Cineroleum was a pilot project demonstrating the potential for the wider creative re-use of UK’s 4000 empty petrol stations.

Folly For a Flyover: a building trapped under the east and westbound lanes of the A12, hosting a six week programme of waterside cinema, performance and play.

Hand-built with local, reclaimed and donated materials, inspired by the local council estates and red-brick buildings of Hackney Wick, it poses as an imaginary piece of the area’s past.

Launching on 24 June, events include bug hotel building using Olympic Park waste materials, a 30 piece East London Brass Band performance and a spectacular family party hosted by Disco Loco.

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, the building’s over-sized outdoor steps will double as an auditorium to host a programme of screenings and performances, from animation classics including early Disney through to experimental films including 2001 Space Odessy and Tron (1982) with a live remixed sound track.

Folly for a Flyover is conceived, designed and constructed by Assemble CIC, and programmed with the support of The Barbican Art Gallery’s summer exhibition, Watch Me Move. Assemble CIC’s last project, The Cineroleum was a pilot project demonstrating the potential for the wider creative re-use of UK’s 4000 empty petrol stations.

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Culture Hack Day #chd11 was an immense, challenging and innovative project to work on. It brought together key cultural organisations (including Crafts Council, UK Film Council, Culture Grid, National Maritime Museum, BBC Archive + more) and some wonderful developers who all gave their time for free. The challenge was to come up with new innovative ideas using open data from the culture sector. Its production was driven by Royal Opera House, with support from Wieden + Kennedy London, Google, Arts Council England & Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network.

Alongside the developers furiously hacking away over the weekend, we ran a series of talks, sparked off from the title “What if?” around open data. They can be viewed here - with some inspiring provocations from people such as Leila Johnston, who edits the Hackers! newspaper, Chris Thorpe from ArtFinder, Tom Armitage who works at BERG and Clare Reddington from iShed.

You can see a full list of the hacks that were developed here - a few highlights were When Should I Visit? by Dan W highlighting when the *least* busiest times for museums are; a Museum of Minecraft bringing digital archives into the online gaming world; mobile iterations of data searching making them more accesible to the general public including Stef’s Culture Grid apps; more whimsical haiku generators including Haiku Guardian & BBC Haiku Player; plus Pepys’ Shows by Matthew Somerville and Clare Lovell bringing Samuel Pepys’ pithy reviews of theatre to the masses.

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