Liverpool’s FACT – Foundation for Art and Creative Technology – is celebrating its tenth birthday this weekend with a family-friendly Hacky Birthday event on Saturday 23 February, exactly ten years since it opened its doors to the public.
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Party games with tech twist
The venue, situated on Wood Street at the heart of Liverpool city centre, will be having party games with a tech twist, courtesy of games developed by its young people’s group Freehand, while artist Will Nash returns to his Noisy Table artwork, an interactive ping-pong table that makes sounds as people play.
The day will be host to the final match of FACT’s Battle of the Bands ping-pong tournament, and Liverpool’s Clinic will be DJing as well as premiering a new song using sounds recorded during the tournament.
There’ll also be interactive installations created by Ross Dalziel, SoundNetwork and Simon Jones – including a bouncy castle that responds to people with sound and light, and interactive crazy golf – and a one-off performance by the DS Orchestra, a group of pupils from Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, Liverpool. They have worked with Dalziel to compose and play a piece of music using Nintendo DS’s and software specially created for FACT by chiptune musician Pixelh8.
The day kicks off at 11am and runs until 6pm. More information here.
