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CR tweetup at Tate Britain

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Posted by Neil Ayres, 22 July 2011, 15:15    Permalink    Comments (8)

Last night around 150 @CreativeReview Twitter followers descended on Tate Britain to join us in a bit of creative merriment. There was a fine mix of agency types, image-makers and art lovers, and all in all things seemed to go rather well.

Tate Britain provided a fantastically cultured environment for our guests, and, as well as plying everyone with drinks and nibbles, granted a private view of their new Vorticists exhibition to everyone who attended (Highly recommended. We have a review of the show in this month's issue).

Upon exiting the exhibition attendees were greeted by a twitterstream and feed from the Blast/Bless tumblr we have been running in partnership with the Tate, before being met by the team from interactive production company Specialmoves, who pulled out all the stops with an HTML5 version of parlour game Consequences (aka Exquisite Corpse), topped off with a Vorticists-inspired twist. The app proved hugely popular with our guests and we reckon Specialmoves should release a multiplayer-friendly version for the masses. For a glimpse of how the app works, take a look at the following video:

A couple of crops of some of the efforts that were produced are shown below.


But it wasn't all hi-tech action. Back in the reception area, Emma Taylor and some of the staff from photographers' agents Vue Represents set our guests to work on a more traditional version of Consequences, with crayons, colouring pens and A1 sheets of paper.  (Vue also threw in a free ticket for everyone to this weekend's National Lottery draw. So fingers crossed all round.) The results were documented by photographer Jonathan Minster and in the picture below you can see a combined effort by @stuartwitts, @GrossmaryK and @jiteshpatel.

Photograph of Stuart Witts, Rosemary Kirton and Jitesh Patel at Tate Britain by Jonathan Minster

Tomek Zarebski bring a touch of Surrealism to a night that otherwise belonged to the Vorticists (Photo by Lubna Keawpanna)

After all the fun and frolics, all that remained was for our guests to grab their swag and head en masse to the local pub to inspect it. And what a haul it was..

Photo by Chloe Kirton

Rampant Sporting provided both the bags to carry everything in, plus stylish sports socks we're asking our guests to deface by transforming into puppets, for them to upload pictures of to a dedicated Flickr group.

Also included in the bags was a poster of the winning entries from the Blast/Bless tumblr. The Blast contribution is by illustrator Abigail Daker and the Bless is by designer and writer Daniel Gray.

Blast/Bless by Abigail Daker and Daniel Gray

A tidy haul

In addition to the socks (and Rampant pin badges), posters and lottery tickets, everyone went away with a copy of the latest Creative Review, the novel Tarr by Wyndham Lewis courtesy of Oxford University Press, Selected Poems by Ezra Pound provided by Faber & Faber, and an artists' pencil set supplied by Derwent Pencils.

A great big thanks to all those mentioned above for helping make the evening such a memorable one, and of course thank you to our guests. We hope you all had as much fun as we did. See you at the next one!

 

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8 Comments

Great night! Thank you.
Martin Craster
2011-07-22 15:37:10


Thanks for a great night! Loved the posters and fascinated with Alvin Coburns 'Vortographs'
Sarah Taylor
2011-07-22 15:45:35


It was a great night. Pleasure to meet all creative people. Play the drawing games on paper and iPad and after coming home discover illustrations of my old uni mate(http://kallwejt.com/) published in CR!

A big thank you to CR Team!
Tomek Zarebski
2011-07-22 16:26:36


Brilliant night and a very telling article! LOVE
Samantha Moyo
2011-07-22 16:38:41


Super duper night. Quieter and more thoughtful than last year, but defiantly more creative. Looking forward to next year already!
Rosie Rogers
2011-07-22 20:25:45


Thank you to everyone for a wonderful night and despite my horrific manflu I enjoyed every moment. Honored to be chosen as the poster boy for the paper consequences even though my illustration skills were no match for the other talented guest.
Stuart Witts
2011-07-22 20:38:47


Really gutted I couldn't make it last night the old story of client ringing you up an hour before you leave with 4 hours more work. :(
jportch
2011-07-23 00:18:48


It was an excellent night – thank you so much! My own little write-up: http://www.swisscheeseandbullets.com/journal/crtateup.html
Daniel
2011-07-25 15:06:37


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