James B Stringer leads a series of two intermediate workshops exploring the real-time creative possibilities of the video game engine Unreal Engine 5, and how its video game development tools might be used within a fine art practice.

What will be covered?

Session 1: Breakables Gallery
Participants will create simple interactive breakable objects in Unreal Engine 5 by making a destructible virtual exhibition.

Session 2: Attenuation
Participants will use Unreal Engine as a performative audio tool by creating an unearthly musical instrument in Unreal Engine 5.

What will I achieve?

• In Unreal Engine, you will create and import your own 3D assets, set up basic materials, and experiment with the physics engine to break and fracture 3D objects.

• You will learn practical sound recording techniques, then import and play your recordings in Unreal Engine.

• By the end of the series, you will have gained introductory knowledge of Unreal's physics, coding and audio systems and how they can all interact.

Do I need any particular skills?

This is an intermediate workshop series intended for people with some knowledge of 3D software, audio editing and the transfer of data from device to device.

Dates: Sat 23rd & 30th November 2024

Time: 10am-12pm

Location: arebyte Gallery

Price: £25 for 2 sessions

Prerequisites: Please bring your own laptop. Before the session, participants must pre-install Unreal and test it on their laptops. It is recommended that you have a drop box or similar installed on your phone and laptop to enable the transfer of some files.

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James B Stringer

James B Stringer is an artist, musician, developer and educator specializing in the use of real-time & videogames technology within the fields of fine art, music and fashion. Alongside his own practice he has recently developed works for artists such as Lawerence Lek, Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Libby Heaney.