Organizing TWEAK

During the time I was on coop, I got many opportunities to work on various different projects. Tweak was a very interesting project. When I first began my placement I was given the chance to work on a project called “Tweak”. Throughout the course of this project I was given many different responsibilities. My first task/responsibility for the project was to design an ident for Tweak in Adobe After Effects. After completing this I was given the responsibility to collect arduinos and cables from the CSIS building. These were important for the designers at the Tweak workshop.

Then I had to go into the city centre to collect the Tweak posters and then I had to stick them around the city on the windows of various shops, pubs, art college etc. I had to ask for permission in order to stick the posters up in any of the places. This was to promote the Tweak festival, to raise awareness to people in the city so they knew about it. I also handed out programs/leaflets and placed them in shops, pubs. These programs outlined what was to be expected at the Tweak festival. I was responsible for getting together and organizing all the materials which the designers needed to help them create their designs. Materials such as crocodile clips, cables, wires, arduinos. They all had to be organized so that the designers could locate them easily and use them as they needed them.

The Tweak exhibition needed to be set up in the hall in the art college in Limerick. I helped set up and position the computers according to Nora (who organizes the Tweak festival). Setting up the exhibition took hours, however it was very important to set everything up correctly and to make sure everything was working properly. On the opening night of the exhibition, I was responsible for the refreshments. I made sure that everyone at the exhibition was served refreshments. After a successful opening night of the exhibition, the Tweak exhibition stayed open for another four days.

During these four days it was my responsibility to make sure that the designs were turned on at 9.30am, after turning on all the different designs, I had to look after the exhibition and if any visitors had questions about any of the designs I had to answer them and explain it to them, and at 1.30pm my class mate took over until 5pm, he then had to turn all the designs off and shut them down. The Tweak festival was a success and after it ended it was my responsibility to help pack up all the designs, computers and packing up all the other equipment such as cables etc.