Category Archives: Talk Time

Communication Technology and the North Sea Flood

January 31st marked the 68th anniversary of the North Sea Flood. To commemorate this anniversary Signals is sharing a specially commissioned animation, podcast and interactive story exploring how communication technology of the time influenced both the devastating death toll and inspiring stories of survival.

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RADAR at The Naze Tower

During WWII, The Naze at Walton was home to a top secret British experiment. Installed on top of the Naze Tower itself, this technology was so powerful it gave Britain the winning hand in the crucial Battle of Britain. That technology was RADAR.

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Talk Time Podcast

Signals is proud to present our brand new podcast, Talk Time

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Connect – An Interactive Artwork of COVID Communications

Explore an interactive landscape of screenshots and samples from COVID Communications. Connect is an interactive environment by artist Sian Fan. A 360 walkthrough of the interactive archive showing screenshots of digital communications from the people of Tendring during the Covid-19 pandemic submitted through an open call. Connect explores how our physical experiences have been reshaped through communication technologies like Zoom,...

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Connect Open Call

Collecting Tendring borough’s memories, messages and moments from the Covid-19 pandemic. Sian Fan and Signals are creating an interactive archive, capturing the digital experience of Tendring people during the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of our ongoing Talk Time project, exploring communication technology in the borough, this newly commissioned work will turn the digital communications shared by the Tendring community into...

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Tendring’s Semaphore Experiments

Signals launches interactive semaphore website to celebrate Tendring’s coastal heritage and connections with early experiments in long distance communication during the Napoleonic war.

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