David Gunn
David Gunn is the Director of Pyka, a multi-disciplinary group of digital artist-educators working to reconnect students to their own creative capacity, their peers, their curriculum, and the wider world around them.
Pyka build apps and use them to deliver creative projects and educational courses, given to over 3000 children in over 50 schools across the UK (and counting). They are currently working on pyka_walk, a platform of playable sonic storyworlds designed for SEN settings and pyka_hack, where six schools participate over the course of two terms in the design and development of publicly released iOS app for a real-world client.
They have delivered high-quality creative work in range of cultural and heritage settings, including commissions and events for major institutions including Tate, Roundhouse, the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra, Chapter, Welsh Millennium Centre and more.
Prior to Pyka, David led creative projects including interactive Sound Maps (for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum), site-specific music software for use in schools (Opera North), a Museum of Lies (National Museums Cardiff) and an interactive sound installation in a Phnom Penh housing project (Foreign and Commonwealth Office).
He has also worked as a strategic consultant for clients including Samsung, Orange, Arts Council England, Museum of London and the World Health Organisation. Most recently he has initiated White Noise, a creative project exploring the past, present and future of White City, including working with Turner-nominated artist Catherine Yass to suspend a Grand Piano over London’s BBC Television Centre.
David Gunn
Mae David Gunn yn Gyfarwyddwr Pyka, grŵp aml-ddisgyblaethol o artistiaid-addysgwyr digidol sy’n gweithio i ailgysylltu myfyrwyr â’u gallu creadigol, eu cymheiriaid, eu cwricwlwm, a’r byd ehangach o’u cwmpas.
Mae Pyka yn creu apiau ac yn eu defnyddio i gyflwyno prosiectau creadigol a chyrsiau addysgol, a roddir i dros 3000 o blant mewn dros 50 o ysgolion ar draws y DU (ar hyn o bryd). Maent yn gweithio ar pyka_walk ar hyn o bryd, sef platfform o fydoedd straeon sonig chwaraeadwy a gynlluniwyd ar gyfer lleoliadau AAA a pyka_hack, lle y mae chwe ysgol yn cymryd rhan yn y broses, dros ddau dymor, o ddylunio a datblygu ap iOS a gaiff ei ryddhau’n gyhoeddus ar gyfer cleient yn y byd go iawn.
Maent wedi gwneud gwaith creadigol o ansawdd uchel mewn amrediad o leoliadau diwylliannol a threftadaeth, gan gynnwys comisiynau a digwyddiadau ar gyfer sefydliadau blaenllaw gan gynnwys Tate, Roundhouse, y Barbican, cerddorfa Symffonig Llundain, Chapter, Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru a mwy.
Cyn Pyka, bu David yn arwain prosiectau creadigol gan gynnwys Mapiau Sain rhyngweithiol (ar gyfer Amgueddfa Lower East Side Tenement), meddalwedd cerddorol safle-benodol i’w defnyddio mewn ysgolion (Opera North), Amgueddfa Gelwyddau (Amgueddfeydd Cenedlaethol Caerdydd) a gosodiad sain rhyngweithiol mewn prosiect tai yn Phnom Penh (Y Swyddfa Dramor a Chymanwlad).
Yn ogystal, mae wedi gweithio fel ymgynghorydd strategol ar gyfer cleientiaid gan gynnwys Samsung, Orange, Arts Council England, Amgueddfa Llundain a Sefydliad Iechyd y Byd. Yn fwyaf diweddar, mae wedi ysgogi White Noise, prosiect creadigol sy’n archwilio gorffennol, presennol a dyfodol White City, gan gynnwys gweithio gyda’r arlunydd a enwebwyd ar gyfer gwobr Turner, Catherine Yass, i hongian Piano cyngerdd dros Ganolfan Deledu y BBC yn Llundain.
