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ABOUT

i-DAT is an Open Research Lab for playful experimentation with creative technology and consists of two entangled parts: i-DAT Research and the i-DAT Collective. We think deeply and differently about how we intertwingle with data and computational systems in an increasingly technologically mediated world.

PROJECTS

i -DAT’s Projects are delivered by the i-DAT Collective, a collaborative group of interdisciplinary artists, technologists, and researchers. These provocative prototypes are rooted in i-DAT’s core research themes which are concerned with making ‘data’ palpable, tangible and accessible and are outlined below…

NEWS

Donald Rodney Visceral Canker, Spike Island (25 May-8 Sept 2024) / Nottingham Contemporary (28 Sept-5 Jan 2024) / Whitechapel (12 Feb-4 May 2025). “Visceral Canker aims to introduce a new generation of audiences to Rodney’s life and work, cementing his place as a vital figure in British art.”

RESEARCH

i-DAT’s Core Research Themes are:

Cultural Computation: audience behaviours, environments, ‘things’ and Artificial Intelligence.

Digital Heritâge: recognises that history is a pile of debris, some of which is digital or can be transfigured through digital processes.

Behaviourables & Futuribles: the Internet of Things, remote sensors, robotics, Props & Wearables –  (everywareables?).
Interactive & Immersive Environments: The digital Umwelt  – new experiences in enhanced physical, augmented & virtual spaces.
Ludic Systems: Playful subversion – real-time social gaming and playful soft-hard-ware.

PhD+

  • i-DAT’s research themes & projects provide a rich context for {F/T| P/T, local | remote} PhDs & Post-Docs, from a variety of disciplines, who can engage with these initiatives and build research activity grounded in their creative practice.
  • i-DAT nurtures a vibrant, networked, transdisciplinary research community…

PGR Community

i-DAT’s PGR Community is…

  • …entangled with an international network of researchers, practitioners, projects, and symposia…
  • …frequently infiltrated by professional digital artists and designers…
  • … and equally infectious to real-world interdisciplinary projects and collaborations.

PhD Archive

  • An archive of PhD completions, mapping out the broad range of research expertise…
  • contributing to disciplines such as: New Media, Fine Art, Design, Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Architecture, Performance…
  • through i-DAT, and research collaborations with the Planetary Collegium, CogNovo, 3D3, etc…

Current Research Sessions for the i-DAT community. Schedules are managed by Rachel Horrell and Lana Pericic.

PEOPLE

i-DAT Researchers / Supervisors / Residents / Artists / Advisory Network / Editors / Alumni…

Core Staff: Dr Rafael Arrivabene / Chris Booth / Dr Gianni Corino / Celine Dearing / Musaab Garghouti / Dr Lauren Hayhurst / Joel Hodges / Prof Mike Phillips / Dr Andrew Prior / Dr James Sweeting / Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice

 

 

IVT

i-DAT manages the Immersive Vision Theatre, a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material and imaginary worlds.

We deliver shows, productions and research into immersive media (Virtual Reality and Fulldome) environments.

i-DAT is proud to be a founding partner in the FullDome UK: http://www.fulldome.org.uk/

 

 

ARCHIVE

donald.rodney: autoicon
“It’s as though he’s alert to the current debate in the House of Commons chamber. We briefly discuss love, pain and flowers and when I ask him about the internet, he amusingly replies, “Excuse me?” Even with its Y2K interface, Autoicon is a technological wonder. It doesn’t just imagine black people in the future, it preserves them so that they arrive there safely and in their own image.”

(Kadish Morris The Guardian, 28/10/20)

 

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