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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

LUDIC-ARCHITECTURES is a speculative design space that allows the collaborative building of a shared digital environment that can function in VR platforms, web browsers and Fulldome environments. Ludic-Architectures is a playful space for trans-national making and exhibiting new digital work.

RESEARCH

i-DAT’s Core Research Themes are:

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

Small-Faraway: Big, little, smaller data – the harvesting, analytics, visualisation & sonification of data.

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.

Postgraduate Research

i-DAT’s research themes & projects provide a rich context for {F/T| P/T, local | remote} research students, 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...

... it is entangled with an international network of researchers, practitioners, communities, projects, and symposia...

... is frequently infiltrated by professional digital artists and designers...

.. and equally infectious to real-world interdisciplinary projects and collaborations.

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PEOPLE

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

Core Staff: Dr Rafael Arrivabene / Chris Booth / Dr Gianni Corino / Musaab Garghouti / Dr Lauren Hayhurst / Joel Hodges / Prof Mike Phillips / Dr Andrew Prior / Dr Helen V. Pritchard / James Sweeting /

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

Something from the Archive: Noogy
Some claim that Noogy arrived from deep space, originating somewhere off the shoulder of Orion… Others claim that Noogy grew from within the network of CAT6 Ethernet cables, silicon chips and data mines that form the core of the Arch-OS system… Whilst others think Noogy was there all the time, waiting in the void for the digital interface that would allow their manifestation. Some say Noogy is the ‘building’, others that Noogy is just a ‘viral infection’… [2006]

i-DAT operates as a dynamic tensegrity of research, making, play, teaching and learning {not necessarily in that order}:

HB: b-DAT:

Happy Birthday b-DAT: 
/ 30 years / 360 months / 1,565 weeks / 10,957 days / 262,968 hours / 15,778,080 minutes / 946,684,800 seconds / & counting…

b-DAT:

i-DAT’s origin story begins with the infamous BA/BSc Media Lab Arts (1992), and its DNA is now manifest in: BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design & BA (Hons) Game Arts and Design ...

m-DAT:

MRes Digital Art and Technology (originally MSc Digital Futures (2000)) is an interdisciplinary programme which was augmented in 2020 by MA Game Design to create new ludic experiences.

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