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The IBM Smart Conference

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The IBM Smart Conference 05^th September 2014

Open to Plymouth University staff, students, researchers and IBM staff with an interest in the Smart Agenda / Internet of Things, this conference will stimulate discussion and an exchange of ideas around specific themes including: art and audience, culture and heritage, digital cities / digital civic, environment and sustainability. You can find further details and a registration link here.

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=events&eventID=8934&showEvent=1

The IBM Smarter Conference builds on i-DAT’s relationship with IBM to explore the Internet of Things.

Smarter Planet

i-DAT’s Arts Council NPO status to change

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i-DAT will continue as an experimental, innovative organisation at the cutting edge of digital media, despite a change in its funding status next year, says its chairman Robin Tatam.
In the same month as hearing the news of its cut in funding, i-DAT has seen its app for a Liverpool media festival launched and it has welcomed global academics to its Immersive Dome.
In the past 12 months, i-DAT has developed its Qualia technology that measures arts audience feedback and has turned its home city of Plymouth into an interactive game called Resurgam. In the coming weeks, i-DAT will be hosting thousands of young coders for the Young Rewired State Festival of Code and is proposing an arts and culture app for its home city of Plymouth.
It is the UK partner in a €400k EU-funded Immersive Environment network and its research and development continues to put it at the forefront of technology and data developments.
“We are continually proud to deliver outstanding new tools, insights, data and opportunities across the world and will continue to do so with programmes like Qualia, Plymouth’s What’s On App, Resurgam, Young Rewired State as well as many more i-DAT products,” said its chairman, Robin Tatam.
“This news will not in any way dampen our enthusiasm or hinder our open-source innovation and creativity in these intriguing areas; areas where i-DAT is recognised as a world leader.”
Phil Gibby, Area Director, South West, Arts Council England, said: “We are pleased to have been able to support i-DAT’s working for a number of years. We value the work they have done very highly and we will continue to work closely with staff and management in the future.
“i-DAT submitted a strong application, the National Portfolio is only one part of Arts Council England’s investment programme and we will be exploring with i-DAT the other options that may be more suitable for an organisation that is at the cutting edge digital arts and technology, which will enable them to respond to emerging opportunities and changing trends.”

Hackathon at Tate Gallery

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Two of i-DAT’s homeboys have participated in a recent 24-hour competition at the Tate Gallery in London.
Chris Hunt, our technical officer, and PhD researcher Lee Nutbean took part in the Hackathon at the Tate, where they worked through the night in the famous Turbine Hall to make a piece of digital art using data.
Hack the Space was held to re-launch The Space, a platform created by the BBC and the Arts Council and first piloted in 2012 to showcase and commission digital artworks from across the worlds of art, culture and technology. The weekend doubled up as The Space’s first open call for applications – it aims to commission 50 works a year from artists, known and unknown.

EMDL – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research.

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i-DAT are the UK partners in an international collaboration awarded € 400k by the EU Culture Programme. Strand 1.3.5, Cultural Cooperation Projects with Third Countries.

http ://www.emdl.eu/

EMDL – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research.
E / M / D / L is a recently-established partnership of European and Canadian cultural organizations who have joined to develop immersive audio-visual environments. The project has received strong encouragement from the European Union with a substantial initial EU Culture Program grant. EMDL will foster an international community of artists/researchers dedicated to exploring the full-dome environment as a platform for creative innovation.
The term “full-dome” refers to a rapidly-evolving form of 360º video projections and surround-sound environments. Although full-dome technology is well supported for scientific visualisation, an analysis of the form’s communicative impact and the experimental application of this new instrument for digital, media, and performing arts is still lacking.

E / M / D / L will build an international network for the exchange of artistic and technological expertise, with the goal of researching and documenting a language and grammar unique to the full-dome medium. Bringing together four European and three Canadian institutions and cultural partners, all leaders in this field, the project aims to share and expand skills, methodologies, strategies and content within this promising creative vehicle. Between February 2014 and September 2015, the participants will take part in eight residencies and public presentations offered in five countries, where a mobile domic architectural structure equipped with cutting-edge technologies will be set up. Finally, EMDL will end with a series of performances at the world’s most sophisticated virtual theatre, the Satosphere in Montreal, Canada.

Co-organisers / associate partners:
University of Applied Arts Vienna [Austria] i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology) at Plymouth University [England] Trans-Media Academy Hellerau/CYNETART festival, Dresden [Germany] National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [Greece] Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], Montréal [Canada]
kondition pluriel, Montréal [Canada] Laboratoire des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Image, du Son et de la Scène [LANTISS]/Université Laval, Quebec City [Canada]

With the support of:
EMDL has been funded with support from the European Commission / Culture Programme.

Update:

Research outputs can be found here:

MURMURATION:

Following the premier at the ix Symposium (http://ix.sat.qc.ca/node/422?language=en) on Thursday May 21 – 20:00 2015 in the Satosphère, Liminal Spaces, Dream Collider and Murmuration were performed from May 26 to June 12 2015 (http://sat.qc.ca/fr/emdl).

Random images form the research workshops (by Mike Phillips):

#1: Montreal February 2014:

#2: Athens April 2014:

#3: Plymouth July 2014:

#4: Montreal August 2014:

#5: Dresden November 2014:

#6: Vienna February 2015:

#7: Montreal May 2015 (& IX):

Some panoramas:

PAOLO CIRIO [Presentation]

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Monday 4th November 2013. 6-8.00pm Rockets and Rascals, 7 The Parade PL1 2JL.

Free Entry, all welcome. Digital Art and Technology Visiting Speaker Series 2013-14.

Paolo Cirio is an award-winning media artist known for his controversial and innovative works of net-art, street-art, video-art, software-art and experimental fiction. His subversive projects are often covered by the global media, occasionally with legal consequences. The well-known “Hacking Monopolism Trilogy” took on internet giants Facebook, (Face-to-facebook) Amazon (Amazon Noir) and Google (Google-Will- Eat-Itself). Recently resident at Eyebeam New York, Paolo’s workexplores the social, political and economic influence of information, through the media and techniques necessary for spreading it.

http://www.paolocirio.net/

i-DAT Bureau

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i-DAT Bureau:

Operations:
Director of Operations: Dawn Melville
Research:
Director of Research: Professor Mike Phillips
Creative:
Creative Director/3D3 PhD: Birgitte Aga
Research & Development:
Strategic: Dr.Gianni Corino
Developer: Dr.Stavros Didakis
Developer: Michael Straeubig
Developer: David Strang
Developer: Coral Manton
Developer: Luke Christison
Everyone:
Everyone in the wider i-DAT network can be found here: http://i-dat.org/people/

Nanoart: The Immateriality of Art. Dr Paul Thomas.

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J.Craigie Lecture Theatre, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University.
Wednesday 16^th October, 17.30-18.30pm.
Nanoart: The Immateriality of Art.
Presentation and UK Book Launch by Dr Paul Thomas.
Paul Thomas will be presenting his work and resent publication exploring Nano Art.
Examining art that intersects with science and seeks to make visible what cannot ordinarily be seen with the naked eye, Nanoart provides insight into new understandings of materiality and life. It includes an extensive overview of the history of nanoart from the work of Umberto Boccioni to the present day. The author looks specifically at art inspired by nanotechnological research made possible by the scanning tunneling microscope and atomic force microscope in the 1980s, as well as the development of other instruments of nanotechnological experimentation to offer a sustained consideration of this fascinating artistic approach.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4971/

Dr Paul Thomas Head of Painting at COFA (University of New South Wales), Sydney. Thomas is the founding Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). Paul Thomas has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space, which was part of the first global link up with artists connected to ARTEX. His practice lead research is in collaboration with the Nanochemistry Research Institute at Curtin University and the SymbioticA Lab at the University of Western Australia. He is currently collaborating on a public art commission for the Curtin Mineral and Chemistry Research Precinct in collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects. He recently completed his PhD researching the reconfiguration of space.
htttp://www.visiblespace.com

Heavens Above! 10/01/13

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Thursday 10 January 2013.
Location: Immersive Vision Theatre,
Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4. (GPS: 50.375752,-4.138577).
BOOKING ESSENTIAL: http://heavensabove.eventbrite.com
i-DAT, in association with Plymouth Astronomical Society, presents:
Heavens Above! A trip to the edge of the Universe – and back again.
i-DAT’s contribution to the BBC Stargazing Live Events Programme (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h4g8) is a collaboration with Plymouth University’s Particle Physics Theory Group and the Plymouth Astronomical Society. A series of presentations in the Immersive Vision Theatre will fly audiences to the edge of the known universe – and back again. On the way audiences will visit a variety of cosmological phenomenon, the Planets that form our Solar System and view the constellations visible from Plymouth (with or without cloud cover).
Schedule:
14.00-14.45: Heavens Above! A trip to the edge of the known Universe and back in Uniview, a dynamic navigable 3D model of the known Universe.
15.15-6.00: Heavens Above! A trip to the edge of the known Universe and back in Uniview, a dynamic navigable 3D model of the known Universe.
16.30-17.15: Heavens Above! A trip to the edge of the known Universe and back in Uniview, a dynamic navigable 3D model of the known Universe.
17.45-18.30: Wonders of the Night Sky with Plymouth Astronomical Society.
Travel with us around the constellations and planets visible in the night sky during January. Hear about the myths and legends in the sky and meet red giants, a world spouting jets of ice, a planet where a day lasts two years, our nearest neighbour galaxy, the largest volcano in the solar system, star forming regions of our own galaxy, worlds where alien life may exist, a planet that could float on water and much more! Wonders of the Night Sky It will be given by Alan Penman and David Wilton from the Plymouth Astronomical Society.
Suitable for all ages.
Location: Immersive Vision Theatre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4. (GPS: 50.375752,-4.138577).
The trip to the edge of the known Universe will be made using Uniview (http://sciss.se/uniview.php) a dynamic navigable 3D model of the known Universe.
Presenters:
Plymouth Astronomical Society Presenters: Alan Penman and Dave Wilton. http://www.plymouthastro.btck.co.uk/
i-DAT presenters, Luke Christison and Mike Phillips. http://www.i-dat.org/
Contact: Dawn Melville dawn.melville@plymouth.ac.uk

Taking a C19th novel to a C21st digital audience

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Friday, 26 October 2012 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Magnificent yet daunting, Moby-Dick stands as one of the great classics of American literature, much admired but – sprawling and intimidating – seldom read. Now an unlikely combination of fans including David Cameron, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow are set to change that after joining the cast of the ambitious project, Moby Dick Big Read – www.mobydickbigread.com.
read more:
http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/events/fri-26102012-100pm

Remediating Urban Space Symposium

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Remediating Urban Space Symposium
Wednesday 6th June 2012 10.00– 16.30

Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK

Organised by: School of Architecture and i-DAT Plymouth University, UK
Keynote: Mark Shepard, University of Buffalo
Communication technologies remediate everyday urban life, resulting in subtle shifts in the spatial, temporal, scalar and material processes which are ‘all too often overlooked in conventional and binary approaches opposing the ‘virtual’ realm of new technologies to ‘real’ urban places’ (Crang 2007). We need to move beyond an artificially created dichotomy of a real and a virtual world as if the two were opposed. Instead, we must develop a new understanding of our activities and behaviour in the spaces of the city; since online and mobile socially networked spaces and realworld places are connecting and converging in numerous and complex ways. The challenge before us is finding ways to engage with these changes as designers. The aim of the workshop is to consider more fully the multiple, subtle, and interdependent spatio-temporalities which together work to constitute ICT-based urban change. How do we start to create meaningful spaces that merge digital and physical interactions?
The workshop will examine and propose design responses for how to remediate urban space through a range of ICT’s, locative media and smart objects. It will draw on an interdisciplinary field of architecture, human computer interaction, geography, media studies, art and sociology to explore questions of how urban space can be conceived and inhabited when it is mediated, and the nature of these mediated experiences at an everyday level. Contributions will be a mix of ideas/projects and case studies.
Programme:
9.30-10.00 am
coffee
10.00am
Session 1: The ‘internet of things’, social memory and networked objects
Chair: Chris Speed, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Michiel de Lange (themobilecity.nl and Utrecht University, Netherlands)- Playing for ownership: mobile media and playful encounters
Emma Whittaker (www.expandednarrative.org, UK)- Locating Storyworlds: listening and feeling space and sound
Dimitrios Charitos (University of Athens, Greece)- “Where” is the space that we experience during locative media use ?
Karen Martin (University of Kent, UK)- In-between spaces: Interaction as material
12.00-1.00pm – Lunch
1.00-2.00pm
Keynote
Mark Shepard, University of Buffalo, USA
Sentient City
2.00pm
Session 2 Urban screens, urban public space and participation
Chair: Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, UCL, UK
Simona Lodi (Share festival, Italy)- Augmentation, information and immersion in spatial contexts
Lorena Melgacao (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)- Long Distance Voodoo: social negotiation in the public space through remote actuation.
Marcos Pereira Dias (School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia)- New Experiences of Mediated Urban Space Through Participatory Networked Art
Martyn Dade-Robertson (University of Newcastle, UK)- Architectural User Interfaces
4.00-4.30
Alex Aurigi (Plymouth University, UK)
False Syntaxes: Why urban design thinking should help shaping the digital city
4.30-5.00pm
closing discussion/wrap up
Participation
There will be no registration fee, but in order to participate please confirm your attendance in advance to artsresearch@plymouth.ac.uk
Further Information: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=38864

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