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Beyond Digital  – Toward Biological 

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Beyond Digital  – Toward Biological 

 
Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai, China
Beyond Digital – Toward Biological 
2017.12.20
Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Stig Anton Nielsen, David Kadish, Stavros Didakis
Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

DATA Play 7

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DATA Play 7

The Balance-Unbalance Data Visualisation DATA Play event is a collaboration with Plymouth City Council and TheData.Place collaborating organisations. It is the seventh event in the DATA Play series of data-hackathons which feed off Plymouth’s open data as a resource being developed over the period of more than a year to support the development of Plymouth’s digital economy and provide a resource for all of Plymouth’s communities to find, publish and use data.
 

New Research & Teaching Positions

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New Research & Teaching Positions

New positions available in i-DAT, School of Art, Design and Architecture
Plymouth University.
Closing date: 7 June 2017.
Digital Media Design:
Associate Professor in Digital Design Media
Lecturer in Digital Media Design
Game Art & Design:
.5 Lecturer in Game Art & Design
 
To support i-DAT research and teaching activities in:
BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design.
BA(Hons) Game Art & Design.
BA/BSc (Hons) Internet Design
MRes/ResM Digital Art & Technology

i-DAT and Tate at Technarte 2017 Bilbao

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i-DAT and Tate at Technarte 2017 Bilbao


i-DAT and Tate at Technarte 2017 Bilbao.
This is Where We Are- Collaborating with Algorithms 
‘This Is Where We Are’ (TIWWA) was an immersive and interactive algorithmic sculpture fuelled by the data we collectively generate, created by i-DAT working with Tate Collective London and Intercity for the opening of the new Tate Modern building. London, UK, on the 17 – 19 June 2016. This technological fusion of interactive light and sound asks audiences to consider the data they generate and the algorithms that increasingly influence their behaviour through offering a glimpse into a future where we work rest and play with and through algorithms. The event saw 197,000 people interact with TIWWA through direct contact with its mediated surfaces and through online real-time interactions through social media and the TIWWA AI chatbot.
Birgitte Aga, Mike Phillips & Rebecca Sinker (Tate)
http://www.technarte.org/speakers/birgitte-aga/
Technarte 2017 Photo Album
[su_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/SYQTER7-c0c” width=”1600″ height=”1600″]  

DIFFRAZIONI MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL

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DIFFRAZIONI MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL

DIFFRAZIONI MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL
21-27/11/2016
Honoured to be invited to present at the Diffrazioni Festival
Special Guest Presentation by Mike Phillips: Quorum.
http://www.diffrazionifestival.com/ospitiguest-artists/
The festival is characterized by meetings and discussions on art and contemporaneity, from multimedia, to technology, from philosophical aspects to neuroscience, with major international personalities from leading academic and research institutions.
Diffrazioni – Florence Multimedia Festival is a project dedicated to contemporary art, to explore boundaries between technology and poetic expression, where new tools, new scenarios and deep inner emotions meet and combine. The project bases its strength on a system of synergies between institutions of higher artistic education, public administrations, young artists, cultural associations and non-profit organizations.

FAUX PAS/RACE*

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FAUX PAS/RACE*

Lee Nutbean is exhibiting:
[su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ margin=”10″] ‘Faux pas’
capture
at a museum (Bank Austria Kunstforum) in Vienna:
paraflows.X1 Identity
photos here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10153951531913061&type=3
http://www.paraflows.at/index.php?id=653
Paraflows 2016: Ausstellung
www.paraflows.at
Ausstellung IDENTITY. Eröffnung 15. September 2016, 19 Uhr. Ausstellung von 16. September bis 2. Oktober 2016 Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien Freyung 8
and:
[su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ margin=”10″] ‘RACE*’
lee-nutbean
at AiOP (Art in Odd Places) in New York.
https://www.facebook.com/events/194642694301960/
http://race.artinoddplaces.org
http://race.artinoddplaces.org/artists/nutbean-lee/
AiOP RACE | OCTOBER 6 – 9 | Along 14th Street from Avenue …
An LED window installation that provocatively searches online social media conversations for the word “race” (human categorization).
[su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ margin=”10″] Lee’s recent exhibitions include:
Race* (Exhibition), ‘3459’, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, US
Faux pas (Performance) (Exhibition), ‘Does Live Art Have To Be Experienced Live?’, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, US
Faux pas (Performance), ‘Unnoticed Art Festival #2’, Nijmegen, NE
Xenomemory (Exhibition), ‘Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology’, Orlando, Florida, US
Faux pas (Intervention), ‘International Conference on Live Interfaces’, Sussex University, Brighton, UK
Faux pas (Exhibition), ‘Proximties’, Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton, Ontario, CA
Faux Pas (Exhibition), ‘DADA LIVES!’, UC Blue Ash Gallery, Cincinnati, US
Faux Pas (Exhibition), ‘FONLAD: Video and Performance Art Festival’, Coimbra, PT
Faux Pas (Performance), ‘Staging Realities’, FOOT16 (Festival of Original Theatre), Toronto, CA
 

i-DAT at ISEA2015

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i-DAT at ISEA2015

21st International Symposium of Electronic Art. 14-19 August 2015
i-DAT at ISEA – Mike Blow and Mike Phillips present at ISEA 2015:
Michael Blow. Disrupting Perceptions: Reimagining Architecture through Sound. Art or Research Short paper
Martin Kusch, Dimitris Charitos, Mike Phillips, Marie-Claude Poulin, Ruth Schnell and Thomas Dumke. E/M/D/L – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research. Panel
Peter Anders, Elif Ayiter, Diane Gromala, Mike Phillips, Paul Thomas: Didactic Disruption: Roy Ascott’s Models for Arts Education and Research. Panel
Katerina Kontini, Dimitris Charitos, Iouliani Theona and Mike Phillips. Investigating the artistic potential of the fulldome as a creative medium: the case of the E/M/D/L project. Art or Research Long Paper
http://isea2015.org/
ISEA2015’s theme of DISRUPTION invites a conversation about the aesthetics of change, renewal, and game-changing paradigms. We look to raw bursts of energy, reconciliation, error, and the destructive and creative forces of the new. Disruption contains both blue sky and black smoke. When we speak of radical emergence we must also address things left behind. Disruption is both incremental and monumental.
In practices ranging from hacking and detournement to inversions of place, time, and intention, creative work across disciplines constantly finds ways to rethink or reconsider form, function, context, body, network, and culture. Artists push, shape, break; designers reinvent and overturn; scientists challenge, disprove and re-state; technologists hack and subvert to rebuild.
Disruption and rupture are fundamental to digital aesthetics. Instantiations of the digital realm continue to proliferate in contemporary culture, allowing us to observe ever-broader consequences of these effects and the aesthetic, functional, social and political possibilities that arise from them.
 

DATA SPACES ix

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DATA SPACES ix

Mike Phillips presents i-DAT’s Operating Systems, focusing on the emergence of the Fulldome version of the Urban API.
Saturday 23 May – 14:15

DATA SPACES

http://ix.sat.qc.ca/node/383?language=en

DEMOS & WORKSHOPS

Series of 4 demos-workshops around current practices and experimentation about immersion in the data spaces :

PRESENTATIONS LINE-UP

  • FÉLIX PHARAND-DESCHÊNES (CA)
    SCIENTIFIC VISUALISATION
  • MARKO RITTER (DE)
    MOUVEMENT OF THE POINT OF IMMERSION
  • MIKE PHILLIPS (UK)
    DATA VISUALISATION
  • SÉBASTIEN GRAVEL (CA)
    IMMERSIVE STREET VIEW

Happiness lies somewhere at the end of a bell curve…

This is a presentation/demo of instruments, analytical tools and art works that have emerged through a series of ‘Operating Systems’ (OP-SY/) that have been cultivated at i-DAT (www.i-dat.org) over the last decade to explore techniques for harvesting and analysing data from a variety of contexts. They employ a range of digital processes coupled with ethnographic practices that can be described as a “techno-ethnography’.
Like a matryoshka doll, these Operating Systems recursively collapse in on themselves. Somewhere the body sits (a body that is neither ill or super fit, simultaneously an individual and a crowd) located in a physical architecture (software for buildings) framed by a Social network (where happiness lies somewhere at the end of a bell curve and true love can be found in a slice of pie chart) and all sitting snugly within a complex ecology (harvested environmental data to bring the landscape a little closer). Some of these things also find their way into Fulldome spaces…

 

Digital Art Masters graduate helps develop Android Wear

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Digital Art Masters graduate helps develop Android Wear

Meet Emmet Connolly.

He’s a graduate of the Digital Art & Technology masters course run here at Plymouth University, and a close friend of i-DAT’s.
He got in touch after reading the November 2014 newsletter which mentioned Mike Phillips and his flashy Android Wear smart-watch.

Mike Phillips and his smart watch
Mike orders a coffee from the office Nespresso machine using his Android Wear watch

Emmet emailed to tell Mike that he’d started the project which turned into Android Wear as one of his 20% projects at Google – the famed ideas-time given to employees there. Other 20% projects have resulted in Gmail and Adsense.

Said Emmet: “I was working as a designer for Google in Zurich when I started a 20% project to build a computer watch, then moved to Silicon Valley to develop and launch it as Android Wear. Most recently I’ve moved back to Europe for a job as Director of Product Design at Intercom, where we’re building simple ways for people and businesses to communicate.
“Messaging is quite simple but so powerful and flexible, and I think there’s lots of ways of exploring how to use it as a medium in itself. We write about design on our company blog”

Of course, we asked him how he thought he’d been served by gaining his Masters in Digital Art at Plymouth University, and he said:

Regarding Plymouth, what I really took away from my Masters was an idea of how to explore new ideas and projects even if I didn’t have a complete understanding of them up front. That it’s okay to get just lost and go exploring, and that interesting directions can come out of that. There was a real multi-disciplinary approach that kept us from being boxed into one way of thinking. So much of design and technology today is about constant change, and so specific technical skills become obsolete within a couple of years. It’s a lot more important to learn how to explore new materials, draw connections between ideas from different fields, think critically and iterate on your own work, and generally learn how to keep learning.

Read Emmet’s musings on his blog and he’s on Twitter here