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Dr. Guido Bugmann

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Dr. Guido Bugmann

Guido Bugmann is a Reader in Intelligent Systems. He is on the supervisory team of Pete Carss and has collaborated on numerous i-DAT projects including Arch-OS.
He is developing artificial vision systems for robots, investigates path-planning and spatial memory, and works on robot programming using spoken instructions. He supervises 2 PhD students and teaches neural computation and natural language interfaces at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is programme manager of the MSc Robotics.
Dr. Bugmann has 3 patents and over 100 publications. He is reviewer for Neural Networks, Biological Cybernetics, Networks: Computation in Neural Systems, Electronics Letters, Canadian J. of Chemical Engineering, Pattern Analysis and Applications and Biosystems. He is member of the Swiss Physical Society, The Neuroscience Society, The British Machine Vision Association, The EPSRC Peer Review College, The UK Network for Biologically-Inspired Robotics (BIRO-Net) and is UK representative elect. in the European Robotics Research Network (EURON).
http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/soc/staff/guidbugm/bugmann.htm

Lee Nutbean

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Lee Nutbean

Lee Nutbean is a international artist working at the transdisciplinary intersections of art and computation, across academia, research and the creative industries. His work explores the evolution of smart networked technologies through the participatory design of provocative prototypes, that elicit, process and respond to inspirational data. These electronic ecologies culturally probe the dynamic networks within and between corporeal and viral spaces, to reveal new phenomena that confront, question and push new digital practices.
http://leenutbean.uk/

Artist Talk: Marc Fournel

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Artist Talk: Marc Fournel


“From a circle to a sphere”
Artist Talk: Marc Fournel
Tuesday 25 November 2008, 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Immersive Vision Theatre University of Plymouth
Cost: Free
i-DAT has been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts ‘Grants to New Media and Audio Artists: New Media Residencies’ for the sound and installation artist Marc Fournel. This new award will enable Marc to develop a project incorporating Arch-OS and the Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT).
In this talk, Marc, will present some of his video installations and latest art work using local positioning systems. He will also present his current research being developed through his residency, with a specific focus on working with the Arch-OS system and the IVT.
This will further be an opportunity to experience the IVT’s unique immersive system, whilst re-rendering the universe on the fly through ‘UniView’ (http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com), a computer graphics platform bringing information data- bases to life in a 3D environment, much like an immersive computer game.

Coding Poetry

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Coding Poetry

24-26 October 2008

Portland Square Building, University of Plymouth, North Hill, Plymouth
Become part of the collective Respect poetry displayed on the Urban Screen by txt: ‘respect’ followed by ‘your word’ to 07766 404142.

An Urban Screen Installation produced by the people of Plymouth, in association with  i-DAT, for the Plymouth Respect Festival, October 25th – 26th 2008.

It combines a rich mix of the physical and virtual by incorporating SMS poetry into a dynamic building size, interactive and collaborative poem, displayed on a 5 x 8 meters Urban Screen on the Portland Square building at the University of Plymouth. Constructed using 40 x 1 metre ColourWebs, normally used for concerts, this is the first permanent installation of this technology in the UK.

To participate txt the word ‘respect’ followed  by ‘your word’ to 07766 404142 , and become part of the growing poem of Respect.

Coding Poetry is part of a large scale Digital Interpretation Projects for Centre for Sustainable Futures, (CSF), at the University exploring sustainable feedback. The engagement of people through this rich media platform provides a critical opportunity for the CSF to communicate ideas towards the development of a sustainable campus. The huge screen is unlike any broadcast channel the University has had before, and acts as a key element in disseminating a range of different forms of data, information and knowledge.
By integrating streaming data from a wide range of campus resources, it will be able to provide a feedback system upon the health of the campus, as well as the size of its environmental footprint. From cascading waterfalls expressing water use, to fires on Portland Square representing energy use, the screen will become the vital link between research activity and widespread interpretation.

http://www.plymouthrespectfestival.co.uk

Outside / Inside

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Outside / Inside

22nd – 23rd April 2008

An trans-disciplinary masters workshop in GPS and Ultrasound.
Download Workshop PDF.

Introduction:
Touch is our bridge with architecture and the world. All of our senses are extensions of touch, since ears, nose, mouth and eyes are specializations of the skin, the most sensitive of our organs.
As Pallasmaa’s put’s it; “touch is the unconscious of vision, and this hidden tactile experience determines the sensuous quality of the perceived object, and mediates messages of invitation or rejection, courtesy, or hostility.”. Digital technologies are allowing us to ‘touch’ different spaces that are both inside us and outside us, and close to us and far away from us.
This two day workshop will encourage students to consider the design space that is found between the GPS satellites that orbit the Earth at a height of 12,600 miles, and the 20cm sensing depth of Ultrasound that can reveal the organs beneath our skin.

Context:
The sense of touch obviously plays a unique and important role in human interaction. Touching is not only closely linked to sexual activity and to notions of closeness and intimacy, but, as evidenced in our language, is often used as a metaphor for emotional impact (i.e., “I was really touched by her story”). Furthermore, as evidenced in the research on social touch, touching plays a role, albeit sometimes subliminal, in a much wider variety of social transactions than is ordinarily appreciated.
In general, it seems clear that the inclusion of touching in shared virtual environments will strongly increase the sense of togetherness.

Durlach, N. & Slater, M. (1998). Presence in shared virtual environments and virtual togetherness. Cambridge: MIT Press

Station to Station

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Station to Station

The Centenary Celbration of the Bere Alston – Gunnislake – Callington railway. Sunday 2 March 2008 saw the centenary of the Bere Alston – Gunnislake -Callington railway, 100 years of trains between Bere Alston and Gunnislake and the first train over its spectacular highlight, the Calstock Viaduct which links Devon & Cornwall across the Tamar.

This centenary was celebrated with a weekend packed full of events on the Tamar Valley Line trains, on Plymouth, Bere Alston, Calstock & Gunnislake stations and in the communities surrounding the railway.

As part of the centenary a website (www.station2station.co.uk) has been created to capture the stories, memories and images of the communities around and travelling on the Tamar Valley Line. The website celebrates the history and importance of this vital network link by recording and sharing these experiences.

The aim of the website was:
to create a lasting legacy for the Centenary
to create a dynamic archive for the community
to provide a focal point for discussion of the Bere Alston – Gunnislake railway
to link communities through stories, images and audio
to share memories across the immediate community and the rest of the world
to create a collaborative online environment for further projects

Station to Station is an ongoing cultural project operating at the intersection of the community, art, and life around the Tamar Valley Line. It set out to encourage dialogue and reflection on the history and importance of the railway as a means of establishing communication, exchange and travel, and will create an opportunity to celebrate and document a 100 years of rail travel.

The project was developed through a close partnership between the communities around the Tamar Valley Line and the following partners:

Bere Ferrers and Calstock Parish Councils, Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, Tamar Valley AONB, University of Plymouth, i-DAT, and West Devon Borough Council. Further support and sponsorship was secured
from Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, First Great Western, Pyramid Production and Network Rail.

PDF Programme. Station-To-Station-Brochure.pdf

Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT

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Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT

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Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT present a new series of projects and residencies that have been developed through an ongoing collaboration exploring new systems and technologies for artistic production, dissemination and participation that challenge traditional models of creation and consumption of art. Artists and Curator; Stanza (UK) 8 February – 6 April, Cadu (Brazil) 11 January – 11 March and Basak Senova (Turkey) 19 January – 9 February, will be residence spending time at both organisations exploring new work to create a series of new commissions and a seminar. i-DAT refer to the prominence of online social networks to create a series of creative interventions and works “S-OS: Social Operating System for Plymouth” in the galleries at Plymouth Arts Centre from the 8 February – 6 April.
http://www.plymouthac.org.uk

Curatorial Network Residency and Seminar. Basak Senova.

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Curatorial Network Residency and Seminar. Basak Senova.


Online Curatorial Networks. 19 January – 9 February. In residence developing a curatorial seminar. Basak Senova is an international curator and founder of the online curatorial project nomad TV. She will undertake a two-week research residency hosted by Plymouth Arts Centre and i-DAT as part of the Curatorial Network programme to explore the potential of online environment and social networking tools as mechanisms for generating cultural exchange. The particular focus of the residency is on ideas of cross-cultural generosity, sharing, communication and social interaction in contemporary curatorial practice. Using the Curatorial Network’s online resources including discussion List and website as a research platform, Senova will initiate a debate about curatorial exchanges and develop a map of curatorial network in the region and internationally. In this way she will also map parallel cases and counter-actions that are linked to contemporary art practices that set new modes and channels for social, political and cultural information flow. The Curatorial Network runs a series of international curatorial research residencies and seminars as well as international visits for curators based in South West of the UK. For further information on the Curatorial Network, details of the programme and to join the discussion list, see http://www.curatorial.net/

"Have Dome Will Travel"

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"Have Dome Will Travel"

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18/12/07: Pete Carss (i-DAT PhD & chief Dome RA), Professor Neil James (Dean of the Faculty of Technology) & Mike Phillips (i-DAT) magically transport a 5 meter inflatable Go-Dome and peripherals all the way to Cluny in Saone-et-Loire, France. The team presented a dome corrected 3D model of the Cluny Abby at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Centre de Enseignement et de Recherche de Cluny. The 3D model, developed by Christian Pare and his team for high resolution stereoscopic, immersive and interactive viewing, was supplied for experimentation within dome environments. The team latter visited the Institut Image in Chalon sur Saone as guests of Christian Pare for a tour of their cutting edge Cave and force feedback systems.

Arch-OS at the Opera

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Arch-OS at the Opera

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21/11/2007: Arch-OS demonstrated its ecological applications at the Royal Opera House ‘Recycle Our House’ Green Awareness Day. As part of its concerted efforts to be a world class ‘green’ organisation Chris Speed and Mike Phillips, at the invitation of Hywel David, to talk about Arch-OS as a possible tool for achieving its ambitions. Arch-OS presented twice during the day along side Tony Hall, the Executive Director of the Royal Opera House, Perry Walker, Head of Democracy and Participation at nef (New Economic Foundation), Donnachadh McCarthy, Cycle Solutions and an Energy Bike. (image: section of the Recycle Our House logo designed by Darcey Bussell).