Gus Cummins is an artist and researcher with specific interest in epilepsy, a condition he has had for three decades. He has undergone multiple brain operations, preceded by EEG scans, and he currently uses the EEG data to generate sonic art.
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Yaojiong (Joseph) Yu
Yaojiong (Joseph) Yu is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. He has been professionally involved in the User Experience Design, Service Design, and Industrial Design since 2018. Before coming to Plymouth, he worked as a senior UX designer in Ford Motor Company, Geely Motor company, and New Energy Vehicle industry sectors for design HMI applications. As a designer he participated in the development of new models, the design of the vehicle-machine interface, and the design project of user experience research. He has a Master degree form Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). In his postgraduate period, he has participated the program of Disney Leadership, The Amazons Student collaboration (SCAD PRO), and Core77 online exhibition (SCAD Design Gallery).
Yaojiong (Joseph)’s study explores the possibilities to enrich the retired life style. The research is aimed at empowering and innovating a focused and unique retirement experience by using multimodal Interaction design, Immersive design, Service design, etc.
Research Sessions 2022-23
i-DAT Research Sessions 2022-2023:
Backstory:
The i-DAT and CODEX Research Workshops build on the heritage of a series of practice-based production workshops, seminars and symposia. Workshop methodologies critically and playfully engage with themes, technologies and behaviours which frame the symptoms of individual and collective practices of the i-DAT research community: https://i-dat.org/research/
Our agenda is enhanced by a range of future focused research instruments, such as the Immersive Vision Theatre, Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Laboratories (DFIML) that blur the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, the real and the imaginary.
Previous Research Sessions can be found here…
SEPTEMBER:
The Nomadic Image 2022
The Seventh Transdisciplinary Conference on Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Culture. 23 – 25 September 2022. Virtual and in-person, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.
i-DAT is partnering with the Seventh Transdisciplinary Conference on Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Culture, The Nomadic Image, to deliver the Algorithmic (in)Coherence panel:
Saturday 24 / 9.30 – 11.30, Immersive Vision Theatre, University of Plymouth.
i-DAT Panel: UK Node of Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference: Title: Vision in Motion: Algorithmic (in)Coherence.
Keywords: Becoming, Algorithmic, Conversational AI, Data, Deep Neural Networks, Sensory, Synaesthetic, Kinetic, Scanning.
OCTOBER:
NOVEMBER:
FDUK21: Back again to its roots in Plymouth to bring you the latest edition of our festival – a celebration of fulldome creativity in all its forms. Over the course of three days and nights, we will present the best works from around the world, featuring short films, feature films, interactive artworks, live performances and more. The festival takes place at the Devonport Market Hall in Plymouth, a brand-new venue featuring the UK’s first permanent immersive arts dome at its heart. For 2022, Fulldome UK will be extended for a further 6 days for extended screenings and sessions.
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The View from the Anthropocene
Blue Grindrod contributes to the:
The View from the Anthropocene
A bilingual, interdisciplinary conference.
The View from the Anthropocene is a transdisciplinary conference to be held in English and Hungarian on 15th-16th October 2022, organised by postgraduate researchers at the University of Debrecen.
The conference is a 2-day on-site event, with options for online participation.
THE VIEW FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE:
EXPLORING THE HUMAN EPOCH FROM POST-ANTHROPOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVES
In this age of ecological, economic and social crises, the notion of the Anthropocene is becoming ever more significant. Proposed by Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer in 2000, the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch highlights detrimental human impact on the planet, while as a critical notion it synthetises anti-, non- or post-anthropocentric views challenging the dominant discourses and practices that place humans at the centre of the world. However, with its scope incessantly expanding and its meanings ever in flux, the Anthropocene requires constant redefinition and reassessment.
Blue Grindrod:
The Call of the Chthulucene: Speculative Fiction, Art and Design as Methodology in the Formation of New Posthuman Models of Life – The View From The Anthropocene: Exploring The Human Epoch From Post-Anthropocentric Perspectives
Abstract:
Adaptation or Extinction? These are the choices left to the human as a species as the Anthropocene takes its toll on our fragile ecologies. Utilising examples from speculative fiction, biological art and critical design, this research paper proposes a radical shift towards new and imagined posthuman models of being that seek to alleviate, overcome or otherwise adapt to the hostile ecologies that the anthropocene imparts upon us. Drawing from Haraway’s conception of the Chthulucene, this paper identifies the possibility of the creation of an “elsewhere and elsewhen that was, still is,and might yet be” and extends this to the realm of the body: through offering a position of the posthuman that is speculative, nebulous and abstract it is hoped that new models of potential life might be envisioned that are multiplicitous, multi-species and multidisciplinary. Working primarily with the realm of the physical body, this paper explores new, alternative and abstract renditions of bodily structures through the existing works of Agi Haines, Matthew Barney, Revital Cohen, Natsai Audrey Chieza, Patricia Piccinini, Ai Hasegawa, Kira O’Reilly and Art Orienté Objet for the purpose of moving beyond an anthropocentric model of the body and its relation to external ecologies. By rendering these ecologies tactile, haptic and embodied through these examples, this research paper ultimately seeks a suppression of the human tendency towards exceptionalism in the pursuit of a posthuman that actively operates and evolves in symbiosis with everchanging ecologies, embodying a transitory model of being for the age of Anthropocene.
The View from the Anthropocene Conference is co-organised and kindly supported by the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) and the Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS) at the University of Debrecen (UD).
Associate Professor in Immersive Storytelling
University of Plymouth - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Business - School of Art Design & Architecture - i-DAT
Location: Plymouth
Salary: £53,353 to £61,823 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 8th August 2022
Closes: 4th September 2022
Job Ref: A8933
i-DAT is a vibrant open research lab and teaching collective for playful experimentation with creative technology in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, situated within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. It has courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level such as BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design, BA (Hons) Game Arts and Design, MRes Digital Art & Technology and MA Game Design. These programmes embed the production of digital media and design within a framework of creative and experimental artistic practice and research. They also have strong international connections with Nanjing University of the Arts and CODEX, an international PGR network. You will be based at the Plymouth campus and would be expected to contribute to this TNE activity.
We are seeking an Associate Professor in Immersive Storytelling. You will contribute to practical and theoretical teaching and research in germane areas such as: storytelling and narrative design; play research; environment, character and technical art; game studies; design theory; animation, user experience and immersion. You will have HE teaching experience, and will have the necessary technical skills to teach and research in the field of immersive media technologies and their application to art and design practice.
You will hold a PhD (or have equivalent professional experience) in a relevant discipline and be able to demonstrate an established research track record and evolving profile appropriate to the role. Experience in supervising masters/doctoral students is desirable. We will also consider applicants with extensive practical or industrial experience in relevant areas.
The University is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums, campus facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from women, black and minority ethnic people who are under-represented in this area within University of Plymouth.
Please demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, training and experience elements of the job description in your supporting statement.
Please include a PDF portfolio of practice with your application or a link to your personal website.
For an informal discussion to find out more about the role then please contact Andrew Prior by email mike.phillips@plymouth.ac.uk on 07971993023 or andrew.prior@plymouth.ac.uk on 07968 493979.
We offer a competitive salary package and a generous pension and holiday scheme. We also offer a range of other benefits, including ongoing development opportunities.
This is a full-time position working 37 hours per week on a permanent basis. Flexible working options including job share will be considered.
Interviews are expected to take place Monday 12 September 2022. You will be notified whether you have been shortlisted or not.
Closing date: 12 midnight, Sunday 2 September 2022
Fulldome UK 2022 – 4-12 November
4TH-12TH NOVEMBER 2022 – SAVE THE DATE!
FDUK returns for 2022!
The UK’s premiere celebration of all things fulldome will take place once more at the Market Hall Dome in Plymouth, during November 2022. The call for submissions is now open and we are looking for short films, feature films, interactive artworks, live performances, workshops & presentations to present at the festival. If you are a fulldome practitioner of any kind and would like to be part of FDUK 2022, we would love to hear from you.
Femke Snelting
Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, feminisms, and free software in various constellations. With Seda Guerses, Miriyam Aouragh, and Helen Pritchard, she runs the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. Together they create spaces for articulating what computational technologies in the “public interest” might be when “public interest” is always in-the-making. She co-initiated collective research projects, digital tools, methods and publications with Constant, association for art and media in Brussels until 2021. With Jara Rocha she edited Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (OHP Data Browser series, 2022). Femke supports artistic research at a.pass (Brussels), PhdArts (Leiden) and MERIAN (Maastricht). She regularly teaches at XPUB (Rotterdam).
Queering Damage
Dr Helen V. Pritchard’s research work “Queering Damage” by The Underground Division will feature as a large scale installation for the transmediale exhibition 2022 “abandon all hope ye who enter here”.
Conjuring artifice and dark humor in the face of extraction, financial fantasies, and the illusions of techno-solutionism, the works of nine artists and collectives explores the limits of refusal in a computationally ordered and altered world. Featuring Alaa Mansour, Annex, Cihad Caner, Constant Dullaart, Ibiye Camp, Lo-Def Film Factory, Stine Deja, The Underground Division and Tianzhuo Chen.
“Queering Damage” was originally commissioned by the Biennale of Thought for the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA) and the most recent iteration is funded by the Horizon2020 as part of the Artsformation Project a research project exploring the intersection between arts, society and technology, and aims to explore how the arts can help lead society towards more sustainable digital futures in Europe.
The exhibition opens on 26th January 2022 and it is also possible to visit online (also with a student group) via a proxy visit.
Read more information about the exhibition | Book a Proxy Visit |
Presentation of the project “In the mouth of a polar bear” by Helen Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan
Wednesday 29th September, at 6pm UK/ 7pm BCN. on Zoom.
In English
In this new event, Helen Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan will present their artistic research project entitled “In the mouth of the polar bear: The undead feeling of the world”, carried out within the framework of DONE 5. This project engages with the production of transpecies animacy in the domains of edu-tainment, policing, and the military industrial complex. More information
The commissioned artists will present their project in conversation with the three curators and the rest of the participants of the DONE5 programme.
Dr. Helen V. Pritchard is an artist and geographer whose work considers the impacts of computation on social and environmental justice. Helen is an Associate Professor of Queer Feminist Technoscience at i-DAT, Plymouth University and a research fellow at Goldsmiths University of London.
Cassandra Troyan is a writer, artist, and researcher whose work explores the intersections of gendered and colonial violence, radical histories of resistance, and speculative futures beyond capital. Cassandra teaches creative-critical writing practices as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Linnaeus University in Sweden.
Free admission. Details on how to access the Zoom meeting will be confirmed upon registration.
It can also be followed through Foto Colectania’s Youtube channel
Global Perspectives: Multi-spatial trajectories at the nexus of art and science discourse
Christiana Kazakou to present her paper:
Global Perspectives: Multi-spatial trajectories at the nexus of art and science discourse
at:
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021: Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation
Online, 13–17 September 2021
Co-organised by the Network for Transdisciplinary Research and Transdisciplinarity Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
More information and call for contributions: http://transdisciplinarity.ch/td-net/Aktuell/ITD-2021.html
Organisation(s) associée(s) :
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
Associated universities :
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
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