Location: DESIGN LAB, floor 2, Roland Levinsky Building
Workshop leader: Prof. Leon Cruickshank, Chair in Design and Creative Exchange, Director of Research Imagination, Lancaster University.
Design Research Workshop delivered in collaboration with the Message and Design Knowledge Research Groups.
The Market Hall development in Devonport, Plymouth, received a significant funding boost today as Chancellor Philip Hammond announced £1million investment for the new ‘digital creative space’ in his Autumn Statement. The sum comes as part of the Treasury’s ‘Cultural Investments’ championed by Arts Council England.
The £5million Market Hall scheme www.themarkethall.co.uk is led by RIO – the Real Ideas Organisation – working with Plymouth City Council, to create a new world-class space for digital technology, arts, research and education. The Market Hall is scheduled for completion in 2018 and will feature space for learning, skills development, expo and events, research and experimentation as well as a 15m immersive dome theatre – the first of its kind in Europe.
http://themarkethall.co.uk/treasurys-autumn-statement-delivers-major-investment-market-hall/
Cheltenham Science Festival
Wed 8 Jun 2016 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Helix Theatre.
http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2016/colliding-worlds/
In recent decades, an art movement has emerged that illuminates the latest advances in science. The Science Museum’s Roger Highfield joins science historian Arthur I. Miller, author of Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art, artist Paul Prudence and conceptual designer Mike Phillips to explore the new avant-garde. Find out more about the artists involved, what drives them and their struggles in developing a dramatically different art form.
And a rather interesting Science Museum blog post from Roger Highfield:
http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colliding-worlds-the-advance-of-art-sci/
Graduated Plymouth University with BSc (Hons) MediaLab Arts and Ma Digital Futures. Lectured there for two years while running his first company Limbomedia which was formed to deliver technical expertise in the burgeoning digital art landscape through collaborations, commissions or contract work. After Plymouth moved to Bristol as a digital media producer and then on to London as senior producer of online, app and experiential campaigns for the marketing of movies and games. This time taught a great deal about the implementation of emergent technologies with the highest commercial standards. Since settling in Bristol in 2009 has been a director of Play Nicely, creating engaging experiences and games for VR, AR online, mobile and live events.
Our friends at SAT (with some cool video of the EMDL partnership) make the British Airways Highlife in-flight magazine.
http://highlife.ba.com/articles/why-montreal-is-a-digital-art-capital/
The conference addresses the approaches and the corresponding design responses that meet the challenges of social, citizen-centred, smart cities and communities.
It will offer reflective, high quality theoretical and design-based responses to the question of how media and ICTs create can alternative responses to current societal challenges.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
We’ll be cultivating fulldome art in Austria in February, thanks to our partnership in an international fulldome network.
We will be hosted by the Digital Art Department University of Applied Arts, Vienna, between the 1-12 Feb as the UK partners in the European Union-funded project E / M / D / L / – European Mobile Dome Lab for artistic research: http://emdl.eu/
From February last year until September 2015, there is an E/M/D/L programme of residencies in Canada, Greece, United Kingdom, Germany and Austria.
Each residency is focused around a domic architecture, equipped with cutting-edge technologies for immersive visualization and sonification.
Besides hosting these sessions, we and the other partners are working to conduct artistic research, both theory and practice, in this emergent art form, accompanied by a series of public presentations, demonstrations and performances.
Through the international commissions and collaborations the E/M/D/L project will culminate in the production of a series of digital artworks in the form of interactive full-dome environments.
Finally, these works that generate new technological and aesthetic paradigms which will be presented in the world’s most sophisticated purpose build art fulldome structure – the Satosphere at SAT in Montreal, Canada.
It is a pleasure to be able to contribute to the Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Conference 2014. Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 9:30 AM – Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM (PST). Johannesburg, South Africa.
http://conference.fakugesi.wits.ac.za/
CONFERENCE LOCATIONS & HOTELS
And the Planetary Collegium Composite Session of the CAIA, T-NODE and I-NODE
A festival of dome media co-founded by i-DAT and staged earlier this month was a resounding success – but there’s work to do to further the medium, according to Professor Mike Phillips.
Fulldome UK took place at the National Space Centre in Leicester on November 7 & 8, with screenings, immersive experiences, competitions, debates, performances and forward-thinking visions in sound and image and an audience of artists, academics, VJs and dome-techies.
“It was an extraordinarily successful festival and now we need to bring this stuff to wider audiences,” said Mike. “This festival was for ‘domies’ but the mission for i-DAT and its relationship to Fulldome UK is to expand the audiences and free the artform from the dominant model of science edutainment”.
Mike said that Fulldome UK 2014 demonstrated highly immersive pieces of dome-art alongside the more commonplace science presentations in surround-sound and vision aimed at kids and their parents.
He said: “What we’re trying to do is liberate the dome from the dominant model of science edutainment to free creative artists and designers so they make much more qualitative immersive experiences.”
“If you go in there thinking this is cinema, you’re missing half the trip,” he said. “The whole point is that the dome disappears and you can move through it and beyond it.
“There is amazing 3D potential that you don’t have in cinema. This completely immerses you. It wraps around your face! Yes, it’s the wonder of virtual reality and surround vision but you get much more spatial potential and the sense of presence is heightened.”
He said he saw exciting examples of fulldome uses at the festival, from experimental shorts to real-time live performances, covering a range of fulldome possibilities. “Everything that could be done was demonstrated in some form. The potential was made manifest,” he said.
Alongside i-DAT’s Birgitte Aga, Mike was a judge in the fulldome art competition and he praised the work of Tim Seger who won Best in Show for his abstract-impressionistic narrative piece Beat and the romantic piece Vessel by Aaron Bradbury – which demonstrated the data on what really happens when one sees one’s true love for the first time.
Mike’s favourite was RFID’s live performance (check their showreel here), “a real-time, abstract journey through digital universes of a kind of flocking, swarming, particle space with an incredible live soundtrack.
“The whole thing was navigated live – again a revolutionary thing for fulldomes – and it had a wonderful, totally abstract narrative. It was a playful, exploratory experience of total immersion,” said Mike. Other highlights included performances by United VJs and Ghostdog and Azyl.
Fulldome UK 2014 was the 4th festival, following the event’s inauguration in Plymouth in 2010.
The city-wide collaborative pilot was produced by i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre with the Plymouth Culture Guide Group: Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth City Museum and Gallery, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Peninsula Arts Plymouth University, KARST, Ocean Studios, Take a Part, Plymouth Dance and Plymouth Culture. The App was designed and developed by Elixel with i-DAT, the branding was designed by Intercity and the front and backend system based on the ‘analytics engine’ Qualia, developed by i-DAT at the University of Plymouth, University of Warwick and Cheltenham Festivals 2013, through a Nesta Digital R&D award.
During this time Artory has:
- Engaged 25 arts and culture partner organisations
- Promoted 2041 events
- Provided 12,015 pieces of feedback
- Had 6201 downloads across iOS and android devices.
- Had 5129 visitors to the website
i-DAT will continue to explore potential routes to fund a new web and mobile enabled Artory but in the meantime the research initiative will be folded back into i-DAT’s Quorum Cultural Computation project.
[panel background=”#eeeeee” color=”#000000″ border=”2px solid #b7b6b6″ shadow=”2px 0px 2px #eeeeee” radius=”10″ text_align=”left” target=”blank”]Artory was a free app developed by i-DAT and partners that leads users to Plymouth’s culture hotspots and then rewards them with exclusive offers.
Artory-users earn Art Miles by visiting venues and leaving feedback. These could be exchanged in participating cultural venues all over the city for drinks, discounts and VIP offers.
Venues and attractions filled the app with their what’s on listings and events, helping to promote Plymouth’s cultural assets to a connected audience of city residents and visitors.
Art Miles earned in one venue can be used in other venues, thanks to the collaborative approach taken by the organisations involved in developing Artory.
Although what’s on apps are commonplace, the crucial difference with Artory is that it offered visitors incentives for leaving feedback about what they thought about the show, the exhibition, the film or the attraction.
Artory is based on the ‘analytics engine’ Qualia, developed by i-DAT at Plymouth University, University of Warwick and Cheltenham Festivals 2013. This mood-measuring technology makes it easy for app-users to record, through embedded micro-interactions, their feelings and emotions about the art and culture they’ve just viewed.
This is a huge step forward from the usual feedback forms that present culture fans with paperwork just after they’ve experienced a show or a performance.
Evaluating audience feedback is a vital task for culture organisations, giving them important information that can support funding applications or direct future programming. So by making that data-collection easy, fun and tangibly rewarding, Artory helps both the city’s culture attractions and its visitors.
[/panel]Artory was established as a web and app service running through www.artory.co.uk. At some point we expect the domain to be retired and the information from the site can be found below, along with design and research outputs. The original Artory website looked something like this:
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Artory — the What’s On App for culture in Plymouth that earns you Art Miles® to exchange for exclusive offers at venues across Plymouth.
Art Miles® is a points-based scheme, where you accumulate points through updating your profile, checking-in at participating venues and reviewing events.
You can redeem your points in exchange for free drinks, discounts, and VIP events
Artory has been produced by i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre with the Plymouth Culture Guide Group: Theatre Royal Plymouth, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth City Museum and Gallery, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Peninsula Arts Plymouth University, KARST, Ocean Studios, Take a Part, Plymouth Dance and Plymouth Culture.
The Artory app is designed and developed by Elixel with i-DAT. The branding is designed by Intercity. The evaluation framework and questions in Artory are designed by Dr Eric Jensen. based on the needs of the Artory partners. The app is funded by Plymouth Arts Centre, i-DAT with Plymouth University, Elixel, Destination Plymouth, Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Culture.
To redeem an offer, you need to visit the venue which is running the offer. Navigate to My Art Miles and select the offer you wish to redeem.
We are happy to list temporary arts and culture events in Artory at cost of £10 per event. Please complete the following Artory Temporary Event Form and send through to: contact@i-dat.org. Please note that these events can only be uploaded on a Wednesday and we need submissions by the Monday before. It’s best to let us know about your event as soon as you can to get the best coverage in Artory.
© 2015 Artory • All rights reserved • Built by Elixel • Powered by Qualia
ARTORY Website and App Terms and Conditions documentation.
ARTORY Moderation Guidelines and Contributing Members Agreement.
ARTORY Content Guidelines
Enabling City-wide Audience Evaluation: Plymouth Artory Metrics Development
Design by Intercity www.intercitystudio.com
Example data viz from the Artory dashboard.
Artory is based on the systems design and research developed within the Qualia Project. Technical details and access to the GitHub repository can be found here: https://i-dat.org/qualia/
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