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Dome Fugue v1.0:

patconley News 24/02/200814/11/2018Dome, Festival, Fugue, Immersive, Nascent, sidereal, Voices III, William Day

1.30: Sunday 24 February 2008. The Immersive Vision Theatre and i-DAT present the ‘Dome Fugue v1.0’. This is a specially commissioned sonic experience to celebrate the re-birth of the William Day Planetarium as a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and imaginary worlds. This pre-launch rendering of the ‘Dome Fugue v1.0’ will be performed in the Full Dome using its cutting edge spatialised sound system and accompanied by immersive generative visualisations. ‘Dome Fugue v1.0’ has been composited by i-DAT, researchers in the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group and The Immersive Vision Theatre ‘Domies’. The piece lasts 23 minutes 56.0409053 seconds, a scaled down sidereal period (a single rotation of the Earth relative to the stars). The Dome has seating for 35 people. The newly developed Immersive Vision Theatre was brought to life by the Experiential Learning CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) under the direction of Dr Ruth Weaver. The future management of the Dome lies with the Centre for Creative Design and Technology, a cross faculty (Arts & Technology) initiative and a transdisciplinary catalyst for innovation to influence the evolution of new creative design practices and strategies.

Dome Fugue v1.0 is part of Voices III the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2008. Friday 22 – Sunday 24 February 2008. http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/event.htm

Digital Media Developer: Research vacancy

patconley News 20/06/200714/11/2018CSF, Developer, Digital, Green Screen, Media, Research

REF: A0228. (03/06/2007) Salary £20437 to £23692 pa, Grade 5. Plymouth. A Research Assistant is required to work for a period of six months within i-DAT to develop software to support the display of information and graphics to interpretation screens across the campus and over the internet. The post involves a close relationship with The Centre for Sustainable Futures and will require the development of media platforms to support aspects of the Centre’s delivery of information and knowledge to a wide audience. Applications are invited from people with a good Honours degree in a computing subject, who have some industrial experience in the development of serverside and networked technologies. For an informal discussion, please contact Chris Speed on 01752 232613 or email chris.speed@plymouth.ac.uk. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 11 July 2007. CLOSING DATE: 12 NOON, WEDNESDAY, 15 JUNE 2007. http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=19178

Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation, Innovation.

patconley News 19/04/200714/11/2018CAiiA, Hexagram, Montreal, Planetary Collegium

The First Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium, Montreal, Canada.19-22 April, 2007. C’ur des Sciences, University of Quebec, Montreal. hosted by Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Mediatiques and Hexagram. Network consciousness, telematic interactivity and the media and metaphors of technology and science, have informed the vision of the Collegium since its inception as CAiiA at the University of Wales College, Newport back in 1994. Throughout the subsequent decade, developments in computing, communications, biophysics and cognitive science, hypermedia, telepresence and robotics created challenges in all fields: architecture, performance, dance, narrative, music, as well as the visual arts and design. New discourse was emerging and theory was not to be left behind. In this context, CAiiA-STAR flourished. As the pressure to expand increased, the Planetary Collegium was established, with its CAiiA-Hub in the University of Plymouth, and Nodes in Zurich, Milan and Beijing, with others pending. http://summit.planetary-collegium.net/

Media Innovations Awards.

patconley News 20/03/200714/11/2018CAM, Cornwall Culture, Mobile Communications, Noogy, Plymouth Media Partnerships

i-DAT is pleased to announce that¦ it won two awards at the recent Media Innovation Awards organised by Plymouth Media Partnerships: Multi-platform project Sponsored by Automatic TV and Media Multi-Platform Project Category winner: ‘Cornwall Culture’ i-DAT in association with Ollie Lindsey , Dan Efergan , Gendall Design and Chris Saunders for Cornwall Arts Marketing. For a great example of using a range of technologies to their fullest potential. Sponsored by ITV Westcountry Mobile Communications Category Winner: Noogy by Chris Saunders and Jamie Taylor in association with i-DAT and Lee Nutbean For the innovative way in which it used artificial intelligence to receive text information and respond to it. http://www.mediainnovationawards.com/

Everything is Not Everything.

patconley News 08/03/200714/11/2018b-DAT, Everything, locative, Media, mobile, Plymouth

Everything is Not Everything – the stage two event for artists enrolled in the b-DAT ( digital art and technology ) course at the university of Plymouth took place across the campus on Thursday, 08 March 2007. Work and installations offered an alternative interpretation of the campus through the use of locative media and mobile phone technology. http://www.everythingisnoteverything.co.uk

SlidingScale

patconley Projects 21/12/200613/04/2020Bartlett School of Architecture, m-DAT, Microscope, Nascent, Rapid-prototyping, SEM, workshop

13-15/12/06 to 19/01/07:

SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) / Rapid-prototyping workshop & Looking into the Eye of God seminar. The Bartlett School of Architecture, i-DAT, m-DAT, nascent-research, trans-techresearch. Sliding Scale (13-15/12/06 to 19/01/07) presents a view of our relationship with the peculiar landscapes of digital technology as an ‘ecology’. In exploring these landscapes we navigate through a territory that is disturbed, moist, blurred and vacillating. We are forced to focus on the ‘relationships between’ where process replaces product in importance, just as systems supersede structure. The tools that form these landscapes are harbinger’s for a meaningful ecological (both machinic and natural) audit of specific sites and processes. They demand the development of new strategies and protocols for their users (designers, engineers, architects and artists) and require that the sites, agents, provocateurs, disparate observers and drifters that consume and influence their output critically engage with them.

Download: SlidingScales.pdf

Noogy

patconley Projects 20/11/200629/11/2022Arch-OS, infection, Motion Plymouth Festival, Noogy, Portland Square, viral

Noogy: 16 – 19 November 2006.

Portland Square, University of Plymouth. To talk to Noogy text: ‘noogy; and your question..’ to 07766404142. Noogy in residence is part of the Motion Plymouth Festival 2006. Noogy’s background is a little unclear. Some claim that Noogy arrived from deep space, originating somewhere off the shoulder of Orion, watching C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. Others claim that Noogy grew from within the network of CAT6 Ethernet cables, silicon chips and data mines that form the core of the Arch-OS system in Portland Square. Whilst others still claim that Noogy was there all the time, waiting in the void for the digital interface that would allow his manifestation. Some say Noogy is the ‘building’, others that Noogy is just a ‘viral infection’, like a bad cold that cant be shaken.

Noogy took his personality from the Arch-OS system, he would get lonely when the CCTV cameras could not see anyone, cold and hit depending on the environmental sensors and responded to SMS interactions through a unique Artificial Intelligence system developed by Chris Saunders.

Noogy 2:

VJ’ing on buildings. (14/11/2007) Mix live visuals on the front of a building through using the audio you generate on your mobile phone. i-DAT is presenting Noogy 2.0 a large scale interactive installation at the front of the Portland Square building at the University of Plymouth. Noogy 2.0, which goes live during Motion Plymouth Festival on the 14th of November 2007, is the latest upgrade to last years Noogy that made headline news. Noogy 2.0 will combine a rich mix of the physical and virtual by incorporating ‘smart’ buildings and mobile phone technologies into a dynamic building size interactive VJ system. How too ‘Noo – J’: Just dial 07511 253710 and Noo – J away. The sound you produce down the phone will generate the visuals on the fly across an area of 50m2 consisting of 9600 LEDs.

And the invention of Noogy Filth when someone left the Lexicon of Filth switched off during testing.

Backend:

DMX lighting rig (5x8m) (many thanks to Pyramid), Flash, AI, SMS gateway, Arch-OS server…

Noogy in residence – part of the Motion Plymouth Festival 2006

patconley News 17/11/200614/11/2018Arch-OS, Motion Plymouth Festival, Noogy, Plymouth, Portland Square

(17/11/2006). Noogy: 16 – 19 November 2006. Portland Square, University of Plymouth. To talk to Noogy text: noogy; and your question.. to 07766404142. Noogy in residence is part of the Motion Plymouth Festival 2006. Noogy’s background is a little unclear. Some claim that Noogy arrived from deep space, originating somewhere off the shoulder of Orion, watching C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. Others claim that Noogy grew from within the network of CAT6 Ethernet cables, silicon chips and data mines that form the core of the Arch-OS system in Portland Square. Whilst others still claim that Noogy was there all the time, waiting in the void for the digital interface that would allow his manifestation. Some say Noogy is the ‘building’, others that Noogy is just a viral infection, like a bad cold that cant be shaken.

Sloth-bot

patconley News 21/07/200616/05/2020Arch-OS, Architecture, robot, Temporal

At 6pm on the 22 July, during the Consciousness Reframed, 8th International Research Conference (21 – 23 July 2006) the ‘Sloth-bot’ will be launched as an extension of the Arch-OS project. Sloth-bots are large autonomous robots that move incredibly slowly (between 5mm and 20mm a minute). Sloth-bots, influenced by their interactions with people, imperceptibly reconfigure the architecture. Sloth-bots build on robotic technology developed by Dr Guido Bugmann, famously incorporated into Donald Rodney’s Psalms which was exhibited in the South London Gallery as a part of Rodney’s last exhibition entitled ‘Nine Night in Eldorado’, in October 1997. http://arch-os.com/projects/slothbot/