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Joel Hodges

patconley i-DAT 22/09/201922/08/2020

Joel is a Lecturer in 3D Visualisation, Immersion and Simulation on the i-DAT Game Art & Design Programme and researcher in i-DAT.
Joel works with game engine technologies (Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 3D) to deliver networked VR/AR/XR experiences through social and technological interactions with audiences. His research focuses on bridging the gap between VR and AR video games using photogrammetry to create unique ‘spherical’ capture devices for integrating real-world objects into game engines. Joel contributes to the delivery of the BA (Hons) Game Art & Design Programme and the immersive activities of the Immersive Vision Theatre and the Impact Lab.

Dr Andrew Prior

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Andrew Prior is the Associate Professor in Digital Media Design. He is a designer, artist, musician and educator. He received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2015. He has exhibited and performed internationally, including New York, Tokyo, Aarhus, Roskilde, Brno and Žilina. Recent publications include a ‘The Crackle of Contemporaneity’ in Futures of the Contemporary (2019) edited by Paolo de Assis and Michael Schwab, and ‘Temporal Poetics in Thomson and Craighead’s The Time Machine in Alphabetical Order‘ in Passepartout, Journal of Art Theory and History (2019). As a graphic designer and animator, he has worked with Liminal, Fourway Lab, PlayHard, GoingPublic and Centrica.

http://aprior.info

FÓRUM DE ARTE Y ESPACIO / ART & SPACE FORUM

patconley News 14/08/201921/08/2019

On the 13th August Christiana Kazakou will be delivering a workshop on Transdisciplinarity at the Art & Space Forum, MUNTREF (Museum of Art and Science) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

14:00 – 18:00 – Workshop de Transdisciplinariedad con Christiana Kazakou y Mariano Sardón / Workshop on Transdisciplinarity with Christiana Kazakou and Mariano Sardón. MUNTREF Centro de Arte y Ciencia (Tecnópolis)

Forum-Programa-Schedule.pdf

Her participation is supported by the British Council Argentina.

FullDome-New Creatives

patconley News 03/05/201921/08/2019

http://callingtheshots.co.uk/newcreatives/

New Creatives is an exciting talent development scheme that offers commissioning opportunities for emerging artists to create new work in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC platforms.

Calling the Shots is running the New Creatives project for the South West region, working with partner organisations Somerset Film (Bridgwater), Kaleider (Exeter), Create Studios (Swindon), Screen Cornwall (Redruth) and Watershed (Bristol).

Introduction to FullDome | Friday 10th May | 2 – 3pm

At Kaleider Studios

Join Mike Philips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University and Director of Research at i-DAT.org who will lead us into his world of immersive, interactive and performative technologies.

The talk will cover:

What are FullDome immersive experiences?

How might we think about our ideas as FullDome experiences?

How do we make content for the FullDome?

Mike Philips: https://i-dat.org/mike-phillips/

Automation Fellows

patconley News 28/04/201928/04/2019

AUTOMATION 2019-20

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

We are looking for people to explore the frontiers of automation technology and its applications, to ask: What already exists? What’s new and what’s good in automation? Where are the gaps in the market? What are the challenges? What opportunities are out there? What are the possibilities?

South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellows.

ix

patconley News, Projects 15/04/201923/05/2019

ix Symposium Delegation 2019.

ix SYMPOSIUM IMMERSION◯EXPERIENCE at SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES [SAT]

https://ix.sat.qc.ca/ at http://sat.qc.ca/

More and more collective and individual technologies are emerging and become new fields of exploration for artists. iX 2019 will give you the opportunity to experience the latest iterations of these immersive technologies whose thrust is further accelerated by advances in sensory enhancement, artificial intelligence, immersive computing and cloud computing that, together, radically transform the world that we know. The 2019 Symposium Formula will allow participants and stakeholders to reflect, experiment and play together these exciting new spaces of creation that immersive creation technologies offer.

The Delegation (in no particular order):

Misha Curson:

Arts Curator Eden Project. . -.. . -. / .–. .-. — .— . -.-. – .-.-.-

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Misha has over eight years of experience curating and producing global contemporary art commissions, exhibitions, and events with artists such as Damien Hirst, and institutions such as White Cube Gallery and the Qatar Museum Authority.

Before joining The Eden Project, Misha acted as Deputy Director at Cass Sculpture Foundation, a not-for-profit gallery, sculpture park, and educational charity, where she was responsible for the strategic annual programme of commissions, exhibitions, residencies, and off-site partnerships and consultancy projects.

In 2016 Misha initiated a partnership between Cass Sculpture Foundation and Battersea Power Station, to develop a public sculpture commissioning program for the iconic site. Misha oversaw the commissioning of two monumental inaugural sculptures as part of a broader cultural regeneration strategy.

Misha is particularly interested in exploring cross-disciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists, engineers, architects and other specialists (beekeepers, perfume makers). Championing innovation and technology, and fostering social engagement within the subjects of human and environmental sustainability.

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Rowan Fae:

Aerial Dance choreographer and Digital Creative.

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Rowan is a multidisciplinary practitioner working across dance, circus, and immersive technologies with a long-standing contribution to the UK’s contemporary circus scene. identifying as a producer, director, choreographer and flying effects specialist. Rowan has authored numerous performances (large-scale, Immersive, cutting edge, site-specific).

In 2007-09, Rowan co-directed the Carnyville finale in Bristol (Invisible Circus with over 200 cast). She co-produced, directed and performed Arcadia Spectaculars first immersive 360° performances on the Spider at Glastonbury Festival (2009-10). She worked in 2014 with leading Turkish contemporary dance company Ciplak Ayaklar to create vertical dance piece, On Air, curated by Atelier Bruckner for the International Scenography Biennale in Stuttgart. She oversaw the artistic direction for Celluloid Sail by Compass Presents in 2017 and in 2018 for the touring promenade experience Canopy of Stars (National Trust locations).

Rowan continues to develop focus on the interplay of performance and technology. In 2018 she took part in a research project exploring the innovative potential of immersive technology and is currently continuing her research exploring the narrative & scenographic potential of real-time data collection and algorithmic content generation towards the creation of live performance environments.

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Coral Manton:

South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

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Coral is an interdisciplinary artist, technologist, museum curator, games designer and researcher. She is Lecturer in Creative Computing at Bath Spa University. Her research interests include immersive environments for live performance, live-coding, digital museums and game design. She is investigating immersive technologies permeating museum eco-systems beyond the exhibition.

What I’m working on: Employing immersive technologies to enhance the curatorial work of museums, libraries and archives to engage audiences and researchers in sometimes complicated narratives surrounding collection objects and historic places.

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Jane Grant:

South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

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Jane Grant is an artist and academic who creates ‘other worlds’ in which participants become immersed. These worlds are often built from the histories of science or scientific mythologies where participants inhabit and co-create through engaging with sound, narrative and site. She has won awards for her large-scale immersive artworks including a PrixArs and PRS New Music Award and has exhibited her work internationally including FACT in Liverpool, Istanbul Biennale, ISEA, onedotzero festival, BFI, Roundhouse, National Portrait Gallery. Her work has featured in the Guardian, Observer, Wired, Dazed and Confused and others.

She is currently an Academic Fellow on the SWCTN Immersion £6.5 million project where she is developing artworks in Augmented Reality and immersive environments resulting in her new work Between Us in Magic Leap which will be exhibited in Korea in 2019. She is also developing artworks about intimacy and desire via cosmological realms, desirous matter and solar physics including an immersive artwork Haunted Geologies for the dome and Magic Leap, How to Disappear Completely which is set in an abandoned department in Cairo. Jane writes about noise, the mutability of matter, desire and astrophysics and has had her writing published widely. Jane is Associate Professor in Digital Arts at University of Plymouth.

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Charlie Tapp:

South West Creative Technology Network Producer.

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Charlie is currently Producer at Kaleider, a production studio based in Exeter UK. Here she leads on Programmes including the South West Creative Technology Network, a £6.5 million project to expand the use of creative technologies across the south west of England, investigating the challenge areas of Immersion, Automation and Data. She also oversees Kaleider’s partnership with New Creatives, a talent development scheme that offers commissioning opportunities for emerging artists to create new work in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC platforms.

Prior to this Charlie has spent 10 years working across the arts in roles involving Producing, Programming, Commissioning and Artist and Idea Development. Most recent roles include Associate Producer for Bristol Old Vic, Executive Director for The Bike Shed Theatre and Creative Learning Manager for Milton Keynes Theatre.

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Mena Fombo:

Founder & Director, Black Girl Convention. -.-. — -. …- . -. – .. — -.

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Mena is a purposeful coach, facilitator, motivational speaker and a consultant. She has over 12 years experience working within the voluntary sector, community organisations and educational establishments across Europe, the USA, Africa and South Asia. She has completed certified training programmes with the International Coach Federation and the Association for Coaching. She is also a MOE Foundation Alumni.

She holds a BSc in Youth and Community Work from Bath University, and a BA (hons) in Time-Based Media Production from University of West England. Mena is strong woman, who has overcome a lifetime of adversity. She is an activist, tirelessly campaigning for equality and places a large focus of her work on supporting young people, young adults and disadvantaged communities to confidently embrace their journey in life. She is passionate about the development of people, values-based leadership and creating powerful learning experiences.

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Emmie Kell:

CEO of Cornwall Museum Partnership.

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Emmie is the CEO of Cornwall Museums Partnership, leading on strategic planning and fundraising. Emmie has over 25 years of experience within the museum sector including working at the V&A, Somerset House, MOSI Manchester, and Thinktank Birmingham. Emmie works part time at Cornwall Museums Partnership and as a consultant, providing strategic advice to museums across the UK. Emmie is a member of the Institute of Fundraising, a qualified coach and was the Arts Council England Museums Clore Fellow in 2014/15. She is also a board member of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership.

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B Aga:

Fulldome UK/ South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

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Birgitte Aga [B] is an interdisciplinary designer, artist/maker, technologist, researcher and producer. She creates collaborative and data driven prototypes, sometimes as art works, cultural probes, interventions, or proof of concept and other times just to play. For the last fifteen years she has been part of the i-DAT Research and Design Collective and an organisational member of FulldomeUK, a not-for-profit association supporting artists and researchers working within Fulldome immersive environments. Her research currently focuses on prototyping intimate data-driven experiences to question the use of predictive algorithms and personal data for human enhancement and commercial gain. Underpinning her work is a belief that one must embrace the opportunities created by digital technologies to be open and collaborative in order to sustainably co-create.

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Anne Carlisle:

Vice-Chancellor of Falmouth University.

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Professor Carlisle joined Falmouth University as Vice-Chancellor & Chief Executive in 2009. Since then, the University has gone through a period of major expansion and is one of the fastest growing universities in the UK having secured full university title in 2012.

Falmouth University is a key driver in Cornwall’s economic regeneration and it won the Entrepreneurship Award in the 2017 Guardian Awards for its ground-breaking LAUNCHPAD programme, which Professor Carlisle founded. This programme takes graduate talent and builds new, high-growth tech companies to market demand in partnership with industry.

Professor Carlisle received a first class honours degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, an MA from University of the Arts London and co-founded CIRCA publications before starting her academic career. Prior to joining Falmouth University, Professor Carlisle was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wales in Newport where she led research and innovation.

Professor Carlisle received the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours list 2019.

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Lindsey Hall:

CEO RIO (Real Ideas Organisation).

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Lindsey Hall is co-founder and CEO of the Real Ideas Organisation group, leading and managing the organisation to run it’s own social enterprise ventures and enable others, particularly young people to set up and run their own socially entrepreneurial activities, solving problems and building skills.

Lindsey’s track record in the public and private sectors as a creative social entrepreneur, thinker and leader has seen her set up and develop products and services across the creative, learning and education sectors. Most recently this has included transforming a former market hall building in Devonport, Plymouth into an immersive technology centre with a the largest immersive dome in Europe. From building award-winning programmes in the UK to driving groundbreaking initiatives internationally, Lindsey has the experience and skills at management, board and executive level to steer social business ideas towards success; making money and making a difference at the same time.

Lindsey is a NESTA Cultural Leadership fellow, an INSEAD graduate, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Trustee of 15 Cornwall and Plymouth Culture, member of Plymouth Growth Board and one of the WISE100 social enterprise leaders.

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Nema Hart:

Relationship Manager Creative Media

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Vincent Baidoo-Lowe:

South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

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As a Transmedial producer Vincent started his first multimedia company when he is 15 years old. At 20 years old he set up the South-Blessed community hub giving the local community a voice through creative media. Now he is concentrating on the customisation and representation of VR and AI.

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Mike Phillips:

Director of Research at i-DAT.org, University of Plymouth.

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Mike Phillips is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University, the Director of Research at i-DAT.org and a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium. His R&D orbits a portfolio of projects that explore the ubiquity of data ‘harvested’ from an instrumentalised world and its potential as a material for revealing things that lie outside our normal frames of reference – things so far away, so close, so massive, so small and so ad infinitum.

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Ben Stern:

Co-Founder of fulldome.org.uk and GaiaNova.co.uk

GaiaNova

GaiaNova provides dome hire and a range of video skills and services to all sectors of the events industry. We work directly with brands or in partnership with creative and marketing companies and event organisers. We specialise in technical production realising artistic visions, whether they come from corporations, major arts institutions, music and performing arts festivals or from individual artists themselves. In the events industry we feel that too often there is an unnecessary divide between the creative and the technical. Between the ‘ideas people’ and the engineers. At GaiaNova, both hemispheres are equally developed. Our philosophy has always been that these two elements need to be approached as one – the holistic approach to event production.

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Network:

South West Connections with SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES.

2007: SAT and Hexagram Host the Planetary Collegium Summit in Montreal. Pre-Satosphere but littered with small fulldome, immersive spaces and instruments, SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES partnered with Hexagram to host the Planetary Collegium Summit in Montreal. This brought together research nodes in Milan, Zurich and Plymouth for a conference and PhD Composite Session. Planetary_Collegium

2014: E / M / D / L formed a partnership of European and Canadian cultural organizations fostering an international community of artists/researchers dedicated to exploring the full-dome environment as a platform for creative innovation. The partnership consisted of University of Applied Arts Vienna, i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology), Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media (UoA NTLab) and Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], kondition pluriel and LANTISS. Funded by € 400k by the EU Culture Programme. Strand 1.3.5, Cultural Cooperation Projects with Third Countries. emdl.eu

2015: E/M/D/L presents: Liminal Spaces, Dream Collider, and Murmuration, the culmination of a EU funded collaboration between Canadian and European partners. This research project was carried out through eight international residencies and is presented in the Satosphere of Montreal’s Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Articulated through the fulldome environment as an instrument to explore transdisciplinary forms of artistic expression, these experiments oscillate between performance, interactive installation and immersive event. i-dat.org/murmuration/

2016: FULLDOME UK: SAT partner and perform at FULLDOME UK 2016 in the National Space Centre. I-DAT is a founding partner of FULLDOME UK with the first event taking place in Plymouth at the Immersive Vision Theatre. FULLDOME UK is a not-for-profit association supporting artists and researchers working within Fulldome immersive environments. It organises events with the goal to promote Fulldome as an artistic medium in its own right, and as a platform for research into data visualisation, group collaboration and the effects of immersive environments on our perceptual and cognitive processes. fulldome.org.uk

2017: Market Hall FullDome: The £7 million redevelopment of RIO ‘s Market Hall in Devonport, Plymouth will see the transformation of the derelict Grade II listed building into a cutting-edge space for digital skills, research, learning and entertainment. The former Market Hall will accommodate flexible work space, events and exhibition space, a café, bar and restaurant. Housed in the new extension will be an impressive 15m immersive dome theatre which will offer a large scale shared virtual reality environment – the first of its kind in Europe and inspired by the Satopshere. themarkethall.co.uk

Background to the delegation: Arts Council England Arts & Technology Priority: ix Symposium Delegation / i-DAT – 58437244

Purpose: To research, develop and deliver a research and development trip to inspire a delegation of emerging creatives to Symposium IX at SAT Montreal in 29 May –1 June 2019. http://ix.sat.qc.ca/

Proposition: To raise the profile of the SW as a world leader in arts technology, i-DAT will lead a delegation of SW creatives, curators and commissioners to attend IX Symposium in Montreal.

The aim of the delegation will be to bring these future leaders together to be inspired, gather intelligence and broker relationships between each other and international partners. The theme of the delegation is ‘immersion: digital immersive cultural experiences’ (DICE).

This ties in with the Market Hall, Plymouth developments as it develops a state of the art immersive dome, due to be the biggest in Europe. It builds on the success of the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) Immersion Fellowships (swctn.org.uk).

These initiatives have established an urgent need for content, talent and audiences to be developed to ensure future success within the South West in this emergent field.

Defining the Territory: Immersive technology is any technology that extends reality or creates a new reality by leveraging the 360 space.

i-DAT and ACE are concerned with how the artistic idea or cultural experience drives innovative approaches in DICE.

Why Montreal: The interdisciplinary (arts, science & tech) sector in Montreal is the world leader in DICE. This is partly due to the strong investment in cinema and its evolution into new digital forms. This led to the development of a strong interdisciplinary clusters.

SAT (Society of Arts & Technology) is a physical space at the heart of this cluster which hosts a number of full domes (360 degree spaces which use projections to immerse audiences into creative content) and immersive technologies.

SAT will host iX Symposium which attracts international delegates to experience, debate and broker new partnerships to explore the opportunities in DICE.

SAT has a number of existing links with the South West region, such as FULLDOME UK, the E/M/D/L project and the inspirational blueprint for the Market Hall Fulldome installation (the Plymosphere?) (see above).

The delegation: The delegation has been defined through discussions with the regions leading initiatives in DICE, through the SW Arts Technology External Reference Group and the SW Creative Technology Network (SWCTN). Following a consultation process delegates were invited from organisations pioneering in this area; a selection of immersion fellows selected by the co-directors and recommendations from ACE staff.

Criteria for Delegates: The criteria for selection include:

Quality of the delegates practice in ‘immersion: digital immersive cultural experiences’, including track record.
Interdisciplinary approach in understanding the technology as well as driving the creative idea.
Contribution to raising the profile of the SW with past and current projects and future ambitions.
Commitment to the dates, expenses, networking and sharing the learning after the trip.
Diversity across PCG & areas along with roles such as curator, commissioner & creative.

There will be a proactive approach to address the diversity imbalance in the digital sector.

The ix Symposium Delegation 2019 is funded by the Arts Council England in partnership with the i-DAT, SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES, South West Creative Art and Technology Network, University of Plymouth.

Rosie Brave SWCTN Automation Fellow

patconley News 04/04/201915/05/2020

We are please to announce that i-DAT’s Rosie Brave has been awarded a South West Creative Technology Automation Fellowship….

AUTOMATION 2019-20

DESIGN RESEARCH – Automatik

patconley News, Research Sessions 17/12/201828/02/2024

Design Research Workshop.

[Skunk-Works #2]

Design Research Workshop delivered in collaboration with the Message and Design Knowledge Research Groups.

Automatik:

Date: Monday 17 December 2018

Time: 10:00-16:00

Location: Design Lab, 2nd floor Roland Levinsky Building.

As with the previous Skunk-Works, this workshop will explore key aspects of the UK’s Industrial Strategy as framework for individual/group research activities within the Design Area. The workshop will focus on a practical engagement with the new Automation Call for the South West Creative Technology Network: https://swctn.org.uk/.

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

The aim of this workshop is to:

enlighten participants to contemporary issues and practicalities of Automation.
provide a brief but accessible hands-on experience of AI and Robotic systems
enable insights to how these processes can inform individual research practices
discuss issues around Intellectual Property within collaborative academic/industrial research
provide a platform for discussion around academic/industrial knowledge exchange
provide first-hand accounts of the SWCTN fellowship experience.

To do this we have two short practical workshops from B Aga (Conversational AI) and Swen Gaudl (Robotics), staff from Research & Innovation supporting the SWCTN and Knowledge Exchange and two presentations by fellows from the Immersion cohort of the SWCTN.

The workshop is aimed at academic researchers, but ‘New Talent’ and Industrial partition is very welcome.

10:00: Introduction: {Pete Davis/Mike Phillips/Vicky Squire}

10:15-11:45: Things that Talk: Conversational Artificial Intelligence: {B Aga}

This workshop explores how ‘things that talk’ (conversational AI system such as Siri, Google Home, Alexa etc.) can offer a number of practical and theoretical contributions to research, and simultaneously reveal new possibilities in cultural expression and design. It will offer a quick introduction to the field, highlighting relevant cultural and commercial developments, followed by a short hands-on workshop applying a speculative design framework to create a collaborative ‘thing that talks’ through using https://dialogflow.com/.

Please note: Bring a laptop. If you wish to take part in the workshop, please email baga@plymouth.ac.uk with your Gmail address so you can be invited to set up a collaborative Dialogflow account.
(A Goggle account is required to set up a Dialogflow account, but If you do not have (or choose not to have) a Google account you may still participate in the workshop).

11:45-12:00: Coffee

12:00-13:30: Things that Walk: Robotics Workshop: {Swen Gaudl}

Automating manual labour in factories are what comes to mind when thinking about robotics. However, robots are capable of much more; they can provide a framework for creating highly interactive performances as well as augment human capabilities in terms of precision or repetition. This workshop provides an introduction to the domain through the experimentation and creation of physical robotic entities from a non-engineering perspective.

The workshop will first give a brief overview of existing technology that can be used to develop embodied expressive systems on a budget. Next, participants will be able to experiment with the Lego NXT robotic teaching toolkit to build moving and sensing embodied entities. While engaging with their own robot, the workshop participants will also be able to get to know a currently available commercial robotic platform, Softbank’s Pepper robot.

Workshop

For the workshop, it is recommended to bring a laptop along. The software used during the workshop is free but requires installation. However, the workshop will be done in small groups. Thus, not all participants are required to bring a laptop.

Downloads:

Mac OSX usb driver: https://www.lego.com/r/www/r/mindstorms/-/media/franchises/mindstorms%202014/downloads/firmware%20and%20software/nxt%20software/nxt%20fantom%20drivers%20v120.zip?l.r2=-964392510

and the editor software: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/mindstorms/downloads/nxt-software-download

13:30-14:30 Working Lunch with conversations about:

Intellectual Property: {Rupert Lorraine}
Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange: {Tom Edie}
Automation Call Proposals: {Mike Phillips}

14:30-15:00: Current SWCTN Immersion Fellows Presentation #1. {Jane Grant}

15:00-15:30: Current SWCTN Immersion Fellows Presentation #2. {Aste Amundsen}

15:30-16:00: Breakout discussion/End

To book a place please contact: Alison Valerio <alison.valerio@plymouth.ac.uk>

and Mike Phillips for any questions: <mike.phillips@plymouth.ac.uk>

CALL FOR AUTOMATION FELLOWS:

The South West Creative Technology Network are recruiting for 24 Automation Fellows. This is a flexible, part-time paid opportunity for people from industry, academia, as well as those in the early stages of their careers who want to think deeply about the potential, challenges and opportunities in the realm of Automation. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to step back from commercial, academic or career pressures, and focus on new and innovative areas of research, exploration and collaboration.

Fellowships run for twelve months from April 2019 through to April 2020, with most time commitment required in the first three months (April to June 2019). Each Fellow will receive a £15k bursary to support time and research costs.

Automation is changing the way we live; it is increasingly important within the Creative Industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, healthcare and many other industries. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, or gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet. We are looking for people to explore the frontiers of automation technology and its applications. We are excited about innovative uses of technologies that engage users in hybrid experiences that are ethical, promote wellbeing, connect us to one another and create value (this could be money, enjoyment, understanding, or something else you think the world needs more of). SWCTN is rooted in the creative industries but aims to make connections into other sectors. We want to generate shared knowledge, boost creative thinking and expertise, and create new commercial products and services that no one has thought to make before.

Full briefing for the Automation Call (link to pdf)

FAQs for industry and academic fellows (link to Google doc)

FAQs for new talent fellows (link to Google doc)

Online application form

Get in touch with Charlie Tapp, Producer at Kaleider (charlie@kaleider.com) if you have any questions or want to talk to us over the phone or on Skype.

We aim to be as inclusive as possible and work to accommodate all access requirements. We will openly discuss and tailor how we do things to support you as best we can.

We welcome applications from BAME, LGBTQI, Deaf and disabled practitioners.

Deadline for applications: 9am, 31 January 2019
Every applicant will hear from us by 22 February 2019
Interviews will be held on the 4 & 5 March

Exhibition and Lecture by He Jingjing（Yasmine He)

patconley News 02/12/201812/04/2019

Future Product Design:

Product Design Combined with Virtual Reality/AI/IOT/IT/DT

He Jingjing

Exhibition: 4 – 6 Dec, 2018，10:00-16:00.

Lecture: 14.00 Tuesday, 4th December.

Hack Lab/Immersion Studio, Ground Floor Roland Levinsky Building.

Exhibition and Lecture by He Jingjing（Yasmine He), a visiting academic from Shanghai University Digital Media Studio, College of Digital Art, Shanghai University, China. Yasmine has been in residence in the School of Art Design & Architecture and will be presenting the work of her colleagues from Shanghai University Digital Media Studio in the Hack Lab/Immersion Studio, Ground Floor Roland Levinsky Building.

Exhibition: 4 – 6 Dec, 2018，10:00-16:00.

Lecture: 14.00 Tuesday, 4th December.

LUMENS PRIZE BCS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AWARD FOR DEGENERATIVE CULTURES.

patconley News 13/11/201814/11/2018

Congratulations to Cesar Baio who has won the Lumens Prize BCS Artificial Intelligence Award for Degenerative Cultures. Degenerative Cultures is an artwork by Cesar & Lois, a collective composed of Cesar Baio and Lucy HG Solomon of The League of Imaginary Scientists with contributions from Jeremy Speed Schwartz (Lois artist) and Scott Morgans (biologist). The project was created during Cesar Baio’s residency as artist-researcher at i-DAT, 2017-2018 . Cesar’s research was funded by Capes/Brazil Scholarship Program.

https://cesarbaio.net/Degenerative-Cultures_en

https://lumenprize.com/

Dr Cesar Baio