Research Sessions 2024-25

i-DAT Research Sessions 2024-25: 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

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Celine Dearing

Celine is a lecturer in Game Design. She specialises in Motion Capture post production and has worked on a number of AAA games and international movies. She has a strong interest for children illustration – both traditional and digital, as well as textile illustration using

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Rachel Horrel

Rachel Horrell is a PhD researcher specialising in accessible music technology, delving into ways to innovate new technologies that cater to musicians who are partially sighted or blind. Holding a Research Masters in Computer Music, she designed a brain-computer music interface for composing via the

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Ben Payne

Ben is a PhD researcher in the fields of computer music and immersive social music making. His research is concerned with the development of new interactive digital audio systems for immersive composition and performance. In addition to this, he has worked both creatively and technically

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AI

i-DAT’s algorythmic heritage flows through the core of our practice and dates back to the early years of our formation in 1998. Some of our creative Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning project include: References: NESTA blog post: https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/meet-emoti-os-chatbot-helping-empower-pupils/?utm_source=Nesta+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1fa98009b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_19_09_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d17364114d-1fa98009b0-180642081 https://i-dat.org/putting-feminism-into-artificial-intelligence/ https://i-dat.org/ai-in-art-a-fact-late-night/ Richard Birkett, 2023. Donald Rodney Autoicon. London,

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Dylan Yamada-Rice

Dylan Yamada-Rice is an artist and researcher specialising in storytelling and play. She works in a range of media including drawing, Virtual Reality and game engines. Dylan studied Japanese Art History, semiotics and social science research methods before moving into experimental design. She obtained a

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Lana Pericic

Lana is a PhD candidate and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth teaching on the undergraduate course BA/BSc Digital Media Design. The role consists of delivering lectures and workshops across a variety of modules and providing tutorial sessions to help improve student’s work.

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Thijs Mostert

Thijs [Tice] Mostert completed his Masters in Design at the University of Plymouth in 2021. Thijs has come from a healthcare background, working in secondary and primary care settings across the South West for over 10 years. He has special interest sustainability and the circular

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Mark Osborne

hi I’m Mark Osborne, doing a practice based phd here at sunny Plymouth, with the practice part involving ‘audio reactive error diffusion dither’ based cybernetic systems. All being well this to help create some kind of insight into a ‘creatively centred’ understanding of computational media.

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Frank Jiang

Haoyun (Frank) Jiang is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. His research focuses on improving the skills of Marine Carbon Neutrality by using Product Design methods. The ocean is an important carbon pool for absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Over the past

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