In August we hosted the search for the country’s best young coders, overseeing Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code. A thousand young people stayed, slept and hacked in Plymouth University’s Roland Levinsky Building for the 48-hour code-fest, which climaxed in a code showcase judged by
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Our futuristic festival of fulldome art, screenings, live shows, debates and visions is full open to the public. See our news story and BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE: www.fulldome.org.uk/tickets/
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ARTORY: http://www.artory.co.uk/ We’re measuring the mood of arts audiences in a ground-breaking piece of technology to be launched later this year that has really got the feel-good factor. Earlier this summer, the Qualia system we helped to develop powered the official app for the Flux
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July’s Port Eliot Festival saw us taking over an appropriate part of the stately home: The Round Room. We projection-mapped imagery accompanying a performance called Celestial there during this now-famous literary festival. The performance featured songs and music by Paul K Joyce, poems by Johnnie
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i-DAT will continue as an experimental, innovative organisation at the cutting edge of digital media, despite a change in its funding status next year, says its chairman Robin Tatam. In the same month as hearing the news of its cut in funding, i-DAT has seen
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i-DAT team members Mike Phillips, Birgitte Aga, Gianni Corino and Stavros Didakis travelled to Istanbul to explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. They attended the third International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging – of which i-DAT is an International Conferencing Partner – where
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It’s official. Professor Roy Ascott is a national – and an international – treasure. One of his seminal pieces, Video-Roget has become part of the Tate Gallery Permanent Collection, where it will sit alongside works by the most celebrated British artists of the past 500 years. Plus he
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Two of i-DAT’s homeboys have participated in a recent 24-hour competition at the Tate Gallery in London. Chris Hunt, our technical officer, and PhD researcher Lee Nutbean took part in the Hackathon at the Tate, where they worked through the night in the famous Turbine
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i-DAT created the FLUX Festival app with Elixel for the Festival which launched in Liverpool in July 2014. The app is powered by i-DAT’s on-going open source Qualia project – which aims to revolutionize the way audience experiences at arts and culture events are evaluated.
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We are honoured to feature in the newly published ‘Colliding Worlds‘ by Arthur Miller. Miller’s tale provides a much needed adhesive to bond often conflicting disciplines and we are extremely pleased to be recognised as contributing to the telling of this narrative. www.collidingworlds.org “In recent
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