Roy Ascott wins at Prix Ars Electronica 2014

Roy Ascott wins at Prix Ars Electronica 2014

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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Hackathon at Tate Gallery

Hackathon at Tate Gallery

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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FLUX Festival app

FLUX Festival app

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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Colliding Worlds by Arthur I. Miller

Colliding Worlds by Arthur I. Miller

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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E/M/D/L in Plymouth

E/M/D/L in Plymouth

Following on from the Montreal and Athens workshops E / M / D / L  is landing at i-DAT in Plymouth for a week long FullDome prototyping workshop: 30 June – 6 July 2014. Afraid the research workshop is by invitation only, but the outcomes

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“Familiar Strangers”: Artist Residency Lee Nutbean

“Familiar Strangers”: Artist Residency Lee Nutbean

  6th – 15th June 2014 Open 11am-6pm KARST: 22 George Pl, Plymouth, PL1 3NY http://www.karst-projects.org/ http://greaterthanone.i-dat.org/ You are invited to visit the Karst Artist Residency with Lee Nutbean in partnership with i-DAT from the 6 June – 15 June, culminating in the final presentation of his work on

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Digital Trails

Digital Trails

A web-based game we built to support multimedia performances at three heritage sites in Torbay was launched in June. We created Digital Trails for the Quest Play Project and Play Torbay to support and promote previous live performances, and to encourage visitors to the heritage sites

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E/M/D/L in Athens

E/M/D/L in Athens

International Symposium on Artistic Creation in Immersive Environments, using large-scale display technologies. 15/04/2014. 15.00-20.15 Central Building, University of Athens, Department of Communications and Media Studies, University of Athens. The European Mobile Dome Lab (E/M/D/L – http://emdl.eu/) lands in Athens at the Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication,

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Qualia at BAFA Cambridge Union Society…

Qualia at BAFA Cambridge Union Society…

Capture the Rapture – 04/0402014.0: Qualia is being presented at the British Arts Festival Association ‘Ask the Experts Roadshow’ at the Cambridge Literary Festival in the Cambridge Union Society. http://qualia.org.uk/

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Qualia at the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase 2014

Qualia at the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase 2014

i-DAT will be at the Qualia Project stand at the AHRC Creative Economy Showcase 2014 Event Date: 12/03/2014 Event Location: King’s Place Conference Centre, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG The UK’s Creative Economy – embracing the creative industries and the cultural sector – is a dynamic and vital

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