Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) are holding a book launch for Richard Birkett’s: Donald Rodney: Autoicon.
From the inIVA website.
Book Launch – Donald Rodney: Autoicon by Richard Birkett
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Industry Perspectives Towards Notions of Digital Good/Bad
i-DAT’s Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice and George Simms present at the ESRC Digital Good for Kids Network. 10/4/2023
On Friday 13th October 10:00-12:30 Online we will host a series of talks and discussion to mark the start of our project exploring children’s understanding of digital good / bad. The intentions is to explore topics related to equity, sustainability and resilience:
- What do children aged 8-13 years consider are the positive and negative aspects of the digital devices that they use?
- What do kids know about AI?
- Who do they think are the workers connected to machine learning?.
- Do children believe digital practices need to change as a result of the climate crisis?
- What are kids key social concerns and how are their digital lives connected to this?.
- How would children aged 8-13 wish to change the digital devices they own in the future?
To reserve a spot please email: Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice <dylan.yamada-rice@plymouth.ac.uk>
This is a project funded by the ESRC Digital Good Network to explore children’s attitudes towards notions of digital good/bad through hybrid arts practice.
Who are we?
Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice
Researcher and artist specialising in digital storytelling and play for children. Background in social science research methods and education which is now applied to the context of digital arts and emerging technologies.
Dr Eleanor Dare
Researcher and Artist specialising in critical and creative computation and theorising Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Steve Love
Senior Career Researcher specialising in immersive and emerging technologies, with a focus on children. Also, Academic, education and industry partnerships.
Angus Main
Researcher and Artist specialises in physical computing, interaction and interface design, creative coding, electronics and programming.
Professor John Potter
Senior Career Researcher specialising in children’s digital and media literacy education.
Maize Maze Immortality Experiment
PhD Researcher Francie (Yan) Feng exhibits in the Maize Maze Immortality Experiment at the Copeland Gallery 133 Copeland Road #Unit 9 London SE15 3SN. 27 September – 02 October 2023.
Future of Broadcast Media according to Kids
“Future of Broadcast Media according to Kids”
Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice with Dr Eleanor Dare at Magdelene College, University of Cambridge.
EAI TIE 2023 – 4th EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education
September 27-28, 2023
Cambridge, Great Britain
Image: Character design by a child-participant.
REAR WINDOWS
Belfast International Arts Festival. 12 October – 5 November.
Join the innovative and creative minds of Big Telly for an online interactive and immersive experience performance based on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1954 thriller Rear Window.
With digital/ physical assets, music and scripts developed through a series of public engagement workshops this performance will allow an audience on Zoom to be immersed and engaged with:
What happens to the minor characters after Hitchcock’s film ends?
Where do you draw the fine line between watching others and something less innocent?
What would you do if you saw something you shouldn’t have seen?
Who’s watching you and who are you watching?
Rear Windows presents human stories, old and new, of life unfolding through our own and other people’s windows.
Resources will be made available online ahead of the performances to allow for audience participation.
Age recommendation: 15 Yrs +
Credits
- Dr Eleanor Dare, Co-founder X||dinary Stories
- Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice, Co-founder X||dinary Stories
In collaboration with Dr Zoe Seaton, Artistic Director, Big Telly Theatre Company and Big Telly artists.
workshops + drawing machines + cybernetic performance + live-coding algorave
i-DAT’s Mark Osborn: https://notyetinvented.co.uk/mythic/
Saturday, 30th September, 2023
Palace Court TheatreBH1 2ET
workshops + drawing machines + cybernetic performance + live-coding algorave
- workshops + drawing machines 13:30-16:00
- cybernetic performance + algorave 19:30-23:00
workshops
There are limited places available for both workshops, please sign up via our eventbrite, bring your own kit.
Antonio Roberts – introduction to Hydra
Hydra is a live code-able video synth and coding environment that runs directly in the browser. It is free and open-source and made for beginners and experts alike.hydra.ojack.xyz
Lucy Cheesman & Alex McLean – introduction to creative sonics and Strudel
A beginner friendly workshop, no coding or music experience required, but do bring a laptop & headphones, plus a device for recording sound (a smartphone is ok!).
Strudel is a new live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser! It is free and open-source and made for beginners and experts alike.strudel.tidalcycles.org
drawing machine demo
terrapen plotter drawing machines
An A2 plotter designed and created by pen plotter artists, for pen plotter artists. Ed Ward & Mark Benson are creating a platform for end users, makers and artists to use and develop their own workflows.terrapen.xyz
cybernetic performance
mutant image / synth battle
Mark Osborne vs Alex Miles – audio reactive dither vs modular synth sonics
Algorave featuring:
Heavy Lifting
hellocatfood
YAXU
Algorave?
Algorithms + Rave: Algorave is bringing the best in live-coded electronic dance music, live algorithmic visuals, drawing machines & cybernetic synth / mutant images battles to Palace Court Theatre!
Algorave: artists and electronic musicians make futuristic rhythms and beats using live algorithmic processes. All code is projected – so you can see how the artists make sound and visuals live. Since starting in 2012, Algorave has established a large global community that encourages experimentation, creates original and open source software tools, and most importantly fun dance music events!
Event funded byArts University Bournemouth Innovation Studio.
FDUK2023
The UK’s premiere celebration of all things fulldome will be hosted in Wales for the first time at CULTVR Lab in October 2023.
FDUK 2023 will take place on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of October and will feature the work of leading fulldome artists and producers from the UK and around the world. The event is a great opportunity to experience fulldome creativity in all its diversity, and to meet and learn from fellow immersive creatives.
FDUK 2023 will be a celebration of fulldome as an artistic medium, featuring film screenings, talks, demos, workshops, live immersive performances and interactive artworks. The festival has been running since 2010 so we are very pleased to welcome it to Wales for this edition. FDUK 2023 will provide an opportunity for national and international immersive practitioners to share their work, skills and experience with the wider community, and for creative and media professionals, students and anyone interested in immersive technologies and frameless media to network and learn from peers.
In addition to the regular two-day event, we will be programming some of the selected fulldome films on Sunday 15th of October to allow local audiences to experience some of the best content presented during the festival.
Donald Rodney: Autoicon
Originally produced as both a website and CD-ROM, Donald Rodney’s Autoicon was conceived by the artist in the mid-1990s but not completed until 2000, two years after his death from sickle cell anaemia, by a group of close friends and artists ironically named Donald Rodney plc. Referencing Jeremy Bentham’s infamous nineteenth-century Auto-Icon, the work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of Rodney, while challenging dominant conceptions of the self, the body and historicity. Consisting of a Java-based AI and neural network, the platform engages the user in text-based ‘chat’ and provides responses by drawing from a dense body of data related to Rodney, including documentation of artworks, medical records, interviews, images, notes and videos.
Tracing the ideas that emerged around its conception before and after Rodney’s death, and linking the work to the artist’s seminal 1997 exhibition ‘9 Night in Eldorado’, Richard Birkett addresses Autoicon as an index of entangled social and material relations – a form of dispersed memory. As a work of net art, Autoicon is in critical dialogue with contemporaneous imaginings of the dissolution of the corporeal into the ‘virtual’, while acutely aware of the forms of racialisation and ableism that persist in the coding of the body. Bound to a black history of displacement, dispossession and resistance, Autoicon offers then a counter-manifestation of the subject as formed and multiplied through temporal disjuncture, affectability and acts of collective care.
Plug into the Metaverse
When and where
Date and time: Thu, 23 Feb 2023, 09:00 – Fri, 24 Feb 2023, 18:00 GMT
Location: Falmouth University Sports Hall – Penryn Campus Falmouth University Penryn TR10 9FE
Plug into the Metaverse
We are living in an extraordinarily exciting time for immersive technology. The opportunity for people and industry to embrace digital tools, engage customers differently and work on brand innovation is huge. This brand-new conference is where creativity, innovation, business, industry, and academia meet to explore the impact of Immersive technology on every aspect of our lives.
i-DAT contributed to the Plug into the Metaverse event at Falmouth University:
Launch of the Far South West Immersive Cluster:
This fantastically exciting movement will have a major impact on the far southwest moving forward. The launch will outline who is involved, what we are hoping to achieve, and how you can get involved, along with a Q&A.
Panel: Rupert Lorraine, Director of the Arts Institute, University of Plymouth / Joanne Evans, Creative Industries Impact & Partnership Development Manager / Lindsey Hall, CEO, Real Ideas / Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts.
Health, Ethics, Wellbeing Roundtable:
Host: Fiona Wotton / Panel: Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts / Joanne Evans, Creative Industries Impact & Partnership Development Manager / Vivienne Neale, Lecturer MSc Entrepreneurship / Audience participation.
“Creativity in the Metaverse”:
Panel Host: Mike Phillips / Panel: Tim Shaw, world-renowned artist / Tracey Swales, Director, Strategy Consulting / Johnny Pope, Visualisation & Creative Specialist / Ryan Norrington, Creative Lead, Metavision | MIPA.
Virtual Production:
Panel Host: Joanne Evans, Creative Industries Impact & Partnership Development Manager / Panel: Mike Morris / Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts / Lindsey Hall, CEO Real Ideas / Charlie Fripps, Television Senior Lecturer, Falmouth University.
PhD Studentships
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Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business studentships
We are currently accepting application for a total of eight funded PhD research studentships.
The full-time studentships are supported for three years and will start on 01 October 2023.
Project description
Building on our recent success in REF 2021, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth is making a strategic investment in eight funded PhD Studentships and invites talented applicants to submit outstanding PhD research proposals and applications connecting with all our disciplines across the arts, humanities, social sciences and practice as research.
Successful candidates will join the diverse postgraduate research community of over 400 researchers who work across a variety of disciplines recognised as world-leading across the SHAPE disciplines of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and business and education. The Faculty has long been a national leader in fostering civic engagement focusing on creative industries and economies, placemaking, art and design practices, and social action research into the changing global societies and challenging real-world issues.
Eligibility
You are required to have a good honours degree (1st Class or an Upper 2:1) and likely a masters degree in a relevant subject (completed with Distinction or a High Merit), and a strong wish to pursue a PhD with an original research project. Candidates are highly encouraged to identify possible PhD supervisors in the areas of their research and are invited to contact academics in advance of making applications. Please see our postgraduate research page for PhD programmes, and research areas and staff expertise.
We are specifically encouraging applications from under-represented Global Majority candidates who identify as Black, Asian, Brown, dual heritage or those whose heritage is indigenous to the Global South and have been referred to as ethnic minority.
If you wish to ask questions about the studentships then please contact the Faculty Deputy Director for the Doctoral College, Dr Sana Murrani.
Studentships will be granted to the strongest applications assessed on the basis of applicant’s academic excellence, the strength of the research proposal and it’s fit to the research supervision.
The studentship is supported for three years and includes full Home tuition fees, a bench fee of up to £1500 plus a stipend of £17,668 per annum (2022/23 rate). The studentship will only fully fund those applicants who are eligible for Home fees with relevant qualifications. Applicants normally required to cover International fees will have to cover the difference between the Home and the International tuition fee rates (approximately £12,697 per annum).
NB: The studentship is supported for three years of the four-year registration period. The fourth year is a self-funded ‘writing-up’ year.
How to apply
To apply you must complete our online application form. Please view the list of interest areas above and choose the relevant programme title, select ‘Apply now’ from the programme page and follow instructions.
Please submit with your application, the following mandatory documents:
- A one page personal statement, indicating your research background and intentions for the studentship. Please clearly state that you are applying for Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business studentships, the name of the studentship interest area that you are applying for and the name of a potential Supervisor (if known) on the top of your personal statement.
- 3-page CV/résumé, detailing your full education and employment history (and current status), publication, experience, etc.
- A research proposal (no more than 4 pages). The research proposal must include: a title, a clear synopsis of the field of research, a research question/proposition/problem, and a clear suggested methodology, an indication to the expected contribution to knowledge, all must be contextualised with appropriate literature and attached with a list of references at the end. A 5th page to be added that specifically indicates which research discipline/area of expertise (indicated on the advert page for this post) your research proposal fits within and whom if any are the academics in that area who you feel your work compliments.
- A selection of portfolio of work where appropriate (max 15 pages). Please note that if you wish to include films then please provide web-links within your portfolio.
- The details of two academic referees (please provide names and details on the application form).
- Evidence of up-to-date qualifications (certificates and transcripts for masters or bachelor degrees, plus any relevant professional qualifications).
- English proficiency certificate (for non-UK nationals).
Please clearly state that you are applying for Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business studentships, the name of the studentship interest area and the name of a potential Supervisor (if known) on the top of your personal statement.
Applicants cannot apply for this funding if they are already a PhD holder or if currently engaged in Doctoral study at the University of Plymouth or elsewhere.
For more information on the admissions process generally, please visit our how to apply for a research degree webpage or contact the Doctoral College at research.degree.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 17 April 2023.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview week commencing 1 May. We regret that we may not be able to respond to all applications. Applicants who have not received a response within six weeks of the closing date should consider their application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
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