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Rosetta Life presents Performing Ourselves.

janeconway News 26/03/201014/11/2018Rosetta Life

i-DAT contributes to the Rosetta Life ‘Performing Ourselves’ conference:

29th March 2009, Birmingham Conservatoire.

http://www.performingourselves.co.uk/

Image from: I Can’t Draw, Rosie Page: http://www.performingourselves.co.uk/about/i-cant-draw-rosie-page/

Taking risks and pushing boundaries; delivering excellence and professionalism in arts in healthcare and sharing innovation for performance and new media arts in health care. Focussing on service delivery for the most vulnerable and frail in our communities, this conference will address how the performing arts and healthcare can work together to offer sustainable community led practices.

www.rosettalife.org

Aggregator v1.0 – 27/02/2010

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Aggregator v1.0 builds on a suite of creative ‘tools’ or ‘operating systems’ that dynamically manifest ‘data’ as an abstract and invisible material, forming a mirror image of our world and reflecting, in sharp contrast and high resolution, our biological, ecological and social activities.
Aggregator v1.0 generates an audio/visual immersive experience of data feeds from web 2.0 platforms, news feeds, networks, buildings, and satellites all orchestrated through subtle audience interaction.
Aggregator v1.0 is a evolving generative performane and the audience is able drop in and out during the session.
Aggregator v1.0 coding and composition by Pete Carss.
Aggregators: Pete Carss and Mike Phillips.
Aggregator v1.0 is a component of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2010
Date: Saturday 27 February.
Venue: Immersive Vision Theatre.
Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm.
Admission: FREE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyk9rj6QGo
Live coding application – Fluxus (care of Dave Griffiths):
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
Audio feeds:
PALAOA Audio Observatory (microphone under ice)
http://icecast.awi.de:8000/PALAOA.MP3
Air Traffic Control:
http://mso.liveatc.net:80/khnd1
http://aus.liveatc.net:80/sbbr_acc
Calm noises:
http://www.whitenoise247.com/Sounds/CalmSeaWaves.wav
http://www.whitenoise247.com/Sounds/river_full.wav
Natural Radio:
http://mp3.nasa-us.speedera.net:8000/mp3.nasa-us/florida1
http://67.207.143.181:80/vlf1
http://67.207.143.181:80/vlf3
http://67.207.143.181:80/vlf9
http://67.207.143.181:80/vlf15
http://194.116.73.37:8000/pontese124.m3u
http://icecast.nis.nasa.gov:8000/florida1
http://picasso.astro.ufl.edu:8000/icy_1
Radio Astronomy:
http://28.72.128.252:8000/radast
Fluxus sample code:
;(require fluxus-016/drflux)
(require fluxus-017/planetarium)
;(set-dome-mode! #t)
(smoothing-bias 2)
(clear)
;(clear-colour 0)
;(blur 0.1)
;(fog (vector 0.1 0.1 0.1) 0.2 0.01 0.1)
(ortho)
(define dome (dome-build 10 180 2048))
; buffersize and samplerate need to match jack’s
(start-audio “MPlayer” 1024 48000)
(define (render count)
(cond
((not (zero? count))
(translate (vector 0.1 0.1 (* 10 (gh 4))))
(scale (vector 2 2 1))
(rotate (vector (gh 4) (gh 5) (gh 6) ))
(colour (vector (* 0.5 (gh 4)) 0.2 (* 0.5 (gh 10))
0.3))
(opacity 0.3)
(draw-torus)
(render (- count 1)))))
;(with-state
;(rotate (vector 0 -25 0))
;(render (- count 1))
;(draw-cube)
;set the view of the camera
(dome-setup-main-camera 1400 1050)
(every-frame
(with-pixels-renderer (dome-pixels)
(with-state
;(rotate (vector 0 0 (* 90 (cos(/ (time) 10)))))
(translate (vector 0 0 -100)) ; move it into view
(render 10)))

Phylogeny Symposium

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Practical Symposium 19-21st Feb
Thinking and making on time, place and relationship
A arts/science practical symposium organised by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Hamer Dodds and the Ubiquity Journal. A weekend of talks, conversations and making, to explore the concept of phylogenetics and its relevance to cultural art and design practice.
Ecoid demonstration in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Follow the link to Ubiquity…
http://ubiquityjournal.net/

i-500 Project Launch

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i-500 Project Launch

The Premier of Western Australia Colin Barnett has officially opened the new Curtin Resources and Chemistry Precinct and the i-500 Project. The $116 million precinct is the culmination of partnerships between Curtin, BHP Billiton, the Western Australian Government, and the Federal Government.

http://www.i-500.org

The i-500 is an artwork that will perform a vital and integral role in the development of scientific research in the fields of nanochemistry, atomic microscopy and computer modelling, applied chemistry, environmental science, biotechnology, and forensic science. Through dynamic visualizations and sonifications the artwork represents quantitative scientific research as an integral part of the architectural environment. The large-scale visual projections, distributed echo nodes and multiple sonic zones that constitute the art work reveal to the occupants a normally invisible dialogue between the researcher, the research community and the environment. The i-500 translates dynamic data from the physical and social interactions within the building into a volatile and evolving interactive art work.

The opening of the Resources and Chemistry Precinct and launch of the i-500 begins an initial engagement between the dynamic art work and the community that occupies the Precinct. This process will continue until the final manifestation of the work for the Art in the Age of Nanotechnology Perth International Arts Festival exhibition 5 February – 30 April 2010.

The i-500 is a collaborative project between Paul Thomas, Chris Malcolm and Mike Phillips who were commissioned to produce a sustainable, integrated, interactive art work from rich flows of research and general data generated through interaction in the new Curtin University Resources and Chemistry Precinct. This data will be the source material that is reflected through the architectural fabric and surface pattern of the space.

The i-500 project has established an interactive entity that inhabits the Resources and Chemistry Precinct at Curtin University of Technology. The i-500 is a reciprocal architecture, evolutionary in form and content, responding to the activities and occupants of the new structures.

To develop an integrated interactive art work that augments the physical architecture with real time data the project team has worked in close collaboration with:

Curtin University of Technology (http://www.curtin.edu.au/),

John Curtin Gallery (http://www.johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/),

Woods Bagot Architects (http://www.woodsbagot.com/),

Artsource (http://www.artsource.net.au/)

i-500 Ingredients:

i-500 Core Server: MySQL, PhP, Flash Engine.

Echo Node Server: MySQL, PhP, Flash Engine.

2 x Projectors

16 x Echo Node (A/V)

5 x Sonic Zones

i-500 Vision system

CAT6 /Fiber optic Network

Code

i-500 Team:

Dr Paul Thomas: http://www.visiblespace.com

Chris Malcolm: http://www.johncurtingallery.org/

Mike Phillips: http://www.i-dat.org

Lee Nutbean: http://www.i-dat.org

i-500 Launch 13/11/2009

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The i-500 Public Art Commission is launched on 13 November 2009.

i-500 draws on the Arch-OS experience of developed by i-DAT. The i-500 project is a public art commission for Curtin University’s new Resources and Chemistry Research and Education Buildings. Working in close collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects, as part of the architects project team, the i-500 project team is creating a public artwork to be incorporated into the fabric of the complex with the intention to encourage building users to communicate and collaborate.

http://i-500.org/

TOPLAP UK presents…

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TOPLAP UK presents: Livecoding at Plymouth University’s Immersive Vision Theatre

20th September 2009 6pm

What is livecoding? Recently featured on the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm) livecoding is a virtuosic computer music and video performance technique which involves the creation of a sound and/ or video generating computer program in real time in front of an audience. The performers’ screens are projected so that the audience can see the creation of the program as well as seeing and hearing its output.

Who is performing? In this performance, slub (Alex Mclean and Dave Griffiths) and Wrongheaded (Matthew Yee-King and Click Nilson) will perform in the state of the art Immersive Vision Theatre at Plymouth University, which is described as a ‘transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and imaginary worlds’ (http://www.i-dat.org/toolbox). It features full dome projection and a sophisticated spatial sound system. This is the first time that livecoding has been performed using such a system – a world first in Plymouth! As such, this performance represents a prototype for a planned tour of UK planetaria. Expect a variety of high tech electronic sound and visuals as well as some algorithmic choreography.

Contact: Pete Carss peter.carss@plymouth.ac.uk

Further info: TOPLAP UK (the loose organisation behind the gig) http://toplap.org/uk/

Alex Mclean (slub): http://slub.org/ http://yaxu.org/

Dave Griffiths (slub): http://www.pawfal.org/dave/

Matthew Yee-King (wrongheaded): http://www.yeeking.net

Click Nilson (wrongheaded): http://www.irefusetobeontheweb.com

The Immersive Vision Theatre: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk//pages/view.asp?page=18227

Arch-OS – VILLAGE SCREEN

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Arch-OS – VILLAGE SCREEN @ The Glastonbury Festival Big Screens

Aqeel Akbar, Immersive Media Assistant at the Immersive Vision Theatre was selected to join the team of seven artists working on site at the festival. The dynamic visualisations shown on the screen included the Quartz Composer real time Arch-OS data visualization developed in the i-DAT/AHO/Bartlett workshop.

â€œThe Village Screen project was a unique collaboration led by the region’s 2012 Creative Programmer, Glastonbury Festival, Team South West and Relays (Legacy Trust UK programme), and including the UK’s network of Creative Programmers, screen agencies and the BBC’s Live Sites team, brings the Village Screen to Glastonbury for the first time this year. The screens will be used to showcase the work of some of the best new filmmaking talent, digital artists, VJs and games developers from the region and the UK.

The 25m2 screens (there are two of them, back- to- back) will broadcast a mix of short films, archive footage, gaming sessions, classic pop and highlights of the BBC’s coverage of the Festival from 10.00am to 3.00am every day.

Village Screen was coordinated by Richard Crowe, London 2012 Creative Programmer.

e: richard.crowe@london2012.com

www.london2012.com/culture

www.artscouncil.org.uk

The Syncretic Sense. Roy Ascott.

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The Syncretic Sense
Roy Ascott
4 April 24 May 2009
The first UK retrospective exhibition of the pioneering cybernetic artist Roy Ascott, curated in collaboration Paula Orrell at Plymouth Art Centre and i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth).
http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/future.html
Long before email and the internet, Roy Ascott started using online computer networks as an art medium and coined the term telematic art. Since the 1960s he has been a pioneer of art, which brought together the science of cybernetics with elements of Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art. Parallel to his artwork, Roy Ascott is a highly acclaimed teacher and theorist of art pedagogy.
This exhibition explores the influences and rhetoric of Roy Ascott’s work, mapping the impact, history and development of technology and looking to the future of Web2 and Second life. Roy Ascott sees telematic art as the transformation of the viewer into an active participant in creating the artwork, which remains in process throughout its duration. Significantly, the content of his projects were often spiritual: staging the first planetary casting of the I Ching with an early form of network in 1982; whilst his major installation at the Ars Electronica centre in 1989 explored Gaia theory.
The exhibition also looks back at the impact of Roy Ascott’s experimental years of art education. In the 1960s Roy Ascott was the head of Groundcourse at Ealing College of Art and developed one of the most influential and unorthodox approaches to teaching foundation studies in art. The basis of the course was developed around cybernetic theories of systems of communication: the flow of information, interactive exchange, feedback, participation and systemic relationship.
Roy Ascott studied under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton at King’s College, Newcastle, University of Durham. His exhibitions include Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica Linz and Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil. He was President of the Ontario College of Art and Dean of San Francisco Art Institute. He is President of the Planetary Collegium, an international research network based in the University of Plymouth www.planetary-collegium.net
Press enquiries: Contact Hannah Prothero
Marketing & Communications Manager
Phone: 01752 276993
Email: hannah at plymouthartscentre dot org
Image: Roy Ascott, Plastic Transactions, 1970

AHO+BARTLETT=i-DAT

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AHO+BARTLETT= i-DAT: A trans-disciplinary research workshop on Arch-OS

25th – 27th February 2009
A trans-disciplinary research workshop on Arch-OS: Architectural ecologies: from aesthetics to behaviour, an interdisciplinary approach to affecting the relationships and interactions between inhabitants and their architectural environment. With:
Advanced Architectural Design, AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway: http://www.aho.no/en/
&
A.V.A.T.A.R, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK: http://www.avatarlondon.org/
Workshop details:
This workshop will experiment with and forecast potential future use, impact and value of using data generated by a building and its inhabitants, to recursively influence behaviour, creating a symbiotic ecology with a potential greater environmental awareness. Through an interdisciplinary approach it will encourage the development of an organic list of solutions or potential methodologies for building design based on the study of the main factors: behaviour, data and interaction. The resultant hybrid construct has the potential to expand and evolve our physical and conceptual space, and behaviours and interaction within these.

Variations. 14.00 – 28/02/09

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Part of the Contemporary Music Festival 2009:
Music and Evolution – 200 years of Darwin
2:00pm | Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building. Saturday 28 February 2009.
i-DAT Presents ‘Variations’, a digital composition in three forms:

A10: “These two months at Plymouth were the most miserable which I ever spent”. A lament.

F10: Laws of Variation. (the pigeons orifices, ripe cooing fetishes, ignore poetic fishes, etc)

M10: Gene-Pool (the shallow end).
i-DAT presents Variations a digital audio/visual composition in three forms. Variations is inspired by Darwin’s thwarted attempts to leave Plymouth to embark on his legendary voyage on HMS Beagle. Variations is a collection of generative work that playfully explore some of the concepts revealed by his insights.