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Explorations in immersive vision take us round in (international) circles

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A futuristic festival that i-DAT helped to found, takes place at the National Space Centre this autumn.
Fulldome UK 2014 takes place on November 7 & 8 and offers 2 days of inspirational screenings, live VJ performances, radical debates and forward-thinking visions in sound and image.
The event takes place at the National Space Centre in Leicester and is open to the public. Tickets are available online here: www.fulldome.org.uk/tickets
Visitors can expect to see ‘fulldome art’ – an emergent artform using immersive environments and digital technologies to push the boundaries of artistic practice. International and UK fulldome film-makers, audio researchers and programmers will display their works at the event.
Fulldome works can be linear and non-linear, produced or generative, interactive and performative experiences projected onto the ‘full’ domed surface traditionally found in planetaria.
This makes for a highly immersive audience experience, challenging established models of cinema and gallery spaces.
Fulldome UK 2014 will host work by the following, and many more:

1024 architecture (France)
Former Anti VJ Joanie Lemercier (France)
RFID (UK)
Maotik & Fraction (Canada)
January Zehn and Stefan Berke (Germany)
Bordos.ArtWorks (Hungary)
Glowing Bulbs (Hungary)
United VJs (Brazil)
Addictive TV (UK)

The festival – co-founded by i-DAT – is in its 4^th year, and is run by a not-for-profit association that supports artists and researchers working within fulldome immersive environments including i-DAT’s Professor Mike Phillips, GaiaNova, The Computer Arts Society (CAS) and the National Space Centre (NSC) through NSC Creative.
“We’re defining the emergent artform of fulldome art with collaborations with the world’s leading performers, projection mapping experts and VJs. It’s super-cool”, said Mike.
i-DAT is awaiting news on Arts Council England funding for staging Fulldome UK 2014 in Leicester.
Previous festival action happened in August at Kendal Calling. Fulldome UK curated a cross-section of some of its best immersive audio-visual short fulldome films to support a playback of the ground breaking fulldome album The Search Engine by Ninja Tunes artist DJ Food – making its UK music festival premier. There were also lectures that flew festival-goers through the Universe and beyond the stars!
Back in June and July i-DAT hosted a week-long E/M/D/L fulldome prototyping workshop in Plymouth, inviting international participants to experiment with the platform.
The artistic research that took place during the workshop was in the areas of projection mapping, performance and interactivity “contributing to a redefinition of fulldome art,” said Mike Phillips.
i-DAT is the UK partner of E/M/D/L – The European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research – an international collaboration awarded €400k by the EU Culture Programme.
E/M/D/L is a network for the exchange of artistic and technological expertise within the full-dome medium. The partnership connects four European and three Canadian institutions and cultural partners, all leaders in this field, sharing and expanding skills, methodologies, strategies and content.
The project began in February this year and by September 2015, there will have been eight residencies and public presentations in five countries, using a mobile domic architectural structure equipped with cutting-edge technologies.
E/M/D/L will climax with a series of performances at the world’s most sophisticated virtual theatre, the Satosphere in Montreal, Canada.
Partners in E/M/D/L include i-DAT, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, the Trans-Media Academy Hellerau/CYNETART Festival in Dresden, Germany, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, the Society for Arts and Technology and kondition pluriel in Montréal, Canada, and LANTISS (Laboratoire des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Image, du Son et de la Scène)/Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.

Fulldome UK 2014 – November 7 & 8, National Space Centre, Leicester

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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/

We projected into a Round Room

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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 Douglas-Pennant and fulldome projections by our own Luke Christison.
The Round Room is as it sounds: a circular room painted with an arresting mural by Plymouth painter Robert Lenkiewicz. So it was ideal for our fulldome projection.

EMDL – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research.

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i-DAT are the UK partners in an international collaboration awarded € 400k by the EU Culture Programme. Strand 1.3.5, Cultural Cooperation Projects with Third Countries.

http ://www.emdl.eu/

EMDL – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research.
E / M / D / L is a recently-established partnership of European and Canadian cultural organizations who have joined to develop immersive audio-visual environments. The project has received strong encouragement from the European Union with a substantial initial EU Culture Program grant. EMDL will foster an international community of artists/researchers dedicated to exploring the full-dome environment as a platform for creative innovation.
The term “full-dome” refers to a rapidly-evolving form of 360º video projections and surround-sound environments. Although full-dome technology is well supported for scientific visualisation, an analysis of the form’s communicative impact and the experimental application of this new instrument for digital, media, and performing arts is still lacking.

E / M / D / L will build an international network for the exchange of artistic and technological expertise, with the goal of researching and documenting a language and grammar unique to the full-dome medium. Bringing together four European and three Canadian institutions and cultural partners, all leaders in this field, the project aims to share and expand skills, methodologies, strategies and content within this promising creative vehicle. Between February 2014 and September 2015, the participants will take part in eight residencies and public presentations offered in five countries, where a mobile domic architectural structure equipped with cutting-edge technologies will be set up. Finally, EMDL will end with a series of performances at the world’s most sophisticated virtual theatre, the Satosphere in Montreal, Canada.

Co-organisers / associate partners:
University of Applied Arts Vienna [Austria] i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology) at Plymouth University [England] Trans-Media Academy Hellerau/CYNETART festival, Dresden [Germany] National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [Greece] Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], Montréal [Canada]
kondition pluriel, Montréal [Canada] Laboratoire des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Image, du Son et de la Scène [LANTISS]/Université Laval, Quebec City [Canada]

With the support of:
EMDL has been funded with support from the European Commission / Culture Programme.

Update:

Research outputs can be found here:

MURMURATION:

Following the premier at the ix Symposium (http://ix.sat.qc.ca/node/422?language=en) on Thursday May 21 – 20:00 2015 in the Satosphère, Liminal Spaces, Dream Collider and Murmuration were performed from May 26 to June 12 2015 (http://sat.qc.ca/fr/emdl).

Random images form the research workshops (by Mike Phillips):

#1: Montreal February 2014:

#2: Athens April 2014:

#3: Plymouth July 2014:

#4: Montreal August 2014:

#5: Dresden November 2014:

#6: Vienna February 2015:

#7: Montreal May 2015 (& IX):

Some panoramas:

Scale Electric… 19 & 20/07/2010

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[Scale Electric PDF]

Introduction…

The Scale Electric workshop (19 & 20/07/2010) couples the power of the Atomic Force Microscope to touch the infinitesimally small with the potential of the Full Dome environment to immerse participants in visualisations of the incomprehensibly big.

Throughout the last Century we were reintroduced to the idea of an invisible world. The development of sensing technologies allowed us to sense things in the world that we were unaware of (or maybe things we had just forgotten about?). The Scale Electric – the invisible ‘hertzian’ landscape was made accessible through instruments that could measure, record and broadcast our fears and desires. These instruments endow us with powers that in previous centuries would have been deemed ‘occult’ or ‘magic’.

Our Twenty First Century magic instruments mark a dramatic shift from the hegemony of the eye to a reliance on technologies that do our seeing for us – things so big, small or invisible that it takes a leap of faith to believe they are really there. Our view of the ‘real world’ is increasingly understood through images made of data, things that are measured and felt rather than seen. What we know and what we see is not the same thing – if you see what I mean?

Our ability to shift scales, from the smallest thing to the largest thing has been described as the ‘transcalar imaginary. The workshop will enable participants to touch the nano level and then immerse themselves within it through visualisations and sonifications.

Context:

Scale Electric extends a series of collaborative projects orbiting i-DAT’s research agenda. It builds on:

practical workshops to explore the application of novel and innovative technologies to creative practice (http://www.i-dat.org/2006-slidingscale/, http://www.i-dat.org/far-away-so-close/, http://www.i-dat.org/ahobartletti-dat/, etc)

projects with the Immersive Vision Theatre (a 40 seat 9m Full Dome digital projection system) a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and imaginary worlds – modelling, visualization, sonification and simulation.

research projects such as Arch-OS and Ecoid’s which stream real time data to facilitate insights into complex temporal architectural and ecological systems (http://www.arch-os.com/)

and more recently nano technology projects in collaboration with the Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory and John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA – Art in the age of nanotechnology, 5/02 – 30/04/2010 (http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/)

Output generated by this workshop will contribute to the Ubiquity Journal Published in 2011 by Intellect. (http://ubiquityjournal.net/, http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/).

Scale Electric explores some of the ‘transcalar” (http://www.elumenati.com/products/TInarrative.html) conundrums that are increasingly intruding into our daily consciousness.

Schedule…

Monday 19/07/2010

10.00-10.15: Introductions, Briefing: Location – Babbage 213

10.15-10.30: Presentation 1: Prof Mike Phillips.

10.35-10.50: Presentation 2: Dr Chris Speed.

10.55-11.10: Presentation 3: Prof Genhua Pan.

11.15-11.30: Presentation 4: Pete Carss.

12.00-12.30: Tour of the AFM & IVT

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-14.30: Production Planning: Location – Babbage 213

14.30-17.30: AFM Scanning: Location – The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory,

Tuesday 20/07/2010

10.00-10.30: Briefing: Location Babbage 213

10.30-12.30: Project development AFM & IVT

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.30: Project development AFM & IVT

15.30-17.30: IVT Manifestations

Process…

A: Experiencing Atoms:

The first practical session will utilise the AFM in the Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory to produce data and images. The materials themselves will be defined during the morning session. Participants will be asked to propose matter and associated narratives for examination.

B: Modelling Experience

Software templates will allow the interpretation and visualisation of the data gathered by the AFM. These visualisations will be hacked, tweaked and ultimately experienced within the Immersive Vision Theatre.

Project Team…

Pete Carss (http://www.i-dat.org/pete-carrs/)

Prof Genhua Pan (http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/gpan)

Prof Mike Phillips (http://www.i-dat.org/mike-phillips/)

Dr Chris Speed (http://fields.eca.ac.uk/?page_id=65)

Supported by…

The Institute of Digital Art & Technology: [http://www.i-dat.org/]

Manifest Research Group

The Wolfson Nanotechnology Laboratory

The Centre for Media Art & Design Research

Ubiquity Journal

FULLDOME UK 2010 – 10th July Plymouth UK

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Welcome to FULLDOME UK 2010. A celebration of the FullDome experience, we present a day of screenings, presentations, discussions and perhaps some realtime performance. The event takes place at the Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT) based at the University of Plymouth on Saturday 10th July 2010 and runs from mid-day until late evening.
The event is free, but numbers are limited so please let us know your interest via email or by using the online form. We will be updating this site with more information on a regular basis, with more details of the screenings and guest speakers coming shortly – go to:
http://www.fulldome.org.uk/

Dome Fugue v1.0:

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1.30: Sunday 24 February 2008. The Immersive Vision Theatre and i-DAT present the ‘Dome Fugue v1.0’. This is a specially commissioned sonic experience to celebrate the re-birth of the William Day Planetarium as a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and imaginary worlds. This pre-launch rendering of the ‘Dome Fugue v1.0’ will be performed in the Full Dome using its cutting edge spatialised sound system and accompanied by immersive generative visualisations. ‘Dome Fugue v1.0’ has been composited by i-DAT, researchers in the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group and The Immersive Vision Theatre ‘Domies’. The piece lasts 23 minutes 56.0409053 seconds, a scaled down sidereal period (a single rotation of the Earth relative to the stars). The Dome has seating for 35 people. The newly developed Immersive Vision Theatre was brought to life by the Experiential Learning CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) under the direction of Dr Ruth Weaver. The future management of the Dome lies with the Centre for Creative Design and Technology, a cross faculty (Arts & Technology) initiative and a transdisciplinary catalyst for innovation to influence the evolution of new creative design practices and strategies.
Dome Fugue v1.0 is part of ‘Voices III’ the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2008. Friday 22 – Sunday 24 February 2008. http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/event.htm