GreenScreen

Parallel Plymouth Launch

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Parallel Plymouth Launch

You are invited to the launch event

Parallel Plymouth
Mark Greenwood
6 – 22 March 2009
i-DAT Greenscreen

On the front of the Portland Square Building University of Plymouth
Friday 6 March, 6-7pm
At Stonehouse Lecture Theatre
Portland Square
University of Plymouth
Free entry, all welcome

Working in association with Plymouth Arts Centre, artist and writer Mark Greenwood embarked on series of walks around Plymouth investigating myths, histories and monuments as well as systems for writing poetry. By dissecting the systems of structuring language and using the rules and influences he applies to his text-based work Greenwood, in collaboration with i-DAT, has created a generative software that ‘writes’ or executes poetry.

The software, Greenwood 2.0, generates new poems, which can be viewed on the large public i-DAT Greenscreen situated on the front of the Portland Square Building, University of Plymouth. The software and the poetry are further influenced by its environment through data feeds from sensors such as movement of people, CO2 levels, online search engines and through its own evolving generative system.

Coding Poetry

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Coding Poetry

24-26 October 2008

Portland Square Building, University of Plymouth, North Hill, Plymouth
Become part of the collective Respect poetry displayed on the Urban Screen by txt: ‘respect’ followed by ‘your word’ to 07766 404142.

An Urban Screen Installation produced by the people of Plymouth, in association with  i-DAT, for the Plymouth Respect Festival, October 25th – 26th 2008.

It combines a rich mix of the physical and virtual by incorporating SMS poetry into a dynamic building size, interactive and collaborative poem, displayed on a 5 x 8 meters Urban Screen on the Portland Square building at the University of Plymouth. Constructed using 40 x 1 metre ColourWebs, normally used for concerts, this is the first permanent installation of this technology in the UK.

To participate txt the word ‘respect’ followed  by ‘your word’ to 07766 404142 , and become part of the growing poem of Respect.

Coding Poetry is part of a large scale Digital Interpretation Projects for Centre for Sustainable Futures, (CSF), at the University exploring sustainable feedback. The engagement of people through this rich media platform provides a critical opportunity for the CSF to communicate ideas towards the development of a sustainable campus. The huge screen is unlike any broadcast channel the University has had before, and acts as a key element in disseminating a range of different forms of data, information and knowledge.
By integrating streaming data from a wide range of campus resources, it will be able to provide a feedback system upon the health of the campus, as well as the size of its environmental footprint. From cascading waterfalls expressing water use, to fires on Portland Square representing energy use, the screen will become the vital link between research activity and widespread interpretation.

http://www.plymouthrespectfestival.co.uk