Digital Art Masters graduate helps develop Android Wear

Digital Art Masters graduate helps develop Android Wear

Meet Emmet Connolly. He’s a graduate of the Digital Art & Technology masters course run here at Plymouth University, and a close friend of i-DAT’s. He got in touch after reading the November 2014 newsletter which mentioned Mike Phillips and his flashy Android Wear smart-watch.

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MEDIACITY 5: May 1-3 2015

MEDIACITY 5: May 1-3 2015

MEDIA CITY 5 International Conference and Exhibition 1-3 May 2015 Plymouth, UK THE FIFTH MEDIACITY CONFERENCE REFLECTS ON A SOCIAL SMART CITY. We invite contributions in the form of research papers, projects and case studies. http://mediacity.i-dat.org/ The conference programme will focus on contributions that are high

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E/M/D/L workshops in Vienna, February 2015

E/M/D/L workshops in Vienna, February 2015

  We’ll be cultivating fulldome art in Austria in February, thanks to our partnership in an international fulldome network. We will be hosted by the Digital Art Department University of Applied Arts, Vienna, between the 1-12 Feb as the UK partners in the European Union-funded

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FulldomeUK 2014 winners

FulldomeUK 2014 winners

The winners of FulldomeUK 2014 have been announced. FulldomeUK is a festival of fulldome art that we co-founded and that we help to run. This took place late last year, and the winners – the people at the cutting edge of the cutting edge of media

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i-DAT & IBM thinking smarter together

i-DAT & IBM thinking smarter together

One of the biggest names in the digital realm was the guest of i-DAT and Plymouth University earlier this month for the Smarter Planet Lab event. The event was open to Plymouth University staff, students, researchers and IBM staff with an interest in the Smart

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We hosted the developers of the future

We hosted the developers of the future

In August we hosted the search for the country’s best young coders, overseeing Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code. A thousand young people stayed, slept and hacked in Plymouth University’s Roland Levinsky Building for the 48-hour code-fest, which climaxed in a code showcase judged by

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How we’re measuring audience sentiment for a new app

How we’re measuring audience sentiment for a new app

ARTORY: http://www.artory.co.uk/ We’re measuring the mood of arts audiences in a ground-breaking piece of technology to be launched later this year that has really got the feel-good factor. Earlier this summer, the Qualia system we helped to develop powered the official app for the Flux

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We projected into a Round Room

We projected into a Round Room

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

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