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Immersive Technology Workshops for the EPDA Parkinson’s Art and Science Exhibition for the WPC2022 Showcase in Barcelona.

Workshop #1: EPDA Art Project – immersive concept workshop 1.

• Context: Overview of the history and current potential of Immersive Technologies and the experiences the enable.
• Content: History, tools, techniques and audiences.

Zoom Recording: 

PDF of Powerpoint Presentation:

https://i-dat.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/28/files/2021/07/EPDA-Workshop1.pdf

Workshop #2: EPDA Art Project – immersive concept workshop 2.

• Context: Co-Design of an immersive production
• Content: Planning, production tools, production cycle, skills and functions, dependancies and timeline.

Background material:

SWCTN Immersion Theme: https://www.swctn.org.uk/immersion/

SWCTN Immersion Review: https://i-dat.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/28/files/2020/05/SWCTN_Immersion_Showcase_Publication_D.pdf

The Immersive Virtual Environment of the digital fulldome: Considerations ofrelevantpsychologicalprocesses Simone Schnalla, CraigHedge, RuthWeaver.

Relevant PhD thesis:

Dr Isabela Beyer. Le Passage – Towards the Concept of a New Knowledge Instrument: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/14745

Dr David McConville. On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/3530

Prof Donna Cox: ASTRAL PROJECTION: THEORIES OF METAPHOR, PHILOSOPHIES OF SCIENCE, AND THE ART O F SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/1634

Char Davies. Landscapes of ephemeral embrace : a painter’s exploration of immersive virtual space as a medium for transforming perception.

Jennifer Kanary Nikolov: LABYRINTH PSYCHOTICA – SIMULATING PSYCHOTIC PHENOMENA

Software:

Unity 3D: https://unity.com/

Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/

Adobe 360 Video: https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/video/virtual-reality.html

Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

Hardware:

Oculus: https://www.oculus.com/

Vive: https://www.vive.com/uk/

Magic Leap: https://www.magicleap.com/en-us/magic-leap-1

HoloLens: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens

The Immersive Vision Theatre: https://i-dat.org/ivt/

 

I Am Seeing Things: Exhibition and Symposium
25-26/10/12
I Am Seeing Things: Exhibition and Symposium
25-26/10/12
http://www.iamseeingthings.com/
Talbot Rice Gallery,
The University of Edinburgh,
Old College, South Bridge,
Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
www.ed.ac.uk/about/museums-galleries/talbot-rice
The title I Am Seeing Things summons a state in which we are uncertain about what is before our eyes and the trauma of this circumstance. The I Am Seeing Things symposium takes another look at what we mean by the term ‘things’. How do everyday, analogue objects change when connected to the World Wide Web? Referring to an Internet of Things, the symposium anticipates the technical and cultural shifts as society moves to a state in which every object is connected, or ‘wired’.
In the sense that data differs from knowledge, and things aren’t what they seem, the arts have differed from technical communities in their approach to objects. In order to process objects as data, technical dialects require closed meanings. Arts discourse, on the other hand, keep meanings and readings open to interpretation. The symposium brings together digital designers and personalities from the arts to explore what it is to be seeing things.
The symposium and exhibition is the culmination of a three year research project entitled TOTeM (Tales of Things and Electronic Memory) and the work of its research team that has developed technologies to support the association of personal memories with material artefacts. The themes present in the symposium will reflect the investigators interests in the how this technology has disrupted consumer practices, heritage and the geography of things.
25 October
http://www.iamseeingthings.com/?page_id=158
10am-4.30pm (registration opens 9.30am)
The symposium will be centered around 4 key themes- value, meaning, thingness and networks and each session shall be chaired by one of the TOTeM team, Chris Speed (University of Edinburgh, ECA), Jon Rogers and Simone O’Callaghan (University of Dundee, DJCAD), Maria Burke (University of Salford) and Andy Hudson-Smith (University College London, UCL).
Confirmed Speakers (more to follow):
Mark Shepard (artist, architect and researcher, New York)
Mike Crang (Professor of Cultural Geography, Durham University)
Geoffrey Mann (artist, designer and craftsman, Edinburgh)
Irene NG (Professor of Marketing and Service Systems at the University of Warwick)
Mike Phillips (Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, Plymouth University)
Torsten Lauschmann (Artist, Glasgow)
TOTeM: Brunel University, Edinburgh College of Art, University College London, University of Dundee, University of Salford
Funded by theDigital Economy Research Councils UK

Coming Soon:
‘Bio-OS 1.0’ is a pilot for i-DAT’s Collaborative Data Lab initiative which aims to identify opportunities to support and develop innovative ideas, prototypes and dissemination of creative content with a focus on the harvesting, sharing and visualization of data and information. The pilot is funded by the Arts Council of England and set to run from March to May 2011 with a focus on benefitting the arts in the South West of England.
The pilot builds on the i-DAT’s ‘Operating Systems’ initiative (Arch-OS, CO-OS and Eco-OS) [http://op-sy.i-dat.org/]. These open tools for gathering data from environments (buildings and landscapes) and organisms (crowds and bodies) are focused on delivering dynamic and interactive outputs through a range of technologies (such as social networks, streaming media, mobile phone Apps (iPhone, Android, Windows7), Full Dome environments and multi projector panoramic spaces). It will focus on the development of ‘Bio-OS’, a biological Operating System, which offer the opportunity to collect and manifest biological data.

i-DAT’s Collaborative Data Lab is an initiative which aims to foster an open and collaborative environment which brings together artists, researchers and scientists to develop ‘provocative prototypes’ that lead to new practice, knowledge and resources for the arts and society as a whole. This initiative will enable artists to engage with these new digital opportunities and processes, to foster the creation of new work and to enable audiences to engage with this work. These activities make direct links between academic research, artistic practise and environmental and societal challenges.
The nature of the prototypes created from the Collaborative Data Labs, the links between them and the technologies that drive them are focused around the concept of ‘data’ as experience through creative productions to better understand the world and our impact on it. The intention is to make the data generated by human, ecological, economic and societal activity tangible and readily available to the public, artists, engineers and scientists for potential social, economic and cultural benefit.

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