DIGITAL MEDIA @ NCL

Spirit Exposurer

pingyehli — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:56:02 +0000

Spirit Exposurer is an experimental data visualisation project to visualize spirits in public space. I use the laptop webcam to capture the invisible motion and translate them into lightness and generate these images.

Image captured at Central station, Newcastle in 17 April 2013 / exposure time: 3800 frames

Image captured atGrey’s Monument, Newcastle in 3 April 2013 / exposure time: 3300 frames

Samsara Eye

pingyehli — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:10:55 +0000

Saṃsāra Eye is a responsive space which provides sound and visual feedback to the viewers.

The concept behind this work is to create a space that extends and reflects our body in technology.The visual design is linked to images of ancient Egypt and Buddhism reincarnation to increase some metaphysical dimensions in the interaction. The body of the viewers in this space plays the role of the see-er and the visible and experience the embodied digital signals.

Zachary Lieberman

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:03:39 +0000

Artist, Visiting Staff (Digital Media)

Assistant Professor, Parsons the New School for Design, New York

Zachary Lieberman was a visiting member of staff in Digital Media between March and August 2012. He produced the the Connecting Lightsbig-scale installation work in the lab as part of his London 2012 Festival commission.Zachary Lieberman develops one of the co-founders of openframeworks, a c++ library for creative coding. He is working on the eyewriter project, a lowcost / opensource hardware and software toolkit that helps people draw with their eyes. A few performances / installations with buildings created by yesyesno, a company he co-founded: Night Lights and Lights On. He has worked with magician Marco Tempest, developing new tricks: AR Magic 1.0 and Magic Projection 1.0. A few years back, he has also worked Mago Julian, making opensourcery, a performance that mixed software and close magic. He also worked on the IQ font, a project where a stunt driver drives a typeface. He is one of the developers of rhonda, a 3d drawing tool that helps people sketch ideas simply in 3d. See also sonic wire sculptor, it’s musical cousin. He is also helping with the development of jigazo, a reconfigurable jigsaw puzzle.

web:thesystemis.com email: zach@openframeworks.cc

Christopher Coleman

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:01:10 +0000

Christopher Coleman

Artist in Residence, CL/Digital Media & ISIS Arts

Associate Professor, University of Denver

Christopher Coleman was an artist in residency with Digital Media. All of the details of the research can be found on my blog: blog.digitalcoleman.comThe residency was largely divided into two pieces; research into partnerships and data, and research into technology. The nature of the project required interfacing with science experiments that have real-time data online, that can be tapped into and turned into interesting data visualizations. Additional research included reaching out to additional scientists for assistance in decoding the information currently available online. Once acquired, the research turned to the nature and form of the data visualization object; how it will move/transform, what information is displayed, and how the overall form will communicate the core ideas of the experiment. Two sets of drawings and several components for future pieces were developed during the residency based on two separate experiments – the search for exoplanets, and coronal mass ejections from the sun.Christopher Coleman received his BFA in his native state from West Virginia University in 2001 and his MFA from New York State University at Buffalo in 2003. A number of his undergraduate years were devoted to studying Mechanical Engineering, knowledge that he brings to bear in his installations. His work includes sculptures, performances and videos as well as interactive installations. Coleman was twice a participant in the VIPER Basel Festival in Switzerland and has had his work in exhibitions in Singapore, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, China, the UK, Latvia and 14 other countries. Domestically his work has been shown at more than 40 events and festivals, Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, the Albright Knox in Buffalo NY, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art to name a few. In 2009 he received the Metropolis Art Prize Grand Prize and had his work featured in Times Square NYC. His software project (in collaboration with Ali Momeni) called Maxuino has been downloaded by 20,000 by people in 110 countries and is used in classrooms and artworks across the globe. He currently resides in Denver, CO and is an Associate Professor at the University of Denver.

web:www.digitalcoleman.com email:chris.d.coleman@gmail.com

Prof. Atau Tanaka

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:59:04 +0000

Musician, Professor of Media Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

Atau Tanaka bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He worked at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, has been researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, and was an Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. He seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratized digital forms. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM and has been mentor at NESTA. He was Chair of Digital Media and Director of Culture Lab at Newcastle University.

web: http:www.ataut.net email: info@ataut.net Atau Tanaka

Jamie Allen

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:58:19 +0000

Artist, Head of Research, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID)

Jamie directs the strategy and focus of research and experimentation at the Institute, with the Research team and Labs.ciid.dk. His interests lie, broadly, in the ways that creative uses of technology teach us about who we are as individuals, cultures and societies. Jamie draws on his experience as a former part of the directorial team of Culture Lab, Newcastle University, where he worked towards understanding community, collaborative and public technological practices. He has taught at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Hanyang University in Seoul, and lectured at Parsons and the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked as an interactive systems designer for IBM, DuPont, ESI Design and the American Museum of Natural History.

Born in Canada, and working primarily between New York, the UK and now Copenhagen, Jamie has been involved with emerging technologies as a designer, researcher, artist and teacher for over 12 years. He likes to make things with his head and hands – investigations into the material systems of media, electricity, and information. His work has been exhibited internationally, from Eyebeam in NYC, to the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, to SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama, Japan.

web: www.heavyside.net email: jamie@heavyside.net

Prof. John Bowers

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:51:49 +0000

Designer & Musician, Chair of Creative Digital Practice

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tel: +44 (0)191 246 4646

John is concerned with the design and experience of innovative technologies, particularly in public spaces and domestic settings. He has contributed to the fields of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) for over 15 years, with particular concern for the use in design of social scientific research methods such as ethnography and interaction analysis. John also works as a musician and sound artist with an especial interest in improvisation, hardware hacking and innovative instruments and performance environments.

Dr. Brigitta Zics

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:50:37 +0000

Artist, Associate Director of Digital Media, DPD of CAP MA

web: www.cognitiveloop.org

email: brigitta.zics@ncl.ac.uk

tel: +44 (0)191 246 4644

Academic Roles: Associate Director, Digital Media Culture Lab; Degree Programme Director for Creative Arts Practice, Lecturer in Digital Media

PhD Academic Supervision: Tom Schofield, Jiun-Shian Lin, Ping-Yeh Li, Gabi Arrigoni; PhD Second Supervision: Léon Mccarthy

Brigitta Zics is an artist, media philosopher and interaction designer with particular interest in emerging technologies and their impact on creative practices and human cognition. Her main interest concerns the philosophical investigation of human experience in technologically enhanced environments and her recent research subjects include experimental data visualisation, bio-signal interaction; affective games, application of swarm theory, and environments that facilitate immersive experiences. Recently she is interested in collaborative ecologies that can foster innovation through creative making and open technological production.She is currently working on her big-scale interactive installation of Mind Cupola at Culture Lab. The work applies a combination of affective computing (eye-tracking and facial analysis) and technologies that instantly affect the user’s mental state in order to facilitate an affective interaction. The Mind Cupola will be exhibited in Newcastle and toured accross UK and beyond from 2013. She has recently organised the Data is Beautiful symposium & exhibition in Budapest which investigates the interdisciplinary nature of data visualisation. Her other recent collaborative work with Tom Schofield is traceNorth, a public art work using data visualisation.She is reviewer for Leonardo Journals (MIT), panel member for the Leonardo Reviews, founding member of the International Network for Trans-disciplinary (post-doctoral) Research (INTR) and Research Advisor in the Doctoral School at the Hungarian University of Fine Art. She is also Visiting Fellow at Transtechnology Research at the University of Plymouth where she is working on post-doctoral methodologies and supervising research students.Her artistic work and research have been broadly exhibited and published. To present she has exhibited in Los Angeles [SIGGRAPH], Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Monte Carlo [IMAGINA] and the UK. She was selected for Europe’s Best Young Multimedia Artist at Europrix Top Talent Awards, Austria (2006) and nominated for the International\Media\Art\Award (2004, ZKM, Karlsruhe). Her work has been published in Leonardo journal (2011) and her Ph.D. abstract “Transparency, Cognition and Interactivity: Toward a New Aesthetic for Media Art” was one of the winners of Leonardo Electronic Almanac LABS 2009.

PhD Supervision in the folloing areas:Digital Arts Practice, Emerging Technologies & Experimental Practice, Art & Science Practice, Transdisciplinary Practice, Interactivity & HCI in Arts Practice, Data Visualisation & Creative Practice, Affective Computing & Creative Practice, Applied Philosophy, Philosophy of Cognition, Contemporary Art and Media Theory, New Production Environments and Living Labs, Open Source Culture & Creativity

Staff Profile here

Dr. William Edmondes

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:48:18 +0000

Musician, Lecturer in Music

email:will.edmondes@ncl.ac.uk

William Edmondes is an improvisor and composer working with recorded media, digital sequencing, guitar, Gameboys and voice. He studied at Cardiff (BMus), King’s London (MMus), and York (PhD). He performs and releases material under several pseudonyms, most frequently as Gwilly Edmondez.

RESEARCH INTERESTSComposition and improvised performance, using recorded media (hardware samplers, turntables & dictaphones), guitar and voice.Current, ongoing projects:Falco Subbuteo (duo with Valerie Pearson)Copydex – plunderphonic collage.Sound Of Aircraft Attacking Britain (with Richard Bowers)Virginia Pipe – beat storm theory into praxisGustav Thomas – Gameboy sequencing (Nanoloop, LSDJ)Randy Wormhole – duo with John FergusonWormhole – trio with John Ferguson & Bennett Hogg.Edmondes’ work is published online at UBUWEB FMA Video posts can be viewed at:http://www.youtube.com/users/prducerhttp://www.vimeo.com/gwillyedmondezhttp://www.kakutopia.comGwilly Edmondez also has a weekly radio show (Mondays 19.30-20.30) on Culture Lab Radio called ‘Make Property History’

OTHER EXPERTISEHip Hop; Collage & improvisation; Noise, Funk & Extreme Metal; Situationism; Digital networking & Dissemination; drawing & painting.

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISIONMasters: Kieran Rafferty; Alex Campbell; Greg Kelly; Ioannis Koutlas; Ian Gibb; Rob Blazey; Craig Pollard; Beryl Van Niekirk; Rhodri Davies; Daniel Dixon. PhD: Mark Self; Kitty Porteous; Merrie Snell; Vera Brozzoni; Charlie Bramley; Hannabiell Sanders; Nate Shaw; John MacLean; Mick Wright.

Co-Feel, Intelligent Jewelry

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:11:03 +0000

Co-Feel is a wearable technology and smart fashion project by Brigitta Zics and Ben Freeth.

Co-Feel ( work-in progress project) investigates collective experiences through experiencing each-others presence. This intelligent jewelry measures wearer’s motion and heartbeat. It uses this information to create intimate networked experiences through the aesthetics of surfaces, the intensity of tangible feedback, and light impulses. Co-feel aims to facilitate intimacy and interconnectedness between people present in the same space and time. It will also enhance collectiveness between individuals at concerts, exhibitions and other networked events.