Model is a transdisciplinary research consortium of three organisations, STAR [Science Technology and Art Research] of the Institute of Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth / REALL [Research in Education, Arts, Language and Learning] at Middlesex University / inIVA [Institute of international Visual Art].
As a collegiate space supported outside fixed institutional frameworks MODEL allows the group to test product and process critically, and as the name MODEL suggests, to develop schematic descriptions of digital arts systems, theories and phenomenon that account for unknown properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics.
MODEL's distinctive interest is in the examination of virtual spaces and objects;- the manipulation of 'invisible architectures' and 'dematerialised objects'. http://www.i-dat.org/projects/model/