AHO+BARTLETT= i-DAT: A trans-disciplinary research workshop on Arch-OS
25th - 27th February 2009
A trans-disciplinary research workshop on Arch-OS Architectural ecologies: from aesthetics to behaviour, an interdisciplinary approach to affecting the relationships and interactions between inhabitants and their architectural environment. With:
Advanced Architectural Design, AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway: http://www.aho.no/en/
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A.V.A.T.A.R, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK: http://www.avatarlondon.org/
Workshop details: AHO+BARTLETT=i-DAT.pdf
This workshop will experiment with and forecast potential future use, impact and value of using ‘data’ generated by a building and its inhabitants, to recursively influence behaviour, creating a symbiotic ecology with a potential greater environmental awareness. Through an interdisciplinary approach it will encourage the development of an organic list of solutions or potential methodologies for building design based on the study of the main factors: behaviour, data and interaction. The resultant hybrid construct has the potential to expand and evolve our physical and conceptual space, and behaviours and interaction within these.
“From a circle to a sphere”
Artist Talk: Marc Fournel
Tuesday 25 November 2008, 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Immersive Vision Theatre University of Plymouth
Cost: Free
i-DAT has been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts ‘Grants to New Media and Audio Artists: New Media Residencies’ for the sound and installation artist Marc Fournel. This new award will enable Marc to develop a project incorporating Arch-OS and the Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT).
In this talk, Marc, will present some of his video installations and latest art work using local positioning systems. He will also present his current research being developed through his residency, with a specific focus on working with the Arch-OS system and the IVT.
This will further be an opportunity to experience the IVT’s unique immersive system, whilst re-rendering the universe on the fly through ‘UniView’ (http://www.scalingtheuniverse.com), a computer graphics platform bringing information data- bases to life in a 3D environment, much like an immersive computer game.
Fallout Boys and Cannon Girls
Workshops for young people aged 13 - 16.
Plymouth Arts Center, Saturday’s 27 September, 4 October & 11 October 11am - 4pm.
Free
Join artist and writer Mark Greenwood, working in association with i-DAT and Plymouth Arts Centre, for three days of creativity linked to the exhibition Kings Island by Tom Dale. During these workshops participants will be using writing, sculpture and objects, as Mark leads an investigation into local myths, monuments and celebrities. The resulting work that will be exhibited during the Plymouth Respect Festival on i-DAT’s 10m x 5m low resolution ‘Urban Screen’.
Advanced booking is essential and you can book for one or both workshops.
Contact Plymouth Arts Centre on: 01752 206 114 or info@plymouthartscentre.org
Artist’s Statement:
Mark Greenwood is a performance artist/ writer originally from Newcastle but now based in Plymouth. He has presented work across the U.K, Europe and the United States over the last ten years. Utilising indefinite durational practice as an art form, Greenwood’s interests lie in writing as a socio-physiological practice and the interrelations between gender, memory, cultural location and identity. Parallel to the generation of poetic texts through experimental procedures that seek to subvert and resist the structures of hegemonic discourse, Greenwood incorporates the ideology of gambling and chance in his current work.
As well as collaborating with London artist Liam Yeates through the medium of film and video, Mark regularly curates the Red Ape Language Project at Plymouth Arts Centre and contributes writing for a number of on-line art journals including AN Interface, Writing from Live Art and Total Theatre. He recently completed an MA in Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts and is currently researching a doctorate in Fine Art at Kingston University in London.
i-DAT has been awarded a Canada Council for the Arts ‘Grants to New Media and Audio Artists: New Media Residencies’ for the sound and installation artist Marc Fournel. This follows initial funding from the Canada Council for the Arts for a research visit to i-DAT in September 2007, where Marc presented a first version of his installation SKIN-PÔ. This new award will enable Marc to develop a project incorporating Arch-OS and the Immersive Vision Theatre (Full Dome). Watch this space for further developments…
: 21/11/2007: Arch-OS demonstrated its ecological applications at the Royal Opera House “Recycle Our House” Green Awareness Day. As part of its concerted efforts to be a world class ‘green’ organisation Chris Speed and Mike Phillips, at the invitation of Hywel David, to talk about Arch-OS as a possible tool for achieving its ambitions. Arch-OS presented twice during the day along side Tony Hall, the Executive Director of the Royal Opera House, Perry Walker, Head of Democracy and Participation at nef (New Economic Foundation), Donnachadh McCarthy, Cycle Solutions and an Energy Bike. (image: section of the Recycle Our House logo designed by Darcey Bussell).
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VJ’ing on buildings. (14/11/2007) ‘Mix live visuals on the front of a building through using the audio you generate on your mobile phone.’ i-DAT is presenting Noogy 2.0 a large scale interactive installation at the front of the Portland Square building at the University of Plymouth. Noogy 2.0, which goes live during Motion Plymouth Festival on the 14th of November 2007, is the latest upgrade to last years Noogy that made headline news. Noogy 2.0 will combine a rich mix of the physical and virtual by incorporating ’smart’ buildings and mobile phone technologies into a dynamic building size interactive ‘VJ system’. network provider)http://www.noogy.org/
- VJ’ing on buildings. (14/11/2007) ‘Mix live visuals on the front of a building through using the audio you generate on your mobile phone.’ i-DAT is presenting Noogy 2.0 a large scale interactive installation at the front of the Portland Square building at the University of Plymouth. Noogy 2.0, which goes live during Motion Plymouth Festival on the 14th of November 2007, is the latest upgrade to last years Noogy that made headline news. Noogy 2.0 will combine a rich mix of the physical and virtual by incorporating ’smart’ buildings and mobile phone technologies into a dynamic building size interactive ‘VJ system’. How too ‘Noo’J’: Just dial 07511 253710 and ‘Noo - J’ away. The sound you produce down the phone will generate the visuals on the fly across an area of 50m2 consisting of 9600 LEDs. Standard rates apply (the rate you pay might vary dependent on network provider)http://www.noogy.org/ (rather poor phone movie..) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqWS9m0osh0
. (05/11/2007). Ruairi Glynn b-DAT graduate and developer of interactive architectures (see interactivearchitecture.org) delivered a 3 day Processing workshop in processing. A∑Tec researchers and students worked with Arch-OS data feeds to develop dynamic imagery for the Green Screen installation in Portland Square.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W388aBDmo2o
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viY8dGx_mAI
Arch-OS interpretation by Justin Roberts performed at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival “VOICES II”. Friday 23 February 2007. Cube 3 Gallery, Portland Square , University of Plymouth. ‘Columbia Livia’ , part of a two-site installation, ‘Salva me’, commissioned by B ath Festivals Trust as part of a Year of the Artist Residency, and shown at the 2001 B ath International Music Festival, was ‘reversioned’ for a new installation through Arch-OS ( www.arch-os.com, an ‘Operating System’ for contemporary architectures). The Columbia Livia + Arch-OS version references ‘flocking’, a computer modelling technique coined by Craig Reynolds (1987) for the coordinated motion of groups of particles or ‘boids’. The visualisation of these algorithms mimics the flocking of birds and demonstrates principles of self-organization and the emergence of behaviors. The ebb and flow of people activated an acoustic ‘flock’ of birds (boids) that spun and wheeled around the void of the atria. ‘ Columbia Livia’ deployd the sonic architectures enabled by the Arch-OS 56 speaker - 3 D sound system. A crucial feature of this version of ‘ Columbia Livia’ was the emergence of unpredictable ‘complex’ sonic behaviours over the duration of its performance. http://www.arch-os.com/
Arch-OS interpretation by Justin Roberts performed at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival ‘VOICES II’
‘Columbia Livia’, part of a two-site installation, ‘Salva me’, commissioned by Bath Festivals Trust as part of a Year of the Artist Residency, and shown at the 2001 Bath International Music Festival, was ‘reversioned’ for a new installation through Arch-OS (www.arch-os.com, an ‘Operating System’ for contemporary architectures). The Columbia Livia + Arch-OS version references ‘flocking’, a computer modelling technique coined by Craig Reynolds (1987) for the coordinated motion of groups of particles or ‘boids’. The visualisation of these algorithms mimics the flocking of birds and demonstrates principles of self-organization and the emergence of behaviours. The ebb and flow of people activated an acoustic ‘flock’ of birds (boids) that spun and wheeled around the void of the atria. ‘ Columbia Livia’ deployed the sonic architectures enabled by the Arch-OS 56 speaker - 3 D sound system. http://www.arch-os.com/
