

: REF: A0228. (03/06/2007)
Salary £20437 to £23692 pa, Grade 5. Plymouth. A Research Assistant is required to work for a period of six months within i-DAT to develop software to support the display of information and graphics to interpretation screens across the campus and over the internet. The post involves a close relationship with The Centre for Sustainable Futures and will require the development of media platforms to support aspects of the Centre’s delivery of information and knowledge to a wide audience. Applications are invited from people with a good Honours degree in a computing subject, who have some industrial experience in the development of serverside and networked technologies. For an informal discussion, please contact Chris Speed on 01752 232613 or email chris.speed@plymouth.ac.uk. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 11 July 2007. CLOSING DATE: 12 NOON, WEDNESDAY, 15 JUNE 2007. http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=19178

Σ!=Σ – Everything is Not Everything - the stage two event for artists enrolled in the b-DAT ( digital art and technology ) course at the university of Plymouth took place across the campus on Thursday, 08 March 2007. Work and installations offered an alternative interpretation of the campus through the use of locative media and mobile phone technology. http://www.everythingisnoteverything.co.uk

Applause South West is a New Opportunities Fund Digitisation project with Plymouth Library and Information Service, i-DAT, Theatre Royal, TSW Film &Television Archive, Plymouth Learning Links, the City Museum and Plymouth and West Devon Record Office. Archives hidden in rarely used collections and materials that are too fragile to be handled are being digitally archived by the project, which also provides access to virtual tours of long lost South West theatres, production diaries and documentation, and interactive exploration of theatre artefacts. The project provides rich opportunity to explores the manipulation of digital objects within online environments and their distribution across a range of media formats and data systems. http://www.applausesw.org.uk/


