i-DAT receives funding from Arts Council England to continue the development of its core Operating Systems. Bio-OS builds on the OP-SY.com open technical framework to offer the opportunity to collect and manifest biological data. Dynamic visual and sonic experiences derived from human movement will be tailored to improve public understanding and engagement with sporting and athletic activity. In this context Bio-OS and its distribution and engagement mechanisms will provide a open tool for public engagement with artistic practice, information literacy and active engagement leading up to and beyond the 2012 Olympics.
for more information go: http://www.op-sy.com/
i-DAT launches OP-SY.com - a central repository for its Operating Systems.
i-DAT is developing a range of ‘Operating Systems’ to dynamically manifest ‘data’ as experience in order to enhance perspectives on a complex world. The Operating Systems project explores data as an abstract and invisible material that generates a dynamic mirror image of our biological, ecological and social activities.
The Operating Systems project proposes a range of tools and initiatives that have the potential to enhance our ability to perceive and orchestrate this mirror world. The intention with the range of Operating Systems outlined on this site is to make the data generated by human and ecological activity tangible and readily available to the public, artists, engineers and scientists.
Curtains for the Albertian Window ~ Digital Alchemy for the Scale Electric.
The presentation playfully explores the shifting frames of reference that occur as the result of our immersion in digitally augmented environments. From mobile phones, GPS devices, RFID tags, data feeds and video streams our understanding of our place within the world has never been more complicated.
With the ‘thingification’ of the Internet an invisible ‘Hertzian’ landscape has been made accessible through instruments that can measure, record and broadcast our deepest fears and desires. Seeping out of our computers, infesting our white goods, our cars all shouting advice and our ornaments remembering things we would rather forget, the ‘virtual’ is converging with the physical and their mutant offspring are shaping our future.
The focus will be on a number of technologies and creative strategies developed by i-DAT and its collaborators. Collectively described as ‘Operating Systems’ these digital tools are designed to lift the veil on this invisible and temporal world.
Underpinning these Operating Systems is the understanding that the material for manifesting things that lie outside of the normal frame of reference is ‘data’ - things so far away, so close, so massive, and so small and so ad infinitum. These digital practices use alchemical processes that enable a series of transformations: from data to code to experience to behaviour.
Some times 3 dimensions are just not enough.
CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The CO-OS community - www.co-os.org - has commissioned artists from Austria, Brazil, Greece/Spain and UK to develop new work. These artists have just posted their ideas on the CO-OS online platform www.co-os.org. Would you like to collaborate with them in developing their ideas?
Until the 20 May you can ‘bid’ some of your ‘time’ to work with them and get ‘time credit’ to get others to work with you.
Just register on the website and get started. You can also pitch your own ideas and see what the community thinks. If they like it, you can find people with whom you can collaborate and develop your ideas.
ABOUT
CO-OS – www.co-os.org - is a growing online community of creators and do-ers, all coming together to collaborate and exchange creative ideas, skills and resources in a cashless system based on the concept of timebanking. Here ideas can be shared, evaluated and developed collaboratively through trading units of time in exchange for skills and resources.
The project is part of ‘Creative Collaboration’, www.britishcouncil.org/creativecollaboration, a British Council arts initiative that builds networks for dialogue and debate across the arts communities of South East Europe and the UK. The programme aims to enrich the cultural life of Europe and its surrounding countries, as well as fostering understanding, skills development, trust and respect across borders.
The artists commissioned for CO-OS Ignite are:
AMMEBA: PABLO BERZAL & DAVID PASTOR (Greece/Spain)
TIM KNOWLES (UK)
CADU COSTA (Brazil)
EDUARDO BERLINER (Brazil)
FELIPE NORKUS (Brazil)
PAULO VIVACQUA (Brazil)
tat-ort: WOLFGANG FIEL (Austria)
The CO-OS Ignite commissions are developed in partnership with:
AMORPHY, Greece - www.amorphy.org
GALERIA VERMELHO, Brazil - www.galeriavermelho.com.br
i-DAT, UK - www.i-dat.org
PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE, UK - www.plymouthartscentre.org
SCAN, UK - www.scansite.org
tat ort, Austria - www.tat-ort.net
Lead Partner contact UK:
i-DAT
Institute of Digital Art and Technology
School of Art & Media
University of Plymouth,
Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon, UK
Website: www.i-dat.org
Lead partner contact person
Birgitte (B) Aga, Creative Producer
Telephone: ++44-(0)1752 586201
E-mail: baga@plymouth.ac.uk
