art-‐sci: investigating the art and science of embodiment for the application of digital...

An Immersant in Osmose (1995)

ART-‐SCI: Inves8ga8ng the Art and Science of Embodiment for the Applica8on of Digital Technologies in Culture and Heritage Marie Curie RISE (Research and Staff Innova8on Exchange) Brussels, 15th June 2015

Dr Denise Doyle Senior Lecturer Digital Media University of Wolverhampton, UK

Text Rain (1999) Camille USerback

A new aesthe8c phenomenology is emerging via advances in digital technology which might lead us to muse how far the paradoxically named ‘virtual’ brings us closer to lived experience.

(Sian Ede, Art and Science, 2005)

Rela8onship between Virtual space and Outer space

•  New spaces of technology in virtual reality explored in the work of ar8sts such as Char Davies, Osmose (1995);

•  Explora8on of the body in zero gravity by dancer and choreographer Kitsou Dubois

Oculus Ri[ (2015)

Now, for the first 8me, this secret story-‐line (of inner narra8ve) is being opened up to the outside world … A par8cular iden8ty is therefore no longer an internal, subjec8ve experience, but is constructed externally and therefore is much less robust and more vola8le.

(UK Future Iden88es study cited in Mind Change, Susan Greenfield, 2014)

Telema4c Dreaming (1992) Paul Sermon

The Digital Agenda for Europe:

(1) ICT ART CONNECT study -‐ integra8on of the Arts an essen8al component in Research and Innova8on in ICT (Dec 2014), ar8sts have a disrup8ve approach: (i)  OUen at the origin of new technologies;

(2) The Human Brain Project aims to beVer understand the brain and its working processes : (i) How the brain reacts in virtual environments

Zero Genie (2002) Ansuman Biswas & Jem Finer

Current Partners in Research Consor8um Digital Media & CADRE, University of Wolverhampton, UK (academic) (Lead) Arts Catalyst, UK (non academic) Interac@ve Ins@tute Stockholm, (academic) Sweden European Astronauts Centre (EAC), Germany (non academic) All These Worlds LLC & The Augmented Traveler, USA (SME) Micro-‐Gravity Centre, PUCRS, Brazil (academic)

Looking for: (a)  Neuroscience Research Ins@tute (EventLAB, University of Barcelona, Spain) (b)  ICT Company developing Digital Technologies (SME) (c) Performance/Dance/Theatre Company using digital technologies

The Augmented Traveler (2015)

Impact

•  An improved mobility and career prospects for the project researchers and par@cipants in Europe and beyond;

•  A transfer of methodologies developed for art-‐science research to a range of inter-‐sectoral stakeholders in Europe and beyond;

•  An increased knowledge of how digital embodiment impacts on the body and brain applied to the design of new digital technology interfaces;

•  Improved innova@ons and applica@on of digital technologies for culture and heritage to Proof of Concept.

Contact Details

Dr Denise Doyle Digital Theory, Technology and Prac8ce Research Cluster Centre for Art and Design Research and Experimenta8on (CADRE) University of Wolverhampton, UK

Email: [email protected]

Work: ++44 (0)1902 322 443 Mobile: ++44 (0)7950 685 915

Liquid Gravity (2013) Michael Najjar