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Robots and Avatars – Collaborative and Intergenerational Futures is a two year programme of work extending our research in the UK into Europe. The project explores a near future world where collaborations between robots, avatars, virtual worlds, telepresence and real-time presence will be increasingly common. With co-organisers KIBLA (Slovenia) and AltArt (Romania), the project looks at emergence of the European (virtual/physical) citizen and examines multi-identity evolutions and virtual mobility.
The project comprises of a distinctive programme of activities including, artist commissions, a touring exhibition, learning experiences, live streamed debates, a week-long camp/residency, a website and a book.
It will bring together an intergenerational group of artists, cultural players, young people and experts from around Europe, to create a community that will explore and extend our understanding of working and creating in a 21st century world of virtual/physical co-operation.
body>data>space is one of 11 organisations in the UK to have have received lead organiser funding from the EU Culture Programme (2007-13) for Robots and Avatars – Collaborative and Intergenerational Futures.
Exhibition and Call for Proposals
In late July 2011 there will be a call for proposals for a series of artist commissions for the exhibition. In March 2012 the Robots and Avatars Exhibition will open at FACT, Liverpool. The commissions are supported by the National Theatre.
Project partners include: The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, National Theatre, London, Society for Arts and Technologies (SAT), Quebec and centre des arts, Paris.
Lead organiser – Gabriela Tudor Foundation (RO), Co-organisers – Dublin Dance Festival (IRE), The Association of the Professional Dance Choreographers (LAT), Dance House Lemesos (CY) and body>data>space (UK)
E-MOTIONAL Bodies & Cities is a mobility and artistic exchange dance programme gathering artists and managers from six European countries – Romania, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia, United Kingdom and Turkey (as associated partner country). The project aims to set up a network of artists and cultural practitioners from several countries in Europe all linked to the field of contemporary dance.
E-MOTIONAL will comprise of 5 interdisciplinary artistic research residencies in the partner countries; the Motion Fund, a special funding scheme aimed at promoting cross-border mobility of the dance sector; the E-Motional Exchange - a network to support the development of new collaborative performances and tours; and the E-Motional Forum. body>data>space will select 10 UK artists to engage in these Europe-wide activities, and also host our own workshop in East London in January 2013 giving the artists involved the opportunity to create around the theme of the city using video, audio, GPS, mobile technologies, locative medias and live documentation processes.
Ghislaine Boddington was invited by b.TWEEN 3D to share her thoughts on 3D and in particular immersion and telepresence within the arts and creative industries. Watch the video here.
b.TWEEN 3D is an unmissable event exploring the future of immersive, 3D technologies. This one-day gathering will combine the most inspiring speakers with the chance to network with innovators and thought leaders. Stay at the sharp edge of augmented reality, AI, sci fi and 3D.
Watch this space for a new date and new exciting news…..
 A panel discussion on Creative Mobility organised by EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) as part of a seminar on the role of Cultural Diplomacy in the 21st Century. The seminar will focus on such exciting issues as Culture and Conflict Resolution,Culture and Commerce, Cultural leadership, Artistic Mobility and EasternPartnership.
Date: 30th June / 1st July 2011
Venue: Europe House
1st July – 2pm
Chair: Ghislaine Boddington, Creative Director, body>data>space
Confirmed Panelist: Ferdinand Richard (Chairman of Roberto Cimetta Fund), Colin Hicks (Cultural Broker, Vizir).
Ghislaine Boddington is charing a panel on creative mobility as part of the seminar. Mobility projects are not only an opportunity for artists to enlarge their audience and develop their potential, but they also create space for the exchange good creation practice and the sharing of experience between different co-producing partners, in Europe or all over the world.
What are the challenges for 21st century artistic mobility programmes? What could be a sound professional co-production model for the future? How can new interactive technologies aid the evolution of the collaborative management and creation processes inherent in such co-productions? What does it mean in term of true inter-disciplinary partnership? How can new technological tools, such as tele-presence and social networks, strengthen, develop and give more visibility to a mobility project, enabling audiences to interact with artists in a deeper way?
To book a place please visit - http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1823896323
http://www.eunic-london.org
Posted by alex in b>d>s news
 The Weave Connected Communities: global or local2local?
Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts Conference 2011
4th – 7th September 2011
Registration now open, early bird fee £120 before 15th June
The 2011 DRHA conference will explore the new connectivities in societies and cultures which are enabled by the blending of virtual and physical space, the traversing of time and space through the virtual, and the evolution of innovative methodologies.
Crossing disciplines and challenging boundaries within the humanities, arts and the creative industries, this conference will examine critically familiar notions of the ‘local’, the ‘global’ and the ‘network’ across the cultural spectrum.
Co-Chairs: Judith Still (University of Nottingham) and Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space)
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
• Masaki Fujihata, Director of Graduate School of Film and New Media,
Tokyo University of the Arts
• Aphra Kerr, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland,
Maynooth
• Feng Mengbo, Independent artist, Beijing
• Stephen Robertson, Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia
Further information available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/drha/index.aspx
 Gostai Jazz Robot Ghislaine presented at a NESTA Hot Topics event – Digital You: Telepresence and the psychology of electronic communications. Other speakers included Jean-Christophe Baillie, CEO of Gostai, a French company making telepresence robots and software; Richard Harper, researcher at Microsoft and author of ‘Texture: Human expression in the age of communications overload’; and Nick Sheppard, Head of Collaboration at Cisco UK&I. You will be able to view a video and report of the event on the NESTA website in the coming weeks after the event.
There are further resources about the event available here.
 Workshop on Digital Arts
JUNE 24.25 2011
CENTRE DES ARTS _ ENGHIEN-LES-BAINS
Free entrance
Over two days of summer meetings, the MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe) and RAN (Digital Arts Network) networks, will gather their members (artists, scientists, engineers, cultural operators) and combine their European and international dynamics around mobility, artistic coproduction and residencies.
There will be an opportunity to find out about the projects that both networks will support.
www.we-made.eu / www.ran-dan.net
See the timetable of the two days here.
We are very pleased to announce that UK artists Joseph Hyde is the winner of the MADE Commission. Joseph will cretate me and my shadow , a multisite telepresence project taking place in four European cities (Istanbul, London, Mons and Paris). It consists of a virtual environment experienced in four installations (one in each city), which act as portals to an online space. These portals are also remotely viewable through a website, which will frame and document the project. The portals are built around the Microsoft Kinect sensor, which is revolutionary because it enables the introduction of full motion capture into a domestic environment. me and my shadow expands this technology to allow a new form of interaction with collaborative 3D space. The aim of the project is to explore new relationships between physical and virtual worlds, made possible by this technology. This creates permeable media interfaces which are distinct from current forms of virtual, augmented or pervasive media.
The Call for Proposals solicited 88 applications from 14 countries Europe wide. The UK entries were of high quality, with 10 reaching the final pre-selection of 20. On the final jury 6 out of the final 7 selected were from the UK, with commendations from the jury for the excellence of the UK applicants in terms of use of social medias and audience involvement within the creation processes, as well as innovative distribution concepts for furthering access of the public to the final work.
The project will be co-produced by the four MADE partners (body>data>space [UK], centre des arts [FR], Transcultures [BE], BoDig [TR]) and the European Commission. The project will be developed in four residencies in the four partner locations (Istanbul, London, Mons, Paris) and the final outcome will be presented in June 2012 at centre des arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France and the other partner locations. The UK residency is supported by the National Theatre.
The MADE jury also gave special commendations to the following four projects:
Larisa Blazic, Kaffe Matthews, Eleonora Oreggia – Triadic Oculus
http://www.e-w-s.net
http://www.xname.cc
http://www.kaffematthews.net
Blast Theory – Proof as if Proof Needed
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk
Cédric Sabato - Herbal Ghetto
http://www.smartbe.be
Athina Vahla – Equilibrium Point
http://www.athinavahla.com
MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe) launched in London on November 24th 2010. body>data>space hosted the first workshop at the French Institute and NESTA with participation from a range of UK experts in Telepresence/Virtual Worlds and Media Facades.
MADE will practically examine and explore forms and models of European digital co-production, using topical case studies, in particular, through the commissioning and production of a live/contemporary digital work (performance and/or installation).
This is a co-operation between lead organiser centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains (Paris, France) and partners body>data>space (London, UK), Transcultures (Mons, Belgium) and BoDig (Istanbul, Turkey), in the framework of the EU’s Culture programme (2007-2013).
For more information on the project click here.
 Ghislaine will be speaking at the London SCAMP 2011 Mashup Conference which is taking place on 4th May 2011 at the LBI in London.
Ideas, inspiration and mashup, SCAMP 2011 is an eclectic creative conference which brings women who work in technology together to look at how digital is influencing other creative industries and vice versa. SCAMP celebrates digital innovation from some of the best creative minds but also aim to provide insight, inspiration and challenge your thinking about what it means to be ‘digital’ today.
Anyone can attend SCAMP – it’s open to all.
For more information and to book click here.
SCAMP is part of Digital Shoreditch, a festival celebrating the creative diversity and world-class talent within London’s digital community, which is taking place between 3rd -7th May 2011. www.digitalshoreditch.com
MADE receievd a large number of applications from artsist and organisations across Europe in response to the Call for Proposals. We are pleased to announce that the MADE jury has now shortlisted 20 applications to go through to the second round of assessment for the MADE commission. The final selection will be announced on 19th April 2011 in Mons, Belgium. Below is the list of shortlisted artists and organisations including 10 from the UK.
- Station House Opera & Central School of Speech and Drama – Julian Maynard Smith« Nowhere »
- Tim Lenkiewicz « the music without : the love within »
- ART CELLA – Kasia Molga & Camille Baker « Layers of Frozen Shadows »
- Marina Tsartsara « Oniro » / « Wherever I Look »
- Joseph Hyde « me and my shadow »
- PLAN B – Daniel Rogers & Sophia New « Personal Data Mining »
- DETOUR COLLECTIVE – Caterini Dinopoulou « Aller-Retour »
- TRIADIC OCULUS – Larisa Blazic, Kaffe Matthews, Eleonora Oreggia « Triadic Oculus »
- SQUIDSOUP & OSLO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN – Anthony Rowe, Liam Birtles, Chris Bennewith, Nick Stevens, Einar Sneve Martinussen « The Autonomous Pixel »
- WALKING GUSTO PRODUCTIONS & DANSENS HUS COPENHAGEN – Jeannette Ginslov« STAMP! »
- ARTED FOUNDATION – PJJ van Kampen, C LeCat, T van Oudenaarden « Apollo »
- VJ FEST ISTANBUL – T.Hüseyin Kuru, Burcu Gündüz « EQ-TECH-TIVE »
- CULTURE LAB – Jamie Allen « Refractive Index »
- COLLECTIF SKALEN – Michèle Ricozzi « S.E.N.O »
- Josefina Posch « The Logic of Basho – Glocalization »
- T.R.A.N.S.I.T.S.C.A.P.E – Pierre Larauza « DISTORSIONS URBAINES [#2] »
- BLAST THEORY – Matt Adams « Proof As If Proof Were Needed »
- Cédric Sabato « Herbal Ghetto »
- Sini Haapalinna, Juho Jouhtimäki, Lauri Kainulainen, Jari Suominen « Mash The News ! »
- Athina Vahla » <<equilibrium point>> «
For more information go to www.we-made.eu
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