body>data>space newsletter

body>data>space is a collective of artists and designers based in East London. We are engaged in creating fascinating connections between performance, architecture, new media and virtual worlds. Using our own collaboration methodologies and networked creation processes, the group visions the future of the human body and its real-time relationship to evolving global, social and technological shifts.

body>data>space have freshened up our website for 2010. We will be adding much more in the next few months so please do check back here for updates.

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Read on for the projects we are busy working on right now...

Robots and Avatars

We have just launched a new programme of work Robots and Avatars, a series of events and educational activities taking place across 2010 and onwards, in the UK and internationally. It is designed to explore how young people will work and play with new representational forms of virtual and physical life in 10-15 years time.

A first Forum took place in November 2009 at NESTA and brought together an excellent group of UK and international participants from the worlds of education, arts, youth and social services, gaming and robotics. This intensive and inter-generational gathering was designed to explore the implications of technology trends for the young people of today with keynote speeches from Pear Urishima (Apple Inc, California, USA), Dooeun Choi (Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea) and Prof. Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield). You can see the photos, videos, reports and breakout groups here robotsandavatars.net/forum

Please also visit the Robots and Avatars research links section and suggest anymore to us that you know!

Please also click here to view the 10 minute video of highlights from the day.

Robots and Avatars will include onwards Forums, a range of educational events, an exhibition, a Book/DVD, and the website will continue to expand as a shared research resource. The programme will investigate new relationships and skills required by the future workforce, and what forthcoming generations can expect from their jobs, careers and recreation time.

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Robots and Avatars is a programme of work conceived and produced by body>data>space with partners NESTA, rehearsal.org / Ignite!, King's College Visualisation Lab (King's College London), Hi8us, ResCen (Middlesex University), Soda, b.TWEEN festival, Kinura, Kinetica and RAN (Digital Art Network).

If you would like to co-operate, join in or make a link please email hello@robotsandavatars.net

Kinetica Art Fair 2010 - Robots and Avatars Collaborative Futures panel

The Robots and Avatars Collaborative Futures panel will take place at the Kinetica Art Fair on Saturday 6th February at 11am. It will look at working processes and collaborations between the physical and virtual in future work environments, imagining teams that may include the live, the virtual, robots and avatars.

Click here for more info.

Panel members include Prof. Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield), Ron Edwards (Ambient Performance), Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space), Peter McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London), Anna Hill (Space Synapse) and Michael Takeo Magruder (King's Visualisation Lab, King's College London).

Come and visit the stand for Robots and Avatars and learn more about the programme, body>data>space and NESTA.

For further info go to kinetica-artfair.com

Book tickets

Books & DVD's

The catalogue from our Virtual Physical Bodies exhibition (centre des arts, Paris 2010) is now available. The catalogue was co-edited with centre des arts and contains essays and texts from well known artists such as Roy Ascott, Stephan Koplowitz, Maurice Benayoun and Susan Broadhurst as well as information about the exhibition which explored the virtual/physical body and public spaces.

Order your copy by emailing accueilcda@cdarts.enghien95.fr

Post Me_New ID Book and DVD The final outputs from our EU Culture 2007-13 project Post Me_New ID. This Book and DVD combo contains essays and reflections from many of the artists involved in this project plus the keynotes and panel conversations resulting from the Post Me_New ID Forum at CYNETart_08 in Dresden, including texts from Masaki Fujihata, Steve Dixon and Yacov Sharir. The book focuses on Multi-Identities and Networked Creation Processes in today’s world.

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Order your copy by visiting shop.extended.org

Digital Arts Network / Reseau Arts Numeriques

body>data>space has accepted an invitation to join the Digital Arts Network (RAN/Réseau Arts Numériques) which offers a unique platform where art, science and industry can converge. The network aims at removing the barriers between these sectors and opening up a pioneering space for creation and innovation, where experts from various professional fields can come together.

The network is produced by CDA (centre des arts, Paris) and has 30 members located in France and beyond its borders (9 different countries are represented). The members include artistic production and distribution establishments, university research laboratories, industrial R&D hubs, resource and training centres.