[dundee] [forwarded communication] You are invited to the Signals in the City Colloquium

[Arron M Finnon]

You are invited to the Signals in the City Colloquium 

A day of Artist's Talks and discussion.  Admission is free but places
are limited so booking is essential. Please find information below. 
 
Colloquium 

1 May 10am – 5pm 
 
Speakers 
Jen Southern (UK) 
Clive Gillman (UK) 
Simone O’Callaghan (Australia) 
John Isaacs (UK)
Mark Shovman - PhD Researcher, University of Abertay Dundee (Israel)
Chaos Computer Club –Artist Group (Germany) 
Wireless City – Dundee Business (TBC)
 
Jen Southern will talk about her collaborative projects with Jen
Hamilton - The two artists have a social and tactile approach to
technology and work with audiences to explore location and sense of
place. Through commissions, exhibitions and residencies they produce
installations, performances and websites to explore how new technologies
influence the way we inhabit an environment. She will also talk about
industry collaborations on the development of new tools for
collaborative mapping.
 
Clive Gillman will talk the nature of 'commons' - both physical and
virtual and using technology to open up the local dialogues.
 
Simone O’Callaghan will present her findings from the exhibition and
evaluate the ways in which people interacted with the ubiquitous media
and its new visual codes of narrative and intimacy. 
 
John Isaacs will talk through S-City VT research and how it provides a
common language for the theory of sustainability. How the tool can be
used by the wide variety of stakeholders when considering the
regeneration of a city. 
 
Mark Shovman will present findings from his research into Visualising
Complex Data Sets. By using a haptic interactive virtual environment
(HIVE) and the theoretical foundations of gestalt theory of perception
to create visualisations, this project aims to create visualisations
that enable a user to immediately and effortlessly analyse large complex
and multidimensional data sets. By applying rigorous psychophysical
methodologies to assess human perception of HIVE-generated
visualisations a set of guidelines will be produced for the efficient
data visualisation and an extensive knowledge base. 
 
Chaos Computer Club would talk about Blinkenlights which was created in
2001 as a celebration of its 20th birthday. A light installation in the
Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin transformed
its front into a giant monochrome low-resolution computer screen. Some
novel uses of the screen were for people to call a number and play Pong
via mobile phone or display animations sent in by the public. 
 
 
Admission to the exhibition and colloquium are free but places for the
colloquium are limited therefore booking is required. For the full
programme and booking details contact E exhibitions at abertay.ac.uk T
01308 308 324 or visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions