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Changelog:

This ChangeLog has been forked from the i-DAT ˈkrɒnɪk(ə)l page a more personal narrative.

#1: A critical path {a fork of ‘The Story So Far’, Katie Tokus, 1990-2014/ˈkrɒnɪk(ə)l  2015-2021}

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2024: * FDUK2023 @ CULTVR LAB… * Donald Rodney: ‘Visceral Canker’. Spike Island/Nottingham Contemporary/Whitechapel Gallery. –

Context: > Apple Vision Pro googly eyes… > AI infests Mobile Phones… > …

2023: * Far South West Immersive launched… * Rickard Birkett’s Donald Rodney Autoicon published… * FDUK2023 @ CULTVR LAB…

Context: > “If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an X-Twitter!” > Tech industries upgrade by downsizing, rightsizing, restructuring, and optimizing… > An epic of epic epicness vs Google X Apple…

2022: * Jena FullDome Festival Jury and Frameless Forum… * Fulldome UK 2022 comes back home to Plymouth… again… * Ludic-Architectures collaborative online Virtual Reality environment linking UK and China participants through the Fulldome/VR/Desktop… https://www.mike-phillips.net/ludic-architectures/ …

Context: > ChatGPT Pandemic. > the billionaires came back.

2021: * Devonport Market Hall Fulldome is launched. £200k to revamp the Immersive Vision Theatre. * Fulldome UK 2021 comes back home to Plymouth –

Context: > Perseverance lands on Mars. > mass exodus of billionaires from planet Earth. > Remember the metaverse?

2020: * Donald Rodney – Autoicon exhibited to much acclaim at Thirteen Ways Of Looking exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry. * Psalms is acquired by the Tate. * Vol 7 – Ubiquity Journal of Pervasive Media, the ultimate edition. –

Context: > Zoom does quite well.

2019: * ix SYMPOSIUM IMMERSION-EXPERIENCE at SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES [SAT] * Future History, a look in the rear-view mirror as we accelerate through this post-digital phase of our cultural evolution. It celebrates the last 25 years of radical innovation in arts practice, education and research and locates Plymouth at the centre of it all. * Interactive Digital 3D Model of Bronze Spheric Theme was co-produced with i-DAT and Tate Digital for the Naum Gabo Exhibition at Tate St Ives. –

Context: > Something was brewing.

2018: South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) (1918-2021) a £6.5 million project to expand the use of creative technologies across the South West, through fellowships and prototypes around the themes of immersion, automation and data. * co-I with the IVT on the Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab. University of Exeter, Exeter City Futures, the Met Office, the University of Plymouth, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and Rothamsted Research. The Impact Lab is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Total funding is £6.4 million. * CODEX is launched, an international Postgraduate Research network operating in the volatile and dynamic space that frames new interdisciplinary art and design practices. In collaboration with Jiangnan university, Nanjing University of the Arts and Soochow University. –

Context: > Meltdown and Spectre bugs. > Deepfakes are all the rage. > Cambridge Analytica were a thing.

2017: * Emoti-OS, a speculative chatbot, (a computer program that mimics conversation with people using artificial intelligence), with a visual and emotionally driven character. * Hosts the 6th edition of the BunB conference. A Sense of Place in collaboration with the North Devon’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Beaford Arts and Fulldome UK. –

Context: > Botnet of Things. Things go mad. > Pay with your face.

2016: * Playing with algorithms in the Tate Modern: i-DAT makes TIWWA – This Is Where We Are. Installation, Tate Modern, Switch House Launch. * Fulldome UK 2016, born in i-DAT but again at the National Space Centre, Leicester. * Liber Legis – (AIWASS v2.0.) exhibited at Cairotronica (Cairo International Electronic and New Media Arts Symposium), Ministry of Culture, Palace of Arts, Cairo, Egypt. –

Context:   > Pokémon Go happened. > The first 1TB SD Card. > Amazon delivery drones are a thing…

2015: * Artory Plymouth wide audience metrics apps (Android & IoS) pilot programme kicks off. * Murmuration, Dream Collider, Liminal Spaces: EMDL Productions, SAT (Society for Arts and Technology), Montreal, Canada. * DataJams at the Turbine Festival: One City in the Tate Modern. –

Context: > Apple Watch is born. > Everyone is scared of AI.

2014: * UK partner in an international collaboration awarded € 400k by the EU Culture Programme to innovate art form and push the boundary of immersive audio-visual full-dome environment as a platform for creative innovation. * Qualia technology underpins Artory – a culture app for Plymouth that rewards users for their feedback after shows, exhibitions and gigs. –

Context: > “the Internet of Things” is a thing! > Google release Android Wear watch created by MA Digital Futures graduate Emmet Connolly https://www.mike-phillips.net/emmetconnolly/

2013: * Qualia: an arts audience feedback and evaluation tool that can measure mood and sentiment. –

Context: > Google Glass is introduced.

2012: National Portfolio Status for i-DAT by Arts Council England. –

Context: > Oculus Rift is introduced. > The number of smart phones worldwide reaches 1 billion. > The Raspberry Pi is born.

2011: * Bio-OS – wearable technologies that collect data from the body and from human activity in a bid to ‘extend human perception’. –

Context: > IBM’s Watson supercomputer beats TV Quiz show humans.

2010: * A Mote it is – nanotechnologists and makes nano-art using an Atomic Force Microscope. * Sensors are placed in and around Devon’s River Torridge to generate ecological dart to use in a schoolchildren’s art project. –

Context: > The iPad is born.

2009: * The i-500 Public Art Commission is for Curtin University’s to be incorporated into the fabric of a building to encourage building users to communicate and collaborate. *-

Context: > First Bitcoins mined. > Minecraft is born.

2008: * EUROPEAN WORKSHOP IN IMMERSIVE CINEMA which births the FULLDOME UK Festival, the annual event for fulldome art. –

Context: > Google and T-Mobile unveiled the G1 with Android OS.

2007: * Noogy 2.0 turns a building into a giant video screen, linking mobile phones with sound and light commands. –

Context: > The iPhone is released.

2006: * Noogy, an interactive entity into its host building that can answer questions that are texted to it from mobile phones. –

Context: > Twitter is born

2005: * Arch-OS, its operating system for buildings and intelligent architecture. Arch-OS is installed in Portland Square, including a ‘random floor’ button in two of the building’s lifts. –

Context: > The first video is uploaded to YouTube. > Google Maps launches – 5 years after i-DAT’s satellite maps project STI.

2004: * Out of Scale: Out of Scale explores architecture’s relationship with image, digital technology, structure and materials, by focusing upon microscopic detail. –

Context: > Facebook launches.

2003: * Notes Towards The Complete Works – an iMac is installed in a monkey enclosure and waits to see what the animals write. * CAiiA-STAR becomes the Planetary Collegium. –

Context: > Apple’s iTunes store is introduced, selling downloads for 99c. > Skype is released.

2001-2002: * V01D Exhibition, –

Context: > Wikipedia launches. > Apple unveils the first generation iPod portable media player. > Minority Report, directed by Spielberg and based on a Philip K Dick story.

2000: * MSc Digital Futures is launched in the School of Computing, Faculty of Technology as an online and symposium/low residency programme. * Search for Terrestrial Intelligence anticipating Google Maps. * Donald Rodney Autoicon. –

Context: > The Y2K bug didn’t come!

1999: * Online Panopticon VRML/Web system to support the emergence of MSc Digital Futures. –

Context: > Wi-Fi is born in two variants – 802.11a / 5.8GHz band & 802.11b / 2.4GHz band. > The Y2K bug is coming!

1998: * Macromedia officially launch the Multimedia Studio, 213 Babbage Building. * i-DAT is born. * Artefact is one of its early projects, encouraging visitors to manipulate and remix pieces in a virtual gallery in this collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum. * The INTERSTICES Symposium, ‘The Architecture of Consciousness’ was originally held on August 23 – August 25, 1998 at Port Eliot House, St Germans, Cornwall. –

Context: > The iMac is introduced, with colour-coded computers as domestic furnishings. > Tiger Electronics launch the Furby electronic toy, the first domestic robot. > The Data Protection Act 1998.

1997: * Psalms is the Autonomous Wheelchair constructed by Guido Bugmann for Donald Rodney’s “Nine Night in Eldorado” at the South London Gallery. * Roy Ascott formulates CAiiA-STAR as a constituted trans-institutional research platform. –

Context: > IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov. > What did we do before the Compact Disc-ReWritable (CD-RW)?

1996: * The PhD programme STAR is established alongside MLA, with Roy Ascott appointed as visiting professor. –

Context: > Tomb Raider is unveiled > The first Tamagotchi digital pet is released in Japan.

1994-95: * The first satellite broadcast of Mediaspace mixed-media TV programmes – including a networked comic – takes place from BSc MediaLab Arts at Plymouth University Hoe TV Centre – anticipating the arrival (10 years later) of transmedia publishing. * name = input(“Paul Maguire: “) * name = input(“Dan Livingstone: “) –

Context: > Iomega Zip Disk is released. > World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is formed. > Java and PHP programming languages arrive.

1993: * name = input(“Roy Ascott: “) becomes the first external examiner for MediaLab Arts. * name = input(“Brian Eno: “) is made Honorary Doctor of Technology for his services to MediaLab Arts (and the universe). * Mike Phillips starts experimenting with the Hoe TV Studio and the ESA Satellite UpLink to establish the Mediaspace series of interactive satellite broadcasts. –

Context: > The first Pentium chips are shipped, improving the performance of personal computers. > Wired Magazine launches. > Doom is released.

1992: * name = input(“Mike Phillips: “) 30/06/1992, is interviewed on his 30th birthday for the post of programme manager for MediaLab Arts. He gets the job to establish the course within the School of Computing at the newly-renamed University of Plymouth and spends August recruiting in time for the first ever intake of 35 students in September. * name = input(“Brian Eno: “) becomes a Virtual Adviser to MediaLab Arts. * Tony Tucker of Macromedia provides sponsorship for MediaLab Arts with Magic, Director and Authorware. * A new suite of Apple Mac LC II and Quadra 800 machines is installed in Babbage 108. –

Context: > Windows 3.1 is announced. > John Cage dies.

1990 – 1991: * BSc MediaLab Arts, the kernel that became i-DAT, evolved from a collaboration between Lesley Kerman (Head of Department of Humanities, Performance, and Media at the Faculty of Art & Design, Exeter (formerly Exeter College of Art & Design (ECAD)) and Dr Pat Pearce (Head of the School of Computing, Faculty of Technology, Plymouth). * ECAD was swallowed by Polytechnic South West (PSW) in 1989 and after a merger with Humanities subjects in Rolle College Exmouth, evolved into the current Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Business in the transition to the University of Plymouth (1992) and its relocation to the Roland Levinsky Building (2007). * Mike Phillips, was teaching hypermedia, networking and desk-top publishing in 4D/ BA Fine Art, BA Media and MA Publishing, volunteered to work with staff in the School of Computing to develop what became the BSc MediaLab Arts Programme. –

Context: > Donald Rodney (1961–1998) commissioned by TSWA Four Cities Project to build Visceral Canker (1990) installed on Mount Edgcumbe old gun emplacement between Barn Pool and the Cremyll Ferry landing (acquired by the Tate 2009). Mike Phillips helps build the work which consist of two heraldic shields (John Hawkins and Elizabeth I) peristaltic pumps, control boards and power units sandwiched between Perspex sheets. The original plan to pump Donald’s blood was vetoed by Plymouth City Council and red autopsy dye was used. > Thom Yorke (later lead singer of Radiohead) works on Mike Phillips’ Mac Plus developing interactive Hypercard Stacks at Exeter College of Art & Design. The band rehearse in the video editing suite. > Tim Berners-Lee publishes formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first known web page is written. > Microsoft announces its latest version of its operating system: Windows 3.0