A collection of digital networking projects which began with audio transmissions of code and a ZX81 and a collaboration with Robert Pepperell at the Slade School of Art and his facilitation of Roy Ascott’s networking projects.
As well as establishing the network infrastructure (technical and political – “why don’t you just meet people and have a cup of coffee” (Professor George circa 1986 when asked if we could install an RS-232 socket in the Slade – see Hacking The (im)material) at University College London’s Euclid system, we supported numerous projects, such as:
1989 G.E.N.I.E. Global Communications Network. [Global Electronic Network Image Exchange] Networking project run through JANET / EARN between Exeter College of Art & Design / Gwent / Sydney / Vienna / Pittsburg.
1989 ARS ELECTRONICA, Roy Ascott’s Aspects of Gaia, Linz Austria.
1987 1’ere Bienale Des Ecoles D’Art D’Europe 87. Toulouse, France. Exhibitor and Technical Advisor.
1987 ‘Cultura Digitalis’ Austria Centre Vienna.
This sensibility lead to the MEDIASPACE programme and networking projects such as:
1996: MEDIASPACE 2.
‘Cyberbaby’,
IN THE PRE-WWW-HISTORIC 80’S, A PHASE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TELEMATIC AND TERMINAL ART FOCUSED ON THE INTERCHANGE OF IMAGE AND TEXT [EMAILED, BINHEX IMAGE FILES OVER EARN (EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH NETWORK) AND JANET (JOINT ACADEMIC NETWORK) MAIL SERVERS (SUCH AS EUCLID AT UCL)] BETWEEN SEVERAL
ART INSTITUTIONS SCATTERED ACROSS THE GLOBE. PROJECTS INCLUDED: BIENNIEL D’EUROPE; CULTURAL DIGITALIS; THE DIGITAL BODY EXCHANGE; GENIE; ETC..
‘The Humming of Strings’.
The “Humming of Strings” uses the distance (23000 mile) between the satellite UpLink (ESA TDS 4 based @ Plymouth University) and the Satellite, and back again, (INTELSAT or EUTELSAT) to generate a quarter of a second delay in the transmission and reception of the video signal. In effect this creates a 46,000 mile echo chamber. The processed signals can be received live using domestic satellite reception equipment in a footprint that spans western Europe and over 1000 established institutional reception sites.
[Intelligent Tutoring Media Journal, Vol 6 Numbers3/4]
Spectactor [05/2000] an experimental project that uses interactive digital media to enable the development of new forms of performance and narrative.
The Virtual Advisor [03/1997] n off world location was finally chosen, a set of coordinates, a cluster of stars, between the horns of Taurus, in an area of high radio activity in the Crab Nebula. Look to the skies and imagine the ‘VA’.
Tony Blair Cast
This must have been around 1999/2000 when Tony Blair was still ‘Bambi’ and hadn’t lost his way. We used the i-DAT Darwin streaming server to broadcast his Plymouth visit to the Guild Hall to the Houses of Parliament.
Ludic-Architectures [07/2022] is a shared Virtual Fulldome Platform funded by the British Council’s UK-China Outward Mobility Internationalisation Partnership Fund, developed in response to international COVID-19 restrictions.
Fulldome Hybrid Hub Project. [02/2021] The Fulldome Hybrid Hub is an R&D project funded by the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN).
Originally launched as MSc Digital Futures in the School of Computing, Faculty of Technology in 2000 as an online and symposium/low residency programme, supported by streaming media services and online Virtual Reality spaces.
and currently:
The Internet of Domes… coming soon.
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