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Phillips co-organised the Transimage converence hosted by i-DAT, the Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture 2016 – THE ATEMPORAL IMAGE. The conference explored how a new temporality informs and plays out across contemporary visual culture. Participants are asked to address aspects of the atemporal at least one of the following areas: the still image |  the immersive image | the sound as image | hypermediacy and the iconic character of the image | politics of the image and/or image making in a transdisciplinary context| life sciences and bioart in relation to the living image| distributed and networked image | The trans-scalar image(inary), from the nano to the astronomical image | Artificial and computer vision | moving still | image as time, real-time and glitch-time| archival, permanency and immediacy| aesthetics and proliferation of the image.

http://transimage.i-dat.org/

Phillips co-organised The 6th edition of the BunB conference was  produced by i-DAT in collaboration with the Sustainable Earth Institute and Art and Sound at Plymouth University, and in collaboration with the North Devon’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Beaford Arts, the Eden Project and Fulldome UK. Our increasingly mediated relationship with the environment brings new insights to the invisible forces that affect complex ecologies. From meteorological data flows to temporal climate change models, our relationship with our environment is becoming more abstract, simulated and remote – tempering our desire to act. Could it be that we know more and experience less? BunB17 maps the coordinates of our Sense of Place – the horizontal landscape to the vertical transcalar spaces of the macro/micro.

http://balance-unbalance2017.org/

i-DAT was delighted to host the ‘Overview’, a 50^th Anniversary Celebration of Leonardo at the Balance Unbalance 2017 conference. The Overview celebratesd Leonardo’s impact by providing a transdisciplinary change of perspective on the world. The Overview is synergetic with BunB 2017’s theme: “A Sense of Place” and confronts the transcalar – the macro, meso and micro understanding of our ecologies. The Leonardo Overview Panel will took place on the 22 August 2017. With, amongst others, Nina Czegledy, Ricardo Dal Farra, Sue Denham, Roger Malina and Paul Thomas. The Overview was supported by the Eden Project [www.edenproject.com]. The Overview was part of the international Leonardo 50^th Anniversary Celebration. https://www.leonardo.info/50th-anniversary.

http://balance-unbalance2017.org/leonardo/

The Scale Electric workshop coupled the power of the Atomic Force Microscope to touch the infinitesimally small with the potential of the Full Dome environment to immerse participants in visualisations of the incomprehensibly big. Throughout the last Century we were reintroduced to the idea of an invisible world. The development of sensing technologies allowed us to sense things in the world that we were unaware of (or maybe things we had just forgotten about?). The Scale Electric – the invisible ‘hertzian’ landscape was made accessible through instruments that could measure, record and broadcast our fears and desires. These instruments endow us with powers that in previous centuries would have been deemed ‘occult’ or ‘magic’. Our ability to shift scales, from the smallest thing to the largest thing has been described as the ‘transcalar imaginary. The workshop will enable participants to touch the nano level and then immerse themselves within it through visualisations and sonifications.

https://www.mike-phillips.net/scale-electric-19-20072010/

“The Plymouth E/M/D/L workshops took advantage of the i-DAT Digital Studios based in the Babbage Building. Studio space in the Scott Building was also used for the camera tracking and other video work. The Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT) was also used for audio production and performances and provided a ‘micro-Satosphere’ for the presentation of the various media artefacts together. The E / M / D / L team, working with local artist/researchers, collaborated on the development of a range of technologies to support the fulldome research agenda. These included explorations of: generative audio audio compositions (incorporating the weird acoustics of the IVT solid plaster ‘whispering gallery’ dome); dynamic data feeds and navigation techniques for Unity 3D environments, including swarm behaviour, mobile app feeds using smart phone sensors; wearables, iBeacon proximity sensing and camera/kinect tracking; scaling and recursive spatial experiments.”

http://www.emdl.eu/activities/plymouth-jul-14/show/article/research-goals-and-outcome-2/

The Skunk-Works day-long prototyping workshops will focus on three themes related to the UK Industrial Strategy and offers an opportunity for participants to rehearse ideas and prototypes for the Impact Lab and South West Creative Technology Fellowships (SWCTN). Immersion/Automation/Data: Three parallel prototyping workshops will be held on floor 2 of the Roland Levinsky Building starting with a briefing in the Design Lab. Each themed prototyping workshop will be supported by skilled students from the Ion Studio representing the broad range of skills and practices of the Design Research Area. These will facilitate the prototyping workshops to help rapid prototype of ideas.

DDR / Skunk-Works / TIOD / Automatik / DATA TA-DA! /