Just some notes to self about representing flow over maps for the AHRC Connected Community project ‘ The Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden ‘.

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Flow

May 7th, 2012 | Tags: chrome, correctness, digital, flow, flowing-ships, friends, maps, news, research, stuff we like, wind-map | Category: News, Research | Leave a comment

In 2003 a term emerged to encompass technologies and processes that promised to reconfigure our understanding and experiences of space and culture, this term was ‘locative media’. The terminology framed a particular aspect of mobile media and signaled a shift toward a convergence of temporal and cartographic representations of space

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Drawing with Satellites #2

May 1st, 2012 | Tags: book, city, community-hacking, drawing, environment, news, satellites, technology | Category: News, Research, Students | Leave a comment

Scottish senior school pupils took part, tweeting – and voting on who they though tweets really came from. Over the course of a week in March, our system saw 12,000 tweets and 150,000 votes, with contributions from 2 real celebrities, 3 university staff, 4 chatbots, and hundreds of (mostly) S5 senior school pupils from across the country. At LateLab’s T100 Twittest night in Inspace, on 11th April at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, we awarded prizes to the winners at faking and spotting fakers, or at just being themselves.

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Twittest Results summary

April 28th, 2012 | Tags: bbc, breakfast, celebrity, chatbots, ipad, news, projects, sarah-brown, tweet, viccy-adams, walking-through | Category: News, Research | Leave a comment

Following a series of template video processes students worked in teams of six to develop a responses to the architectural context of Inspace through the theme of digital skin.

The gallery has many data projectors that may project inside or outside – introverting the space or extroverting it. Students were encouraged to make a short video piece that responds to the idea of a skin for the building and carefully considered whether the audience should be inside or outside to view this skin. Since the data projectors throw onto translucent screens over the glass windows it was possible to move inside and outside the gallery to experience the skin as a membrane. Other works considered the connection between the projectors – as though large landscape screens that were synced in time.

Special thanks to:
Pierre Forissier
Dave Millar
Keith Milne
Marcus Rothnie
Max Yang

Documentation by:
Anna Bruce & Georgina Bolton

Developed by:
Fiona McLachlan
Chris Speed

Presented and hosted by:
Mark Daniels, New Media Scotland

Music by Trifonic, @ccMixter

April 9th, 2012 | Category: ESALA News, Exhibitions, Students | Leave a comment

Community Web2.0: creative control through hacking Chris Speed, Martin Phillips, Sharon Baurley,  Amadu Khan, Eoghan Howard, Prospect Community Housing Organisation, and Whale Arts. Connected Communities is a cross-Research Council research programme, led by the AHRC, in close partnership with the ESRC, EPSRC, MRC and NERC and a range of other potential stakeholders.

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Community Hacking

March 15th, 2012 | Tags: architecture, archives, design, digital, hacking, internet, network, wester hailes, wikileaks | Category: News, Research | Leave a comment

Amadu ’s brief history of hacking toward our Community Hacking project – coming soon We would suggest that to enable a systematic debate and understanding of ‘hacking’ as social praxis, we ought to look at the application of the concept in two main domains, namely techno-scientific and socio-political domains. This will enable us to unpack the term in relation to: etymology: the origin of the concept. attitudinal dimension: the moral ambiguity around ‘hacking’ and the attendant pejorative-complementary discourse.

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Hacking histories

March 12th, 2012 | Tags: financial, internet, knowledge, motivation, networking, news, perception, yahoo | Category: News, Research, Students | Leave a comment

Well here it is… http://shelflife.oxfam.org.uk/ After 18 months since we offered up RememberMe at Future Everything in Manchester the Oxfam App is launched for a ten store pilot in Manchester.

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From RememberMe to Shelflife

February 27th, 2012 | Tags: auto, british, digital, internet, london, oxfam, oxfam-shelflife, read, technology | Category: News, Research | Leave a comment

EUSAS are looking forwards to welcoming Patrick Lynch, who will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Portrait and Landscape’.

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EUSAS Presents: Patrick Lynch: ‘Portrait and Landscape’

February 22nd, 2012 | Tags: committee, events, events-design, lecture-series, past events, resources, what's on, your-committee | Category: Students | Leave a comment

Many thanks to everyone who entered their photographs into the EUSAS Photography Competition – there were over 30 entries and they were all of a very high standard. Congratulations are extended to Angel Hsiao who was awarded first prize (and a £30 Analogue Books voucher) and to Paul McDonald who was awarded second place and a £10 Analogue Books voucher. Our thanks also to Victoria Clare Bernie for lending her keen eye to the judging process and for the fascinating seminar she gave on her work as a digital video artist.

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Thanks to all who entered the EUSAS Photography Competition

February 21st, 2012 | Tags: autumn 2011, committee, eusas, events, events-gallery, gallery, past events, resources | Category: Students | Leave a comment