The Linux Society

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@abertay.ac.uk T 01308 308 324 or visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions