Creative Media Research

BIORHYTHM: WORKSHOPS

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:35:28 +0000

Title: BIORHYTHM: WORKSHOPS
Location: Science Gallery
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Description: For our opening weekend of BIORHYTHM you will get the chance to get creative with sounds in a range of workshops, including a workshop on the shape of sound where you can create a visible masterpiece of sound patterns, learn how to beatbox with Cian Sayles and explore Bob Moog\’s Glasses and the theremin in a special workshop.
Date: 2010-07-02

BIORHYTHM: MUSIC AND THE BODY

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:34:50 +0000

Title: BIORHYTHM: MUSIC AND THE BODY
Location: Science Gallery
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Description: BIORHYTHM: MUSIC AND THE BODY opens to the public on Friday July 2nd and runs until October 1st. It is open Tuesday – Friday 12:00-20:00 and Saturday – Sunday 12:00-18:00. Admission free with a suggested donation of €5. Find out more on http://www.sciencegallery.com/biorhythm. BIORHYTHM is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport.
Start Date: 2010-07-02
End Date: 2010-10-01

Analysis: Anatomy of an alternate-reality game

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:19:36 +0000

Interesting article on the evolution of ARGs.

* by Alex Wawro
* April 26, 2010 13:02 PM PST

We hacked the Portal 2 BBS and tracked Meltzer’s kidnapped daughter to Rapture without touching a video game console. Alternate-reality games (ARG) have become more sophisticated in the last few years, and now it seems every major release comes with an extra mystery to solve. What makes these games so popular? Who plays them, and why do developers sink so much time and effort into a free product?

Alternate-reality games have come a long way since the ill-fated 2001 launch of EA’s Majestic, an interactive game that contacted subscribers via phone, email, and instant message to make a fictional conspiracy come alive. Majestic was the first commercial ARG, a game played in real-time across multiple forms of media. That ARG was a commercial failure – EA shut the game down after recouping less than a tenth of the $10 million development cost – but today the format flourishes as a marketing tool. To find out why, GamePro talked to a few game designers about what makes ARG marketing campaigns so effective and whether their popularity suggests a growing trend or just a passing fad.

Anatony of an ARG

Analysis: Anatomy of an alternate-reality game

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Media – Culture, Community & Society

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:37:51 +0000

Research in this theme seeks to go beyond commenting on or reacting to what is emerging. Instead researchers will be asked to create experiential, critical and non-discursive forms that engage with pressing issues around culture, community and society. Areas of research interest and expertise include:
• Identity and Place (constructing ‘Irishness’ in new media, creating inter-cultural
cohesiveness through creative media)
• Gender (representations, culture, power)
• Media representations and reporting of conflict
• Digital Literacy, Access and Empowerment
• Contemporary cultural expression
• Convergence online/offline
• Creative Communities
• Copyright culture in the digital age

New-Media Narrative Forms

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:37:15 +0000

Research in this theme includes any variety of interactive and emergent narratives and games, including interactive drama, documentary and film; non linear texts, computer games, physical games, trans-reality games, location-based games, pervasive games, mobile games
and technologically enhanced live-action role-playing.

Creative Pedagogies and Transformative Work Practices

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:36:43 +0000

Research in this area focuses on extending our understanding of how people acquire, develop creative skills and innovation. This includes focus on educational environments, such as curriculum, and teaching and learning as well as focusing on contemporary work
environments and practices including freelance work.

Areas of research interest and expertise include:
• Innovative Methodologies for education,
• E-learning,
• Collaboration tools
• Drivers of business growth: innovation in the creative industries
• Research methodologies (practice-based research, phenomenology, ethnographies, narrative analysis)

Media Production

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:36:01 +0000

This research theme seeks to re-contextualise traditional media and art-form practices for emerging technological, cultural and service contexts. It will explore new approaches to production processes and the use of digital technology in contemporary media art practices including Animation, Film, Audio, Radio, Photography, Design and Writing.

Creative Media Content Creation

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:35:22 +0000

This research theme sees artists and creative practitioners as leading contributors to research productivity and excellence around practice-led innovation and the development of creative work and art for new contexts. Areas of research interest and expertise include Web 3.0, Mobile technologies, Cloud computing, Prosumers (consumers as producers), Digital storytelling, Games, and Interactive Art.

Creative Technologies

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:34:45 +0000

The constant advancement of Information and Communication Technologies has meant that the nature of interaction is persistently changing. With these changes come challenges as well as opportunities that need to be investigated and understood. Research in this theme focuses on the practical and theoretical implications of interactivity beyond the keyboard and the mouse for both the user and the designer. Research is focused on the connection of real and
virtual spaces and exploring the possibilities of the creation of emotionally rich immersive experiences by the use of tangible objects as devices for interaction these include Wearable Technologies, interface design, Mobile Technologies Tangible interface design (wearable computing; lasers, motion detection and webcam as innovative interaction devices).

Future Communications

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:54:32 +0000

By developing an understanding of the historical interaction between communications systems and societies it becomes possible to make an informed assessment of the contemporary situation and predict the future development and potential impact of new communications technologies. Research in the area of Future communications requires us to examine and deconstruct factors that affect all types of communications in order to broaden understanding of how communication principles and methodologies are affected by cultural and technological influences.
These include:
• Theoretical and practical issues of communications
• Semiotics in an international interactive learning environment
• Cultural issues in communication design.
• Societal perceptions in the communications process.
• The theory and application of information design as it applies to the most recent and emerging communication systems, e.g. Web 3.0, mobile technologies, ecommerce, gaming etc.