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MscapeFest08
2-3 December 2008 – mscapeFest08 in Belfast!
After a great conference last year, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories is organising a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media enthusiasts, practitioners and facilitators. This year the programme is packed with workshops mentored by industry professionals, keynotes from a range of backgrounds, community case studies and plenty of networking.
You can see here what we did last year:
http://www.mscapers.com/mscapefest07
This year we are aiming to focus on education, pervasive gaming and heritage.
Where:
W5 Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Please note that you have to register separately for the optional workshops by e-mailing mscapefest08@mscapers.com
Programme
1st day – Tuesday 2 December 2008
- 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch for morning workshop attendees
- 13.00 Delegate registration for mscapeFest08 at W5
- 13.30 Welcome and Intro to day 1 by Bill McCluggage, Director of Delivery & Innovation Division, DFPNI
Confirmed workshops:
Download presentation slides and resources from the workshop
- Multiplayer mscapes: Connecting mscapes to the Internet, web services and each other. - Tom Melamed
Download presentation slides and examples from the workshop - Mscapes top tips : your best ideas and feedback- Kevin Coyle and Brian Lamb
2nd day – Wednesday 3 December 2008
Introduction to mscapes
This workshop is for those who have no experience with the mscape technology. Weather permitting there will be a chance to go out and experience an mscape: Jo Reid will host this workshop and cover the following items at introductory level:
- What is mscape
- How do people experience mscapes
- How do you design a mscape
- Design requirements
Lunch will be included.
If this sounds interesting to you and you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to mscapefest08@mscapers.com and we will sign you up!
TEACHERS, SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION PRACTICIONERS, PAY ATTENTION:
We are offering a half day workshop (as mentioned above) especially for you. You are very welcome to attend the entire conference, but we also understand that due to time and budget pressures you may prefer to allocate half a day of your time only.
The Workshop will be hosted by Dr Constance Fleuriot.
Slides from the education workshop
What will be covered:
- Introduction to mscapes.
- How is the technology adopted successfully in schools.
- What are the logistics, including equipment.
- Using the technology, including experience guidelines.
- How do mscapes fit into the curriculum.
Various invited audience members will offer case studies of their experiences in schools and spark off discussion about future use.
Lunch will be included.
If this sounds interesting to you and you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to mscapefest08@mscapers.com and we will sign you up!
Optional Evening Audio Workshop
Tuesday 2 December 20.00 - 21.30 (max 110 delegates)
Walking, listening and performing - Duncan Speakman
This session explores the process and issues involved in the creation of pervasive audio work. From recording techniques to the balancing immersive and augmented experiences, from the idea of audience as performer to the social positioning of mobile audio in the post iPod age. How do we connect pervasive media audiences to their immediate surrounding at the same time as blocking their senses?
The Sonic Arts Research Centre - Professor Michael Alcorn
SARC is a newly established centre of excellence, dedicated to the research of music technology. This unique interdisciplinary project has united internationally recognised experts in the areas of musical composition, signal processing, internet technology and digital hardware.The Centre is established in a purpose-built facility located alongside the engineering departments of Queen's University.
The centrepiece of SARC, the Sonic Laboratory, provides a unique space for cutting-edge initiatives in the creation and delivery of music and audio. The Sonic Laboratory's uniqueness is vested in the degree of flexibility it can provide for experiments in 3D sound diffusion and for ground-breaking compositional and performance work within a purpose-built, variable acoustic space.
This talk will include a screening of Brian Cullens' animated video "Thrice Removed" which features a 48 channel soundtrack especially designed for the Sonic Lab.
Biographies
Constance Fleuriot
Dr Constance Fleuriot was one of the principal investigators on the Mobile Bristol Project investigating the social impact of emerging pervasive and mobile technologies. She co-developed A New Sense of Place which looked at how these technologies might enable children's creative engagement with their environment. She also managed the Mobile Bristol: Arnolfini Live collaboration which produced Moulinex and "A Description Of This Place As If You Were Someone Else.." Her last project for Mobile Bristol was the Southville: Locating Reminiscence project, a community produced mediascape project that located memories of wartime childhoods.
Since then she has been working as a freelance consultant in user research and locative media design, and facilitating location-based mixed-media projects with a variety of user communities.
She worked on the development of the Futurelab createascape website, a resource for pupils and teachers on how to use HP labs mscape software in an educational setting.
She is now developing programmes for the new Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol, a collaboration between HP labs and iSHed.
She has her own company, featherhouse.
Bill McCluggage
Bill joined the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) as Director of eGovernment within the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister in November 2003. He represents Northern Ireland on the UK Government's CIO Council, is the nominated Senior Information Risk owner (SIRO) for the Northern Ireland Civil Service and became ‘Director of the Delivery & Innovation Division' in the Department of Finance & Personnel in April 2006.
Bill is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has recently been involved in driving forward a joint MSc course in Innovation Management with the Republic of Ireland for senior public sector officials across the 2 jurisdictions and was appointed a Visiting Professor within the School of International Business at the Ulster University, Magee Campus in June 2008. He sits on a range of cross-cutting public sector programme boards including the NIHE Modernising Services programme and is SRO for Records NI, Network NI and IT Assist. He is on the board of "Momentum" - the ICT Federation for NI and the European Education Research and Innovation Centre, which is based in Belfast.
Ben Clayton
Ben Clayton is a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Labs whose main focus has been to see how the process of authoring mediascape experiences can be simplified so that people from non-technical backgrounds can partake in this exciting new medium. Ben has been involved in a number of public research trials using mediascape technology for tour guides, gaming, entertainment & education. He is also a Flash for mediascapes expert.
Kevin Coyle and Brian Lamb
Brian has spent 10 years working on content management and web services with companies like
Cap Gemini, BBC, Rolls Royce and HSBC along the way he met Kevin Coyle (page 16) and infected by his enthusiasm he joined him in creating Ulster Mediascapes.
Brian is a partner with Customer Carewords and works with NI government on digital inclusion.
Kevin encountered Mediascapes early in its life within HP labs, together with Bill McCluggage? and Jimmy Stewart who decided it would be a good idea to experiment with the technology in Northern Ireland.
In the two years since his tireless enthusiasm working with Brian Lamb has created a mscapes community in N. Ireland. Ulster Mediascapes now involves education, heritage tourism, agriculture and media in producing and using mscapes.Along the way Kevin and Brian have learnt a thing or two about the toolkit, hardware, mscapes design and how to keep dry on Islands in Lough Erne!
Phil Stenton
Phil Stenton manages the Pervasive Media research in the Pervasive Computing Lab at HP Labs Bristol. He is also the research director of the Pervasive Media Studio.He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Sheffield and has 20 years of research management experience in the UK and the US. In 1984 he was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, before joining BT and eventually HP Labs. Until 1999 he managed a department in HP Labs working in mobile and appliance computing and interaction technologies. He followed that with a temporary assignment in Corvallis Oregon where he set up a research lab to explore e-services technology.
On return from Oregon he was a co-author and director of a DTI/HP sponsored research programme called Mobile Bristol that engaged participants from across the creative and IT industries, universities, educationalists, schoolchildren and members of the public.
Alex Fleetwood
Alex Fleetwood is a producer and director of Hide and Seek Productions. Alex founded Hide and Seek, the UK's first festival of social games and playful experiences, in 2007. This year the festival played to over 3000 people at the Southbank Centre and featured an international line-up of artists. As well as Hide and Seek, Alex has produced projects including The Eternity Man, a film opera for Channel 4, and The Soho Project, an ARG for the London Games Festival. http://www.hideandseekfest.co.uk/
Kate Woodall
Exhibition Project Manager, Historic Royal Palaces.
An art historian by training, the first 15 years of my working life was spent as a curator of contemporary art breaking down the boundaries that visitors associate with the words contemporary and art. For the last three years I've worked with Historic Royal Palaces.
Working within the Interpretation Team, my key aim is to provide innovative 'ways in' for visitors to engage with the amazing stories and spaces that abound the five palaces we look after - HM Tower Of London; Hampton Court Palace; Banqueting House, Whitehall; Kensington Palace and Kew Palace.
Such 'ways in' have included a permanent presentation at Hampton Court Palace which employs the three protagonists of the story - Young Henry VIII, his queen, Katherine of Aragon and Cardinal Wolsey in surprisingly contemporary and emotionally engaging ways. Other projects have used technology to provide emotional access to spaces and stories for disabled visitors and for all visitors' access to spaces that no longer exist. One of my current projects is web based - here I have the opportunity of exploiting social networking sites and, hopefully, viral games to get the visitors excited and through our palace gates!
Duncan Speakman
Duncan Speakman is a Bristol based artist who creates work that physicaly and emotionally engages audiences in public spaces. He employs walking as both a process and/or outcome in the work. In recent years he has created pre-recorded audio walks, generative GPS-based experiences, live performance using locative media content, and games for public spaces.
Documentation of his work can be found at http://duncanspeakman.net/
Professor Michael Alcorn
Michael Alcorn's compositional interests lie at the intersection between instrumental, electroacoustic music and areas of new media creative practice. His music has been performed and broadcast in the UK, Europe, North and South America and the Far East. He has received commissions from the BBC, The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Nash Ensemble, Singcircle, the Smith Quartet, Darragh Morgan, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Opera Theatre Company and the Ulster Orchestra.
In recent years his work has been a featured at leading new music festivals in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland and the US.He is currently the Music Coordinator for the International Computer Music Association and a Board member of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan.
Michael Alcorn undertook postgraduate studies in composition with John Casken at University of Durham in the mid-1980s before joined the School of Music at Queen's in 1989 as Composer-in-Residence. He devised and developed the Music Technology pathway at Queen's and led the successful bid to develop the Sonic Arts Research Centre at the University. He was Director of SARC from its inception in 2001 until it joined forces with the School of Music in 2005. He is now Professor of Composition and Head of the School of Music & Sonic Arts at Queen's.
