Workshop with C3KE

On Friday afternoon, Derek and myself had setup a workshop for a joint bid within the C3KE framework. There were about 10 people in the Impressions Gallery in Bradford where this event was held. From INN, Ben joined me. There was also Marc from AXIS. A good meeting, to get together and learn about the different interest of the participating institutions.

Meeting Joe Gilmore

For integrating the C3KE website with a few other things (blog, Flickr), Tie and I met with Joe Gilmore, who is a freelance web designer and artist. He has very interesting creative activities and also knows a few people from our faculty.

C3KE Operational Group Meeting

Today, the quarterly operational group meeting of the C3KE took place at U.Bradford. We discussed past work and opportunities for joint projects. This group of academics has the critical mass for winning bids to interesting projects in the Creative Technology domain - there are a few calls out currently in various topics, and we plan to bid.

C3KE Lunchtime Seminar

On Monday our Centre for Creative Technology hosted a lunch time meeting at the Old Broadcasting House for our partner institutions in the C3KE (= Centre for Creative and cultural Knowledge Exchange). Our Dean Cath Orange also came to give a welcome address. Then I briefly outlined the overal concept of the centre. But the main presentation was given by several of our members: Richard Stevens and Tony Renshaw presented the work on eye tracking and the ReViewed project. Steve Wilkinson gave a short intro on motion capture and animation work. Nikos Stavropoulos presented the music work, followed by Kinglsey Ash who explained the concept of his interactive music performance/composition. Ben Dalton gave an impromptu talk on various projects related to the Leeds Big Screen. This concluded our Leeds Met presentations. Tim Challis from Leeds University offered to talk briefly about the C3KE in general, for the benefit of our staff members. Alison Mealey from U. Huddersfield's Digital Research Unit (DRU) followed with a brief impromptu overview on her activities.

Afterwards, a few demos had been set up: Tony Renshaw gave a demo of the eye tracker system, Kinglsey Ash demonstrated his interactive music composition, and Bal Singh showed his tilt sensor enabled laptop, on with he played a game for rolling a ball. We also were running a interactive movie by MSc student Rana Gangari. Buffet food was available, and we had then the opportunity to chat and discuss.

There are pictures of this event available on the Leeds Met website.

C3KE Meeting at U. Huddersfield

Together with centenary PhD student Michael Ward I drove on Friday to the C3KE meeting at University of Huddersfield, where a talk was given by two researchers from University of Leeds about the interaction of dance and computing technology.

The next of these informal seminar meetings will take place at Leeds Metropolitan University, on 28. January 2008 - I will organise it and prepare a talk / presentation of our Centre for Creative Technology work.