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#SxSC: Chronotape

Peter Bennett will talk about Chronotape which is a tangible timeline for family history research, developed as part of the PATINA project within the Bristol Interaction & Graphics group. The chronotape explores the concept of using a tangible interface to control time, effectively turning the abstract concept of time into something that can be held and controlled. Links http://chronotape.com/ http://www.patina.ac. Continue reading →

#SxSC outline schedule

This is an outline schedule of talks and demonstrations for #SxSC. Anyone attending is invited to talk and demo their work. 10.30am Composer Benjamin Mawson investigates ways to use space as an expressive layer in studio-produced music. Developer Enrique Tomas has built a tool using GPS to interpret a listenerā€™s position and movement in order to create a unique way of hearing music. Musical compositions can now be spread across a landscape, mapped to a territory. Continue reading →

SXSC Demo: Tsinghua-Southampton Visualisation

The Tsinghua-Southampton exchange program was set up to serve as a platform for young researchers to exchange ideas on key issues within Web Science. The chosen project was to analyze, extract and visualize how the young perceived the world using online data. As part of the Visualization team Christopher Hughes will be demonstrating the chosen tools that we used to represent the data, highlighting some key issues and concerns. Continue reading →

SXSC Presentations: Virtual RTI

James Miles will outline the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging - a simple and cheap surface imaging tool - on existing three dimensional datasets in a virtual environment. He will show some worked examples, and evaluate the potential of the methodology within cultural heritage. He will focus on comparing the different datasets and will highlight the surface detail that could be overlooked through conventional means of visualisation. Continue reading →

SXSC Presentation and demonstration of ā€œMusic You Can Walk Insideā€

Music composed in the digital studio has always been heard on loudspeakers. All of the theatre and unpredictability of a performance is absent. Composer Benjamin Mawson investigates ways to use space as an expressive layer in studio-produced music. Developer Enrique Tomas has built a tool using GPS to interpret a listenerā€™s position and movement in order to create a unique way of hearing music. Musical compositions can now be spread across a landscape, mapped to a territory. Continue reading →

SXSC Presentations: Using the potential of high speed networks for real time distributed musical interactions

Alain Renaud will be talking about distributed music.Ā Alain's research explores high-speed networks as a medium for developing real time interactive performances in a multiplicity of spaces. The technological usefulness of the latter is of limited importance if the various musical, sociological and philosophical aspects are not considered. Continue reading →