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Race To Zero

2017: Artwork for album cover and website. Race to zero by John Matthias and Jay Auborn. Based on data from the 2008 financial crash, I turned it from a data graph, into a illustrator image, then it was turned into a fragile wire mesh 3D model in Blender and made interactive in unity for fly-throughs and photographing.

http://racetozero.co.uk/

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Corridor

2017: Shown as part of the SITE Festival 2017, corridor is an immersive virtual environment linking Stroud and Plymouth, funded by the Arts Council and created by INDEXprojects in collaboration with KARST, a contemporary artspace in Plymouth and i-DAT, a digital research lab based at Plymouth University.Sound Design by Near Future.

I created 2 versions of the project 1 for desktop, the other for Android VR, I constructed and coded everything in the project with original video and sound provided by the collaborating artists. Unity, Blender, Photoshop and After Effects were used.

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Senti-Mental

2016: 

Senti-Mental is a ludic brain model derived from a melding of an MRI scan and real-time twitter feeds scrapped form the collective mind of the Off-The Lip event. Tweets run through a sentiment analysis filter which impacts on colour and activity within the low-polygon-volumetric- model extracted from an MRI scan of head and brain. Looking more like a crystal-cave than a grey-jelly Senti-Mental is illuminated by the hive mind of visitors to the event.

Senti-Mental incorporates aspects of i-DAT’s Quarum Sensing Project which explores cultural computation, ludic data and playful experimentation with creative technology. Quorum is an algorithmic system that feeds off data generated by material and virtual environments and the physical and social behaviour of audiences. It incorporates bio-inspired algorithmic swarm decentralised decision making processes to generate a dynamic and evolving collective.

Quorum is an algorithmic system that feeds off data generated by material and virtual environments and the physical and social behaviour of audiences. It incorporates bio-inspired algorithmic swarm decentralised decision making processes to generate a dynamic and evolving collective behaviour. It is a volatile system of stimuli and response that is manifest as data driven interactive objects, installations and immersive audio-visual experiences.

Created using Unity 3D, Blender & Node Red. Shown at the ‘Off the Lip 2016′ ‘Bizarre Bazzzr’ by CogNovo https://cognovo.eu/events/otlip16-bizarre-bazaar.php 

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Space Interface ii : i-DAT Redux

2016:  Live Immersive Visual Audio Jam at the IVT (Immersive Vision Theatre) Saturday 10th September 7pm. Collaboration between Eberhard Kranemann/Mathew Emmett + Mike Philips/Luke Christison. Creating poly sensory immersive reality for the fulldome architectural experience. The IVT is a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material and imaginary worlds. Role: Technican & VJ. After setting everything up I used After Effects and Resolume to mix and transform live visuals.

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Cosmic Perspective

2016+ My ongoing planetarium lecture has been opened up to the public on a regular basis of twice a month and is set to continue with ever evolving show content and marketing in 2017. The culmination of many years of work being enthused by cosmology, philosophy, technology and public engagement.

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QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS

2016: Quantum Consciousness
: A visual/sonic installation that immerses the viewer in quantum phenomenon.

During the residency at i-DAT  artist Paul Thomas  assisted by Luke Christison  has been able to translate his art Quantum Consciousness to a fully immersive  audio-visualisation  dome environment of atomic data which indexes the quantum “movement” of an electron. This project delivers an aesthetic and immersive experience that places the viewer inside the virtual superposition of a sub-atomic particle (i.e. its field of probability). This audiovisual experience establishes a metaphor and indexical map of human thought. The quantum spin of the electron here mapped is serving as the conduit for the form of the sensory stimuli of the work. The broader significance of Quantum Consciousness concerns the possibility of non-human, computational intelligence commingling with human consciousness. This link stems from the fact that the “material” of the electron and its quantum behaviour is the basis of the possibility of quantum computation.

Quantum Consciousness (in collaboration with Kevin Raxworthy) is in the visualization of the co-emergence of thought-data (viewer) and quantum-data (electron). The scientific research informing the work was conducted in collaboration with Assoc. Professor Andrea Morello. Dr.Morello’s current research looks at controlling the spin of electrons and nuclei for the development of the processor in quantum computer. The experiment makes visible and audible the spin of the superposition of a phosphorous electron that has been bombarded by microwave signals.The paradox of the quantum superposition (best articulated in the Schrodinger’s Cat – thought experiment) exists as an actual and empirical condition in which an electron occupies multiple positions in space simultaneously, but none specifically.

The scientific data for this project is generated from a microwave signal which transforms a reading of Richard Feynman’s (1982) paper on the birth of the quantum computer. The link between the quantum computer, consciousness and artistic expression is presented via the installation through the co-emergence of thought and quantum conditions. Quantum Consciousness is thus an experiment in the imaging and materialising of impossible states of quantum matter and the co-emergence of human consciousness.

Quantum Consciousness is featured on the March cover of the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology. http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v11/n3/covers/index.html

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Transimaging Conference 2016

Workshop: IMMERSION

When: Saturday 2 July. 11.20-17.00

Location: Immersive Vision Theatre.

Workshop leader: Luke Christison.

The IMMERSION Workshop is delivered in collaboration with i-DAT’s Immersive Vision Theatre.

Fulldome is slowly emerging from its planetarium shaped incubator into a brave new world of digital projectors, real-time visualisation software, independent content producers and transdisciplinary collaborations. A transdisciplinary instrument for manifesting (im)material and imaginary worlds, this spatial-temporal bubble is a polysensory polypsical anomaly in the history of media technologies, sitting somewhere between a scientific instrument and a funfair ride.

These places are where all the different kinds of truths fit together as nicely as the parts in your Daddy’s solar watch. We call these places chrono-synclastic infundibula. (Vonnegut, 1962, p.11-12).

The IMMERSION workshop will use Unity 3D Game Engine technology to visualise various real-time data sets into fully immersive dynamic imagery and sonifications.

http://transimage.i-dat.org/

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Edinburgh Cityscope

2016: We are turning the entire city into a pervasive, interactive learning environment, visible to the world. Through a smartphone or other device, anyone in Edinburgh will be able to learn about the rocks beneath their feet, the buildings and trees around them, the history of every location and the art in every vista, carry out their own investigations and make their own contributions to knowledge.

This is a demonstration project created for the Hello World Event on May 3rd 2016. It will allow participants to add data on the fly to a fly-through 3D model of the city created in Unity.

http://edinburghcityscope.org/

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Tate Modern

2015: At the free Turbine Festival 2015, Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall became a playground, and everyone was invited. Turbine Festival 2015 was an audio-visual feast of music, performance, installations and activities. Join in, create and celebrate alongside locals, young people, families, artists, poets, performers and musicians. Turbine Festival 2015 was a celebration of culture for everyone.

Data Jam with i-DAT i-DAT will transform the ideas and conversations of the crowd into beautiful data, a projection of dynamic visual images that evolve through the day.

Unity visualisation, using Twitter, Instagram and sentiment analysis to measure and collect the social media from the event. Node-red was used to gather data, Leap Motion for interaction and a version for the Oculus Rift was also presented.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/eventseries/turbine-festival

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E / M / D / L

2014/15: European / Moblie / Dome/ Lab is a partnership of European and Canadian cultural organizations fostering an international community of artists/researchers dedicated to exploring the full-dome environment as a platform for creative innovation. Building an international network for the exchange of artistic and technological expertise, with the goal of researching and documenting a language and grammar unique to the full-dome medium. The participants take part in eight residencies and public presentations offered in five countries. 

Murmuration is about playful interaction with digital particle swarms and real-time manipulation of virtual/physical audio-visual objects.

Murmuration [muttering of low, indistinct, whispers / abnormal heart sounds / mass cloud like flocking] is a series of trans-scalar and recursive transitions from the imaginary to infinity: i∞. Constructed from bio-imaging technologies and modeled fractured architectures, the low-poly-aesthetic of Murmuration navigates its audience through playful interaction with particle swarms of digital detritus and real-time manipulation of virtual/physical audio-visual objects and the environmental experiences afforded by their continuously transforming arrangement. Algorithms of repulsion and attraction maintain the cohesion of nano/molecular landscapes harvested by atomic force. Bio-forms, like artificial organs, and boney architectures, temporarily seem to come to life, create cavities and cavernous voids, conjuring uncanny atmospheres of elation, intrigue and awe.

Organizations: Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media (UoA NTLab), Athens / i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology), Plymouth

Participants/Collaborators: Dimitris Charitos, Luke Christison, Phil Mayer, Cameron Micallef, Lee Nutbean, Alexandre St-Onge, Mike Phillips, Olivier Rhéaume, Haris Rizopoulos, Ben Stern, Iouliani Theona, Penny Papageorgopoulou

http://www.emdl.eu/

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MediaCity

2015: Unity data visualisation for the i-DAT urban API shown at the MediaCity 5 conference at the University of Plymouth. A city wide ‘internet of things’ sensor feed along with images from the event are visualised across the digital Plymouth. This project also made an appearance at SAT’s IX Symposium 2015 on immersion in Montreal.

http://mediacity.i-dat.org/home/

http://ix.sat.qc.ca/

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Plymouth School of Creative Arts

2015: I visited the Plymouth School of Creative Arts and they made a little documentary video from my visit. Tours through the universe and workshops for all  the different age groups.

http://plymouthschoolofcreativearts.co.uk/space-the-final-frontier/

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St. Vincent’s Volcano

2014: Unity educational game, detailing the hazards of La Soufrière, the active volcano on the island of St. Vincent. The game was built for the Geology PhD research of Lara Mani and tested successfully on the participants of the island. It now may be further developed and used as part of their curriculum.

http://geographical.co.uk/people/development/item/871-videogames-for-volcanoes

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/helping-islanders-understand-volcanos-destructive-power

https://volcanogameplay.wordpress.com/tag/st-vincent/

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Eviz Movie

2015: Fulldome movie, using fisheye with overlaid thermography footage to demonstrate the heat loss from using the disabled access door needlessly rather that the rotating doors. The hope to to highlight the issue, change behaviour and save energy within the University of Plymouth.

http://www.eviz.org.uk/

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Eviz Imagery

2015: Photoshop work to create different images with multiple between stages, to show different scenarios and outcomes for saving energy. Used for psychological study and potentially for an online visual indicator of personal improvement. 

http://www.eviz.org.uk/

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Data Dome Prototype

2013: Proof of concept project create on the digital art and Technology MRes. Made to demonstrate multiple real-time data sources feeding into unity, visualised in the dome with mobile phone control system. Featured live character navigation, teaching aids and video playback, data from XML files, direct live Ecoid sensors, Ardunio input, and i-DAT’s online OS systems.

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Port Eliot

2014: I have been working as projection supervisor at Port Eliot Festival for years, but 2014 was special for also providing projection mapping onto the ceiling of the famed Round Room for Paul K. Joyce’s poetic performances of his show Celestial.

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/PORT-ELIOT-FESTIVAL-Musical-commission-labour/story-21452348-detail/story.html