Proof to the world that I do work, occasionally.
In 2009 I began collaborating with Theresa Caruana, a Nottingham-based artist specialising in collage, live performance and projection, to extend and combine our current interests (both sharing a desire to enliven space with technology). We refer to our joint reseach into the uses of technology to create immersive environments in public space as VIPR: Virtual [...]
The following abstract is taken from my PhD thesis, “A Framework to Guide the Design of Environments Coupling Mobile and Situated Technologies”:
An increasing number of devices are being situated in public spaces yet interactions with such devices are problematic: they tend to be impersonal and subject to social apprehension while devices suitable for specific tasks [...]
In the first year of my PhD I participated in the deployment and evaluation of the Future Garden project: a collaboration between the MRL, the UoN Architectural History and Theory Group, Dance4, Willi Dorner and others. Future Garden allowed members of the public to explore the hidden past, present and future of Nottingham’s Sneinton Market [...]
Through Anywhere Somewhere Everywhere (née Anywhere née Hidden Spaces) we hoped to provide an exploratory experience for individuals of Nottingham city centre. We presented aspects of the city that have become unavailable, or are off the beaten tourist-track, using an approach combining mobile-based video-, photo- and text-trails alongside multimedia content, live performances and physical exploration [...]
The Baghdad 2009- installation demonstrates one potential application of the VIPR platform, in this case used for exhibition of artistic and cultural content relating to a particular country and city.
Baghdad 2009- is an interactive installation built upon the VIPR platform that allows the user to navigate a virtual Iraqi landscape to find and view web-content, [...]