Tuesday 18 December 2007

Concert ECHOCHROMA 2

Our second concert of the Echochroma series will take place on Thursday the 20th of December at 5 pm in the Jubilee room of the James Graham Building, Leeds Met, Headingley Campus.

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The concert features a variety of tape and live works performed over a 12 channel surround sound system. The programme includes live lap top performers, 5.1 surround sound audio, saxophone and live electronics and soprano and 8 channels surround sound work. Please arrive early as seating will be limited to 60-70 only.

 

For more details contact Nikos Stavropoulos at N.Stavropoulos@leedsmet.ac.uk, Tel: 0113 8127333

 

 

 



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Friday 14 December 2007

Participating in MELD Lab

During the week from 10.-14.December 2007, the MELD lab was organised at University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) in Preston. The goal of this workshop was to bring together journalists and technologists, for exploring the possibilities of creating projects in New Media domains and to produce pitches of these projects to three media stakeholders. The event was held at the newly set-up venue "Sandbox" in the Media Factory of UCLAN. From about 40 applicants, 15 were selected to participate in this workshop.

From Leeds Met, I (Reinhold Behringer) took part with proposals for applying information technology and human-computer interaction systems to information gathering and presenting. At the workshop, I worked together with journalist Garth Haley to produce the pitch to the industry partners. One of the days was devoted to visit BBC Radio Manchester and ITV Granada News - providing a fascinating insight into the workings of today's media and news production.

The event was a great opportunity for networking between technologists and journalists, bridging the gap between these two different work environments. I look forward to further discussions about joint projects.

Friday 30 November 2007

C3KE Seminar: U. Leeds, Dance Performance and Technology

On Friday, 30.11. the "Centre for Creative and Cultural Knowledge Exchange" (C3KE) organised a lunch-time seminar for its members at Bates Mill in Huddersfield University. The topic of this seminar was a presentation by Sita Popat and Scott Palmer from Leeds University about their work on the interrelation of dance and projective technology. Very interesting was the option of using an IR camera to track the motion of the dancer and feeing this back into a computing system, which in turn would then present visual projections into the environment of the dancer.

Thursday 22 November 2007

At USAB 2007, Graz

In Graz the 3rd Symposium of the WG HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society took place on 22. November 2007, devoted to the theme "Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care". A very interesting day of parallel sessions with presentations from various areas within this large domain. Leeds Met was represented by myself (Reinhold Behringer) - I gave a talk on our paper "Some Usability Issues of Augmented and Mixed Reality for e-Health Applications in the Medical Domain" with the authors Reinhold Behringer, Johannes Christian, Andreas Holzinger, and Steve Wilkinson.

Thursday 15 November 2007

Visit at Goldsmiths College, London

Professor William Latham is an authority in the area of evolutionary graphics, with his groundbreaking work on organic shapes and graphical mutation. He just recently had accepted a post at Goldsmiths College after being a Professor here at Leeds Met, and I (Reinhold Behringer) wanted to catch up with him and discuss joint projects. So I took a southbound train to London and spent an afternoon with him and his colleagues discussing artistic and technological issues and possible collaborations. Especially of interest is the area of morphing between video and audio / music: how can the aestethical principles of the visual domain be translated into the aestethical rules of the acoustic domain and vice versa?

Tuesday 25 September 2007

At ACM Multimedia Conference, Augsburg

The ACM Multimedia conference is one of the major conferences in this domain - bringing together multimedia technology and art. This year, it is held in Augsburg, from 24.9.-29.9.

I (Reinhold Behringer) from Leeds Met am currently attending this conference, to get an overview over the latest developments and to network with researchers in related areas. The Leeds Met Centre for Creative Technology is very interested in partnering with other institutions for joint projects in multimedia, computer games, mobile games, computer music, computer graphics. We can provide core expertise in computer music, composition, human-computer interaction, software development, and computer games. If anyone who reads this, wants to discuss such potential joint projects, please look for me during the conference.

Sunday 19 August 2007

Course on Max/MSP: 30.8.-31.8.2007

In the Leeds Met Summer School program, a two-day tutorial is held on 30. and 31. August about using Max/MSP and Jitter. This software is an essential tool for the creation of interactive electronic music.

Details about this tutorial and the registation form are available on the Leeds Met web site: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/inn/summer_school_max_msp_jitter.htm.

The tutorial is given by Leeds Met members of staff Richard Stevens, Dave Raybould, and Archibald Rees.

Thursday 9 August 2007

Launch of the Centre for Creative Technology

On 9. July 2007, one month ago, we officially launched the Centre for Creative Technology with an evening of demonstrations at the Leeds Met Headingley Campus.

The evening began with a welcome address by Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean Cath Orange, followed by an overview over the centre activities given by myself. The core of this talk was given by members of staff who gave a brief overview on their work related to the centre topics.

The presentation was followed by two hours of technology demonstrations, shown in the music studios in the James Graham Building. More information about the event and descriptions of the demonstrations are available on our website.

These demonstrations showed a wide variety of technologies and development prototypes, ranging from sensor interactions to artificial intelligence, from visual processing to electro-acoustic music compositions.

Wednesday 1 August 2007

Papers at HCII 2007 Conference

Two of our members of staff attended the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2007 (HCII) in Beijing. Marc Fabri chaired the session "Emotions in HCI: Theory, Synthesis and Evaluation" and gave the presentation of his paper "Emotionally Expressive Avatars for Chatting, Learning and Therapeutic Intervention". This paper was co-authored by Innovation North staff David Moore and Salima Y Awad Elzouki.

Reinhold Behringer chaired the session "Gesture Recognition" and gave a presentation of his paper "Gesture Interaction for Electronic Music Performance". He also presented the paper "Virtual and Mixed Reality Interfaces for e-Training: Examples of Applications in Light Aircraft Maintainance", where he was a co-author. The principal author Johannes Christian (Leeds Met) was unable to attend the conference. Further co-authors of this paper were Horst Krieger (ipcenter.at) and Andreas Holzinger (Medical University Graz).

Wednesday 30 May 2007

Student work showcase

The final year undergraduate Games Design students have just presented their team projects in our Innovation North showcase. Work ranged from industry strength character modelling to casual games prototypes to architectural visualisation of our new Rose Bowl campus building to a museum guide for the Royal Armouries - some really exciting and professional stuff. I have all of their business cards if you need to contact any of them about an injection of fresh talent.


Chris Storey and Richard Ellis talk about their visualisation work

My friend Imran Ali visited the event, and has blogged about it here.