Gallery Tour for Secondary Teachers of Art and ICT

Tuesday 14th September 2004 (week 8 term 3) 9.00am start - 4.30pm finish.

The tour will begin and end at PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth Cultural Centre - Northbridge.

Full details

When: Wed 25th August -2004
Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Where: BlackBox Studio @ THE BAKERY Artrage Complex
233 - 239 James street
Northbridge, Perth
Western Australia

Adrian Boeing
Robot-Lab UWA

PhD Candidate- Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering UWA

presented by Media-Space with venue support from Artrage

In an informal discussion we will discuss the following:
a. profiling key projects and research within Robot Lab such as:

• Design of intelligent mobile robot systems
• Omni-directional vehicles
• Biped walking robots
• Autonomous planes
• Embedded vision systems
• Simulation of multi-robot systems
• Evolution of robot group behavior
• Image processing for robot localization
• Motion Stereo

b. specific technical strategies for developing robotics
c. using Midi to interface with computers outputting graphics, video and sound

http://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/

When: Wed 26nd May -2004
Time: 6.00pm - 8.30pm
Where: BlackBox Studio @ THE BAKERY Artrage Complex
233 - 239 James street
Northbridge, Perth
Western Australia.

http://www.artrage.com.au/bakery

Currently Artist in Residence at School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University.

Principal Research Fellow Digital Research Unit School of Art and Design, Nottingham.

Presented by Media-Space with venue support from Artrage.

When: Thurs 22nd April -2004
Time: 6.00pm - 8.30pm
Where: BlackBox Studio @ THE BAKERY Artrage Complex
233 - 239 James street
Northbridge, Perth
Western Australia

http://www.artrage.com.au/bakery

Dr Lizbeth Goodman, Director of the SMARTlab Centre at Central St Martins College of Art and Design , the London Institute, will describe her innovative work in using in making and sustaining connected communities in and beyond the classroom. As her profile (below) shows, her work is of interest to professionals in the medical world, community work and the theatre, as well as in education.

This lecture demonstration will include extracts from a range of projects underway in rehabilitation using drama, dance, music and assistive technology, and in the creation of games and alternative interfaces and story forms to connect communities and extend accessibility to the ‘knowledge economy’.

She will show extracts from performances and assistive technology projects recently produced and underway, and will invite collaboration on future projects.

Profile of Dr Lizbeth Goodman

Dr Lizbeth Goodman is Founder and Director of the SMARTlab Centre for Site Specific Media, Performing and Digital Arts (connecting SMARTsystems, spaces & people). Operating from its central London base since the summer of 2001, the lab is a research centre and production facility for media arts, utilised by an international group of associate research fellows and artists in residence, supported by a core team on site. The team includes live artists, performers, dance and movement specialists, visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, sculptors, textile experts, fashion designers, poets/writers, composers/musicians, sound artists, VR engineers, programmers, game designers and coders, and interface designers. It team operates across genres, disciplinary and cultural boundaries, and aims to create ethically and socially responsible media art works, and to inform the next generation of artist-made technology tools.commissions to create a new style of empowering online and live performance game, and to work on convergent media publishing projects utilising and inventing new interfaces for the world’s many varied communities.

When: Wed 24th to Wednesday March -2004
Where: BlackBox Theatre, ArtRage Complex, The Bakery
233 - 239 James street
Northbridge, Perth
Western Australia
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