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> Digital Media and Digital Culture Seminar Series
> Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
> Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland
> http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html
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> For further info contact:
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> Ned Rossiter
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> 'Creative Practice, Research Methodologies, Institutional Frames'
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> Dr. Keith Armstrong & Danny Butt,
> Visiting Researchers, Centre for Media Research Digital Media and 
> Digital Cultures strand
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> Room B244, South Building, Coleraine Campus
> 2-4pm Monday 11th July 2005
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> The Research Assessment Exercise 2008 draft assessment criteria for UK 
> researchers will be published for consultation from mid-July 2005. 
> This will mark the beginning of significant dialogues within 
> institutions about research priorities, and what activities will 
> position Universities to achieve the best rating in 2008.
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> http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2005/01/
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> The history of creative practice within research assessment is a long 
> and troubled one. The institutional transformation of higher education 
> has led to an important role for creative practice in the research, 
> science and technology policy fields. The effects can be seen in the 
> development of terminology such as the "creative industries", where 
> the definition of creativity is transformed from the expressive 
> capacity of the human subject to a concept of innovation within a 
> specified field of practice. There have also been important questions 
> raised about whether policy definitions of research can be applied 
> directly to work with an artefact or experience as its outcome, or 
> whether the dynamics of creative practice require equivalent but 
> separate conceptual frames.
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> This conversation between Dr. Keith Armstrong, Australian new media 
> artist and Danny Butt, former Director of the Creative Industries 
> Research Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, will explore the various 
> tensions in the relationship between artists, researchers, and 
> research assessment. Keith Armstrong will outline the development for 
> the interactive installation work ‘Shifting Intimacies’, a 
> collaboration with choreographer/performer Charlotte Vincent, 
> commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, London to premiere 
> in February 2006. Danny Butt will give a brief overview of the 
> historical tensions and accommodations between creative practitioners 
> and research institutions, with particular reference to new media 
> arts. This will be followed by open dialogue among the participants 
> and the presenters.
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> This workshop will be of particular interest to those working in art 
> and design, performance,  and media production disciplines within 
> higher education settings, as well as those creating research 
> infrastructure for creative practitioners.
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> Speaker biographies:
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> Dr Keith Armstrong specialises in collaborative, hybrid, new media 
> works with an emphasis on performance, site-specific installation and 
> art-science collaborations. His ongoing research focuses on how 
> scientific and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct 
> the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks. 
> Keith's artworks have been shown and profiled extensively both in 
> Australia and internationally. He is a creative director, media 
> designer and system integrator within multidisciplinary teams and is 
> the founder and director of the interdisciplinary collective, 
> 'Transmute'. Keith is a researcher in the Australasian Centre for 
> Interaction Design and has just completed a Post-doctoral New Media 
> Fellowship at Queensland University of Technology's Creative 
> Industries Faculty. He is the Queensland editor for the national arts 
> newspaper Realtime and a member of the QUT Creative Industries 
> Media-Architecture Integration Advisory Panel to Queensland Government 
> and Hassell Partners Architects. His latest work Intimate Transactions 
> has just won an Honorary mention at the prestigious PrixArs 
> Electronica in the 'CyberArts 2005' Interactive Arts category.
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> http://www.embodiedmedia.com
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> Danny Butt is an independent consultant and researcher in new media, 
> with recent clients including the Asia Pacific Development Information 
> Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-APDIP) and 
> Queensland University of Technology's Creative Industries Research and 
> Applications Centre (CIRAC). Previously, he was founding Director of 
> the Creative Industries Research Centre at the Waikato Institute of 
> Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand, where he also lectured in digital 
> media and established the Digital Media Design programme, as well as 
> coordinating international symposia on creative practices and 
> industries. He is on the Working Editorial Committee for the Digital 
> Review of Asia Pacific, the definitive reference on information 
> technologies for socio-economic development in the region, and member 
> of the ORBICOM International Network of UNESCO Chairs in 
> Communications. He currently serves as Chair of the Place, Ground and 
> Practice Working Group for the Pacific Rim New Media Summit at the 
> International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2006 in San Jose. Before 
> working in the academy, Danny held a range of positions in the music, 
> publishing, new media, contemporary arts, and advertising industries.
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> http://www.dannybutt.net
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