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Lansdown Lecture - Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, gameplay - 21 November
2007 - London
This public lecture is free. All welcome.
Summary
+ Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, gameplay
+ Rachel Jacobs of Active Ingredient
+ Date: Wednesday 21 November 2007
+ Time: 5:00pm for one hour
+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
Cat Hill Campus: Room 137
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Stephen Boyd Davis: [log in to unmask]
Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, gameplay
What is happening to media? -- the implications of an award-winning
world-first pervasive game. A unique game/artwork that uses live
heart-rate and GPS to build each player's personal game experience.
Media are changing, becoming pervasive and physical instead of being
confined to conventional screens like TV, cinema and PCs. Rachel Jacobs
and her colleagues at Active Ingredient, a Nottingham based new media
company, have developed a world-first pervasive game which recently won
the first Nokia Ubimedia international award in conjunction with the
Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham University. The work originated in a
Wellcome Trust-funded project while Rachel was a postgraduate in the
Lansdown Centre and has received world-wide attention. The Centre
welcomes her back to Middlesex to reflect on the project and draw out
issues for the future.
The original project: http:// lansdown.mdx.ac.uk/dragons/
<http://lansdown.mdx.ac.uk/dragons/>
About the speaker
Rachel Jacobs is an artist, consultant and project manager, coming from
a background of dance, performance and visual arts. She has been based
in Nottingham since 1991 where she co-founded Active Ingredient. Rachel
is responsible for the creative delivery and project management of the
work. She has also worked as a lecturer and workshop facilitator. Rachel
was awarded an MA in Electronic Arts from Middlesex University in 2006
and has co-authored papers about her work with Active Ingredient,
Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts and the Mixed
Reality Lab at University of Nottingham.
Active Ingredient have developed a reputation over 10 years specialising
in interactive media. They attempt to unlock everyday magic from the
rigid systems of new media, their innovative approach to new
technologies has led them to national and international success in the
public, academic and commercial sectors.
Active Ingredient: http://www.active- ingredient.co.uk/
<http://www.active-ingredient.co.uk/>
Venue
Room 137
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
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Date and time
Wednesday 21 November at 5pm
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http:// www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/
<http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/>
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