TRANSCALAR WORKSHOPS: STASIS & IMMERSION:
The Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture 2016 – THE ATEMPORAL IMAGE – invites participants for the Conference workshops hosted by the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre and the Immersive Vision Theatre on the Plymouth Campus.
A limited number of places, on a fist come basis, are available and participants must be registered with the Transimage Conference first.
The Atemporal Image Transcalar workshops couple the power of the Scanning Electron Microscope to touch the infinitesimally small with the potential of the Full Dome environment to immerse participants in visualisations of the incomprehensibly big.
Our ability to shift scales, from the smallest thing to the largest thing has been described as the ‘transcalar imaginary’ http://www.scoop.it/t/transcalar-imaginary. These workshop will enable participants to touch the frozen non-photonic spaces and immerse themselves in data visualisations and sonifications.
Workshop 1: STASIS
When: Friday 1 July, 11.20-17.00
Location: Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre.
Workshop Leader: Roy Moate and Gianni Corino.
The STASIS workshop is delivered in collaboration with the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre.
Frozen in time a spluttered in gold, the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image is beyond light, captured by a focused beam of electrons, these images are not photographs – no photons were harmed in the making of this workshop.
The workshop will explore the SEM imaging process and question the time dilation of resolutions approaching the nanometer. The temporal shift from the 60th of a second human scale to the minutes that pass in the scanned vacuum gold encrusted artefact of SEM time.
The workshop will allow participants to explore SEM technologies and image making process at these tiny scales. Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre staff will support individual explorations within the relatively short timeframe of the workshop.
The workshop builds on a number of previous i-DAT projects which include:
Scale Electric / Out Of Scale / Sliding Scale:
Numbers limited to 10 participants. If you have already registered for the conference you can login to add the workshop selection. If you have not registered for the conference you will not be eligible for the Workshop. Any problems with the registration process please contact: Rebekah Cunningham on rebekah.cunningham@plymouth.ac.uk
Image: http://old.i-dat.org/projects/outofscale/outofscalesmall.pdf
Maia Engeli: Tooth. “In Switzerland there is this saying (maybe it exists in English as well): once upon a time there was a man with a hollow tooth and in this tooth there was a little box and in this box there was a letter and in this letter was written: once upon a time there was a man with a hollow tooth and in this tooth there was a little box and in this box there was a letter and in this letter was written: once upon a time there was a man with a hollow tooth and in this tooth there was a little box and in this box there was a letter and in this letter was written…”
Workshop 2: IMMERSION
When: Saturday 2 July. 11.20-17.00
Location: Immersive Vision Theatre.
Workshop leader: Luke Christison.
The IMMERSION Workshop is delivered in collaboration with i-DAT’s Immersive Vision Theatre.
Fulldome is slowly emerging from its planetarium shaped incubator into a brave new world of digital projectors, real-time visualisation software, independent content producers and transdisciplinary collaborations. A transdisciplinary instrument for manifesting (im)material and imaginary worlds, this spatial-temporal bubble is a polysensory polypsical anomaly in the history of media technologies, sitting somewhere between a scientific instrument and a funfair ride.
These places are where all the different kinds of truths fit together as nicely as the parts in your Daddy’s solar watch. We call these places chrono-synclastic infundibula.
(Vonnegut, 1962, p.11-12).
The IMMERSION workshop will use Unity 3D Game Engine technology to visualise various real-time data sets into fully immersive dynamic imagery and sonifications.
More information about the IVT and related projects can be found here: http://i-dat.org/ivt/.
Numbers limited to 15 participants. If you have already registered for the conference you can login to add the workshop selection. If you have not registered for the conference you will not be eligible for the Workshop. Any problems with the registration process please contact: Rebekah Cunningham on rebekah.cunningham@plymouth.ac.uk
Numbers limited to 15 participants.
Vonnegut, K., The Sirens of Titan. Victor Gollancz, 1962, pp11-12.