Mike Phillips

Bio:

• Mike Phillips, iDAT, UK. Mike Phillips is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, Plymouth University, School of Arts & Media, Faculty of Arts. He is the Director of Research at i-DAT, an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, and a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium. His R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in a series of ‘Operating Systems’ that dynamically manifest ‘data’ as experience to enhance perspectives on a complex world. He manages the FulDome Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT), a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material, immaterial and imaginary worlds and is co-editor of Ubiquity, The Journal of Pervasive Media.

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Locative Media: Urban Landscapes and Pervasive Technology Within Art
  Writing Type: Panel / Roundtable
  Author(s):
  • Michael Salmond
  • Hasan Elahi
  • Mike Phillips
  • Carlos Rosas
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2006: Intersections
  Abstract Summary:

  Locative media: the utilization of pervasive, portable, networked, location-aware computing devices that allow for user-defined map­ping and artistic intervention within urban geographies, transmuting them into an experimental canvas. This panel examines the current or future state of locative media practice, establishing an artistic and theoretical discourse on pervasive computing. The advent of an al­ways-on, always-accessible information sphere creates an enhanced reality space that enables c

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  • Author
  • Speaker/Presenter