Under the Cutural Heritage focus of the centre the DUL has worked with Moesgård Museum to produce an interactive display allowing visitors to create and record their own rune stone designs. Under the Digital Art focus the centre has curated an exhibition of work exploring Surveillance in contemporary networked and pervasive media cultures. Under the Digital Art fous the centre has also employed the ‘Talkaoke’ format developed by the British Artist collective ‘The People Speak’ to explore the potential for digital/networked art to open spaces of public dialogue and exchange and as a commercial and cultural ‘facilitation’ engine. The Talkaoke format involves a donut shaped ‘news desk’ in which a central interviewer host a ‘talk show’ with the participants seated around the table discuss a particular user -led issue. The format of the table encourages and open and intimates engagement which is then recorded and presented on screen on site and online. In the same vein and in collaboration with ‘The People Speak’ once again the DUL directed a game show  ’The Pledge Pyramid’ that encouraged people to discuss options  and to vote for an idea for combatting the effects of climate change – participants were required to donate ‘hard cash’ and the collected funds were awarded to the ‘winning’ option. The project Atmosphere Co2 involved the translation of Co2 levels to sound and light in the form of 3 sculptures positioned in public spaces- exploring the effects of making the non-sensuous qualities of the environment sensible. The data from the sculptures’ sensors was captured to pachube.com. Pachube.com is a site that acts a an open repository/collection point for environmental and other forms of realtime sensor creating a real time source of CO2 information beyond the immediate and the sensible.

The centre also publishes extensively on management training, management and business communication, and participatory design, and the analysis of public and management discourse.

The centre includes five research groups – Scientific Visualisation, Information and Geo Visualisation, Computer Graphics and VR, Structural and Civil Engineering and Visual Learning and Communication.

It should also be note that the Centre for Medical Image Science and Visualisation is based at the university teaching hospital and works closely with both VITA and the Norrköping Visualisation Centre.

Research projects include but are not limited to: Volumetric visualisation of large datasets, Data visualisation and Augmented Reality, Haptic Interaction with Deformable Objects, Visual Analytics, Photorealistic computer graphics for virtual and augmented reality, Town Planning, Civil and Structural Design, Learning through Scientific Visualisation.

The Centre for Visual Information Technology and Applications, along with the Centre for Medical Image Science and Visualisation worked in collaboration with the Interactive Institute on The Virtual Autopsy Table project.

Some projects with which the lab is associated include:

Nexttext : nexttext.net – A project (based in Processing-Java) that allows the breakdown of text into unit hierarchies (phrases, words, letters) and to apply dynamic behaviours and interactions to those hierarchies.

Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace Project: http://www.abtec.org/

Mr Softie: A typographic text editor, for working with the nexttext framework.

The Korsakow non-linear video system has been central to the groups work – Originally designed by New Media artist Florian Thalhofer – the system was further developed in conjunction with CINER-G. Matt Soar is the principle investigator on this project is a major contributor to a growing community of users.

A story from the Concordia University Joural regarding the work of the Research Group, its relation to the Korsokow project, and its use in teaching non-linear video can be found here.

About TEKS – TEKS, Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre is a non-profit organization founded in Trondheim in 2002.  TEKS is a resource and competence centre that has as a goal to realize productions of techno related art projects within all art disciplines.
TEKS initiates and organizes artistic productions and projects, works with promotion and education through courses and workshops, and acts as organizer or co organizer of various cultural initiatives.
TEKS organizes “Trondheim Matchmaking,” an annual international festival for arts and technology. The festival is an arena for presentations of innovative ideas and artistic projects – a place where competence and resources are maintained and developed.
TEKS is in 2009 funded by the Norwegian government, the Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs and the City of Trondheim.
TEKS is a member of PNEK, Production Network for Electronic Arts.

Virtual Knowledge Studio – The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (KNAW) supports researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the Netherlands in the creation of new scholarly practices and in their reflection on e-research in relation to their fields.

A core feature of the Virtual Knowledge Studio is the integration of design and analysis in a close cooperation between social scientists, humanities researchers, information technology experts and information scientists. This integrated approach provides insight in the way e-research can contribute to new research questions and methods.

The VKS collaborates with the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Erasmus Studio KNAW (in short: Erasmus Studio) based in Rotterdam and with Maastricht University in the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio KNAW based in Maastricht.

A good primer on Hyperdub’s rise and the project more generally can be found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/22/hyperdub-steve-goodman

To cite that article directly on Hyperdub’s post Burial era;

‘The new Hyperdub sound is all about synthesisers…”It’s like hearing circuitry crying,” Goodman has said of this recent output, and for new signings Darkstar this idea of computer love is a real fascination.’

There is an obvious ‘mutation’ here form a music born of hedonistic abandon in a sea techno-cultural detritus to a more positively generative techno-synthesis.