Dynamism and place are twin motifs at the Banff New Media Institute’s Advanced Research Technology Labs (ART Labs). Founded in 2005, ART Labs specialise in interdisciplinary research on visualization, collaborative systems, and mobile media and are premised upon the Institute’s ever-changing population of visiting artists, academics and experts as well as its isolated location in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.
The ART Mobile Lab, for instance, is known for its work on locative media in wilderness areas, while the Collaboration and Visualization Lab is known for its hybrid research practice and is dedicated to “the design of new technologies, applications, and experiences for cultural interfacing. That is, interfaces that encourage shifts in the perception of the self and the everyday lived world through collaborative experiences in spaces where we play, work, and learn.”