Syneme is a research group/studio/lab based at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary and is affiliated with the Canada Research Chair in Telemedia arts.
Syneme‘s aim is to explore artistic practices that are enabled and enriched by networked digital technologies (particularily those that allow real-time engagment between participants) and to ask ” how can we use the network itself as an artistic instrument – not merely a distribution channel.”
To explore such questions Syneme has focused on the development of Artsmesh, a platform that makes expressive telepresence on high-speed research networks possible.
Kenneth Fields is the group’s director.