The Spaces

Operating from its central London base since the summer of 2001, SMARTlab is a research centre and production facility for media arts, utilised by an international group of associate research fellows and artists in residence, supported by an on-site core team, with partner sites around the world.

The PLAYroom |The WARDROBE | The EDITsuite | MATRIX East | MPC | and Around the world sites

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The following state-of-the-art studio spaces and labs are available to support SMARTlab’s Research and Development initiatives.

MAGICbox: a personal Fabrication Facility equipped with a range of fabrication tools, including a small shop machine, a milling and scanning machine, and a vinyl cutter. MAGICbox brings the personal fabrication concept to the UK, allowing UK-based researchers to play a primary role in the development of this new generation of social technologies, while providing a new methodology for interacting with learner communities.

  

Playroom: local groups from across the education sectors can collaborate on-site with representatives from local government, business and industry, SMARTlab and other UEL researchers and game designers, theatre artists, dancers, puppeteers and educational technologists.

AV & Graphic Studio: fully equipped audio video editing facility, 3D and motion graphics.

Studio Partners

SimLab: provides simulation technologies, process improvement and animated modelling.

Its services range from industry-standard process mapping to cutting-edge 3D modelling software, with acknowledged professionals and academics on-site to aid in your project. Housing twenty state-of-the-art workstations equipped with the latest simulation and modelling software packages, SimLab also organises a series of introductory seminars and workshops on the various software packages, which can be accessed by both students and SMEs.

FabPad: Fabric Print & Design Bureau (FabPad) provides a valuable resource for artists, fashion and textile designers alike, helping to transform your vision into a creative masterpiece and to produce eye-catching and vibrant products from client designs. The facility includes state-of-the-art printing equipment, facilities for printing on specialist papers and materials, and a colour spectrometer system for regulated colour workflow throughout all stages of the design process.

MATRIX East Research Centre: This new Research Centre has successfully raised £448,000K for two year, through the Science Research Innovation Fund (SRIF), to equip a unique, cutting-edge research facility in the Digital Media Arts.

The MATRIX East Lab brings together a wide range of researchers, mainly from the Schools of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies (SSMCS), and Architecture and Visual Arts (AVA), to offer unique, advanced facilities and research support to staff and research students, as well as to digital media artists in the region. The Lab is unique in offering the ability to produce and edit up to thirty-six video tracks, and present them as an installation in perfect synchrony. The tracks can be presented on a variety of LCD monitors in different sizes, as well as being projected onto reflective screens. Both monitors and projectors/screens are carried by the grid and powered by it, and data-fed through a Gigabit LAN.