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Past Events Archive 2004

September 2004

September 9-13

Lizbeth Goodman was an invited speaker at the annual IBC Conference in Amsterdam . Growing from its roots in broadcasting, IBC attracts 40,000 professionals involved in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment content worldwide. The IBC Conference is renowned for its opinion forming agenda and its ability to tackle the technology, business and craft-skill issues impacting on the business.

2004 Oct- Sep The Annual Autumn PhD Seminar a great success as an online meeting of minds. . . + SMARTlab collaborations with BBC R&D were rewarded with a three month secondment announced for Dr Marc Price to join the team and prepare the way for assistive technologies to be rolled out to Singapore in the new year . . . + Irish partners host a series of collaboration meetings in preparation for the next round of EC and international partnership agreements. . .

2004 Sep 23-25 Lizbeth Goodman was an invited speaker at the ESF Workshop “Affective and Emotional Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction: Emphasis on Game-Based and Innovative Learning Approaches” in Pörtschach am Wörthersee, Austria.

August 2004

Lizbeth Goodman, assisted by Jana Riedel, presented a course for New York University titled Extended Body. This course introduced 4 bespoke software tools made by artists and performers, for the specialized needs of artists and performers: Viewhear (SMARTlab), TK3 (Night Kitchen), PORT (SMARTlab/INMPR) & Keyworx (WAAG). The final result was performed live and submitted for grading in the TK3 multimedia book format, which allows multimedia text, image, sound and moving image to be shared online and updated/critiques by audiences.

SIGGRAPH2004, the 31 st International conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques

The SMARTlab team (in association with the BBC, Media Lab Europe, KILA, ArcScience, FIT and Natural5th) presented Guivenevere’s Globe, a synaesthetic (scent, music, movement) short film projected in the round on the Omniglobe system. Directed and produced by Daria Dorosh.

August 11
SIGGRAPH CyberFashion Show

The show featured a wide variety of wearable computers, head-mounted displays, smart clothes, luminous clothing and accessories, cyber-club wear, and CAD/CAM jewelry and bodywear. A number of innovative prototypes and some exciting world-premier technologies promised to propel us into future realms of body-technology integration. Produced by Isa Gordon.

Siggraph Cyberfashion show and private shoot for the launch of the SafetyNET safeWEAR fashion line. . .

Siggraph2004 Official Website : http://www.siggraph.org/s2004
Cyberfashion show website: http://psymbiote.org/cyfash/

Wednesday, 11 August 2004 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D

Siggraph2004 Art Gallery: Synaesthesia http://www.dariadorosh.com/siggraph

2004 Aug Lizbeth Goodman, assisted by Jana Riedel, presented a course for New York University titled Extended Body. This course introduced 4 bespoke software tools made by artists and performers, for the specialized needs of artists and performers: Viewhear (SMARTlab), TK3 (Night Kitchen), PORT (SMARTlab/INMPR) & Keyworx (WAAG). The final result was performed live and submitted for grading in the TK3 multimedia book format, which allows multimedia text, image, sound and moving image to be shared online and updated/critiqued by audiences.

The SMARTlab team (in association with the BBC, Media Lab Europe, KILA, ArcScience, FIT and Natural5th) presented Guivenevere’s Globe, a synaesthetic (scent, music, movement) short film projected in the round on the Omniglobe system. Directed and produced by Daria Dorosh.

2004 Aug12 NASA Ames Research Centre (San Jose, CA), presentation by Dr Goodman & Ms Reidel on SMART systems connecting scientists and artists in collaborative environments

July 2004

The New Dress & Accessories made by Mooney Sisters and Fay Torez-yap

The Mooney Sisters : SafetyNET Project SAFEwear daywear and medinawear collections: prototypes designed and photographed by Tara and Kathy Mooney July 2004
(New SefetyNET safeWEAR gallry>>)
Safewear Accessories Created by Fay Torez-Yap, Photo by Daria Dorosh, Fit/SMARTlab

April - May 2004


Dr Lizbeth Goodmanhas been awarded a SHELL Visiting Professorship in Performance and Technology: round the world lectures beginning in Singapore

Taey Kim has won online media creative project commission for this summer time from Open Arts in Seoul. 5th June. Will present Gildongmoo (road buddy) travel agency soon.

Nick Ryan
has scored the new BBC webcast radio drama hit: DARKHOUSE!-
the first ever radio horror where you decide whose thoughts to hear (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/darkhouse )

2004 Jan -2005 Apr The TRUST Project is hosted by NTU GameLAB Singapore & KK Hospital for Women & Children, and the Children's Cancer Foundation(see: link to url for the banner on the home page) + see www.give-trust.org

2004 Nov - Dec SMARTlab closed down 2004 at the SafetyNET meeting in New York very much in the black- with a posh line of evening and daytime Safetywear smart-scent, fashion and accessory line prototypes presented for the first time (by artists Gayil Nalls, Tara 9 Kathy Mooney (Bodkin.ie) , Fay Torez-Yap and Daria Dorosh!





2004 late AprilPhoenix Rising: The SMARTlab team is due to return to Phoenix to take up an artist in residency position as part of the National Endowment for the Arts funded project on BodySense: creating an online performance and creation space linking children in the desert to children in New York. The Phoenix Project. . . Rising From the Ashes (linking two communities of children with difficulties breathing, due to fire exposure and pollution from catastrophe- the Phoenix flies for the Arizona children and meets the characters that inhabit the world of the TRUST project for children in New York)

2004 mid-April AIR Gallery (New York) showcase of 'Anima Obscura', STUCKONTHEWEB, and TRUST project work

2004 22 Feb. - March - early April New York, Navajo Reservation, India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand SafetyNET launch

2004 Feb 15-20 SMARTlab PhD RETREAT and seminar- ARTS and SCIENCE Collaborations (with Macromedia, Lego, BT et al)

2004 Feb 1-14 SafetyNET PROJECT new web site and safe spaces launched online
2004 Jan 16-22 DUBLIN residency at MEDIA LAB EUROPE -rehearsal for Felichean II and performance for the Summit Event/Irish Presidency of the EUROPEAN UNION
2004 January 9SAFTEYNET project to receive LIFETIME TV salute and award feature in TIMES SQUARE
2004 January 2 - 8 Children's Health Fund residency in New York for HOPE and TRUST Project Development






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