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Ghislaine Boddington presenting at The Simulationists, Chicago

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Ghislaine Boddington is presenting a Keynote at the Mixed-Reality Performance Symposium as part of The Simulationists. She will be giving a Keynote presentation alongside Christopher Salter and other artists on February 18, 2011 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. THE SIMULATIONISTS: Mixed Reality Performance is an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the performative expression… Read more Ghislaine Boddington presenting at The Simulationists, Chicago

DRHA 2011 (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) Conference

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Connected Communities: global or local2local? CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES Sunday 4th September – Wednesday 7th September 2011, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (with add on option of Saturday 3rd September in Shanghai) In 2011 the DRHA conference will explore the new connectivities in societies and cultures which are enabled by the blending of virtual… Read more DRHA 2011 (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) Conference

Telepresence Day at Play Space, Contact Theatre

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body>data>space ran a Telepresence workshop for young, emerging and professional dancers at the buzzy Play Space day at Contact Theatre, Manchester in December. See a video of the event below or to view further videos click here.

Robots and Avatars – Recent idiscover Learning Experiences

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body>data>space have been running a series of Learning Experiences this Autumn at the Harris Academies, London. The Learning Experiences have been exploring Telepresence, Avatars and Virtual Worlds and Social Media and are linked to NESTA’s idiscover education programme. To find out more about booking learning experiences contact Leanne Hammacott.

MADE Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe

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MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe) – new EU Culture 2007-2013 project launches in June 2010. MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe) launched in London on November 24th 2010. body>data>space hosted the first workshop at the French Institute and NESTA with participation from a range of UK experts in Telepresence/Virtual Worlds and Media… Read more MADE Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe

body>data>space in the Press

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Some of the ways in which we are working to prepare young people for the workplace of the future were featured in our local Hackney Gazette newspaper this month. We also featured in the Chirstmas edition of T3, with Ghislaine being interviewed and sharing her thought son the future workplace and telepresence.

Robots and Avatars – Vodcasts/Lunch Debates/Reports

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Between June-November 2010 we have been running the Robots and Avatars Lunch Debate series. This series of debates, with a diverse group of experts and professionals, looks ahead to a workplace which involves a mix of robots, avatars, tele-presence and real time presence. Rich educational resources are being generated including Vodcasts for young people, teachers… Read more Robots and Avatars – Vodcasts/Lunch Debates/Reports

Virtual Physical Events

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Virtual Physical Events is a new service that will help you blend your events seamlessly into the digital space. The service can help you bring your physical attendees closer to your online audience and create high quality content that turns your event into lasting online resources. body>data>space are working together with Kinura to provide this… Read more Virtual Physical Events

MAMA’s 2010

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Ghislaine Boddington is on the jury for the MAMA’s which celebrate the world’s best holographic projection artwork in a charitable gala ceremony attended by leading figures from the media, art and marketing worlds.  The evening will showcase cutting edge digital art, giant animation, real time motion capture and Musion’s compelling live full sized 3D holograms from… Read more MAMA’s 2010

DRHA 2010 (Digital Resources and Humanities in the Arts) – Brunel University

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DRHA 2010 explored ‘Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity’ with a large programme of papers, performances and installations over four days at Brunel University. body>data>space (Ghislaine Boddington, Alex Eisenberg and Michael Magruder) gave a presentation on Robots and Avatars as part of a panel exploring New Collaborative Practices and Ghislaine presented Excited Atoms an essay exploring virtual… Read more DRHA 2010 (Digital Resources and Humanities in the Arts) – Brunel University