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Mémétique Élucubrations

As an experienced practitioner in experimental music, I was invited in residence by 4DSOUND during mid-2018 to creatively experiment as a sound artist, technologist and researcher. My fortnight consisted of introducing my compositional processes to a 42 speakers sound spatialisation engine. The corpus of the work was live electronics mixed with sensing technologies. Spatialisation was especially under focus as adding an extra perceptual layer.

As a performer, I’m working mostly (in limited) quadraphony and octophony. So, the new ‘object oriented’ piece has been developed around complex shifting spatialised psychoacoustics to generate an ever evolving soundscape using analog sound oscillators and an electromagnetic field sound translating device. The environment was an integral part of the composition as it is important to sonically navigate the space to alter the auditory perspective.

The set consisted of two computers, one for the sound generation and processing running Ableton Live and Max/MSP and one for the sound engine as a dispatch for the spatialisation. As to resume and as an announcement to the forthcoming event, it is to perform a subtle hybrid event between performance and installation whereas the audience experiental participation is gradually time related and expanded into an immersive happening.

Pierre Jolivet as PhD Scholar @ UCD SMARTlab under IRC Funding: Sound Art & Sensorial Perception / A Practice-based Study


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Pierre Jolivet (born Paris, France 1964) is an artist who’s currently based in Dublin. Pierre started in the early eighties to perform as a French pioneer under the moniker of Pacific 231, in the industrial and power electronics musical fields before moving into more ambient and abstract electronic sounds. His works now explores the very limit of sound and space, especially through his past and present multimedia performances and installations: Stif(f)le (2007-08), Im’shi (2009-13) and Espace Altéré (2015) presented in numerous countries. His discography now exceed two dozens albums with more than eight international collaborations. In 2010, he became part of the Luigi Russolo jury, a prestigious international award in acousmatic music created in 1979 by Gian Franco Maffina and Rossana Maggia with the original participation of François Bayle and Pierre Schaeffer. He graduated from an MFA in the Digital World at the National College of Art and Design where he gives occasionally workshops in Art and Technology and he has been recently associated to an MA in Media and Electronic Arts at the Institute of Technology Tallaght (Dublin). His latest album Transenvironmental (2018) coincide with the start of a PhD research on Sound Art & Sensorial Perception.

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Centre For Media 
and Electronic Arts

The Creative Media team at IT Tallaght have inititated a new postgraduate research centre in the Institute: the Centre for Media and Electronic Arts, in collaboration with the School of Engineering in IT Tallaght. The research outcomes envisaged include possible modes of quantifying the value of collaborative work, and schema for future strategies in collaborative research and practice.  A key focus is on developing alternative models of politically and socially engaged creative practice in a newly formed Technological University, through partnerships locally (in Tallaght), regionally, nationally and internationally.

CMEA investigates the impact of emerging technologies such as wearable technologies, 3D printing, AI, augmented, virtual and mixed reality, robotics, single board computers and electronic sensors on key areas of education, industry and civic engagement. Combined with a culture of sharing, and models of collaborative creative practice the aim is to break down disciplinary barriers. A Future Makers Collective has been established in tandem with this research centre, to develop and enhance current collaboration with colleagues in the Department of Electronic Engineering, DLIADT, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Lancaster, University of the Arts, London, RUA RED Arts Centre, Riverbank Arts Centre and many others.

Through its membership, the Media and Electronic Arts Research Centre is linked in to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland/Media Literacy Network which is involved in planning a national campaign in Digital Citizenship.  The latter’s membership is drawn from across education and the cultural and creative industries including Creative Ireland, the Department of Communications, the Department of Education, traditional media organisations, social media platforms, NGO’s and regulatory bodies such as the ASAI.

Personnel: 
PI Names:

  • Sinead McDonald, Lecturer Creative Media
  • Jean O’Halloran, Lecturer Creative Media 
  • Deirdre Kennedy, Lecturer Creative Media
  • James Wright, Head of Dept, Electronic Engineering

Postgraduate Students – MA (Research)

  • Sean Campbell, A modular approach to the creative process and content generation from digital interactive art within fine art practice.
  • Siobhan Conway, The impact of immersive technologies on the educational outcomes of young adults with dyslexia.
  • Louise Nolan, Investigation of integration of electronic data in digital media for the purpose of personalising creative experiences.
  • Roisin NicCana, Virtual Realities in the Museum Space

Collaborations: (National and international)
Digital Makers Collective (UK); RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre; South Dublin County Council; EUCIDA; Tate Exchange, London; Hack Circus (UK); Broadcasting Authority of Ireland; Andre Molodkin/Apolitical (France/UK); Mona Gamil/Irish Embassy in Cairo (Egypt)

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CMEA Symposium

A chance for CMEA researchers to catch up and present ongoing work. This event is invitation only.

The Creative Media team at IT Tallaght have inititated a new postgraduate research centre in the Institute: the Centre for Media and Electronic Arts, in collaboration with the School of Engineering in IT Tallaght. The research outcomes envisaged include possible modes of quantifying the value of collaborative work, and schema for future strategies in collaborative research and practice.  A key focus is on developing alternative models of politically and socially engaged creative practice in a newly formed Technological University, through partnerships locally (in Tallaght), regionally, nationally and internationally.

CMEA investigates the impact of emerging technologies such as wearable technologies, 3D printing, AI, augmented, virtual and mixed reality, robotics, single board computers and electronic sensors on key areas of education, industry and civic engagement. Combined with a culture of sharing, and models of collaborative creative practice the aim is to break down disciplinary barriers. A Future Makers Collective has been established in tandem with this research centre, to develop and enhance current collaboration with colleagues in the Department of Electronic Engineering, DLIADT, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Lancaster, University of the Arts, London, RUA RED Arts Centre, Riverbank Arts Centre and many others.

Through its membership, the Media and Electronic Arts Research Centre is linked in to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland/Media Literacy Network which is involved in planning a national campaign in Digital Citizenship.  The latter’s membership is drawn from across education and the cultural and creative industries including Creative Ireland, the Department of Communications, the Department of Education, traditional media organisations, social media platforms, NGO’s and regulatory bodies such as the ASAI.

Personnel (PI): 

  • Sinead McDonald, Lecturer Creative Media
  • Jean O’Halloran, Lecturer Creative Media 
  • Deirdre Kennedy, Lecturer Creative Media
  • James Wright, Head of Dept, Electronic Engineering

Postgraduate Students – MA (Research)

  • Sean Campbell, A modular approach to the creative process and content generation from digital interactive art within fine art practice.
  • Siobhan Conway, The impact of immersive technologies on the educational outcomes of young adults with dyslexia.
  • Louise Nolan, Investigation of integration of electronic data in digital media for the purpose of personalising creative experiences.
  • Roisin NicCana, Virtual Realities in the Museum Space

Collaborations: (National and international)

Digital Makers Collective (UK); RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre; South Dublin County Council; EUCIDA; Tate Exchange, London; Hack Circus (UK); Broadcasting Authority of Ireland; Andre Molodkin/Apolitical (France/UK); Mona Gamil/Irish Embassy in Cairo (Egypt)

If you would like to attend, or would like more information on CMEA or MMDA Taught Masters schedule, please email sinead.mcdonald@it-tallaght.ie or deirdre.kennedy@it-tallaght.ie.

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Data is the New Oil

To what extent do ordinary citizens grasp the true implications of data collection in their everyday lives? Stories of how data is being used to influence politics and target citizens, based on their psychological makeup, are now a regular occurrence; vested interests playing on our deepest fears and manipulating our prejudices.

In 2017 Rua Red Arts Centre launched a new socio-political programme which puts People, Place and Politics at the core of everything they deliver. As part of this ethos students from the Future Makers Collective were given a brief by renowned Russian artist Andrei Molodkin to research systems that control our lives. This body of research was created alongside his exhibition ‘Fallout Pattern’ and was informed by the current climate of data leaks, political propaganda and collusion.

This week long event and exhibition – Data is the New Oil – marked the culmination of this phase of the students’ research path, and included a process talk that explored emerging themes.

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Fallout Pattern

As part of the Future Makers Collective, 4th year Multimedia Creative Digital Media students worked on a collaborative project with Andrei Molodkin, 10 February – 6 April 2018 at Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght

As part of a major new show Fallout Pattern in Rua Red Arts Centre, renowned Russian artist Andrei Molodkin invited 4th year CDM students to collaborate with him in the work. For the duration of the show the students and founder members of FMC engaged in research and making in an open studio environment in Gallery Two, refining and passing their own pieces into the main space of Gallery One through the course of the exhibition’s run.

“In working with the students from the Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT), we are evolving a new language through their process of research and production. This language will then exist in a social place and will have the power to affect social change. I’m interested in creating a political language that exists in a social space rather than something for aesthetic pleasure”

Andrei Molodkin, 2018

More info on Fallout Pattern here

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