[HE]Arts of STEM Festival Day 2
Ulster University, Magee campus (Great Hall, MD Building) and the Nerve Centre (FabLab), Derry/Londonderry, Fri 26th February, 10 am to 5 pm, in association with the NI Science Festival.
Free admission but online booking required.
Note: MD building at Magee is the big Victorian Gothic building by the Rock Road and Northland Road.
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SCHEDULE
10.00 am: Coffee/tea on arrival
Location: Great Hall, MD building
10.10 am: Welcome and Introduction: Prof. Paul Moore (Head of School of Creative Arts and Technologies, Ulster University)
Location: Great Hall, MD building
10.20 am: Eamon Durey (FabLab NI): Making a Difference: the social impact of 3D printing and FabLabs
Location: Great Hall, MD building
10.50 am: Dr Tony Doyle (spatial audio/spatial music researcher, Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association)
Location: Studio 2: basement of Foyle Arts Building (attendees will be guided to this studio to hear a presentation and demo of new spatial audio techniques)
11.20 am: Alan Hook (Interactive Media, Ulster University): Why Games are Important
Location: Great Hall, MD building
11.50 am: Eleanor Mulholland (PhD researcher, Ulster University): A recommender system for media assets based on sentiment analysis and gamification
Location: Great Hall, MD building
12.05 pm: Coffee/tea break: foyer
12.20 pm: Dr Enda Bates (lecturer on TCD MPhil in Music and Media Technologies, Spatial Music Collective): Space Mapping
Location: Great Hall, MD building
12.50 pm: Ryan Young (PhD researcher, Ulster University): Academic Hypertext
Location: Great Hall, MD building
1.05 pm: move to Nerve Centre for afternoon session
1.20 pm: Lunchtime reception
Location: Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
2.00 pm: tour of Nerve Centre FabLab with Eamon Durey (FabLab NI)
Location: FabLab, Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
2.15 pm: Headline talk: Dr Victor Lazzarini (Dean of Arts, Philosophy and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University and computer music researcher): Thoughts on the cross-fertilisation of Arts and STEM
Location: FabLab, Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
3.00 pm: Dr Linda O’Keeffe (Lancaster University, President of the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association): Sonifying Memory: Creative approaches to representing socially constructed soundscapes
Location: FabLab, Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.45 pm: Adrian O’Connell (PhD researcher, Ulster University): Digital Storytelling (community engagement and the presentation of self)
4.00 pm: Dr Murat Akser (Cinematic Arts, Ulster University): Activist Media
Location: FabLab, Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
4.30 pm: Concluding panel and roundtable discussion: Arts, Technology and the Social Context in the early 21st Century
In addition to the day’s other speakers, this panel will feature:
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Professor of Intelligent Multimedia, Ulster University)
Dr Justin Magee (Design, Ulster University)
Location: FabLab, Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
5.15 pm: Close
Location: FabLab, Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
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