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Get Pervasive with London Girl Geeks

ICA Nash Room Fri 6 Mar 6-8pm

FREE EVENT – ADVANCE BOOKING RECOMMENDED

Does the word 'technology' spark fear in your mind? Or do you feel like the only girl in your block who gets stoked on digital?

Either way, come and meet the ladies from London Girl Geek Dinners, who definitely do compute. Understand the processes behind video on demand and explore how you can get your film seen using pervasive technology, in this session of media tech inspiration without all that ego.

Maria Ingold

Maria is currently Head of Technical Operations for FilmFlex Movies, the UK’s leading on demand film service with an annual turnover of over £35M with only 12 employees!  FilmFlex, co-owned by Sony and Disney, provides on demand films to over 3 million homes through Virgin Media.  A colleague once described her as “the architect of the future of FilmFlex”.   Maria is currently leading FilmFlex’s development of a fully digital SD and HD workflow and a multi-platform on demand media asset management and delivery system.

Demonstrating the many strings to her bow, Maria is currently writing a couple graphic novels, and working on a painting series.  In addition to this, she is a film, TV and interactive judge for BAFTA, which she finds incredibly rewarding, and is realising her desire as a positive coach and mentor of women, helping them to enter and gain advancement in the technology industry.

Clare Reddington

What is pervasive media? How can we design immersive, creative, inclusive experiences for this new form? Bringing together practitioners, researchers and users from diverse backgrounds, the Pervasive Media Studio seeks to explore these questions, establishing a globally-recognised centre of excellence in the heart of Bristol, UK.  From street games to projections, iphone apps to installations, Studio Director Clare Reddington will present an overview of this unique collaborative space and showcase some of the creative technology projects that have been produced over the last year. 

body>data>space

body>data>space is a design collective placing the body at the centre of digital interaction. We create unique events and installations for public environments and architectural builds. With extensive expertise of the body in motion, both physical and virtual, the group merges content and interactivity into new generation display interfaces and media facades. body>data>space use connectivity and locative technologies such as sensors, virtual worlds and telematics to network public engagement and creativity. Based in East London our specialisation is telematics - real-time performances using the internet to link two or more remote locations, allowing the participants to collaboratively play, communicate and knowledge share at a distance. Please visit Body>Data>Base Website for further information.

Ghislaine Boddington

Ghislaine Boddington (Creative Director b>d>s bodydataspace, London) is an artist, director and curator specializing in performing arts and the integration of body responsive technologies, virtual physical networks and interactive interfaces. Ghislaine develops solutions based on twenty years work with shinkansen and Future Physical (1989-2004 now archived at British Library and at The shinkansen Collection and with, amongst others, the ICA and Dance Umbrella. She has directed and curated numerous events, workshops and symposia on body technology throughout east and west Europe, the US and Asia. She is well known for her work on cultural identity and interauthorship processes of creation.  She holds an Artist Research Associate at ResCen, Middlesex University (ResCen website) exploring tele-kinetics, tele-presence and tele-intuition, and she regularly writes and collates collections of topical thoughts from artists worldwide. Recent work includes the exhibition and publication Virtual Physical Bodies (CDA Paris 2008) and Post Me_New ID, an EU funded programme including the direction of a new performance installation called ‘DARE WE DO IT REAL-TIME?'

Leanne Bird

Leanne Bird (Creative Producer b>d>s bodydataspace, London) Leanne's background is in dance and technology and she produced 15 commissioned art technology pieces for Future Physical in 2002-4 and was project manager for several shinkansen dance and technology projects including Virtual Incarnations (ICA/Dance Umbrella) as well as performing herself in many of the live telematic connected performances. She has been working with body>data>space since its formation in 2005. She works as general manager and key project producer for the collective and in particular leads on the Post Me_New ID EU Culture 2007 project. She also works on rehearsal direction and content development for skintouchfeel and the body>data>space performance and telematic projects.

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