RESPOND!!! Interchange
Wednesday 2nd to Saturday 5th April 2003
Cambridge
Future Physical/The Junction/CUMIS

RESPOND InterChange
wednesday 2 – friday 4 april 2003
At the heart of RESPOND is the InterChange for specialists and those with an active interest in the integrated themes of:

• BODY – Presence, Intimacy and Touch
• DATA – 3D Navigable Knowledge and Visualisation
• SPACE – Responsive Architecture and Materials, Virtual Design Tools

A unique opportunity to explore and learn about advancements in the exciting interlock between virtual and physical space. The RESPOND InterChange brings together a group of international and national artists and thinkers, all experimenting on the dissolving border between virtual and physical worlds. RESPOND places the living emotional body at the centre of a weave of inputs on the themes.

Artists giving work-in-progress showings and lecture demonstrations:
Simon Byford (UK): Love Story
FoAm (Belgium): txOom
Joseph Hyde (UK): RememberMe
Martin Kusch/Marie Claude Poulin (Germany/Canada): kondition pluriel
Mark Palmer (UK): Maelstrom
Jane Prophet (UK): Cell
Tom Sapsford (UK): Hypnos
Stanza (UK): genomixer
Phillip Warnell (UK): Shock
Catherine Watling (UK): Temporal Manifestation
Rachel Wingfield (UK): Digital Dawn

The RESPOND InterChange is the final of 4 InterChange events in the Future Physical programme.

You can attend the RESPOND InterChange in a number of ways:

• If you can only spare a day, join us for the Opening Keynote Programme (Wednesday 2 April)
  
• For deeper development and involvement, sign up to three days (Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 April) of InterChange including theme related working groups, process demos, papers and panel discussions.
  Participants CAN CHOOSE TO FOLLOW ONE theme, OR WORK ACROSS ALL THREE.
  
• Stay for Saturday 5 April too – a specialist associated day of detailed discussion and debate: The Creative User Research Day or Research/Practice // Practice/Research
  

wednesday 2 april 2003
keynote lectures – open to the public
babbage lecture theatre
times: 14:30–18:30
public entry: full £15 / conc. £10
interchange participants: see rates

To open the RESPOND InterChange we present an afternoon of visionary TALKS. Taking the themes for RESPOND, the speakers will input from their specialist knowledge.

• BODY: Paul Sermon - Interactive Media Artist, University of Salford, UK.
• DATA: Christa Sommerer - Media Artist, IAMAS, Gifu, Japan.
• SPACE: Marcos Novak - -Trans-Architect, UCLA Los Angeles, USA.

Followed by responses from a specialist panel with questions and answers. Overview and moderation by Ghislaine Boddington (Future Physical/shinkansen/ResCEN, Middlesex University).

thursday 3 – friday 4 april 2003
working groups
babbage lecture theatre
art school-room a / small exam hall

Engage in professional level group research, process sharing and networking revolving around the three themes. The working groups use shinkansen group process methodologies to engage participants in a professional exchange of ideas which enhance deeper understanding of themes and their context, professional development and network connections.

Led by:

• BODY: Ghislaine Boddington (Future Physical/shinkansen/ResCEN, Middlesex University)
• DATA: Pete Ride (DA2/University of Westminster)
• SPACE: Francois Penz (CUMIS, Cambridge Univeristy Moving Image Studio)

- plus inputs from the speakers, commissioned artists and panelists of the InterChange.

saturday 5 april
Two associated events exploring relevant methodologies on:

CREATIVE USER RESEARCH DAY
1 -day symposium saturday 5 april 2003
michaelhouse centre, trinity street
times: 10:00–17:30

Case study presentations and debate around the role of the user/audience as a creative participant in responsive environments and interactive spaces.

Identifying the processes of user engagement in the work and exploring how creative participation is enabled. Practical examples of research methodologies and evaluation of results.

Future Physical (shinkansen/East England Arts) in association with Fo.Am (Belgium), Culture 2000 Framework of the European Commission and Playgarden (Arts Council of England).

RESEARCH/PRACTICE // PRACTICE/RESEARCH
1 -day symposium saturday 5 april 2003
cambridge university dept. of architecture
1 scroope terrace, trumpington street
times: 09:00–19:00

Practice-based-research and practice-as-research occupy a borderland between Academy, Commercial R & D and the Cultural Industries. How can tensions be resolved? Can work of true research value and real artistic merit emerge from this environment? How can projects best be defined, funded and evaluated? This Symposium brings together leading researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to debate these crucial issues and put forward their recommendations.

CUMIS (Cambridge University Moving Image Studio) in association with CRASSH, Rescen Middlesex University and Future Physical.