Digital Arts weeks Xian

The IOCT was a strong presence at Digital Arts Weeks in Xian, China in early July 2010 . Dr Steve Gibson, Senior Research Fellow was a key organiser, presenter, educational chair, workshop presenter and also exhibitor with his interactive bicycle spoof. 'Grand Theft Bicycle' http://grandtheftbicycle.com/. Professor Andrew Hugill presented the transdisciplinary work of the IOCT at the symposium at the Fine Art Academy and also gave a pre-concert talk at the prestigious Music Conservatory on Piano Pataphysics and an open air concert in Jade valley http://vimeo.com/13224371 attended both by participants and village locals. Professor Sue Thomas gave a conference keynote on Transliteracy research practice at the conference and Professor Martin Rieser mounted the Third Woman interactive mobile film http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/Third_Woman and an opening performance intervention with workshop students directed by collaborators Anna Dumitriu and Margarete Jahrmann in the great hall of the Fine Art Academy and gave a conference talk on the Art of Mobility. Brett Battey showed his piece Sinus Aestum in the Trans-Art exhibition and Honji Yang gave a talk at Xi'an Jiaotong University on Prolonging Software Life for Digital Art Systems and moderated the Future Cities forum.

DAW:  http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW10/Overview

Third Woman Installation http://vimeo.com/13183454