InfoD-Cafe: Lansdown Lecture - Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, Gameplay - 21 November 2007 - London

Summary
+ Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, gameplay
+ Rachel Jacobs of Active Ingredient
+ Date: Wednesday 21 November 2007
+ Time: 5:00pm for one hour
+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
Cat Hill Campus: Room 137
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Enquiries
Stephen Boyd Davis: s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk
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Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, gameplay
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What is happening to media? -- the implications of an award-winning world-first pervasive game. A unique game/artwork that uses live heart-rate and GPS to build each player?s personal game experience.

Media are changing, becoming pervasive and physical instead of being confined to conventional screens like TV, cinema and PCs. Rachel Jacobs and her colleagues at Active Ingredient, a Nottingham based new media company, have developed a world-first pervasive game which recently won the firstNokia Ubimedia international award in conjunction with the Mixed
Reality Lab at Nottingham University. The work originated in a Wellcome Trust-funded
project while Rachel was a postgraduate in the Lansdown Centre and has received world-wide attention. The Centre welcomes her back to Middlesex to reflect on the project and draw out issues for the future.

The original project: http://lansdown.mdx.ac.uk/dragons/

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About the speaker
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Rachel Jacobs is an artist, consultant and project manager, coming from a background of dance, performance and visual arts. She has been based in Nottingham since 1991 where she co-founded Active Ingredient. Rachel is responsible for the creative delivery and project management of the work.

She has also worked as a lecturer and workshop facilitator. Rachel was awarded an MA in Electronic Arts from Middlesex University in 2006 and has co-authored papers about her work with Active Ingredient, Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts and the Mixed Reality Lab at University of Nottingham.

Active Ingredient have developed a reputation over 10 years specialising in interactive media. They attempt to unlock everyday magic from the rigid systems of new media, their innovative approach to new technologies has led them to national and international success in the public, academic and commercial sectors.

Active Ingredient: http://www.active-ingredient.co.uk/
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Venue
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Room 137
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom

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Date and time
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Wednesday 21 November at 5pm
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/
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