Michaela Palmer

University of the West of England, Bristol | UWE Bristol · Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies

In this paper we seek to further develop the concept/methodology of data sonification (see Palmer and Jones 2014) as an experimental aesthetic, geo-poetic, and techno-scientific creative procedure for making explicit the generative processuality of elemental landscape/ ecosystems/ habits. In continuing our explorations of data sonification using th...

This paper consists of a discussion of data sonification-a procedure in which information gathered from systems such as bodies or environmental processes is analyzed and reprocessed into audio models, so aspects of the process generating the data (for example, emotional or tidal ebb and flow) can be apprehended by human senses. This serves various...

The Severn Estuary in Southwest England deserves great attention: with an enormous tidal range and three million people living around its shores, it is a unique site of interlinked and clashing rhythms. Moreover, the passage over or under the estuary, industry and tourism affects a much wider, and not necessarily local, population group. This is th...

Explorative play affects the root of our being, as it is generative. Often experienced as a thrill, explorative play gradually lures its players beyond their mental or physical limits. While doing so, it affects players well before they can perform intentional actions. To understand explorative play therefore means to understand what happens before...

Listening is often described as hearing with a purpose, and thus to listen often means to absorb information or to understand someone's emotions in order to respond appropriately. But while such purposeful listening is necessary and useful, it certainly is not the only kind of listening. In fact, it is a constructive and instructive exercise to, ev...

Mindplay was held on the 20th January 2006 at London Metropolitan University, UK. The conference was organised by the Group for Research in Interactive Media within the Department of Applied Social Sciences. Mindplay focused on play and interaction within digital media environments, encompassing mobile and ubiquitous media, interactive cinema and g...