projects
media arts network [ma-net] initiates and manages a range of collaborative media arts projects across the North West of England.
ma-net Action Research Projects bring together a range of organisations from the arts and academic sectors to research areas of particular interest in media arts and contribute to current thinking, debate and practice.
ma-net visit to ISEA 2006
Current projects:
*Situations and Collaboration between Second Life and Consensual Landscapes and Scenarios
A collaborative project between University of Salford, folly and ICDC. See the project website for further details.
This project brings the resources and expertise of three partner MaNet Institutions together; Liverpool ICDC, Folly Lancaster and Salford University, to undertake collaborative research into the possible assimilation of, and between, virtual online communities and the built and human environment. This is a mixed realities research project that will address the current virtual community developments and needs such as Second Life. The three partner investigators will establish a networked Second Life environment in the North West to make feasibility test and prototype practice based research experiments between the Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester triangle.
Current project outcomes:
*Projection Interfaces
A collaborative project between Redeye, Open Eye and University of Cumbria.
An investigation into new uses of digital technology to link and display projected images This project is investigating how the experience and quality of viewing photography and digital images via projections in a gallery setting might be enhanced using software and hardware improvements, and by collaboration between curator, photographer, interface programmer and viewer.
Past projects: (these are links to an archived website)
ISEA research visit, 2006
RE-view: professional development for emerging journalists and writers, 2005
MAD: media activation day, 2005: a cross-regional event, integrating members from two networks: ma-net and SCAN, to encourage future collaboration and develop networking skills and opportunities
