Contract Research Member Profiles

Tapio Makela

Tapio Makela's research project, Technologies of Location, explores new media art that uses different technologies (GPS, mobile networks, Wlan) to create cross-media experiences in urban places. He is interested in how affect of place is constructed through both everyday practices and designed cultural interfaces. "Technologies of location" paraphrases Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the observer, and asks whether location based perception is a continuation of modernity as a visual technology, or do mobile and tactile technologies enable parallel, invisible yet "sensible" realities. The research project will result in a book, and media art works. His project partners include FACT (Liverpool), Sarai (Delhi), Futuresonic Festival (Manchester) and Imagination@Lancaster (Lancaster University)

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Helmut Lemke

Helmut Lemke - Sound, the audible, the inaudible and the imaginable, is the basis of Helmut Lemkes' research and work. Since 30 years he presents process based results of his investigations into site-specific sound. Lemke has performed Concerts and Live Art Performances and exhibited Sound Installations all over Europe and Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. His activities include organisation and management of festivals, projects and symposiums. Since 1989 he runs the label "edition el C." for the purpose to document contemporary sound art practice. Lemke has collaborated internationally with musicians, visual artists, dancers, poets, scientists, sound artists, performers and filmmakers. Lemkes' most recent research interest is described in this excerpt from his AHRC fellowship outline: The Sound the site requires This project examines the proposition that sound is a valuable medium for recording and interpreting physical and social landscapes and will be a project to use sound as a sculptural medium for the interpretation of locations.

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Dr Drew Hemment

Drew Hemment was an AHRC Research Fellow in Creative Technology from 2003 to 2006. The focus of his Fellowship was an interdisciplinary arts-based project on mobile media and surveillance “Loca”, drawing together an international and interdisciplinary group of representatives. Loca was one of the major projects presented at ISEA2006, at Transmediale 06 Berlin, and included within the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. He is also project investigator in the interdisciplinary research network PLAN - The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network funded as part of the EPSRC Culture and Creativity programme, and founder and Director of the Futuresonic International Festival.

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