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In the spring of 2024, I’ll hire two postdocs, one crossing CAD tools and Infovis for the Syntecs Project project and the other crossing dance and AI for the modina project. If you’re interested, I’ll attend #MUM2023 next week. Feel free to reach out.

A year ago my PhD student Raul Masu successfully defended his thesis. Recently, a key article from his thesis got published at the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s0…

In the scope of MODINA and the Temporal Spaces residency, there's an installation-based showing coming up at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava, Tallinn, 22 and 23 of February (free entrance). stl.ee/lisaprogramm/r…

Second call: In the scope of the SYNTECS project (syntecs-laser.eu), we are seeking a research fellow at the Interactive Technologies Institute, IST-ID, Lisbon, Portugal, by 29th Fev: linkedin.com/posts/diogo-ca…

MODINA residency project #SFDCANBAC++, by Jorge Guevara Larrotta and Naoto Hieda, has a showing Feb/14 at Kino Šiška in Ljubljana (free). kinosiska.si/en/dogodek/mod…

"We see AI as providing scaffolding to the piece rather than taking on the role of an interactive scenography." Sarah Fdili Alaoui, who is a reader at CCI, is choreographing at the National Dance Center in Bucharest on a piece called "For Patricia" cndb.ro/en/new_events/…

MODINA residency project For Patricia, by Sarah Fdili Alaoui, John Sullivan and collaborators, has a showing 1/March at CNDB in Bucharest (free). cndb.ro/en/new_events/…

New residency project starting soon: Resonant Memories, in the scope of #eudigitaldeal, with Yulia Sion and and Clopy Diaz Reyes. Thank you to Centar za promociju nauke for selecting us, looking forward to this collaboration. More info: ars.electronica.art/eudigitaldeal/…

I'll perform as Varm & Correia with Taavi Varm at the festival Loodus/Loovus (Nature/Creativity). June 6th, 21h, University of Tartu Botanical Garden. Part of Tartu 2024 EU capital of culture. More info in English soon. Link: loodusfestival.ee/linnupesade-sa…

Check out our new modina call for artist residencies. Deadline: 4/August

Our article from #ISEA2023 has finally been published. It's open access from: isea2023.ensad.fr/isea2023-proce… (pages 336-345). Thank you to co-authors Debora Souza, Inês Nêves and Jaime Lobato (Inês and Jaime were also the artists in the residency project). Thank you to project partners.

Porto friends: tomorrow 18/June at 6pm I'll be presenting: "Multi-sensory objects: design of interactive experiences involving the tactile and auditory senses". Rivoli Theatre, free entry. Organized by Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Porto and @tmunicipalporto Info: teatromunicipaldoporto.pt/en/evento-dest…

The first article from our modina project, "Best Practices for Technology-Mediated Audience Interaction in Dance Performances", co-authored with William Primett, recently presented at MOCO is now available online: doi.org/10.1145/365885…. Thanks to all participants

On the 17th July, I will be taking part of a Workshop in London (UAL Creative Computing Institute) on Ethical and Responsible Music Making with AI. Part of the Music Responsible AI project. Register (free) by 11th July: eventbrite.co.uk/e/responsible-…

The panel I take part in tomorrow 17/7 (12pm London time), on Ethical and Responsible Music Making with AI - Challenges and Opportunities for Music Creation, can be streamed from: youtube.com/live/cWx8h4xhY… Hosted by UAL Creative Computing Institute

In the 1st half of July, I was in Belgrade working for our Resonant Memories project with Yulia Sion and Clopy Diaz Reyes. We conducted co-design sessions with elderly to later create multisensory artefacts representing their memories. Hosted by Centar za promociju nauke, part of #eudigitaldeal

In the scope of modina , we are organising in Tallinn 3 performances and 2 seminar sessions, on dance and technology, 30/Sep, 1/Oct and 2/Oct. Hosted by Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava. Free entry. More info: stl.ee/en/lisaprogram… (performances), stl.ee/en/lisaprogram… (seminar).

Today 30/9/24 marks the start of modina showcases 2024, which will last until the end of November. We are showcasing the 5 MODINA 2024 projects in a total of 15 performances and 5 seminars, in 5 EU capitals. More info: modina.eu/news/showcases…. MODINA is co-funded by the EU

Announcing new modina dance&tech projects – check out the 5 projects that will be developed and presented in 2025 (co-funded by the EU Creative Europe): This Is Unreal, Baby, The Field, NINO, Still Moving. More info: modina.eu/projects/

Last days to apply to our call for 3 speculative artistic mini-projects to use AI to create music with genres that are currently marginalised by main-stream AI models. Award: £5,000. Project led by UAL Creative Computing Institute Call deadline: Mon 28th Oct 2024. More info: music-rai.github.io/call/