Numediart

The numediart Institute for New Media Art Technology was founded in 2010 by the University of Mons (UMONS), as an extension of the eponymous research programme funded by the Walloon Region (1997-2012). Building upon MONS 2015 dynamics (Mons will be the European Capital of Culture in 2015), the Institute organizes scientific training and research activities in the area of new media art technology. The topics covered by the Institute are the following: audio, image, video, gesture, and bio-signal processing, for applications in which the interaction between man and machine aims at creating emotions.
The activities of the Institute are coordinated by a strategic board, the numediart Consortium, which counts some fifteen members coming from the world of research, arts, entertainment, and industry. The Consortium meets every three months and ensures optimal adequacy between the research projects carried out by the Institute and the regional needs so as to foster scientific, economic and cultural development.
The numediart Programme is structured around three R&D themes: HyFORGE, for content-based hypermedia navigation; COMEDIA, for body and media interaction, and COPI, for digital luthery. The Programme consists of a series of short term projects (3-6-months; 3-4 projects running simultaneously), a one week mid-term “hands on” workshop, and a final public presentation. Projects proposals are made by senior researchers who carry them out and who are members of the Follow-up Committee, which meets once a month.
By creating connections between artists, engineers and companies though its 3-months , open-call, collaborative projects, NUMEDIART contributes to various artistic performances, installations, and projects.
Examples of collaborative projects organized or co-organized by NUMEDIART :
* Audiogarden
* MINIM, the audio processing toolbox of the Processing language
* DANCERS!, the on-line CV repository of dancers worldwide
* BorderLands, by German Videast Christian Graupner
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* DANCES WITH VIOLA, a series of performances by altist/dancer Dominica Eyckmans and composer Todor Todorof
* The real-time, proportional fire ramp developed by Showflamme, a Belgian company for fire arts
For more information on digital art technologies:
* DIGITALARTI, the international portal on digital art
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* ARTS NUMERIQUES, the Belgian web portal for digital art news
* Arts-numeriques.info, a scoop.it-based portal on the topic
For information about the main tools used in NUMEDIART :
* Arduino
* Processing,
* OpenFrameWorks
* MaxMSP
* PureData
* SIMIUS
External links :
* Numediart - Institute
* Numediart - Program
* Numediart - Consortium
* Umons, University of Mons website
* Numediart - Demos Vimeo
* Numediart - Demos Dailymotion

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