15 July 2010

During July, Drew Hemment is taking up an Honorary Residency at Eyebeam in New York and presenting an event at NextFab Studio in Philadelphia to introduce the New Mobilities theme for FutureEverything 2011. New Mobilities is a theme of the FutureEverything 2011 festival developed by FutureEverything and Lancaster University.

Drew will be presenting an Eyebeam ReBlog session and a talk/workshop at NextFab Studio hosted by Breadboard and mCenter@Drexel. Further details can be found at the following websites: -

Eyebeam ReBlog, 12-19 July 2011: http://eyebeam.org/reblog

NextFab Studio, 16 July 2010, 17.30 - 19.00: http://breadboardphilly.org/?p=1813

4 May 2010

Julia Gillen is at the American Educational Research Association Conference in Denver, Colorado. Ann Cameron and Julia Gillen are launching their new book: 'International Perspectives on Early Childhood Research: A day in the life'. Julia is involved in presenting 3 papers, 1 co-written with members of ImaginationLancaster. She is also attending the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy board meeting as a co-editor.

4 May 2010

We are delighted to announce that FutureEverything has been nominated for the Big Chip International Award for Innovation 2010.

The shortlist is as follows:

• FutureEverything with FutureEverything
• PiP Interactive with PiP Interactive
• Studio Liddell and Magic Lantern for BBC Children's with Bugbears

The Big Chip International Award for Innovation was introduced in 2008 to celebrate 10 years of Big Chip and 60 years since the invention of the first stored program computer in Manchester.

This category is open to any project from anywhere in the world. Anyone can nominate their own project, or a project executed by a third party.

Judging Criteria:"Nominated projects must demonstrate exceptional innovation in digital media or digital technology. Example projects might be a new on-line service, a new use of digital technology in a product or service, or a new Internet business model."

Website: http://www.bigchipawards.com/page.asp?id=3127

18 December 2008

LICA's joint (Art, Design, Music, Theatre, Film and New Media) multi-disciplinary submission (to the Art and Design sub-panel of Panel O) scored a high grade point average of 3.1 with 80% of its research classed as world (4*) or internationally (3*) leading. This score places Art and Design in the top 3 in its sector and Theatre Studies and Music, and Film and New Media among the top 5 in their respective sectors.

Deputy Director of LICA, Dr Andrew Quick said that he was delighted that Lancaster's decision to invest in the Arts at Lancaster has paid off:

"LICA is a unique combination with Art, Design, Music, Theatre, Film and New Media and this result shows our success in driving interdisciplinary research that can have real applications on how people live. We work with other universities, industry, the public sector, and NGOs to develop new creative approaches to research and contemporary issues."

Professor Tony McEnery, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences said "This Research Assessment success validates our future plans and developments across Art, Design, Music, Theatre, Film and New Media as being one of the places leading the research agenda in the UK."