Research and Development Informed by Creative Arts Labs

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RADICAL

• Research and Development Informed by Creative
  Arts Labs

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www.get-radical.net
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RADICAL PARTNERS

• The RADICAL project kicked off in December 2000
  with a preliminary partners meeting at the ISEA
  conference in Paris, followed by a major planning
  meeting to confirm strategy, goals and working
  schedule (Surrey, England January 2001).
• The RADICAL PARTNERS are The Institute for New
  Media Performance Research/SMARTlab Centre
  (UK-lead partner), Audiorom (London, UK), ESI
  (Angouleme, France), The Society for Old and New
  Media (the WAAG, Amsterdam), and DMR/Fujitsu
  (Dublin).
• RADICAL MEMBERS include a cross-section of
  industry and creative organisations across EU
  the BBC, NOKIA, Ars Electronica, Macromedia,
  LUTCHI, The Theatre Museum/Victoria and Albert,
  Broadcast Solutions, et al. We are also working
  with a number of major international
  organisations including the Banff New Media
  Centre in Canada and both the ISA and USC in
  North America, to ensure a wide research base and
  dissemination strategy for the project.

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. . . getting RADICAL

• RADICAL is developing
• A series of events bringing together leaders in
  the field and smaller companies in collaborative
  exchange
• A number of new software prototypes for further
  development, to be demonstrated at a series of
  major events
• A high end web site
• A range of publications providing guides to good
  practice in creativity and media tools
  development . . . to be authored in response to
  feedback and ideas developed jointly throughout
  the life of the project with contributions from
  partners, members and IST collaborators.

• Tools
• for
• Enabling
• Interactive
• Content

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Process AS Product
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RADICAL EVENTS

• The RADICAL Programme includes 1 informal day
  workshop, 3 major events and 1 final plenary.
• April 7 2001 Workshop at the ADC Theatre,
  Cambridge, following the CODE Conference at
  Queens College The first informal workshop
  involved an introduction to the project and a
  series of break-out sessions discussing
  off-the-shelf and custom-made tools by and for
  artists, demos of tools in common use and group
  discussion about tools creation and dissemination
  in the sector. This event also launched the
  RADICAL SURVEY, which is now in process,
  collecting raw data on the needs of the sectors
  for input into a dynamic database (under
  construction).
• 9-15 July 2001 Keyevent on Tools for
  Participatory Shared Environments, The WAAG,
  Amsterdam.
• February 2002 ComiXlam on Professional
  Creatives Using Tools, ESI, Angouleme.
• July 2002 Mediateque event on Creatives
  Informing Tools Design and New Content Formats,
  London.
• October 2002 PLENARY, Research Agendas
  Developed in Creative Arts Labs Tools for
  Enabling Interactive Content, Dublin.

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RADICAL Event Theme Summary Structure RADICAL
will feature three residential labs and two
plenary conferences with the collective theme of
"Tools for Enabling Interactive Content",
focusing on the communities that need them, where
in the content chain they are needed, and how
they would be used. Objective Through
demonstration and discussion, to expose the
limitations and bottlenecks inherent in current
interactive publishing applications due to the
fact that some of the enabling technology
(authoring tools, software, standards, etc.) is
either inappropriate or not yet
available. Participants Creative professionals,
acting as catalysts in order to surface and
advance the issues users who wish to consume or
create content on a personal or on a collective
basis technology developers and researchers
content commissioners and channel
operators. Approach The first lab will deal with
the needs of the end-user, as seen through the
eyes of the creative community, and will focus on
applications in the area of participatory, shared
environments. The examples shown will illustrate
synchronous and asynchronous environments, as
well as small- and large-scale experiments. The
second lab will leverage the extensive experience
of creative professionals in using off-the-shelf
and bespoke authoring tools. The aim of the
second lab is to develop a channel for tool
development that directly links the creative and
development communities, leading to more relevant
tools. The third lab will focus on dissemination,
combining the results from the two previous labs
to illustrate how the creative community, by
using optimal tools and having its finger on the
consumers pulse, is in a perfect position to
inform new means of content development and new
content formats.
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www.net-RADICAL.netDr Lizbeth Goodman,
DirectorInstitute for New Media Performance
Research/SMARTlab UKl.l.goodman_at_surrey.ac.uk
or 99_at_smartlabcentre.com