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2008        
May   Mention in national newspaper article.  

Ere be Dragons cited 3 May 2008 in article High Tech Storytelling about location-based stories: Guardian newspaper online

2007        
October   Prize  

First prize at Nokia Ubimedia award

Heartlands has won 1st at the International NOKIA Ubimedia awards, chosen out of 140 submissions from around the world. The prize is for innovation in the field of pervasive media.

Active Ingredient developed it with the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham from the internationally succesful project 'Ere Be Dragons headed by the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts.

July and August   Demonstration  

Dislocate 07, Tokyo, 24th July to 5th August 2007

         
unknown   Book chapter.   Book on Pervasive Games edited by Margerkurth and Röcker, to be published by Springer.
         
November  

Short book chapter.

  Book Space Time Play: Games, Architecture and Urbanism (edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Ulrich Brinkmann and Matthias Böttger) to be published 3 Nov 2007 by Birkhäuser of Basel, Boston and Berlin.
         
January   Presentation.   Third Taipei Public Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan 16th December 2006 to 14th January 2007).
         
2006        
November   Online presentation.   Mobile Fest, Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 19-17th
         
October   Presentation.   First Play event, Berlin, 12th - 15th October 2006
         
September   Presentation and abstract.   Mediascape Experience Conference, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, 15th September 2006.
         
August   Journal article.   Digital Creativity journal.
         
July   Presentation   Equator workshop, Glasgow, 4th July 2006.
         
May   Presentation.   Cybersonica 2006 – International Festival of Music, Art, Sound and Technology, DANA Centre, Science Museum, London, 20th May 2006
         
May   Demonstration and full paper for international workshop in conjunction with conference.   3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications held in Dublin, Ireland, on May 7th 2006 in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
         
February   This website created at Lansdown Centre   http://lansdown.mdx.ac.uk/
people/stephen/dragons/
         
February   Presentation.   Presentation at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Shortlisted for Build, Create and Enhance project.
         
January   Demonstration and full paper.   Mindplay, a one day conference on digital media theory, culture, practice and play, London Metropolitan University, 20th January 2006. Abstracts.
         
2005        
December   Live exhibition and trialling of Version Two.   Radiator Festival, Nottingham, 1-4 December 2005
         
November   Live exhibition and trialling of Version One.   ACM Multimedia Art exhibition, Singapore, 7-11 November 2005.
         
November   Short paper.   Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia
         
November   Blog of Singapore trip.   http://www.dragonstour.
blogspot.com/
         
July   Website created at Active Ingredient   http://www.i-am-ai.net/erebedragons/
         
February     Presentation of early prototype     Screenplay festival, Nottingham, 27 February 2005.
         
February   News coverage: webpage.   BBC Nottingham, 24 February 2005.
         

During the project we have produced the following:

  • A novel and unique digital-physical experience (Version One) for a group of participants to explore their own physical behaviour in the environment of the everyday, becoming sensitised through a playful and creative experience to the biological consequences of their actions.

  • A Version Two which enables social interaction to emerge through multiplayer support and also enables a much larger group of observers to watch the trajectory of the players in the game.

  • Two websites aimed at different audiences, one presenting the artists’ representation of the data gathered in visual and interactive form, the other (this website) providing more discussion of underlying intellectual issues.

  • Presentations, exhibitions, papers and articles for popular and academic audiences, some internationally significant, presenting new knowledge in the areas of art/science collaboration, health education, pervasive gameplay, creative play, and technology.

 

Dragons in Japan

Dragons in Singapore

Dragons in Glasgow

Dragons presentation at Equator workshop in Glasgow

Dragons in Bristol

Dragons in Bristol

Dragons in Nottingham