News
24th October 2008
As part of the Respect Festival we have produced an interactive art work that will be displayed on the side of the Portland Square building at the University of Plymouth. Members of the public will be asked to send in, via SMS, their words of respect and these will be displayed with "Respect" translated into 8 of the languages currently used in Plymouth.
28th June 2008
Far West is a major cross-art form project exploring the new consumer and cultural relationships that are emerging as the economic centre of the world shifts towards the East. The project includes exhibitions, off site presentations, performance, film and a range of events and activities. We assisted with this exhibition by building and online shop stocked with an exclusive range of items to provide real possibilities for art to play a fulfilling role within the customer's individual lifestyle.
1st May 2008
In collaboration with Geoff Cox of the Arnolfini we launched antisocial notworking at Futuresonic in Manchester. More on antisocial notworking can be seen under case studies
8th February 2008
i-DAT, in collaboration with Plymouth Arts Centre, presents: ‘S-OS: a Social Operating System’ for the city of Plymouth. S-OS is a collection of creative interventions and strategic manifestations that provides a new and more meaningful ‘algorithm’ for modeling ‘Social Exchange’ and proposes a more effective ‘measure’ for ‘Quality of Life’. The piece of work we've produced measures the little day-to-day exchanges to give the user an overall personal 'Happindex' which can be uploaded and pooled with others. The Plymouth Happindex can then be plotted to see how it performs against more established indexes such as the FTSE, Nasdaq and Dow Jones. www.s-os.org
2nd March 2007
We are very proud to announce that both of Chris' nominations won at last night's New Media Innovation awards ceremony. Along with digital creative Jamie Taylor, he picked up the award for the mobile category for their contribution to Noogy. Noogy was a building-size Tamagotchi-style virtual pet that combined 'smart' buildings and mobile phone technologies. The AI and SMS system that provided the basis of his personality was based on an intelligent mobile phone marketing tool that they have been developing called Stanley. The judges described it as "an innovative way in which it used artificial intelligence to receive text information and respond to it".
He was also part of the Cornwall Culture team that picked up the award in the multi-platform category which the judges described as "a great example of using a range of technologies to their fullest potential". Congratulations and well done!
Jamie and Chris collecting their award from Mark Haskell of ITV
Photo courtesy of Trevor
Burrows
1st February 2007
We're pleased to announce that Chris has been included in two nominations for the Media Innovation awards. The first in the Mobile category is for the work he did as part of the Noogy project and the second is in the Multi-platform category as part of the team behind the Cornwall Culture project.
The full list of nominations can be viewed at www.mediainnovationawards.com
16th November 2006
In collaboration with I-DAT, we worked on a project called Noogy. Noogy is a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet that combines a mix of the physical and virtual by incorporating 'smart' buildings and mobile phone technologies into a dynamic building size interactive 'creature'. We provided the SMS interface and the AI that helped formed the basis for Noogy's personality.
A short film is available for viewing here or to learn more about the project, you can visit www.noogy.org
13th October 2006
The Respect Festival is an annual celebration of Plymouth’s multiculture, fusing colours, music, vibrancy, performance, arts and information. As part of it, on 29th October we will be in the Guildhall with I-DAT running a workshop showing people how to shoot and edit film using their video mobile phone.
10th May 2006
Chris of PL9 Design has been helping I-DAT and Cornwall Arts Marketing with the Cornwall Culture project, establishing Cornwall as a European region of culture. He has been installing internet and bluetooth enable pods around the county enabling people to comment on what culture in Cornwall means to them.
To learn more about the project, visit www.cornwallculture.co.uk or why not drop by one of the pods and add your own comment.
27th February 2006
We are pleased to announce that PL9 Design is sponsoring Openreel.
OpenReel is an open projection night where established, up and coming and wannabe film makers can show their work to both each other and to members of the public. The evening is held on the first Monday of each month upstairs at Cuba on North Hill.
For more information visit www.openreel.co.uk
4th November 2005
We will be at the Cornwall Film Festival with iDAT running a workshop showing how video mobile phones can be used to shoot and edit film.
You can read more about the workshops at v-mob.
18th July 2005
This year we will be assisting iDAT at the 3rd Port Eliot Lit Fest over the weekend of 22nd - 24th July. The Lit Fest is a weekend of words, music, magic, dancing, film, food and fairytales and we will be taking part in an audio distribution project called Port Pods.
You can learn more about it and the Lit Fest by visiting www.porteliotlitfest.com