PhD Research

ARTiVIS – Arts, Real-time Video and Interactivity for Sustainability
PhD thesis in Digital Media by Mónica Mendes
with Nuno Correia and Sílvia Chicó as research advisors
» Thesis PDF document [32MB]

 

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2013.11.14
Conferência de Arte Multimédia, Doutoramento em Belas-Artes | FBAUL

ARTiVIS project
Online Platform | DiY Forest Surveillance Kit
Interactive installations: B-Wind! | Hug@ree | Play with Fire
Research Iterations: Blog | Photos | Videos

State of the Art » Art+Technology + Environment
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignoneau, Interactive Plant Growing
EOS, Talking Tree [Making of | Twitter feed]
Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille, Funky Forest
Rui Madeira, Parque

State of the Art » Real-time video streaming + Surveillance
Eduardo Kac, Rara Avis
Victoria Vesna, Another Day in Paradise
Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present
Steve Mann, Sousveillance
Wafaa Bilal, The 3rd I
Manu Luksch, Faceless
Chris O’Shea, Hand from Above

& My Bio

 

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2013.07.08
STTF2013
What if the Future had Community Run Sensor Networks?

State of the Art » Art+Technology + Environment
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignoneau, Interactive Plant Growing
EOS, Talking Tree [Making of | Twitter feed]
Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille, Funky Forest
Rui Madeira, Parque

State of the Art » Real-time video streaming + Surveillance
Eduardo Kac, Rara Avis
Victoria Vesna, Another Day in Paradise
Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present
Steve Mann, Sousveillance
Wafaa Bilal, The 3rd I
Manu Luksch, Faceless
Chris O’Shea, Hand from Above

Forest Fire Detection Infrastructures
Ciclope – Sistema Integrado de Videovigilância Florestal

Community Run Sensor Networks
Air Pi Air Quality and Weather Project
Safecatst Radiation Monitoring Network
Blitzortung Lightning Detection

“Internet of Things” Platforms
Thingspeak
MediaSense
Nimbits
Open Sapphire
Smart Citizen

 

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2013.05.23-24

PhD Colloquium and lecture
at Kunstuniversität Linz

2013.05.23 Lecture announcement


References suggested during the sessions:

Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation, by Sonja K. Foss and William Joseph Condon Waters

Tools to fight boredom: FLOSS and GNU/Linux for artists working in the field of generative music and software art, Marloes de Valk, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2009 of the Contemporary Music Review.

Universal Methods of Design, by Bruce Hanington and Bella Martin, Rockport Publishers


+ online resources used during the evaluation process:
Google Forms
Many Eyes – Visualization Options
Wordle – word clouds

... and at last:
PhD comics ;)