Speaker: Dr Rachel Jacobs, Impact Fellow, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham

Abstract

Presenting two artworks – A Conversation Between Trees and The Prediction Machine, looking at how the public engaged through the use of mobile and interactive technologies in an experience that presented complex scientific data using a series of strategies for engagement. Rachel will be going behind the scenes of the process to explore the challenges of accessibility, usability and public presentation.

Speaker bio:

Rachel Jacobs is a solo artist, curator, researcher and co-founder of the award winning artist-led company Active Ingredient.  Her latest artwork ‘The Prediction Machine’ is a fortune telling machine that uses live weather and projected climate data to print out ‘climate fortunes’.

Rachel has worked with bio and environmental sensors, and mobile and locative technologies to make interactive, performative, artistic interventions. She currently works part-time as an Impact Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab/Horizon Research Institute at the University of Nottingham.

Related reference:

This talk is related to a paper published by Liz FitzGerald and Anne Adams at the OU, that uses the ‘A Conversation Between Trees’ project as a case study:
FitzGerald, Elizabeth and Adams, Anne (2015). Revolutionary and evolutionary technology design processes in location-based interactions. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, 7(1) pp.59-78.
ORO link here, pre-print of paper here.