Improvisation, Intermediality, and Human/Digital Interaction

This collaboration between Guelph and Regina-based IICSI researchers analyzes improvisation in the field of new media art, with particular focus on Canadian works, and aims to develop a new media performance work based on this research.

Team members presented a panel at the Rethinking Intermediality conference in Romania in October 2013, where research was presented on new media art by SK artists Rachelle Viader Knowles and Judy Anderson, and “The Improscaper” – a new smartphone app for improvising with digital image and audio – was launched.

Other research outputs include:

Panel: “Intermediamorphosis: Improvisation, Intermediality and Human/Digital Interaction.” With Rebecca Caines, John Campbell, Frederique Arroyas, and Nicholas Loess. Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. Cluj Napoca, Romania, October 2013.

Rebecca Caines. “Technological Intimacy: Augmented Reality and Improvisatory Ethics.” Panel: “Intermediamorphosis: Improvisation, Intermediality and Human/Digital Interaction”. Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. Cluj Napoca, Romania, October 2013.

Caines, Rebecca, Rachelle Viader Knowles, and Judy Anderson. “QR codes and Traditional Beadwork: Augmented Communities Improvising Together.” ” Augment”. Special issue of MC: Media and Culture. Volume 16, Issue 6 (2013).

Sites: Guelph, Regina

Researchers: Rebecca Caines, University of Regina, with software developer John Campbell, Frederique Arroyas, University of Guelph, and PhD student Nicholas Loess, University of Guelph.