Artmaps

Speakers: Laura Carletti and Dominic Price

ArtMaps is a project exploring the nature of what it means to position 'social' data in the world and how it can change our perceptions of the world around us. Originally conceived as a project to crowd-source geographic information about artworks held by the Tate the project metamorphosed into something more. This talk will be in two parts, one will introduce the audience to the technical architecture of the platform underpinning ArtMaps, the other will explore the social aspects of the project alongside some discussion of some preliminary findings.

Project site:http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/art-maps

Introduction: http://www.artmaps.org.uk/artmaps/tate2/

Map: http://www.artmaps.org.uk/artmaps/tate2/map

Speaker Bios:Laura Carletti is a Research Fellow in Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham, and at the College of Humanities, University of Exeter. She received a MA in Arts and Humanities and a PhD in Technology Enhanced Learning. Her career initially developed in the field of professional development, mainly supporting Public Administrations capacity-building. She has also been working on several European funded initiatives as project designer and manager (e.g.: EDLocal http://www.europeanalocal.eu; SRN http://www.srneurope.net). Her doctoral work investigated digital engagement mechanisms, socio-technological ecosystems, and knowledge construction in web-based grassroots communities. Her research interests are (but not limited to): digital engagement; technology-supported informal learning; crowdsourcing; interactions between formal and informal knowledge.

Dominic does technical 'stuff', starting out as an eCommerce web developer he somehow found his way into the world of human-computer interaction research. Before joining Horizon he worked at the Mixed Reality Lab building platforms various projects including Participate and A Conversation Between Trees (née DarkForest). Since joining Horizon he has worked on Cloudpad, A Crowd-Sourcing Toolkit and ArtMaps. His interests are in technologies that support the 'non-technical in doing the technical'. He is currently working on the CREATe project investigating the commonalties between social networks and the portability of self between them.