Abstract

Immersion in audiovisual media has captured the popular imagination with the arrival of affordable virtual reality systems. The Immersive Pipeline is a series of research projects that explore the social and visceral potential of immersive media in physical space. It describes the cycle of research from capacity building to content creation, public engagement and ways the project may (or may not) fulfill scholarly, artistic, and policy driven agendas.

Biography

Atau Tanaka conducts research in Music HCI focusing on embodied musical interaction. By using muscle sensing in performance the human body becomes musical instrument. He also works with immersive environments and networked music performance. This research has been supported by the European Research Council, French ANR, UK EPSRC and AHRC. His creative work has won awards from the Fraunhofer Institute and Ars Electronica and has been presented at London Southbank, WOMAD and Sonar festivals, Eyebeam NYC and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been artistic ambassador for Apple France, researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, and currently carries out his work at Goldsmiths, the Bristol Interaction Group, and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord. http://www.ataut.net/