A brief description of the IOCT, taken from their Blog:
'The Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) undertakes research work in emerging areas at the intersection of e-Science, the Digital Arts, and the Humanities. It comprises an interdisciplinary laboratory at the heart of an infrastructure grid connecting significant research centres across the university. This network also extends to other universities and to local, national and international entities in the creative industries. The IOCT houses a number of key projects, all of which cross the traditional disciplines. It has a cohort of research students and will soon offer its own Masters programme. Its research work also informs teaching developments, and its publications are lodged in a digital archive.'
The Masters programme the description is referring to is the Creative Technologies MA/MSc which I am currently studying. It's the first programme in the UK to cover three seperate faculties - Humanities, Art & Design and Computer Science & Engineering. The course has been carefully designed to support students in developing and strengthening their individual creative technologies practice within the context of the increasingly multi/inter/trans disciplinary environments and collaborative digital world. By working in a collaborate and creative environment, it gives us the opportunity to work with other students who have skills and experience in other subjects areas that could enhance our work as a research team.
The research projects I will be partaking in this year will be a mixture of individual and collaborative work which other students and staff involved with the IOCT. My main areas of focus are:
- Interactive Media
- Creative Digital Media Design
- Fused Media
- Performance Technologies
- Assistive Technology and Universal Access (Major Project)
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than myself.’
— Alexander Graham Bell
