I am Ben Dalton
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Ben Dalton is a technology, design and experimental media researcher. He is currently on research leave from the Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University, to join The Creative Exchange hub and a PhD at the Royal College of Art. He has recently been a regular guest Professor at the Bergen National Academy of Art and Design, teaching workshops on interaction design. He has a background in ubiquitous computing and mobile sensor networks from the MIT Media Lab, and has conducted research in the Århus University Electron-Molecular Interaction group, University of Leeds Spintronics and Magnetic Nanostructures lab, and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, London. Ben is just completing work as co-investigator on two EPSRC funded research projects in to visualising pedestrian usage patterns in interactive urban spaces and wearable computing sensors for ubiquitous computing applications. He is also currently co-directing a project titled Data is Political on art, design, and the politics of information, which has included an international symposium funded in part by VERDIKT (Research Council of Norway ICT grant). He has also worked on Hewlett-Packard funded development of a GPS music city archive app presented at the FACT gallery Liverpool and the ICA gallery London, and with arts innovation funded grants including ARTiMELT, an Arts Council England supported residency.
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Recent (ish)
- Decode FACT: Where do you go to?, workshop, Liverpool, Feb 2014
- Accept Cookies, AND 2013 Fair, FACT Liverpool, Oct 2013
- Data As Place, Sensuous Knowledge, Bergen Jan 2013
- Rethinking Real-time Google Protothon HackDay participant, London Nov 2012
- Dowsing Invisible Cities, Leeds Psychogeography Group Talk, Feb 28th 2012
- Chapeltown Standard artist discussant, Leeds June 2011
- copy connect remap repeat workshop, KHiB Bergen May 2011
- Hidden Trajectories, Viewing Area talk at Terminal Convention, Cork Mar 2011
- Digital Media Labs Residency technical advisor, Hull Oct 2010
- Art in Unusual Spaces residency & show, Leeds Aug 2010
- more…
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