I am Ben Dalton
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Ben Dalton is a computational design and new technology researcher based in the Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is the director of the Experimental Media Unit, a Principal Lecturer in the faculty and guest Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. 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, Camden. Ben’s work includes EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK) funded research projects in to visualising pedestrian usage patterns in interactive urban spaces and wearable computing sensors for ubiquitous computing applications, Hewlett-Packard funded development of a GPS music city archive app presented at the FACT gallery Liverpool and the ICA gallery London, and arts funding including ARTiMELT, an Arts Council England supported residency.
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Recent (ish)
- Data As Place, Sensuous Knowledge, Bergen Jan 2013
- Dowsing Invisible Cities, Leeds Psychogeography Group Talk, Feb 28th 2012
- 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
- O’Reilly Ignite Leeds speaker, Leeds May 2010
- ARTiMELT participant, Leeds, Sheffield, London & Harrogate, Spring 2010
- Turning Point Network presentation, York, Nov 2009
- Light Night tour, Leeds, Oct 2009
- more…
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