I am Ben Dalton
Hello.
I'm interested in opening up education as an iterative discussion with students. I teach things like video internet fame, mobile phone games and physical computing. My research includes using gps devices to build maps of live music performances from bands in Leeds in collaboration with up-and-coming filmakers and working with leading cross-disciplinary researchers on how people use public space. Among other things, I learnt electronics, animatronics and how to make a good salad at Jim Henson's Creature Shop, physics simulation, unix command line and particle acceleration in Aarhus University, numerical analysis, nano-science and Fortran in the University of Leeds Physics Labs, social media, inflatables, kernel methods, 3D fabrication, distributed networks and acoustic sensing at the MIT Media Lab, typography, composition and how to draw in the print workshops of Middlesex University, live performance in WMBR, LSR and resonance.fm radio studios, and how to teach, ensure education quality and organise big projects in Leeds Met University. Almost everything else I learnt from my friends - let's talk about that idea you have for a project some time.
I'm probably addicted to coffee, kid's TV and the internet and I have a side interest in allotment-mentality and the future of robotic daemons.
Recent
- ARTiMELT participant, Leeds, Sheffield, London & Harrogate, Spring 2010
- Turning Point Network presentation, York, Nov 2009
- Light Night tour, Leeds, Oct 2009
- One & Other plinth, London, Aug 2009
- Interactive & Generative Art Workshop, Sheffield, Jul 2009
- BBC Learning Unplugged case study, Bristol, Jun 2009
- Our City, Our Music launch, Leeds, Jun 2009
- b.TWEEN 09 Interactive Digital Media Forum, FACT Liverpool, Jun 2009