About the Advanced Research Technology
Collaboration and Visualization
Lab
The Banff New Media Institute Advanced Research Technology (ART) Collaboration and Visualization Lab is engaged in the design of new technologies, applications, and experiences for cultural interfacing. That is, interfaces that encourage shifts in the perception of the self and the everyday lived world through collaborative experiences in spaces where we play, work, and learn.
Researchers in the lab integrate creative, critical, and technical questions that form an interdisciplinary research practice in creative information technology. This hybrid research practice results in the development of interactive applications in serious gaming, cultural mapping, computational aesthetics, and interactive architectures.
The ART Collaboration and Visualization Lab fosters an environment of scholarship, exploration, creativity, and rigour with a dedicated team of senior researchers, research associates, and work study participants along with a national and international network of researchers, academics, artists, and industry affiliates. Education and training is a core component of the Lab’s mission. Our senior researchers are actively engaged in supervising graduate students who are enrolled in partner universities around the world. Artists’ co-productions that correlate, enhance, and expand the lab research foci are also a component of our research family.
The technologies and methodologies we work with include:
- Wireless sensor networks
- Tangible and organic interfaces
- Multimodal interactive systems
- Experimental display surfaces from multi-touch and mega-pixel to the
hand-held
- Dynamic data visualizations in complex and emerging systems
- Tracking and sensing systems
- Augmented, mixed, and virtual reality
- Passive stereographic CAVE environment
- AccessGrid remote collaboration environment
Funding
The Advanced Research Technology Collaboration and Visualization Lab was founded in 2003 with support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation WestGrid initiative a part of the Compute Canada network, a $60 million project to operate high performance computing (HPC), collaboration and visualization infrastructure across western Canada. In 2008, the Advanced Research Technology Collaboration and Visualization Lab received funding from the Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Visiting Professor Grant in support of the current ART Lab program led by the ART Lab Research Manager, Pamela Jennings, Ph.D..
Research
For more information on research projects in the ART Collaboration and Visualization Lab, visit www.bnmiresearch.ca.
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