iARTA at University of North Texas

iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts, is a project by University of North Texas in Denton TX to bring art, design and music together with computing science and engineering in a university research cluster. Five visitors discussed with an internal team from the university how this could best be brought about.

The other participants were:

Chris Csikszentmihályi, Director of the MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group, which works to create unique media technologies for cultural applications. He also directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, which develops new technologies and techniques to strengthen geographic communities.

Dick Rijken, Stephen Boyd Davis, Alain Depocas, Chris Csikszentmihályi, Mark Tribe

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Alain Depocas, Head of Research and Documentation Centre, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, Quebec. Alain’s work at the Langlois Foundation focuses on the documentation and preservation of technology-based artworks and practices and on Web dissemination.

Dick Rijken, Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. In addition, he is the chair of an official EU workgroup on the creative and cultural industries, which focuses on national and European policies, and he is a professor at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, where he researches innovation in the traditional culture sector.

Mark Tribe at the Center for Culture and Media, Brown University, is a founder of Rhizome.org and serves as a Board Member for ISEA.

David Bithell, one of the leaders of the iARTA initiative

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iARTA site