Inaugural Lecture by Professor Lizbeth Goodman, SMARTlab Multimedia Institute.
‘The Digital Divide’ is a term most often used to describe the gap between the ‘haves and have-nots’ of technology provision: the chasm that still looms large between the ‘developed and developing worlds’. But for many, that divide is a physical one, and is located much closer to home.
Whether it is the empty IT cupboard at a local school or community centre, or the view from the cameras rigged atop the Olympic site viewing tower, there is not yet anything like an even and accessible ‘ramp’ between rich and poor, privilege, ability and access.
From 2007-2012: East London will be the focus of world attention as we plan to build a new Olympic City, in the fast-changing Thames gateway regeneration area, and as we strive to ‘build sustainable communities’ whilst respecting the people who live in them, their diverse needs, their stories and memories and ways of moving and being.
We need to engage in all kinds of bridge building, with and for all kinds of people, all over the world. The SMARTlab Digital Media Institute at UEL was created to engage with these issues, and our team has over 15 years experience in practice-based research, performance and mediated social interventions.
Lizbeth Goodman is Professor of Creative Technology Innovation, and Founder/Director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, and Magic Gamelab at UEL. She is also Director of Studies for the UEL practice-based PhD programme in Digital Media & Informatics: a cohort of 32 professional new media artists and engineers conducting collaborative research into the transdisciplinary fields of technology development and art, e-health, e-inclusion, haptics and ‘artsci’.
This lecture will be spoken, sung, and animated with the collaboration of the SMARTlab team including Jana Riedel, Taey Kim, Clily Castiglia, Stanislava Mislanova, with live interaction from dancer/choreographer Bobby Byrne & musician/composer Colm O’Snodaigh of KILA, with a soundtrack by Kate Rusby.
Building bridges, and traversing them, are both team efforts. Please join us!
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