This new Research Centre has successfully raised £448,000K for two years, through the Science Research Innovation Fund (SRIFII), for the equipping of a unique, cutting-edge research facility in the Digital Media Arts. The Lab was completed in May 2007, and launched on June 26th 2007. This Lab, bringing together a wide range of researchers, mainly from the Schools of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies (SSMCS), Architecture and Visual Arts (AVA), and the School of Computing and Technology, offers unique, advanced facilities and research support to staff and research students, as well as to digital media artists in the region and beyond. The Lab uses unique SONY and APPLE technologies, and offers a cutting edge experience to the video installation artist.
Matrix East Research Lab is unique in offering the ability of producing and editing up to 36 video tracks, and presenting them as an installation in perfect synchronism. The tracks can be presented on a variety of LCD monitors in different sizes, as well as being projected onto reflective screens. Both monitors and projectors/screens are carried by the grid and powered by it, and data-fed through a Gigabit LAN.
The Lab was built by Sony Broadcast, Research and Professional Lab (BPRL) UK, the only research facility of Sony Corporation outside Japan. The long-standing relationship between MERL and BPRL is an important industry link, and is beneficial to both partners. Work on the new research projects is carried out with the collaboration of Sony BPRL (UK).
The next four exhibitions/Presentations are now being prepared, and include work by Said Adrus and Eyal Sivan, as well as Angela Melitopoulous. A number of research proposals are being worked on, and will be ready by November 2008. The lab is connected internationally to similar labs, such as the MARCEL project, or the MIT Media Arts lab, and is cooperating and exchanges work with institutions in the UK and abroad. The Lab Director is Professor Haim Bresheeth, from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Co-Director is Rae Beaver, from the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering.
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Introduction
The intentions in setting up MERL
Lab Staff
Lab Images
Lab facilities
Training
Shows
Call for Papers 2009
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