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NeRF and Niagara Particles System: Transforming classical music composition into interactive music VR experience (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shvets, A. (2025, July). NeRF and Niagara Particles System: Transforming classical music composition into interactive music VR experience. Presented at EVA London 2025, London, UK

Generative AI has brought the need to redefine the forms of creative expression. The possibilities of AI-driven visual content creation allow contemporary composers to extend their creative abilities and become creators of audio-visual experiences. T... Read More about NeRF and Niagara Particles System: Transforming classical music composition into interactive music VR experience.

Neuromorphic Data Transformations for Sustainable VR Art Applications (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shvets, A., & Trzepizur, A. (2025, June). Neuromorphic Data Transformations for Sustainable VR Art Applications. Paper presented at 10th International XR-Metaverse Conference 2025, Maastricht, Netherlands

A previously proposed method for adapting 2D digital audiovisual artwork to Virtual Reality (VR) environments utilized time-distributed data (TDD) generators derived from the neuromorphic computing domain. This research advances that approach by emph... Read More about Neuromorphic Data Transformations for Sustainable VR Art Applications.

Recording heritage buildings (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Recording heritage buildings. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (52-80). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-3

Chapter 2 explores architectural representation and how existing buildings have been recorded, as a historical analysis. From the first attempts to document historical buildings to a review of recording techniques until the current digitalisation sta... Read More about Recording heritage buildings.

Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (81-108). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-4

In this chapter, disasters are introduced as agents of built heritage change. It looks at previous reconstruction efforts and how the documents informed them – especially rebuilding as replica. It establishes the link between the record and rebuildin... Read More about Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction.

3D Laser Scanning representation in Architecture. The place of the record (2025)
Journal Article
Devilat, B., & Andres Lanuza, F. (2025). 3D Laser Scanning representation in Architecture. The place of the record. AIS - Architecture Image Studies, 6(2), 8-41. https://doi.org/10.48619/AIS.V6I2.1176

In Architecture, representing the context is for both a technical need and an understanding process for architectural discipline. The creation of drawings is not only to measure and represent reality to intervene in it but also to analyse it in a bro... Read More about 3D Laser Scanning representation in Architecture. The place of the record.

Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023 (2024)
Book Chapter
Moroz, S., & Vear, C. (2024). Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023. In K. A., P. R., M. I. C., P. J. B., G. S., O. M., D. H., W.-J. C., O. K., & S. A (Eds.), GAPS2 - Global Arts and Psychology Seminar "Creativity in music and the arts": 14-16 September 2023 York, Graz, La Plata, & Melbourne: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. University of Graz. https://doi.org/10.25364/554.2024.1

At the start of 2023, DigiScore visited the US and North America to evaluate higher education music students’ wants and needs from digital musicianship education through engagement with digital scores. This work is part of the DigiScore research proj... Read More about Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023.

Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat (2024)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Chamberlain, A., Nichele, E., Bødker, M., & Turchi, T. (2024). Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(6), 857–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01837-1

When humans and machines start to chat: beyond anthropocentrism

Digital and embedded artificial intelligent (AI) agents with conversational capabilities have gained significant attention in recent years [1, 2]. Using natural language communication... Read More about Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat.

What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction (2024)
Journal Article
Iber, M., Enge, K., Rönnberg, N., Neidhardt, A., Schnell, N., Pollack, K., kallionpää, M., & Chamberlain, A. (2024). What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(5), 655-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01835-3

Special issue: Perspectives on Modalities in Sound and Music Interaction

Issue Editors: Michael Iber, Kajetan Enge, Niklas Rönnberg, Annika Neidhardt, Norbert Schnell, Katharina Pollack, Maria Kallionpää, Alan Chamberlain

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Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, R., & Marshall, J. (2023, July). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and t... Read More about Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS.

Responsible AI and the Arts: The Ethical and Legal Implications of AI in the Arts and Creative Industries (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piskopani, A. M., Chamberlain, A., & Ten Holter, C. (2023, July). Responsible AI and the Arts: The Ethical and Legal Implications of AI in the Arts and Creative Industries. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

This position piece starts to examine the ways in which AI-based autonomous technologies have begun to influence a range of human activities in the arts and creative industries.The rise of AI-generated art could potentially transform the act of creat... Read More about Responsible AI and the Arts: The Ethical and Legal Implications of AI in the Arts and Creative Industries.

TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Chamberlain, A., Fischer, J. E., Benford, S., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., Kucukyilmaz, A., Barnard, P., Row Farr, J., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Devlin, K., Mancini, C., & Mills, D. (2023, July). TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Cat Royale is an artist-led exploration of trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) created by the TAS Hub's creative ambassadors Blast Theory. A small community of cats inhabits a purpose built 'cat utopia' at the centre of which a robot arm tries to en... Read More about TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals.

Returns and Simulacra (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Returns and Simulacra. 29 May 2023 - 3 June 2023

Returns and Simulacra combines sound and projections of video onto a screen with the performer’s body on stage. It uses mini bee accelerometers and touch-sensor attachments as an instrument called Piano Hands. Through this instrument, the pianist con... Read More about Returns and Simulacra.

Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Lykourentzou, I., Saker, M., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V.-J., Liang, H.-N., & Yue, Y. (2023, April). Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters. Presented at CHI '23 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Crowdsourcing in China is a thriving industry. Among its most interesting structures, we find crowdfarms, in which crowdworkers self-organize as small organizations to tackle macrotasks. Little, however, is known as to which practices these crowdfarm... Read More about Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters.

Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design (2022)
Journal Article
Jin, X., & Hale, J. (2022). Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design. Journal of Architecture, 27(7-8), 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2153377

Architectural writing norms have been a subject of constant debate in recent decades. Architectural poststructuralists have often conceptualised writing as a form of virtual construction in the medium of words. Recent scholarship relating to innovati... Read More about Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design.

Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project (2022)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Craigon, P., Dowthwaite, L., Greenhalgh, C., & Pérez-Vallejos, E. (2022). Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, Article 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100045

Integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles into a research project is key to ensure outputs are ethically acceptable and socially desirable. However, translating RRI principles into practice is challenging as there are no rec... Read More about Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project.

From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound (2021)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Hazzard, A., Kelly, E., Bødker, M., & Kallionpää, M. (2021). From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 617-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01554-z

This introduction brings together a range of research, a majority of which was presented at the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham. The conference brings together a range of researchers, industry, designers and educators t... Read More about From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound.

How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Hale, J., & Blackman, T. (2021). How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(1), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135521000129

A 3D film by Wim Wenders of the Rolex Learning Centre provides a deeper phenomenological reading of SANAA’s distinctively minimalist architecture.

The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, curated by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder o... Read More about How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre.

Annihilating Noise (2020)
Book
Hegarty, P. (2020). Annihilating Noise. Bloomsbury Publishing

Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in 16 essays how noise offers a way of thinking critical resistance, disrupt... Read More about Annihilating Noise.

Soma Design and Sensory Misalignment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tennent, P., Marshall, J., Tsaknaki, V., Windlin, C., Höök, K., & Alfaras, M. (2020, April). Soma Design and Sensory Misalignment. Presented at 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20), Honolulu HI USA

We report on a workshop bringing together researchers working in soma design and sensory misalignment. Creating experiences that make use of sensory misalignment has become increasingly common, often associated with virtual reality research. However,... Read More about Soma Design and Sensory Misalignment.