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TCD’s New Arts Technology Research Laboratory

(Six images captioned: Ghost Trio by Samuel Beckett: A digital film and performance adapted, directed and edited by Matthew Causey, performed by Nicholas Johnson in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, December 2007.)

In early 2008, the School of Drama, Film and Music established the TCD Forum on Creative Arts and Technologies. The Forum engages in both public and more private activities. Its first public event was in February 2008 when the renowned new media academic Professor Steve Dixon gave an illustrated lecture in the Science Gallery. More privately, under the auspices of the Forum, like-minded colleagues from across College have been developing a new structured (part taught) Ph.D. in Digital Arts Technologies which, it is hoped, will begin in September 2009.

Simultaneously, the School of Drama, Film and Music received a grant from the HEA in 2008 to develop the Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL) at Trinity Technology and Enterprise Centre, where the Ph.D. in Digital Arts Technologies will be based. That facility will include a performance area, a recording studio, digital video laboratory, offices, and a computer workstation room.

ATRL is being designed as a research facility to bring together colleagues and postgraduate students from across the creative arts and technology. It will be a place where musicians will be able to interact with digital video filmmakers; performance artists with technology; and, more generally, allow for a true creative arts interdisciplinary practice which encompasses the School of Drama, Film and Music, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, and, perhaps, other areas of College and Irish life. It is being designed to allow for the optimum in experimentation in the creative arts and technology.

For further information on the Ph.D. in Digital Arts Technologies or ATRL please contact:

Kevin Rockett, School of Drama, Film and Music
e. krockett@tcd.ie


Trinity Connections with India

The role of Irish emigrants in shaping imperial and colonial processes in the British Empire or other European empires has received little scholarly attention. To this end, a research project, ‘Ireland, Education and Empire’, is calling on alumni who worked in an imperial or colonial capacity. The goal is to explore the relationship between Trinity and empire. The project is one of a number of initiatives related to empire in the Departments of History and English, including the development of a joint MPhil programme.

If you worked in such a capacity, please contact Christopher Shepard (e. shepardc@tcd.ie) informing him of where you worked and in what capacity. ‘Ireland, Education and Empire’ was launched at a symposium entiled ‘Ireland and India’ on 11 October 2008.

(Photos captioned: Pictured in The Long Room at the announcement of the South Asia Initiative at Trinity were: HE The Ambassador of India P.S. Raghavan, Professor Kapil Kapoor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dr Deana Heath, Department of History, Trinity College, Lord Rana, Indian High Commissioner to Northern Ireland, Robin Adams Librarian, Trinity College, and Satish Kumar, Geography lecturer and head of the India Initiative, Queen's University Belfast.)