Production Awards

• Patrick Hickey
  DIS-PLAY
• Calum Stirling
  Gadroon Bagette Cartouche
• Chris Helson & Sarah Jackets
  Help Me Obi
• Hannu Rajaniemi & Samuel Halliday
  Insight/Outsight
• Peggy Hughes, Padmini Ray Murray & Claire Stewart
  Pressed for Time
• Hadi Mehrpouya & Robert Powell
  The Thinking Machine
• Matthew Collings & Erik Parr
  The Third Mind

Cycle 08 Alt-w Production Award -
Hannu Rajaniemi & Samuel Halliday

This project will use data visualisation techniques to explore the private experience of insight as evoked by reading a specially written science fiction short story.

With each reading an 'insight map' begins to leave an imprint on the text that created it, using data acquired by electroencephalography and eye tracking technology.

Aiming to engage new audiences by adding a different dimension to the reading experience, the project will also add print-on-demand publishing to capture the experience.

Cycle 08 Alt-w Production Award -
Peggy Hughes, Padmini Ray Murray & Claire Stewart
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A publishing time-machine, providing unexpected and immersive experiences for intrepid book readers. Using a combination of human interaction and artificial intelligence it will create custom 'books' that they can take away.

Comprising old and new media, electronics, programming, mechanical engineering and traditional craft, the installation that is the machine will gather open source material and produce a publication in one of many formats.

Physically and aesthetically, the machine represents an anachronistic mishmash of time periods of literature, printing and publishing. Created by the team who brought us the Electric Bookshop. Start your presses now.