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Chris Speed
PhD, MA
Reader
ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art,
75 Lauriston Place,
Edinburgh,
EH3 9DF
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 131 221 6099
email: c.speed@eca.ac.uk
Profile
Dr. Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces across the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he teaches undergraduate, masters and supervises PhD students.
Chris has sustained a critical enquiry into how digital technology can engage with the field of architecture and human geography through a variety of established international digital art contexts including: International Symposium on Electronic Art, Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth, Ars Electronica, Consciousness Reframed, Sonic Acts, LoveBytes, We Love Technology, Sonic Arts Festival, MELT, Less Remote, FutureSonic, and the Arts Catalyst / Leonardo symposium held alongside The International Astronautical Congress.
Chris is currently working with collaborative GPS technologies and the streaming of social and environmental data. He is the lead academic on a GPS tool for historical maps funded by JISC, is the PI of a large UK academic team investigating social memory within the ‘Internet of Things’ funded by the EPSRC (£1.3mill), and has two GPS applications available for download in the Apple iPhone App Store (Comob and Comob Net) developed in conjunction with Jen Southern (independent artist) and colleagues from ECA and Uni Edinburgh.
Chris is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, a board member of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on ‘The Body in the Social Sciences’ specialising in the bodies relationship with space and technology, and member of the advisory board for the Institute of Digital Art & Technology (i DAT) which is a HEFCE & Arts Council England funded 'Centre of Expertise’ facilitating regional, national and international collaborations and cultural projects. He is also a reviewer for Leonardo Reviews, the online arm of the MIT Press publication for Arts, Sciences, and Technology.Recent Research Activity
Southern, J. & Speed, C. 2009 ‘CoMob Net’, ISEA, International Symposium for Electronic Art, Belfast August, 2009. CoMob Net is a locative media workshop exploring the public understanding of ‘pollution’.
Southern, J. & Speed, C. 2009 ‘CoMob’, FutureSonic Digital arts festival and conference, Manchester May, 2009.
Speed, C. 2009 ‘Designing for Invisible Landscapes’, Digital Landscape Architecture Malta, 2009.
Speed, C. 2008 ‘Finding Time in Google Earth’, Less Remote, The Futures of Space Exploration – An Arts and Humanities Symposium. The International Astronautical Congress. Glasgow, September 30th – 1st October 2008. Paper invited for publication in Leonardo, MIT Press. Early 2010.
Speed, C. 2008 ‘Collaborative GPS Drawing – Social Body and Place.’ International Sociological Association, First ISA Forum of Sociology. Sociological Research and Public Debate. Barcelona, Spain, September 5 - 8, 2008
Grants
2009 EPSRC Digital Economy TOTeM project £1.39 million in collaboration with UCL, Brunel, Salford and Dundee, dealing with social memory in the Internet of Things.
2009 JISC Walking Through Time £38k in collaboration with University of Edinburgh, to develop a smart phone application that places historical maps under their feet.
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