Autoicon is a dynamic internet work and CD-ROM that simulates both the physical presence and elements of the creative personality of the artist Donald Rodney who died from sickle-cell anaemia. The project builds on Donald Rodney’s artistic practice in his later years, when he increasingly began to delegate key roles in the organisation and production of his artwork. Making reference to this working process, AUTOICON is developed by a close group of friends and artists (his partner Diane Symons, Eddie Chambers, Richard Hylton, Virginia Nimarkoh, and Keith Piper) (ironically described as 'Donald Rodney plc') who have acted as an advisory and editorial board in the artist’s absence, and who specified the rules by which the 'automated’ aspects of the project operate.

Liquid Press’ research and production facility established in the i-DAT SoftLab in Portland Square at the University of Plymouth. The Liquid Press consolidates a series of new media publishing activities which explore the construction and dissemination of emergent media in the form of 'trans-media digital content'; 'liquid' media that can flow through a range of media forms, including: e-books, software, net.art, and broadcast media.

A: Insight Training Solutions Ltd (completed in July 1999) where transformed company delivery of management training from paper based products to CDROM and other new media products through the establishment of an in house new media publishing facility.

B: Orange Group Ltd (renamed from Orange Development in November 1999) which specified, designed and implemented a capability for the development of Intranet-based (‘e-learning’) training products and services to educational and commercial clients.

C: CMA is currently working with the Liquid Press to extend the existing CMS to develop the user interface and create a new Data Translation Engine which provides a range of interactive multimedia transmedia publishing and broadcasting facilities.

The intent of 'MEDIASPACE', whether in its 'dead' paper-based form, or the 'live' digital forms of satellite and internet, is to explore the implications of new media forms and emergent fields of digital practice in art and design. 'MEDIASPACEÍ is an experimental publishing project that explores the integration of print ('MEDIASPACE' is published as part of the CADE (Computers in Art and Design Education) journal Digital Creativity by SWETS & ZEITLINGER.), WWW and interactive satellite transmissions ('MEDIASPACE' interactive satellite transmissions were funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the British National Space Centre (BNSC), and WIRE (Why ISDN Resources in Education) and use Olympus, EUTELSAT and INTELSAT satellites via a TDS-4b satellite uplink. (incorporating live studio broadcasts, ISDN based video conferencing, and asynchronous email/ISDN tutorials).

Liquid Press Productions for BroadBand 4 Devon.
Broadband4Devon forms the first part of an overall strategy for the extension of broadband provision across the whole of Devon. Broadband4Devon will deliver broadband through a variety of available technologies to 5,500 SME’s, organisations and individuals.

The Institute of Digital Art and Technology [i-DAT] is delivering a range of new media activities to the BroadBand 4 Devon project for work packages 2 and 3. These will include:
• workshops and surgeries to support the construction of new media content,
• tools and solutions for generating, managing and distributing new media content,
• the construction of specific content to support other areas of the project (such as, dynamic data representations etc)
• new media ‘publications’ and ‘broadcasts’ (such as streaming webcasts and digital documents).

The DVD supplement and the Liquid Reader™ interface (Version 2.1 for MAC OSX/Windows) were jointly developed by i-DAT/Liquid Press, Performance Research e- Publications and DeMo, and were designed and mastered by Adam Crowe, Mike Phillips and Joe Phillips. This ‘On Civility’ DVD supplements Performance Research Vol.9, No.4 ‘On Civility’ (2004) ISSN 1352-8165 / ISBN 0-415-34737-8

‘read/write/fold’ Phillips M, Speed C, Montandon A, with Dent E. Performance Research Vol.9, No.2 ‘On the Page’ (2004) issn 1352-8165 isbn 0-415-34737-6.
Software commision on: Liquid Reader™ v1.1. DVD Supplement. ‘On the Page’ DVD supplements Performance Research Vol.9, No.2 ‘On the Page’ (2004) issn 1352-8165.

'Artefact' A production by Model (M.Phillips, G. Cox, G. Baldwin, V. de Rijke, H. Hollands, J. Roberts, with support from inIVA, i-DAT, Middlesex University, V&A). Digital Responses series of exhibitions in Gallery 70 at the V&A, May 16 2002 to 12 February 2003 at the Design Now Space: 20th Century Gallery 70, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 05-06/01

S.T.I. is funded by the SciArt programme (supported by the ACE, the British Council, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, SAC, the Wellcome Trust and NESTA)., and turns the technologies that look to deep space for Alien Intelligence back onto Planet Earth in a quest for 'evidence' of Terrestrial Intelligence. Looking at Earth from space the project will develop processing techniques using autonomous computer software agents. S.T.I. moves beyond irony by engaging with our understanding of the 'real world' through our senses, whether real or artificially enhanced. Will these autonomous systems 'know' the 'truth' when they 'see' it? The S.T.I. Consortium:
STAR, Dr Guido Bugmann, Dr Angelo Cangelosi, Laurent Mignonneau, Christa Sommerer, Dr Nick Veck.

“Constellation Columbia", prototype monument for ‘Dead Astronauts’. zero gravity work for Parabolic flight from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Centre, Russia. Courtesy of The Arts Catalyst. Video: Marko Peljhan".MIR Campaign 2003, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Russia. MIR Campaign 2003 supported by the European Commission Culture 2000 Fund. Many thanks to Nicola Triscott.

'Liquid Reader™ v1.1. DVD Supplement. Jointly developed by i-DAT/ Liquid Press, Performance Research e-Publications and DeMo. Liquid Reader™ v1.1 produced by the Liquid Press, an i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art & Technology) research project. ‘On the Page’ DVD supplements Performance Research Vol.9, No.2 ‘On the Page’ (2004) issn 1352-8165.

Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Project Champion of The European Dance Theatre Archive at LABAN,
Rebecca Groves, Director of the William Forsythe Foundation,
Mike Phillips, Director of the Institute of Digital Art and Technology at Plymouth University,
Dr. Ric Allsopp, editor of Performance Research at Dartington College of Arts,
Ana Roman, performing artist with Ballett Frankfurt.

The aim is to provide access on-line to the multi-layers of a dance theatre work from conception, through rehearsals to performances, with an interactive facility of a versatility hitherto unavailable. The work to be studied as a prototype is William Forsythe’s “Loss of Small Detail”, 90 minute work made with Ballett Frankfurt, premiered May 1991 with music by Thom Willems and design by Issey Miyake. This work has been selected because it poses complex issues for the researchers not only in its mix of media, (text, movement, costume, moving environment, large cast, sound score, moving images) but in the mix of fixed and fluid performance strategies.

Psychometric Architecture is an extension of the Arch-OS system and brings together two spaces and their inhabitants. The concepts of objects (or places) seeming to record events and then play them back for sensitive people is generally referred to as psychometry. The objects can be called psychometric objects or token objects.

‘Psychometric Architecture’. QI and Complexity - 24 - 27 November 2004. Red Gate Gallery, Levels 1 & 4, Dongbianmen Watchtower Chongwenmen, Beijing, China. Portland Square Plymouth University, The Digital Media Studio, Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Software and Peking Univ. The Institute of Digital Media, Beijing Normal Univ. Three location telematic video system.

The Spectactor Project explores the spaces and places generated across a series of satellite transmissions and single-user VRML environments, and attempts to locate them within an appropriate context in order that they may be better articulated and understood. These technologies have for some time been at the heart of an integrated internet/ publishing/ broadcasting experiment called Mediaspace, the Spectactor project builds on the experiences and experiments. With DA2 and Limbomedia.