Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, PhD, MAA
Architect, researcher

Selected publications and conference talks

2004 

Emerging practices of space: probing the boundaries of an event space of interaction, presentation at Non Standard Practice Conference, MIT, to be published with MIT press, Oct 2004.

 

Conceiving embodiment: the dance-architecture of Spawn, to appear in Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, Aug 2004.

 

A hybrid space of becoming, exploring presence in Mixed Reality to appear in Web Proceedings of the International Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA), Aug 2004.

 

Interface Futures: embodied interfaces for Mixed Realities chapter in Digital Aesthetics & Design - an Anthology eds Ida Engholm and Lisbeth Klastrup, Gyllendahl Press, Copenhagen, 2004.

   

2003  

Embodied Interfaces, enabling Mixed Realities, Cultural Geographies, Vol 10, Arnold Journals, UK, Autumn 2003.

 

Positioning Intermedia: Intermedia and Mixed Reality Convergence, The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 2002.

   

2002

The Event Space of Mixed Reality, Presentation at "Embodied Interfaces  - questioning presence in Mixed Reality", research seminar, University of Brighton, December 2002.

 

Extending Embodiment in The Virtual is Real, New Architecture: The Virtual is Real, Edited by Andreas Papadakis,Papadakis Publishing, August 2002.


 

Siting Virtuality: exploring the event-space of Mixed Reality Invited speaker at Art and Architecture Seminar, Seoul, August 2002.

 

Entering Mediation: embodied interfaces for Mixed Realities lecture presentation at the Technical University, School of Architecture, Berlin, February 2002.

 

Mediated Spaces: entering Mixed Realities conference presentation at Form Seminar, Copenhagen, January 2002.

 

 

2001

Drawing Spaces : experiments in presence and awareness of body and space in mixed realities, Cast01 - living in mixed realities / Fleischmann, Monika, 2001.

 

The experience of space in Mixed Reality, presentation at Digital Arts Conference, DAC, Brown University, Providence, April 2001.

 

The Production of Space in Mixed Reality, in "Proceedings of The International Symposium for Mixed Reality", Yokohama University Press, 2001.

 

 

2000

Using an Architectural Method for discovering Mixed Realities in 'Research and Architecture Proceedings', ed Stephane Hanrot, EAAE / AEEA, Belgium, 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

Research events and exhibitions

November 2004 

National premiere of The Changing Room as part of dance festival Dance Umbrella, Greenwich Dance Agency, London. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown.

October 2004

Participant in the Moviment I Digits, a interdisciplinary workshop for dance, performance and technology at L'animal a lĠesquena - Centre for Performing Arts. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown.

June 2004

International premiere of The Changing Room at the Ludvig Forum, Aachen. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown.

April 2004

Research performance of The Changing Room, University of Surrey, Roehampton. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown.

February 2004

Research residency at DigiLounge, Essex Dance. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown.

April 2003

Research performance of Spawn Unviersity of Surrey, Roehampton, an interdisciplinary dance performance existing between architecture, dance performance and computer science. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown, computer scientists Prof. Bernard Buxton, Prof. Mel Slater, Chris Parker, Jesper Mortensen and Song Hu.

March 2003  

Residency at Institute for Dance and Choreography, Cork. In collaboration with dance choreographer Carol Brown.

December 2002

Research seminar Embodied Interfaces - questioning presence in Mixed Reality a one day event bringing together practitioners from the fields of Mixed Reality and Embodied Interface Design, University of Brighton.

December 2002 

Research exhibition Embodied Interfaces, Exhibition at Grand Parade Gallery, University of Brighton, supported by AHRB and University of Brighton.

April 2001

Exhibition of competition wining entry Digital Landscapes at the Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen. In collaboration with architect Solveig Scheper.

November 2000

Exhibition of Drawing Spaces at the digital media festival CyNetart 2000, Dresden.


March 1999 

Research performance at the Fidena Festival for Object Theatre, Bochum. Performance of Murmuring Fields developed with Media Art Research Studies, Institute for Media Communication, Fraunhofer Institute, Bonn.

February 1999  

Exhibition of Murmuring Fields at Transmediale Media Festival, Berlin. developed with Media Art Research Studies, Institute for Media Communication, Fraunhofer Institute, Bonn.

September 1996

Exhibition of the Dokoen project at the  VI Architectural Biennale in Venice, The Danish Pavilion. Developed as part of the interdisciplinary group Chiasmos.

April 1996

Exhibition of housing project at the ArtGenda 96 biennale, a Copenhagen City of Culture 1996 initiative.