Nick West
(1953)
Great Britain
(1953)
Great Britain
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Nick West (1953) Great Britain |
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Nick West is a new media researcher who focuses on the interplay between interactive technologies and the surrounding physical environment. Currently he is working with Proboscis, a London-based think tank and creative studio, to develop Urban Tapestries. Urban Tapestries is a research exploring social and cultural uses of the convergence of place and mobile technologies. This software will allow people to create annotations of any spot in the city using text, pictures and sounds. Anyone passing these spots can then read the annotations using wireless devices like mobile phones or PDAs. As an adjunct professor at New York University, Nick West managed a research project for Viacom that investigated the feasibility of viewing location-triggered websites on portable wireless devices. For the National Fine Arts Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nick West designed travelling museum exhibits utilizing Global Positioning Satellite technology. As manager of a joint research project for New York University and New York’s regional phone company, Nick West investigated virtual communities via a live interactive TV show, which was broadcast on Manhattan Cable TV. He presented his reasearch results at several conferences throughout Europe and North America. He is studying towards a PhD in Cultural Studies from Golsmiths College, London, studying the effects of a new media technologies on our evolving conception of urbanism. |