Nascent - Art & Technology Research:

nas·cent adj. [...coming into existence; emerging, ...a substance at the moment of its formation...].

The symptoms of Nascent - Art & Technology Research can be described as collaborative, experimental, practice-based and applied, and engage with intelligent environments, interactive art, ubiquitous computing, sonic architecture and the construction and dissemination of emergent ‘transmedia’ forms.

Nascent explores the transformative potential of digital technology (hardware & software), both as a catalyst for the evolution of cultural forms and as a substrate for transdisciplinary research and innovation. In this context digital technology acts as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for arts/science collaborations and as a critical ‘lens’ for viewing emergent scientific and cultural knowledge.

The key research question for the Nascent - Art & Technology Research Group is:
What are the transformative qualities of digital 'technology' and how do these qualities manifest themselves (through & within: methodologies, trans-disciplinarity and practice - applied and critical)?

Nascent Art & Technology Research is a constituent member of the A∑Tec (Art, Science, and Technology) research Consortium, in the Faculty of Technology,  University of Plymouth.

A∑Tec is an alliance of five research groups intended to develop synergies between researchers in the Faculty of Technology concerned with creative practice at the intersection of Science/Art/and Technology.

Nascent maintains a rich interaction with i-DAT [Institute of Digital Art & Technology], a HEIF funded Centre of Expertise.