IOCT Masters Showcase 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013
Today I visited the IOCT Masters showcase at De Montfort University in Leicester. This annual event provides the IOCT MA and MSc students with an opportunity to demonstrate their current ideas and work in progress.
This year's event was slightly smaller than last year's, but I think the range of projects on display was actually broader. The work included performance and installation artworks, video production, experiments in interactivity and music technology. The technologies used included programming tools such as Max/MSP, Processing and Isadora, as well as various multimedia production tools and hardware devices.
Often the showcase can be quite technologically based, with the students focussing on demonstrating their newly acquired skills rather than exploring deeper ideas. This is perhaps to be expected, since the showcase happens before the students undertake their final projects. However, this year I think the strongest element of the show was the level of conceptual development in the work on display. There were some very well thought out project ideas in the show. This bodes well for the quality of work that will be produced by the end of the course.
For more information about the students and their work visit the showcase website at http://ioct.info. See my photographs of the event on Flickr. The main IOCT website is at http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk.
