Emerge
About Us
Emerge, is led by Associate Professor of Art and Media, Neal White [MS] with Dr Alain Renaud from the School of Design Engineering and Computing [DEC], and consists of experienced academics and creative technology media researchers taking an interdisciplinary approach in relation to Digital Media and Media Arts. Staff from these research groups are working as supervisors with the ESPRC funded Industrial Doctorate Centre (Centre for Digital Entertainment) and across the Media School.
Our researchers are driving innovations and experiments developing new approaches to media arts and creative media technologies in collaborations with institutions such as; UCL, Queens University Belfast, MIT and Stanford. Research outputs have been exhibited at International exhibition spaces including; Natural History Museum, Laboral (Barcelona), Casino Foundation (Luxembourg), Centre for Land Use Interpretation (USA), Barbican Gallery and Henry Moore Institute. Research has been included in publications from MIT, Royal Academy, Centre Pompidou and research papers produced for SIGGRAPH, Tate and other leading international institutions.
Neal White, Associate Professor of Art and Media.
Director of Emerge for The Media School.
Developing Practice as Research across the Media School, White is an academic and an artist researcher. He contributed four outputs to our successful RAE panel in 2008 - Art and Design - the highest ranked in the University and 7th in this area in the UK according to The Guardian. Working with the group he founded externally to Emerge, the Office of Experiments, his art led research practice is currently centered on the relationship between knowledge and experimentation in contemporary culture. Examining how new areas such as experimental geography, contemporary archaeology and social engagement in art can lead to critical developments in production of resources such as autonomous archives, alternative mapping and a critical cultural discourse, his outputs are as exhibitions, database, resources and as traditional papers. White is currently supervising PhD's and welcomes new enquiries.
Dr. Alain Renaud, Lecturer.
Director of Emerge for the School of Design, Engineering and Computing.
Alain works with DEC and was appointed in relation to his recognised outputs in creative technologies research - specifically Sonic Research over High Speed Networks, and joined BU from SARC at Queen's University, Belfast, in 2009.
