Prague College

The aims and objectives of the Research Center are to facilitate research and development in the subject areas underpinning the academic curriculum at Prague College. The purpose of the Research Center is:

To encourage students at Prague College to participate in areas of research relating to their fields of study.
To promote a medium of participation where developments and discussions in the areas listed below can be conducted.
To provide a means of publishing research work as part of an e-journal.
To provide consultancy services.

The Research Center was developed from projects initiated by Stefano Cavagnetto in the context of his role as Head of the School of Business and Computing, Bruce Gahir, Principal Lecturer in the School of Business and Computing, and Pascal Silondi, Program Leader in Interactive Media.

Initial projects have been started in:

Game theory and its application to economics, business, philosophy and international relations.
The history of programming languages
Experimental media: Prague College is an associate organizer for Underground City XXI, an international interdisciplinary project

After the 1st Prague Workshop in December 2009, Prague College and Libat would like to announce the start of the 2nd Prague Workshop.

The workshop is related to Phase 3 of the “Underground city XXI” project, supported by the European Commission.

The main topics of the second workshop/laboratory are :

Construction of 3D models and their integration into 3D multiuser environments
Collaborative experimentation into 3D interactive multiuser environment
2D/3D multimedia creation for mixed 3D multiuser environments shared on the Internet.

This second Prague workshop will be directed by Pascal and Marie Silondi and will offer an experimental and collaborative week, multiplying audiovisual, interactive and conceptual experiences within 3D multiuser environments.

It will take place at the Prague College Studios from Saturday 03.04.2010 until Saturday 10.04.2010
The workshop will also include an accompanying program open to the public:

April 7 - 18.30h - Ethics and Cyberspace by Stefano Cavagnetto and Bruce Gahir
April 9 - 14h - The code of Coal by Stefano Cavagnetto and Natalia Ogneva
April 10 - 10 - 18h - Public exhibition - Come to see what was created during the week of experimentation

Read more about the Underground City XXI project and the workshop here...
View the photos from last workshop at Prague College here...

Prague College lecturers, Stefano Cavagnetto and Bruce Gahir, will present a paper at the Cyberspace conference that will take place in Brno, November 20-21.

The title of the lecture is "Philosophy of Cyberspace".

The intention is to offer a formalized model of multiple selves in worlds such as MUDS (short for Multi-User Dungeons or Multi-User Domains). The key element of “MUDding” from the perspective of “identity-effects” is the creation and projection of a “persona” into a virtual space. In traditional role-playing games in which one’s physical body is present, one steps in and out of the character. MUDS, in contrast, offer a parallel life. The boundaries of the game are fuzzy and the routine of playing them becomes part of their players’ everyday lives.

This paper also contributes to work relating to identity in virtual worlds, which is a theme running through our Underground City XXI project.

Read the whole abstract here...

Po kick-off meetingu na Prague College se partneři projektu setkali znovu v létě. Tentokrát v Labině v Chorvatsku, na místě skutečného uhelného dolu, který svou historií posloužil jako inspirace.

LIBAT (Fr), Divadlo Nomad (At), L.A.E. (Chorv) a Prague College projednaly další rozvoj projektu a jednotlivé role partnerů.

Underground City XXI (UCXXI) je evropskou interdisciplinární platformou s cílem určení specifické kulturní a umělecké komunity, která bude vytvořena jako interdisciplinární on-line síť. UCXXI vytvoří virtuální 3D multi-uživatelské prostředí, sdílené a distribuované na internetu, založené na skutečných rozměrech a situaci uhelného dolu v Labině v Chorvatsku.

V rámci tohoto projektu, financovaného a podporovaného Evropskou komisí bude mít Prague College několik rolí:

jako organizace bude činnost Prague College zahrnovat vytváření a organizaci projektu, seminářů a sympozií konajících se v Praze, stejně jako distribuci, propagaci projektu a související události v Čechách
jako vzdělávací instituce bude Prague College pořádat živé projekty, které budou integrovány do akademického vzdělávacího programu
zahájení a řízení spolupráce s dalšími institucemi, studenty a akademiky.

Podívejte se na video ze sympózia v Labinu zde.