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:

1. To encourage students at Prague College to participate in areas of research relating to their fields of study.
2. To promote a medium of participation where developments and discussions in the areas listed below can be conducted.
3. To provide a means of publishing research work as part of an e-journal.
4. 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 Head of the School of IT & Computing, Bruce Gahir, Principal Lecturer in the School of Business and Computing, and Pascal Silondi, Principal Lecturer in Interactive Media.

Initial projects have been started in:

1. Game theory and its application to economics, business, philosophy and international relations.
2. The history of programming languages
3. 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 (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 abstract here...

After a kick-off meeting at Prague College, partners met again during summer for extended workshop. This time in Labin in Croatia, on the site of actual coal mine whose history initially inspired the project.

LIBAT (Fr), Nomad Theatre (Au), L.A.E. (Cro) and Prague College discussed further development of the project and individual roles of partners in it.

Underground City XXI (UCXXI) is a European interdisciplinary platform, aiming to establish a specific cultural and art community, created as an online collaborative interdisciplinary network. UCXXI will develop a virtual 3D multi-user environment, shared and distributed on the Internet, based on the real dimensions and situation of the ex-coal mine in Labin, Croatia.

 

 

In this project, funded and supported by European Commission, Prague College will have several roles.

• As an organization its activities will include creation and organization of Prague-based project meetings, workshops and symposiums, as well as distribution of Czech-based promotion of the project and related events.
• As an educational institution Prague College will organize live projects that will, integrated to the academic curriculum, provide inputs and outputs for the project.
• Being a networked institution, College’s activities will also include initiation and management of collaboration with other institutions, students and academics.
  
  

Look at the videos from Labin symposium: video 1 - video2