Tom Bartindale

Invited Talk – Integration multi-touch and interactive surfaces into the research environment

Tom Bartindale — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:46:25 +0000

September 6th – 7th 2011 I was invited to give an hour talk and discussion at Oxford E-Research Centre on tabletops and e-research.

ExhibitForge

Tom Bartindale — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:01:27 +0000

A company started in June 2012, we provide long term exhibition and exhibit support to North East museums and galleries.

Our services include servicing, building and monitoring of exhibit spaces.

Visit exhibitforge.com for more information.

North Exhibition Services

Tom Bartindale — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:55:02 +0000

A portfolio and service website for a Newcastle based exhibition support company. This site is based on WordPress and features a dynamic gallery, and easy to format post views for editing.

Pervasive & DIS Production Chair

Tom Bartindale — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:13:35 +0000

Conference Production chair for both DIS2012 and Pervasive2012 conferences hosted in Newcastle Upon Tyne. These 300 delegate events will be held in venues across Newcastle.

We will be using these conferences as a platform for developing novel new event technology which will be used during the events.

More to come…

Newcastle Maker Faire 2011

Tom Bartindale — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:04:26 +0000

Newcastle Maker Fair 2011 at Life Center, Newcastle Upon Tyne was a great weekend event where CultureLab had a large presence.

Demos included FlirtBar, TuneTable, Daft Pong and Nightingallery.

Microsoft Research Cambridge

Tom Bartindale — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:54:44 +0000

Whilst at Microsoft Research Cambridge I worked with the team that develop .NET Gadgeteer, Microsoft’s new rapid hardware prototyping platform.

Using Gadgeteer, I developed DMX and MIDI production modules, enabling rapid prototyping of performance and production technology.

Find out more about Gadgeteer at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gadgeteer/

BHCI Demo Chair

Tom Bartindale — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:57:52 +0000

Demonstration Chair for this event based in CultureLab. 33 demonstrations including 11 from Newcastle University, and a buffet lunch for 250 people.

Communication, logistics and setup was handled by myself, along with various roles in reviewing submissions.

CHI2011 User In Flux Workshop Event Manager

Tom Bartindale — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:59:08 +0000

Taking the CultureLab spirit to Vancouver, Canada, the User in Flux CHI2011 workshop presented a night of performance art and music, from Emily Carr University on Granville Island.

As event manager I coordinated shipping equipment from the UK, logistics and rigging in Canada and running the event on the night.

The NUILight system was used to control the event using 2 tablet PCs, allowing for the entire lighting control rig to be transported on a commercial flight.

BBC Research & Development

Tom Bartindale — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:08:49 +0000

Working with the BBC I produced a tangible interface for Storyboarding on live production shoots.

The device acts as a shared data representation for the team, and allows unique features such as:

Rush edit creation
Easy Meta data creation
Associating shot footage with your storyboard
Playback of storyboard with real shots

Jam45 – Interactive Performance Technology

Tom Bartindale — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:04:00 +0000

A multi-media performance event in order to showcase some of the more performance based research projects in CultureLab.

As event manager and lead tecnician for the event I was responsible for all staging, lighting and audio production. This included using NUILight as the venue controller using both a tablet PC and Microsoft Surface to provide an interactive lighting experience for the audience.