Research Funding
Canarie NEP (Network Enabled Platforms) MiddleWare Program (submitted)
Project Title: M+M (movement + meaning middleware) 2013-2016
Total funding: $500,000 over 4 years
Involvement: Principal Investigator
Co-Investigators: Steve Dipaola, Philippe Pasquier
Description: Developing research middleware to support a distributed software platform for translating and sharing movement data and its semantic descriptors across multiple platforms, sensor data types, control streams and movement effectors.
Vice-President Academic SFU
Project Title: VPA Administrative Support Grant 2013-2016
Total funding: $100,000 over 4 years
Involvement: Principal Investigator
Description: VPA Academic Funding Support for Administrative Assistance for SFU Principle Investigators of International Partnership Grants. To support Project Manager Top-Up Grant.
SSHRC Institutional Partnership Research Grant. Insight Program 2012-2016
Project Title: Moving Stories: Digital Tools for Movement Meaning and Interaction
Total funding: $2,350,000 over 5 years
Involvement: Principal Investigator, Project Leader
Collaboration: Collaboration between International Partners University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, Laban Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS), ECUAD, UBC, Credo Interactive, Inc.
Co-Investigator(s) at SIAT: Philippe Pasquier, Lyn Bartram, Bernhard Riecke, Alissa Antle, Steve Dipaola, Ron Wakkary.
MITACS Accelerate Grant with Reality Controls Inc.
Project Title: Designing a Kinect Camera-Based API to Detect Qualities of Movement to Support Gestural Interaction
Total funding: $15,000 Oct 2012 - March 2013
Involvement: Principal Investigator, SIAT Faculty Supervisor
Description: PhD Student Aaron Levisohn interning with Reality Controls Inc.
SSHRC Institutional Partnership Research Grant LOI. Insight Program 2011-2011
Project Title: Moving Stories: Digital Tools for Movement Meaning and Interaction
Total funding: $20,000 over 1 year
Involvement: Principal Investigator, Project Leader
Collaboration: CCollaboration between International Partners University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, Laban Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS), ECUAD, UBC, Credo Interactive, Inc.
Co-Investigator(s) at SIAT: Philippe Pasquier, Lyn Bartram
SSHRC Research Grant. Insight Program 2011-2013
Project Title: Mobile Presence: Mediating Cooperative Interaction for Public Urban Screens
Total funding: $37,500 over 2 years
Involvement: Principal Investigator
Collaboration: Collaboration between Surrey Art Gallery Urban Screens Project and SIAT
Co-Investigator(s) at SIAT: Philippe Pasquier
NMI New Media Initiative CCA-NSERC Research Grant Collaboration. 2009-2013
Project Title: Meaning from Motion
Total funding: $470,000 over 3 years
Involvement: Principal Investigator in collaboration with NSERC Scientists
Collaboration: Collaboration between Art & Science in exploring Meaning from Motion including Movement as perception, affect and expression
Co-Investigator(s): Lyn Bartram, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Nokia Industry University Collaboration Grant
Title: mobile opera
Total funding: $10,000 January 2008 - June 2008, $25,000
Involvement: Principal Investigator
Collaboration: Sang Mah and Doug Tuck at Vancouver Opera
Details: prototyping mobile games spaces for urban street opera performance
SSHRC, Image, Text, Sound and Technology
Title: Immersion & Aesthetics of Interaction
Total funding: 50,000 over 1 year, 2008 (extended to 2 years)
Principle Investigator: Diane Gromala
Involvement: Co-Investigator
Collaboration: with Diane Gromala as principle investigator
Research Associates: PhD students Jinsil Seo and Gregory Corness
Passepartout, in conjuncton with V2_Lab in Rotterdam, Phillips, CWI and TUE
Title: Passepartout
Total funding: $100,000 for DEAF07 festival: interact or die June 2005 - July 2007
Involvement: Lead Artist | Designer for V2
Collaboration: V2_Lab, Philips, CWI, TUE faculty and students
Outcomes: soft(n) development, design & exhibition at DEAF07 festival
Nokia Industry University Collaboration Grant
Title: exhale
Total funding: $15,000 January 2006 - December 2006
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Research Associates: Rob Lovell, Sang Mah
SFU President's Research Grant April 2005
Title: Smart Textiles in Mobile Applications
Total funding: $10,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Heritage Canada, Networks Grant, Am-I-Able Network Grant
Title: Pulp Fashion, (part of the Am-I-Able Network Grant)
Total funding: $75,000 for whispers research group (Schiphorst Portion)
Involvement: Am-I-Able Researcher
Timeline: 2006-2008
Principle Investigator: Ron Wakkary, Sarah Diamond
Other Researchers in Am-I-Able: Marek Hatala, Joanna Berzowska, Susan Kozel
Other Partners: Banff Centre for the Arts, Concordia University
SFU Discovery Parks SSHRC Fund
Title: Mobile Platforms for gestural interaction
Total funding: $10,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Timeline: November 2004 to December 2006
Development of performance systems for mobile platforms and interaction using gestural input
Canarie, ARIM Fund for networked application
Title: "whisper[s]: networked community architectures"
Total funding: $200,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Timeline: January 2003 - April 2004
Detail: to research wireless connectivity in social applications based in art installation prototyping. funded research and development of production installation exhibition premiere in Bilbao, Spain in April 2004.
Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Individual Artist Production Grant
Title: whisper: wearable body architectures
Timeline: 2002 - 2003
Total funding: $60,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: to develop an interactive wearable installation for the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam exhibition date February 2003.
British Columbia Arts Media Arts Senior Artist Production Grant
Title: whisper: wearable body architectures
Timeline: 2002 - 2003
Total funding: $20,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: to develop an interactive wearable installation for the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam exhibition date February 2003.
Canada Council for the Arts, Residency Program for V2-Lab in Rotterdam
Title: whisper: wearable body architectures
Timeline: 2002 - 2003
Total funding:$30,000
Involvement: Principle Artist in Residence at V2-Labs
Detail: to develop an interactive wearable installation for the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam exhibition date February 2003.
Daniel Langlois Fondation Artist Grant
Title: whisper: wearable body architectures, 2002 - 2003
Timeline: 2002 - 2003
Total funding:$40,000
Involvement: Principle Artist in Residence at V2-Labs
Detail: for the research, development and production of whisper: wearable body architectures for the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam exhibition date February 2003.
Canadian Foundation for Innovation - CFI Infrastructure Grant
Title: Interactivity Lab
Timeline: 2001 - 2003
Total funding:$550,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Co-Investigators: Ron Wakkary
Detail: for the infrastructure design and implementation of the Interactivity Lab
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund (Matching Funds for CFI)
Title: Interactivity Lab
Timeline: 2001 - 2003
Total funding:$550,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Co-Investigators: Ron Wakkary
Detail: for the infrastructure design and implementation of the Interactivity Lab
New Media Innovation Center, Virtual Environments Research Grant
Title: Intentional Grammars: Building Tools for Modeling a Semantics of Caress
Timeline: 2001 - 2002
Total funding:$30,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: applying Tactex gestural interface to virtual interface environment.
ASI Strategic University Collaborative Research Grant
Title: Token Spaces
Timeline: 2001 - 2002
Total funding:$140,000
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Collaborator: Sid Fels, UBC
Detail: gestural recognition and interaction of touch based on Laban Effort Shape Movement Analysis for application to wearable technologies with Taxtex Controls.
SSHRC, INE grant
Title: e-loyalty through experience design
Timeline: 2000 - 2003
Total funding:$268,000
Principle Investigator: Diane Cyr
Involvement: Co-Applicant ($30,000 allotted to work with graduate student)
Canada Council Presentation Distribution Grant for digital eARTh (non profit society)
Title: Zero Degree Monstrosities festival and symposium, 2000, $24K
Timeline: 2000
Total funding:$24,000
Involvement: Co-Applicant along with Oliver Hockenhull
Detail: Curatorial Grant to develop net-based artworks and run a festival and symposium
Canada Council Research Grant in Media Arts
Title: "mindblindness" developing 'wearables for the telepathically impaired'
Timeline: 1999
Total funding:$30,000
Involvement: Artist Applicant, developing wearable content and infrastructure
Canada Council Research Grant in Media Arts
Title: Travel Grant for Cyberconf8
Timeline: 1999
Total funding:$1,000
Involvement: Artist Applicant
Canada Council Presentation Distribution Grant for digital eARTh (non profit society)
Title: curatorial grant for the New Materiality: Pleasuring the Immoderate Senses
Timeline: 1998
Total funding:$16,000
Involvement: Co-Applicant along with Oliver Hockenhull
Detail: Curatorial Grant to develop net-based artworks and run a festival and symposium
British Columbia Arts Media Arts Senior Artist Production Grant
Title: felt histories
Timeline + Total Funding: $10,000, 1997
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: New Media Grant for Video Production for Felt Histories: an interactive computer based installation using touch and motor control systems
Canada Council: New Media Grant
Title: felt histories
Timeline + Total Funding: $45,000, 1997
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: New Media Grant to produce Felt Histories: an interactive computer based installation using touch and motor control systems
Canada Council Travel Grant in Media Arts
Title: Siggraph'97 in Los Angeles to exhibit interactive artwork in the Electric Garden
Timeline + Total Funding: $1,000, 1997
Involvement: Artist Applicant
Canada Council Presentation Distribution Grant for digital eARTh (non profit society)
Title: Transverse Worlds: a web-based community art project
Timeline + Total Funding: $16,000, 1997
Involvement: Co-Applicant along with Oliver Hockenhull
Detail: Curatorial Grant to develop net-based artworks and run a festival and symposium
Canada Council: Computer Integrated Media grant
Title: Bodymaps: artifacts of Touch
Timeline + Total Funding: $35,000, 1996
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: to develop an interactive computer based audio video installation using touch, video and interactive audio, to be presented at a Solo Exhibition at the Western Front
Canada Council Travel Grant in Media Arts
Title: Ars Electronica 1996 Exhibition of Bodymaps
Timeline + Total Funding: $2,000, 1996
Involvement: Artist Applicant
Canada Council Presentation Distribution Grant for digital eARTh (non profit society)
Title: Ecology of Communication
Timeline + Total Funding: $16,000, 1996
Involvement: Co-Applicant along with Oliver Hockenhull
Detail: Curatorial Grant to develop net-based artworks and run a festival and symposium
Centre for Image and Sound Research
Title: immerce: multi-media exploration of Merce Cunningham Archive
Timeline + Total Funding: $25,000, 1993-94
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: develop and produce interactive navigation front-end to data-base material
Canada Council: Computer Integrated Media Research grant
Title: Research to explore Motion Capture input to Lifeforms
Timeline + Total Funding: $30,000, 1992
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: to develop a motion capture front-end to lifeforms for interactive performance
External Affairs Canada: Touring Grant for Interactive Performance
Title: Escape: Interactive Performance with Voice Input to moving Lights & Sounds
Timeline + Total Funding: $30,000, 1991
Involvement: Principle Investigator
Detail: to tour Escape: Interactive Performance with Voice Input to moving Lights & Sounds to ISEA 1992 Sydney Australia