Institute of Art and Technology

Description

Operating from the heart of the John Lennon Building in the city that Carl Jung dreamt to be ‘the pool of life’, the Institute of Art and Technology hosts inquisitive and creative researchers from around the world: all teaching, all learning, all working together for a better future.

As Liverpool’s international flagship for cultural and creative research, the Institute of Art and Technology is a supported and linked collective network of artistic research and technologies laboratories, each with a team led by inspiring researchers from four collaborating Schools: Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool Screen School, School of Education and Department of Computer Science.

The Institute has a congelation of an inquisitive team of brilliantly talented experts; five internationally recognised Art and Technologies Labs (Art Labs), including the award-winning Face Lab; excellent resources including Liverpool Fab Lab; global research collaborations; partnerships with Liverpool’s world-renowned cultural institutions such as Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool Tate; a large community of postgraduate research students; and close working relationships with businesses and communities in a collaborative, ambitious and edgy city full of culture, arts, music, storytelling, creativity, technological innovation, events and networks.

Each specialist Lab pursues specific research interests and develops research activities across the Institute of Art and Technology, including contingent Pop-up Labs.

The Institute supports research with:

• Steering committee
• Collaborative partners co-ordination
• Research induction
• Early career researchers group
• Learning Lab
• Research mentoring
• Personal research planning
• Practice as research workshops
• Quality evaluation
• Progress review
• Mechanisms of exchange
• Impact development
• Fab Lab
• Master lecture series
• Monthly ART LABS research events
• Public relations management
• Summer Lab
• Project seed corn funding
• Research sabbaticals
• Research away days

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Liverpool John Moores University
Merseyside