[ecrea] PhD scholarship in Motion Capture & Computer Visualisation: The Future of the Visual Image

*Motion Capture & Computer Visualisation: The Future of the Visual Image*
*A research project to cross the boundaries between Art and Science*

We invite applications for this full-time PhD scholarship (to start in
April 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter), offered jointly by the
School of Arts and Creative Industries and the School of Applied Science
at London South Bank University. The scholarship covers fees and offers
a stipend of £15,000 p.a. for three years.

Computer programmes, together with motion capture have created an
extended means of visualising embodiment. Static and dynamic images have
been used in science, medicine, engineering, art and media to calibrate,
express and interpret in many professional and research contexts.
  Retrospectively, digital technologies have also afforded new
understandings of the ways in which the photographic optic has defined
vision.

The exploration of computational vision algorithms potentially expands
the possibilities of the registration of the body through a multiplicity
of cultural and gendered forms in time and space. Such developments
could provide new insights into the study of human locomotor machines,
especially with respect to velocity and acceleration.

This collaborative doctoral scholarship presents an exciting opportunity
to undertake practical research in order to investigate the nature of
how human movement has been, is, and could be visualised. The very
nature of the topic demands a transdisciplinary and collaborative
approach involving one or more of the following: computer science,
computer programming, photography, film, art practice, curation or
cultural studies.

We are seeking candidates who ideally have an understanding in more than
one discipline related to imaging technologies and practices.
Prospective students could for example have a photography background but
with an understanding of programming, or be working in networked media
with an understanding of contemporary art, cultural or feminist theory.
  Equally important could be a background in animation with a practical
understanding of programming. Alternatively we would be interested in
candidates with a science background in biomechanics with an experience
of computing and imaging technologies.

The student will be supported across both schools and have the support
of researchers in The Centre for the Study of the Networked Image
<http://www.centreforthestudyof.net/>.

For an informal discussion or enquires about the scholarship, please
contact either Professor Andrew Dewdney <mailto:(dewdnea /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)> in
the School of Arts and Creative Industries, or Professor Raymond Lee
<mailto:(r.lee /at/ lsbu.ac.uk)> in the School of Applied Sciences.

Details of how to apply can be found here:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/how-to-apply


The deadline for applications is *Monday 22 February*.

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