A∑TEC is essentially a collaborative platform intended to provide a reservoir of expertise and experience to support complex cross-disciplinary projects. In addition its constituency has established national and international collaborative relationships with individuals from other institutions and the academic, business, public and entertainment sectors.

For more detailed information on each community please go to the appropriate websites.

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research

ICCMR is currently collaborates with

a) Dept of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria), Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg (Germany) and Dept of Computer Science, University College London (UK) as part of the ESPRC-funded project "Learning the Structure of Music".

b) Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain),
Music Cognition Group, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Department of General Psychology of the Institute for Psychology,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary) and part of the
EU-funded project "Emergent Cognition through Active Perception".

c) Nucleo Interdisciplinar de Comunicacao Sonora - NICS, UNICAMP, Campinas (Brazil) and Laboratorio de Computacao e Musica - Instituto de Informatica, UFRGS, Porto Alegre (Brazil), as part of international co-operation agreements signed between the University of Plymouth and these institutions.

d) Faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Australia) as part of an ARC-funded project "Developing Techniques for Evolutionary Music".

For further information please go to .http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/

The Planetary Collegium

Through its many invited conferences throughout the world, and the broad geographical base from which its students originate, the Collegium has a rich international network of research associations and connections. Equally, the Collegium’s nodes in Zurich, Milan and Beijing maintain connections within the networks they themselves generate.

For further information please go to http://www.planetary-collegium.net

Art and Social Technologies Research

The Social Technologies and Art Research group has a close association with the Critical Spaces research group in the Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth (Dr Malcolm Miles), Transart Institute research faculty (Danube University Krems, Austria), and the WRO Foundation for Media Art (Wroclaw, Poland). The group is currently working with: Autonomedia publishers (New York, US) on the DATA browser publication series; OpenMute (London, UK) on POD and alt.media distribution; University of Colorado at Boulder (US) on ‘Silence of the Lands’; APS (ArtProjects and Solutions, London) and Arts Council England South West on ‘The Curatorial Network’.

For further information please go to http://www.art-social.net/

Nascent Art and Technology Research

Nascent collaborations include:

i-500 Project. With Dr Paul Thomas and Chris Malcolm in collaboration with Woods Bagot Architects, Curtin University and John Curtin Gallery in Perth, Western Australia. Enabled by the commissioning of Public Art Works associated with Curtin University of Technology Minerals and Chemistry Research and Education Precinct.

Am-I-able Network, led by Simon Fraser University, participants include: Banff Center for the Arts, Concordia University, K3 Malmo, V2 and Art Institute London. Funded by New Media Research Network fund at Canadian Heritage.

LiquidReader: Project in collaboration with Performance Research Journal, LABAN Centre, Writing Research Associates and the Forsythe Foundation.

Locative Media and cultural interpretation technologies with The Tamar Valley World Heritage Site.

The Infinite Infants telematic architectures project with Creative Partnerships.

Two HEFCE CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) projects developing: the Full Dome ‘Immersive Visualisation Theatre’ for the Experiential Learning in the Environmental and Natural Sciences; and digital interpretation display systems for the CSF (Centre for Sustainable Futures).

Nascent engages in a number of applied industrial research projects through DTI funded KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships) schemes and supports practice-based research for artists through digital curation initiatives delivered through i-DAT’s Outreach programme.

For further information please go to http://www.nascent-research.net/

Trans-technology Research

Key collaborations include the University of Amsterdam, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Afoundation, Zerogravity Artists Consortium, Leonardo Reviews.

For further information please go to www.trans-techresearch.net