About Intersections

Welcome to Intersections, the site supporting the cross-domain intersections of 3DVisA and vizNET. These pages detail our cross-domain activity and provide information on and links to upcoming cross-domain events, calls and funding opportunities.

Arts and Humanities:

We support Arts and Humanities expert users, researchers, performers and artists to work with or to create visualisations, visual environments, visual mappings, etc. using multiple technologies and techniques. We also aim to assist Arts and Humanities expert users, researchers, performers and artists to understand the concepts and models of visualisation practices and techniques - so as to go beyond the traditional research questions. We understand that access to first hand experience, from exposition to demo, to hands-on tutorial is invaluable in the development of expertise and understanding.

Science and Engineering:

We support visualisation experts in Science and Engineering to understand the shifts in emphasis involved in the application of their methodologies to research questions in the Arts and Humanities We understand that access to first hand experience of case studies in the arts and humanities is invaluable in the development of such understanding.

Cross-domain Events:

We aim to identify non-traditional synergies between the arts and humanities and the sciences and engineering and assist researchers to realise these synergies as collaborative projects. We organise cross-domain events to provide initial and ongoing support for cross-domain collaboration.
Our next event is vizNET 2008, 7 - 9 May, Leicestershire.

Cross-domain Materials:

We develop cross-domain orientation materials in visualisation for arts and humanities researchers who are experts in their own field but who would like to use visualisation practices and techniques in their research. In 2007, as a follow-up to vizNET 2007, we convened an expert workshop: From Abstract Data Mapping to 3D Photorealism: Understanding Emerging Intersections of Visualisation Practices and Techniques with precisely this aim. Download the report here.

For further information, or to announce your cross-domain events to these pages,
please contact Dr Julie Tolmie (julie.tolmie@kcl.ac.uk), the convenor of Intersections.