Αlien project in @postasis

State
Ongoing (2018-present)

Concept
The Ξένος (Alien) project is a proposal for an experimental seminar in the @postasis mutiuser platform, initiated by Manthos Santorineos and developed collaboratively by partners in different countries. The objectives of this project – experimental seminar is to enable different participants (e.g. students, teachers, artists, programmers, researchers) to work from distance and collaboratively create virtual entities (e.g. avatars, NPCs, IoT mechanisms) that co-exist in the multiuser space of @postasis. The Alien space can be visited by anyone from anywhere in the globe and can be observed in god’s view or first person view.

Educational approach 
The Alien space and the @postasis platform and tools provide, among others, an educational framework for teaching visual art students how to transfer programming concepts to a virtual space. In this context, I have been investigating how this framework can help students to get equally engaged to teamwork and sharing, but also to individual work and deepening. This approach is described here.

The Alien basic space (Creation of the world) has been used in distance seminars with students of the University of Thessaly, Department of Special Education and the Instructor Dr. Anastasia-Zoi Souliotou (Image 1). Also, there is a project in progress with students of the Art Secondary School of Gerakas, in collaboration with the teachers Konstantina Bolieraki, Varvara Spirouli, Valia Koutsouri, and Eleni Pavlitsenko (Image 2).

Image 2 – @postasis seminar with students and teachers of the Art Secondary School of Gerakas, December 2019 – present

Image 1 – @postasis seminar with Anastasia-Zoi Souliotou and students of the Univ. of Thessaly, December 2019 – present

Technology
Unity, @postasis mutliuser API, data sensors (Arduino)

Actions and presentations

5th Multiplier Event of @postasis in Athens, 23-24 January 2020.

1st, 2nd and 3rd Multiplier Events of @postasis in Athens, Eindhoven, and Paris, January, March and April 2019 on-site workshops and real-time experiments

The global scale of @postasis architecture, Stavroula Zoi, Multiplier Event of @postasis in Paris (organized by Paris-8 University), 18-19 April 2019, Paris, France  proceedings

An approach for teaching concepts of programming to students of Digital Arts, Stavroula Zoi, International Conference on Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning in Science (DL 2019), Ελληνογερμανική Αγωγή, 29-30/6/2019, Athens, Greece publication

@postasis platform: a multi-participatory space for distance artistic education and real-time experimentation, Stavroula Zoi, 1st Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC 2019), Athens, Greece oral presentation

The (global) scale of @postasis architecture, Stavroula Zoi, Multiplier Event of @postasis in Paris (organized by Paris-8 University), 18-19 April 2019, Paris, France oral presentation

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