Dr. Fionnuala Conway

Fionnuala Conway is a musician, composer, digital artist and educator. With a background in music and music technology, Fionnuala has worked as composer and performer on a number of theatre productions and is also a composer and singer with Dublin-based vocal ensemble, Silver Kites. She has produced work in a wide variety of presentations and areas, from traditional materials to digital media, wearable technology to interactive digital media, installations and theatre presentations. Work in wearable technology includes Urban Chameleon, in collaboration with Katherine Moriwaki, and the Reactive Performance Dress designed especially for the musician Miriam Ingram. Urban Chameleon was commissioned for Exhibit 3 @ The Digital Hub, 2003 and subsequently shown as part of the WIRED NextFest 2005 world fair, Chicago, USA. The Art of Decision exhibition, shown in May 2005, is a large-scale interactive exhibition that contains 9 interactive installation rooms. The research and exhibition can be seen in the Art of Decision documentary, produced in 2006. The interactive installation, 'A Rainbow in the palm of my hand', created with Mark Linnane, featured as part of the Light Rhythms exhibition (February 2014) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). She has had articles published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac Special Issue on Augmented reality (Situated Soundscapes: Redefining Media Art and the urban experience (LEA, Volume 18, No. 3)) and 2014, saw the publication of a chapter "Engagement, Immersion and Presence: the role of audio interactivity in location-aware sound design " in the Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford University Press). She holds a Bachelor of Music from University College, Dublin (1994), an M.Phil. Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin in 1999 and she completed her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin in 2008, under the supervision of Professor Linda Doyle. She has been lecturing on the M.Phil. Music and Media Technologies course since 2002 and was appointed Course Director of the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course in 2006. She was Programme Director on the MA. Scoring for Film and Visual Media at Pulse College (in conjunction with DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) and held the role of Director of Research for Pulse College. She currently supervises PhD research in interactive audio, with a particular focus on locative media/mobile phone applications as music and multimedia experiences. Her module, Introduction to XR: Applications and Technologies, is delivered on the MPhil. Music and Media Technologies, MSc. EIE and as a Micro-credential.

  Creative Arts   Installation Art   interactive audio and sound design   location-aware audio for the smartphone   Media Arts   Mobile Applications   Multimedia   Music Composition   Performance and technology   Performing Arts   Virtual Reality

Extended Realities, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Digital aesthetics, interactive installation, Live performance technologies. VR for good and social impact. Creative Technologies and innovation.