Visualisation Research Unit

Part of Birmingham City University

Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Department of Fine Art
Margaret Street
Birmingham B3 3BX

Phone: 0121 331 5978
Email: vru@bcu.ac.uk

The Visualisation Research Unit (VRU) was established in the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in 2004 as an applied research unit to develop the use of digital media in creative practice.

VRU's remit has been to create facilities and produce research outputs in a variety of forms that reflect this new thinking about what and how art could be created through digital media. VRU foccuses particularly on collaboration between creativity and technology, and on putting the technologies we have, and are developing, into creative use.

Based in the Department of Fine Art at BIAD, the VRU is a significant capital resource, with comprehensive motion capture facilities, animation capacity, supercomputing for data heavy processors and HD television production facilities.

The equipment is supported by well-trained technical and creative staff, who are engaged in a broad range of practices that will help support the programmes that the VRU can offer.

motion capture, wearable technology, animation, exo-skeleton, wireless devices, visualisation

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