Sophy Smith Email & Phone Number

Professor of Creative Technologies Practice and Director Games and Creative Technology at University for the Creative Arts.The School of Games and Creative Technology is a place for emerging and experimental practice and research and is unique in its transdisciplinary research environment that spans both creative and technological innovation. Research at GCT brings together technologists, creative practitioners and researchers across discipline areas to develop truly innovative work, sharing new knowledge and expertise and synthesising research with pioneering advances in digital computing, information technologies and creative practice.Games and Creative Technology research falls into 3 clusters;Creative Applications of Artificial IntelligenceEmerging Technologies and Creative PracticeGames ResearchKnowledge exchange and public engagement are central to our work, and we are always looking to develop new collaborative partnerships with individuals and organisations. We are particularly keen to work on projects that through games and creative technologies use creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.The School of Games and Creative Technology boasts excellent facilities including a virtual production studio and a motion capture studio which can both be accessed by organisations and industry through our knowledge exchange programme. Research at GCT also boasts a vibrant doctoral community, with doctoral candidates working across immersive film-making, XR performance and creative AI.Current/forthcoming publications include; Smith, S (2023) “Music Performance in VR: New Immersive Environments for Music Performance and Composition”, in Extended Reality Performance, Bloomsbury Methuen DramaShell, J and Smith, S (2022) “A Framework For Virtual Reality Visualisation Of Multi-stem Music”, IEEE ISMAR 2022.Smith, S and Francksen, K (2022) “Immersive Performance in Virtual Reality: Observing new methods and approaches in transdisciplinary prototyping”. In Convergence Special Issue.In 2021 Sophy was invited by the DTI as a thought leader to deliver a keynote talk at the Dubai Expo, in the Extraordinary Insight programme, where she proposed a number of future performance paradigms.

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