Last chance to catch MRI Exhibition

The 'Me, Myself and MRI' exhibition will be closing at York Hospital on the 3rd September. The feedback has been fantastic and we are currently in discussions to feature the show in other locations across the UK. In the meantime several of the individual pieces will be on display at partner organisations. This includes one portrait that wil be gracing the reception area here at Knaresborough Technology Park.


The portraits are running the Ensemble system, with a custom version of the Ensemble16 sensor interface. A number of custom blocks were designed for this exhibition and will be available as part of the new version of Apollo Ensemble due for release later this year.

Apollo welcomes new Product Specialist

Apollo is pleased to welcome recent graduate Ben Johnson to the team, joining the company as a product specialist. Ben worked with Apollo last summer to gain experience in the area of interactive technology, something that has proved mutually beneficial.

Ben recently completed a degree at the University of Hull, achieving a First Class Honors Degree in Creative Music Technology. During his final year Ben kept in regular contact with Creative Director Mark Hildred and continued working on the 'Me, Myself and MRI' project. This lead to him being offered the post to help support the growth of the company.

Ben will be working specifically on the new Ensemble product range and helping support a wide range of creative projects.

MRI Exhibition on the move

The MRI Exhibition was moved today to a new venue at York Hospital.

The exhibition space is close to the main reception, meaning that it will get a lot of footfall during its residency. Unfortunately one of the pieces was damaged during transit, so for the moment only five pieces are on show in the space.

Company visit to MRI Exhibition

Today we took everyone from Apollo and GSPK Design to Impressions Gallery to visit the 'Me, Myself and MRI' exhibition. After a brief overview from Sarah at Impressions, I gave a bit more background to the project.

Everyone then spent the next hour looking at the exhibition and the other galleries at Impressions.

MRI Exhibition goes to Impressions

The Me, Myself and MRI exhibition moved today to Impressions Gallery in Bradford. This venue gives a completely different setting for the show, with the pieces in a more traditional gallery space. I also updated each piece to add an additional image from the photographer and change the activation distance of the infra-red sensors.

Brain Awareness Week

Today I returned to the University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, to see what the students had achieved for Brain Awareness Week. I was impressed to find all the groups had managed to design some really interesting interactives. They ranged from a touch sensitive head to show the effect of drugs on the senses to a Wii inspired brain training game.

Me, Myself and MRI Project Launch - Preview

Today was the launch of the MRI Exhibition at the National Science Learning Centre in York. The morning was spent doing final tweaks to the audio and video tracks, setting levels and then tidying up.

In the afternoon the group we've been working with from Archbishop Holgate's School came in for a preview before the evenings official launch. General impressions were good and there was some interesting feedback about the layout of the pieces. We also had a discussion about how the interactivity worked (see photo), which involved me showing them the Apollo Ensemble map that is running each piece. They very quickly grasped how the Map was put together and how Apollo Designer works - in fact they were questioning why it took me so long to get the exhibition sorted out!

The exhibition map uses some new blocks that will be in version two of the software released later in the year. This includes video and still image triggering, automated faders and mapping blocks. I hope to be writing a detailed explanation of the technical side of the project for the Me, Myself and MRI website later in the year.

In the meantime the exhibition will be giving a really thorough test of the Apollo Runner and the new blocks as it runs the six pieces over the next few months. If you want to catch the exhibition then see the main project website for tour details.