DMARC - Digital Media and Art Research Centre

The Digital Media and Arts Research Centre (DMARC) at the University of Limerick explores the exciting intersection of technology, music, and the arts. The centre brings together researchers, artists, and students to create innovative projects in areas such as computer music, interactive performance, and digital media technologies.

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What we do

The Digital Media and Art Research Centre (DMARC) is involved in a range of projects which explore the many different facets of digital art and technology. This work includes both practice based approaches to research and embraces the interdisciplinary nature of digital media and arts research.

Research at DMARC is organised around three main themes: audio and visual research, creative technologies, digital arts practice.

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Research clusters

Audio/Visual Composition

The field of audio and visual research at DMARC explores issues pertaining to the presentation and perception of video & audio. This includes the topics of spatial audio, acoustics, psychoacoustics, music composition, 3D projection, low-resolution display and immersive environments, algorithmic music, synthesisers research and much more.

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Creative Technologies

DMARC engages in a diverse range of activities investigating technology-enabled arts practice. These include the development of software, novel controllers and interactive electronics for music and art, compositional approaches for digital musical instruments, real-time audiovisual controller development, robotic, games, VR/AR, digital performance art and much more.

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The WITITAWAI Collective

The WITITAWAI Collective ("Who is the I that asks Who am?") investigates art at the intersection of digital technologies and existential philosophy. Bridging theoretical inquiry with creative practice, the research cluster interrogates identity, selfhood, embodiment, and agency amid a world saturated with digital technologies—AI, VR, algorithms, and beyond.

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