GWITHA

Project details

Project lead	Professor Lee Miller
Centre alignment	Centre for Blended Realities
Start date	2023
End date	Ongoing

GWITHA supports those working in visual, performance and creative arts, to explore how cutting-edge technologies can capture vision and sound in three dimension, with a view to later accessing this material through a range of extended reality technologies. The work supported by GWITHA will transform how we understand and interact with the archive.

The project will be particularly relevant in Cornwall, which is renowned for site-specific landscape theatre that is part of its cultural heritage but challenging to document and record. 

The project draws on the archives housed at Falmouth University to build a digital infrastructure to capture the collections of material objects, textual artefacts, and the documentation of performance practice, to improve access and develop innovative uses for these new digital assets to generate novel research and further support the Creative Industries in Cornwall.

Images by: Georg Finch

Lee Miller standing in green screen area

Project team

Professor Lee Miller

Head of Postgraduate Research and Professor of Performance

Lee is the Head of Postgraduate Research at Falmouth University, and throughout his career he has be...

Professor Lee Miller

Georg Finch

Immersive Tech Specialist

Georg has a passion for solving complex problems with a mixture of digital and physical solutions and has worked on prototype autonomous, amphibious electric 3D survey vehicles for the MOD.

Georg Finch

Rosie Goodship

Business Engagement Fellow

Rosie, an experienced business coach and consultant, understands growth processes for SMEs based in Cornwall being a creative and entrepreneurial thinker.

Rosie Goodship

Andy Smith

Technical Manager/Technical Tutor

Andy joined Falmouth University in 2013 after completing his undergraduate studies in Communication ...

Andy Smith

Funding & sponsorship

£850,000 investment for the 4D volumetric capture equipment acquired through the Creative Research Capability (CResCa) fund from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It is intended to provide increased investment to support the development of world-class research and development capabilities, improve the visibility and resilience of practice-led research sectors within the arts and humanities, and support the UK’s creative and cultural economy through further funding for the sector’s critical infrastructure. 