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Dr. Fionnuala Conway

Dr. Fionnuala Conway

Assistant Professor Part-time, Electronic & Elect. Engineering

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Biography

Fionnuala Conway is a musician, composer, digital artist and educator. With a background in music and music technology, Fionnuala has worked as composer and performer on a number of theatre productions and is also a composer and singer with Dublin-based vocal ensemble, Silver Kites. She has produced work in a wide variety of presentations and areas, from traditional materials to digital media, wearable technology to interactive digital media, installations and theatre presentations. Work in wearable technology includes Urban Chameleon, in collaboration with Katherine Moriwaki, and the Reactive Performance Dress designed especially for the musician Miriam Ingram. Urban Chameleon was commissioned for Exhibit 3 @ The Digital Hub, 2003 and subsequently shown as part of the WIRED NextFest 2005 world fair, Chicago, USA. The Art of Decision exhibition, shown in May 2005, is a large-scale interactive exhibition that contains 9 interactive installation rooms. The research and exhibition can be seen in the Art of Decision documentary, produced in 2006. The interactive installation, 'A Rainbow in the palm of my hand', created with Mark Linnane, featured as part of the Light Rhythms exhibition (February 2014) at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). She has had articles published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac Special Issue on Augmented reality (Situated Soundscapes: Redefining Media Art and the urban experience (LEA, Volume 18, No. 3)) and 2014, saw the publication of a chapter "Engagement, Immersion and Presence: the role of audio interactivity in location-aware sound design " in the Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford University Press). She holds a Bachelor of Music from University College, Dublin (1994), an M.Phil. Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College, Dublin in 1999 and she completed her PhD at Trinity College, Dublin in 2008, under the supervision of Professor Linda Doyle. She has been lecturing on the M.Phil. Music and Media Technologies course since 2002 and was appointed Course Director of the M.Phil. in Music and Media Technologies course in 2006. She was Programme Director on the MA. Scoring for Film and Visual Media at Pulse College (in conjunction with DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) and held the role of Director of Research for Pulse College. She currently supervises PhD research in interactive audio, with a particular focus on locative media/mobile phone applications as music and multimedia experiences. Her module, Introduction to XR: Applications and Technologies, is delivered on the MPhil. Music and Media Technologies, MSc. EIE and as a Micro-credential.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Fionnuala Conway and Mark Linnane, 'A Rainbow in the palm of my hand', Light Rhythms, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, 2014, -Exhibition, 2014
  • Fionnuala Conway and Katherine Moriwaki, 'Urban Chameleon', Exhibit 3 @ The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, Ireland & WIRED NextFest 2005 world fair, Chicago, USA, 2003, -Exhibition, 2003, URL
  • Fionnuala Conway, 'Art of Decision', The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, Ireland, 2005, -Exhibition, 2005, URL
  • Natasa Paterson, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Soren Kristian Jensen, Tara Carrigy, Mads Haahr and Fionnuala Conway, Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Audio for a Location Based Augmented Reality Game, Proceedings of ACM Fun and Games 2010, Leuven, Belgium, 15-17 September 2010, ACM, 2010, pp149 - 156Conference Paper, 2010, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Natasa Paterson, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Tara Carrigy, Mads Haahr, Fionnuala Conway, Location Aware Interactive Game Audio, 41st Audio Engineering Society Conference, London, UK, February 2-4, 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011, TARA - Full Text
  • Natasa Paterson, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Soren Kristian Jensen, Tara Carrigy, Mads Haahr, Fionnuala Conway, Spatial Audio and Reverberation in an Augmented Reality Game Sound Design, 40th Audio Engineering Society Conference: Spatial Audio, Tokyo, Japan, October 8-10, 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
  • Fionnuala Conway, Linda Doyle, Jane Williams, Maryann Valiulis (ed.), International Conference on Politics and Information Systems Technologies and Applications, The Art Of Decision: Technology And New Media Possibilities For The Encouragement Of Women In Decision-Making In Ireland, Orlando, Florida, USA. , July 31- Aug 2, 2003, 2003Proceedings of a Conference, 2003
  • Doyle, Linda, Conway, Fionnuala, Greene, Ken(ed.), International Conference on Politics and Information Systems Technologies and Applications, Mobile Graffiti, A New Means of Political Engagement, Orlando, Florida, USA., July 31- Aug 2, 2003, 2003Proceedings of a Conference, 2003
  • Natasa Paterson, Gavin Kearney, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Tara Carrigy, Mads Haahr and Fionnuala Conway, Viking Ghost Hunt: Creating Engaging Sound Design for Location-Aware Applications, International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2012, p92 - 101Journal Article, 2012, DOI
  • Natasa Paterson & Fionnuala Conway, Situated Soundscapes: Redefining Media Art and the Urban Experience, Not Here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 19, (1), 2013, p122 - 139Journal Article, 2013, URL
  • Engagement, Immersion and Presence: the role of audio interactivity in location-aware sound design in, editor(s)Karen Collins, Bill Kapralos, Holly Tessler , Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio, Oxford University Press, 2013, [Natasa Paterson & Fionnuala Conway]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Fionnuala Conway and Linda Doyle, Art of Decision: an interdisciplinary approach to raising awareness of Active Citizenship, The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art , Istanbul, Turkey, 2011Conference Paper, 2011
  • Fionnuala Conway and Linda Doyle, Exploring gender balance in Ireland through interactive multimedia installation, The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-21 September 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011

Research Expertise

Extended Realities, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Digital aesthetics, interactive installation, Live performance technologies. VR for good and social impact. Creative Technologies and innovation.

Recognition

  • National Digital Research Centre research 2009
  • Music Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland 2019
  • Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland 2022
  • Professional Development Award, Arts Council of Ireland 2020
  • Kildare Per Cent for Art Scheme, Department of Defence, Newbridge, Co. Kildare shortlist 2009
  • The Space Programme artist residency 2009
  • Eirmersive: representing the XR sector in Ireland present
  • Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) present
  • External examiner for PhD, Smartlab, University of East London 2010
  • Music technology and academic consultant for the development of BA courses in Pulse College (in conjunction with Griffith College, Dublin). 2012-2018
  • PhD Examiner (Internal), School of Music, Trinity College Dublin 2016
  • Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) Programme Validation Committee 2021
  • Expert Panel, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) 2016
  • Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) External Examiner, Masters in Music Technology 2019-2022