LEICESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The expertise of De Montfort University’s pioneering Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) in the UK, is going global this week at an international digital art symposium in China.

The Digital Art Weeks 2010 (DAW10) will be one of the largest art and technology projects ever to be held in China and runs from 29 June to 16 July in Xi’an.

The IOCT is a unique research environment working at the intersection of science, technology, humanities and the arts. Since its launch in September 2006 it has initiated over 100 interdisciplinary and collaborative projects, carried out by more than 90 researchers. These projects have already attracted more than £1 million in external funding.

More information about the IOCT can be found at http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk

DAW10 is organised by a committee of academics from Canada, Switzerland, New York, China and now De Montfort University in the UK, as well as from the Digital Art Weeks organisation itself.

It aims to nurture cooperation on the academic levels in the areas of arts and science.

The event will include a day long symposium on ‘Transdisciplinarity’ on Thursday 1 July, at Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, with a keynote speech by the IOCT’s Professor Sue Thomas, entitled ‘Transliteracy: Crossing Divides’, and IOCT Director, Professor Andrew Hugill, talking about ‘Creating a Transdisciplinary Research Institute’.

Other talks will be given by IOCT staff including Prolonging Software Life for Digital Art Systems by Professor Hongji Yang, and The Art of Mobility by Professor of Digital Creativity, Martin Rieser, and by Dr Bret Battey, who creates multimedia concert works and installations.

For more information see: http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAW10/Symposium

The IOCT’s Senior Research Fellow, Dr Steve Gibson is on the organising committee of DAW10, and said: “DAW10 will attempt to illustrate the power of gaining expertise in unfamiliar terrain, of learning the styles, forms and tropes of the other. The events will illustrate the fertile ground occupied by artists, scholars and scientists who have chosen to work in the cracks between mediums.”