Players watching the introductory video

A player returning with the monsters, after 20 minutes of exploring Cambridge

First Play Berlin, 2006:

Radiator Festival, 2005

'Ere Be Dragons has been presented at arts festivals, academic and industry conferences around the world.

Wellcome Trust
Ere Be Dragons was initially funded by a Sci-Art Research and Development Grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop the project in collaboration with the Lansdowne Centre for Electronic Arts and the London Sport Institute.

Screenplay Festival, Nottingham 2005
Active Ingredient presented 'Ere Be Dragons at the Screen Play festival to user test the concepts of the project and heart rate monitors using 4 volunteers walking around Nottingham City Centre.

ACM Multimedia Festival, Singapore 2005
In November 2005 the partners in the project submitted their first paper to the ACM Multimedia conference in Singapore, the project was also included in the art exhibition that occurred alongside the ACM conference, “Absence/Presence”, at the LaSalle SIA, Institute for Contemporary Arts, Singapore
http://www.dragonstour.blogger.com

Radiator Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham 2005
In December 2005 the project was exhibited as an interactive artwork at the Radiator Festival for New Technology Art. The multi-user elements were developed with the world renowned Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham University.
www.radiator-festival.org

Mindplay, London Metropolitan University, 2006
Active Ingredient and Middlesex University presented a paper at the Mindplay conference.

PerGames 2006, Dublin
Active Ingredient, Middlesex University and the Mixed Reality Lab presented a paper at the PerGames conference.

CyberSonica 2006, London
Active Ingredient presented ‘Ere Be Dragons as part of a panel on Locative Artworks alongside the Radiator Festival, Blast Theory and Daniel Belasco Rogers

First Play Berlin, October 2006
Exhibited as part of the First Play Berlin, Germany
http://www.trampoline-berlin.de

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