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Ultrasound Conference

Saturday 29th November 2003, CanalSideEast lecture Theatre,
Queensgate University Campus, Firth Street, Huddersfield.

Free. 80 places for bookings please call 01484 472281 or 01484
473589

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Canal Side East Lecture Theatre

University of Huddersfield

Queensgate

Huddersfield

HD1 3DH

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2pm - 5pm / FREE /

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'Code as Environment, Environment as Code'

If sound is a quality of spatial experience, in a virtual environment it is
first pure data. If the machinic space of data and code can be usefully
described in architectural terms [the software/  architectures] how do
we describe our experience of these?

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Neil Spiller:

Communicating Vessels

The impact of  virtuality and advanced remote sensing devices should
lead architects to reassess Surrealist and ‘Pataphysical  concepts of
space. There are many similarities between these modes of creativity
and the way an architect might perceive, interact and make
connections between their architecture and the myriad of machinic
and natural ecologies that constitute the sites of our contemporary
architecture.

Neil Spiller will illustrate these ideas with his design project
“Communicating Vessels” which seeks to create new relationships
between architecture, landscape, space, time, duration and
geography. These landscape pieces and their relationship to one
another are highly ‘Pataphysical, their logistics of form are conditioned
by notions of variance, alliance and deviance. Such ideas produce a
very rich formal and Surreal architectural language bursting with
potential.

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Dr Rob Stone

An interest in various acoustic glitches, hums, hiccups and drones
has already been thoroughly  codified in many popular music
practices. The architectural significance of such technological
excesses or insufficiencies, depending on your perspective, has also
long been a concern of architectural discourse. However, the shift of
experimental architectural thought and exploration from its main
homes in history and criticism during the 1970s, means that this
interest has been developed mainly in performance arts of different
kinds. Rob Stone will look at the detachment of acoustic  architectural
signifiers from their conventionally understood  domains, and
consider a 'timbral' approach to architectural  signification, one which
is more concerned with textural and  sentimental values, than
functional ones.

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Artificial Paradises [ap]

the primary qualities of pure data are flow, disembeddedness, and
highly abstracted spatio-temporal compression. we exist in an age
that incorporates both highly rational and knowledge intensive
production and the quasi-anarchy of information flows: from this
disorder commodification re-orders these flows into categories of
intellectual property in order to valorise them and accumulate
power/capital

ap are concerned with viable/non-viable distributions of data across
intensive nodes; environmentally situated event contingencies
(decodings and recodings) within multiplexing structural couplings. Ap
investigate how data can radically be represented for the machinic
and critiques the implications of current meta-data approaches to the
representation of data. from the perspective of the fm01 film project,
towards an environment for the semi-automated scripting, production
and editing of endless cinema, ap examine new machinic notions of
environmental coding and abstraction

as complex stratas of self-organizing interactions present themselves,
human-machine polyvalency overcomes traditional ontology and
opens up the notion of an expanding environmental OS - where code
is an environment of subsystems in search of form or pattern,
orphaned bits without superstructure, and where the user as
programmer is simultaneously inserted into this fugal, solaric
codebase

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