Hello all,
I've been emailed by the Arts Council and AHRB to tell me of grants to
support collaboration between artists and scientists. In the past I have
reviewed proposals for this initiative, and sat on the panel for a
corresponding initiative from Engineering and Physical Science Research
Council (EPSRC) - their "culture and creativity" call.
The EPSRC panel was notable in that only ONE propoal related to the visual
arts - the remainging 40 or so came from other place - mostly music or
sound related. The panel was keen that a greater balance is reached in
future.
I am a scientist / engineer /mathematician with an interest in getting
computer to draw for themselves. It would be an absurd ambition to try to
replace humans with machines - and that is not my intention. But just as
knowning a little more about how humans see somethimes (but not always)
helps us understand how to do make machines see a little better, so
undertstanding how artists work can inform my work. In fact, understanding
drawings may help us understand a little more about how we see as humans -
but that is not my aim either.
My web pages at www.bath.ac.uk/~maspmh gives an idea - but these are PAST
projects, not current ones!
All this is awfuly vauge, but I do have specific research projects that
would benefit from artistic input for sure. One of these involves using
drawings to get machines to learn what humans think of is important: our
early work in this is very promising indeed, and work like this is a very
hot topic right now with similar work going on all over the world. Other
work is based on the book "Art and Representation" by John Willats.
I see the AHRB-et-al call as an opportunity to collaborate. If anyone is
interested - maybe I can help you with your projects rather than you help
me - then contact me on my email
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best
Peter Hall
Department of Computer Science
University of Bath
Bath
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