The next CAS meeting will be held in collaboration with the
Thursday Club at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Directions : http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/
Stepping Stones in the Mist
Thursday Club with Professor Paul Brown
28 September, 6-8pm, Ben Pimlott Building
Free - all are welcome
Paul Brown
Visiting Professor
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
University of Sussex
Stepping Stones in the Mist
This presentation is an idiosyncratic and non-rigorous account of
my work as an artist who has been involved in the field now known
as Artificial Life for over 30 years. To give the audience some
context I begin with a few opinions that define my position
within the visual arts (which is far from the current mainstream)
and then go on to describe early influences from the 1960s and
70s that have framed my involvement in the field of computational
arts. This includes some examples of my work from this period.
The latter part of the essay describes my working methodology and
includes examples of my more recent work and ends with some
speculations about where I may go in the future.
About the Speaker
Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has been specialising in
art and technology for over 30 years. In 1984 he was the founding
head of the UK's National Centre for Computer Aided Art and
Design and in 1994 he returned to Australia after a two-year
appointment as Professor of Art and Technology at Mississippi
State University to head Griffith University’s Multimedia Unit.
In 1996 was the founding Adjunct Professor of Communication
Design at Queensland University of Technology.
From 1997-99 he was Chair of the Management Board of the
Australian Network for Art Technology and is currently chair of
the Computer Arts Society. He is a member of the Editorial
Advisory Boards for LEA, the e-journal of the International Society
for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (MIT Press), and the journal
Digital Creativity (Routledge). From 1992 to 1999 he edited fine
Art forum, one of the Internet's longest established art 'zines
and he is currently moderator of the DASH (Digital ArtS
Histories) and CMCA (Computational Models of Creativity in the
Arts) e-lists.
His computer generated artwork has been exhibited internationally
since 1967 and is currently on show in Europe, Russia, the USA
and Australia.
During 2000/2001 he was a New Media Arts Fellow of the Australia
Council and he spent 2000 as artist-in-residence at the Centre
for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at the
University of Sussex in Brighton. From 2002-05 he was visiting
fellow at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at
Birkbeck College, University of London, where he worked on the
CACHe (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc...) research
project. He is currently (2005-08) a visiting professor and
artist-in-residence at the School of Informatics, University of
Sussex where he is working on a CCNR project to evolve robots
that can exhibit creative behaviour.
Examples of his artwork and publications are available on his web
site at: http://www.paul-brown.com
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