Lansdown Lecture: Art that makes Itself  -- LONDON Tue 1 May at 16:45

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Lansdown Lecture: Art that makes Itself 
Speaker: Paul Brown, artist and visiting professor at University of Sussex 

This is a joint meeting with the Computer Arts Society

+ Date: Date: Tuesday 1 May 2007

+ Time: 4:45pm for one hour

+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
    Cat Hill Campus: Room 137.

Admission is free.

Please note that there is another Lansdown Lecture the next day: on Thursday 2 May, Ed Baxter of 
Resonance FM on "Radio is a new medium: Radio, Rhythm and Locale"


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Lansdown Lecture: Art that makes Itself 
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Speaker: Paul Brown, artist and visiting professor at University of Sussex 

Art that makes Itself

Paul Brown was working with concepts of systems, process and interaction in the 1960’s when he 
discovered computers at the Cybernetic Serendipity show at the ICA in 1968.  Since 1974 his work 
has involved computational processes, and he is now acknowledged as a pioneer of generative 
and a-life art.

In this talk he explains his early influences, his work over four decades and ends with an overview 
of his most recent project where he is working with a multi-disciplinary team to evolve a robot 
that can draw.

For more see http://www.paul-brown.com


About the speaker
Paul Brown is an artist and writer. He was born in Halifax, England in 1947 and has lived in 
Australia since 1988.  He founded Middlesex University's National Centre for  Computer Aided Art 
and Design (NCCAAD) and Centre for Advanced Study in Computer Aided Art and Design 
(CASCAAD - now the Lansdown Centre)  in the mid 1980s. Recently he embarked on a major 
AHRC-funded project "Computational Intelligence, Creativity and Cognition: A multidisciplinary 
investigation" .  

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html

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Any enquires to Stephen Boyd Davis:  [log in to unmask] 

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Stephen Boyd Davis 
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts 
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT 
United Kingdom 
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072 
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/ 
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