Computer Arts Society Programme 2008
Here's our program for the coming year (from September is draft).
If you would like to contribute to either the joint TESLA/CAS 02/9
-or- MathArt/CAS 04/11 meetings please let me know. A further cfp
for these half-day events will be issued soon.
If you are visiting from overseas and would like to present your
work to the CAS please let me know your dates and we will try to
accommodate you.
CAS meetings are normally held on the 1st Tuesday of the month.
Summary (further details are below)
Feb 19 Alan Sutcliffe (note 3rd Tuesday)
Recent Graphics and Animations using some Maths
Mar 4 Sue Gollifer
Beyond the Screen
Apr 1 Cynthia Beth Rubin
Still Digital after all These Years:
How the Computer Transformed Painters into Geeks
May 6 Steve Danzig
Title to be confirmed
June 3 David Plans Casal
MPEG7 and genetic co-evolution:
Sound Improvisation Strategies
Further Information
Feb 19 Alan Sutcliffe (note 3rd Tuesday)
Recent Graphics and Animations using some Maths
6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd Bedford Chambers, The Piazza
Covent Garden London WC2E 8HA, England
http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html
A simple method to generate irregular but smooth curves will be
described, together with shading to give 3-d forms. The method
uses the repeated addition of differences of differences of
differences in one co-ordinate for unit change in the other
co-ordinate. Drawing in the XOR mode gives unexpected benefits in
this context. The anatomy of the XOR operator applied to
grey-scales and colours will be illustrated. This is an extended
version of the talk given at the Bridges Conference at Donostia
in July 2007, updated with some more recent animations based on
these and other mathematical methods.
In 1967 Alan Sutcliffe wrote a program, to compose electronic
music, which ran on an ICL 1900 computer. The music was realised,
from a paper tape of the score, in the electronic music studio of
Peter Zinovieff. When this won second prize in the International
Computer Music Competition at IFIP 68 in Edinburgh he was
prompted to propose the formation of a Computer Arts Society that
he chaired until 1979. During 2007 he has exhibited in Bremen,
Graz, Donostia and Karlsruhe. An early graphic, thought lost,
turned up in the CAS Collection during its hand-over to the
Victoria & Albert Museum. Alan now edits PAGE – the bulletin of
the CAS.
Mar 4 Sue Gollifer
Beyond the Screen
6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd Bedford Chambers, The Piazza
Covent Garden London WC2E 8HA, England
http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html
Sue Gollifer will talk about her artwork, which has developed in
the last thirty years according to a rigorous programme of formal
experiment, through which sets of relationships evolved between
shapes, colours and tones. Her talk will also make reference to
a number of digital art exhibitions which she has curated since
1995: ArCade1 1-V, GAMUT I & II and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery’04
Synaethesia. What lessons if any can be drawn/learnt from any of
these exhibitions, particularly ArCade, who’s original intention
and objective was to demonstrate how using new technology could
be used in fine art practices to create, on the one hand, a new
media and on the other a hybrid link between both old and new
technology, creating a convergence of ideas, disciplines and
practices
Sue Gollifer is the Course Leader for an MA in Digital Media Arts
and in Printmaking and Professional Practice, at the University
of Brighton. She has been a professional artist/printmaker for
over 30 years. Her primary research is into 'the impact of new
technology within the practice of Fine Art’. She has been the
curator of a number of Digital Art Exhibitions including ArCade,
the UK Open International Exhibition of Digital Fine Art Prints
(1995 – 2007) and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery’04. She serves on a
number of National and International Committees and is the
Assistant Editor of Digital Creativity, a Journal published by
Taylor Francis/Routledge.
Apr 1 Cynthia Beth Rubin
Still Digital after all These Years: How the Computer Transformed
Painters into Geeks
6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd Bedford Chambers, The Piazza
Covent Garden London WC2E 8HA, England
http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html
Art on the edge once meant Painting. Not clean,
representational, neat painting, but messy, expressive, abstract
painting. Then the computer came along. Touted as a procedural
machine, no one expected intuitive, non-procedural painters to
turn to pixels. Why were so many expressionist painters drawn to
the computer in the buggy days of mid-1980s, and how did it
transform their visual language and output? What are they doing
now? As one of the artists who made the leap, Rubin will discuss
her own leaps, give an overview of the work of other artists, and
look at how the computer continues to change concepts of imagery
as it becomes a more available medium in previously less
technologically advanced countries.
Cynthia Beth Rubin is a digital artist working in 2D and 3D
imagery, interactivity, and animated images. Trained as a
painter, she turned to digital art in 1984, creating works drawn
from cultural memories and nature. Rubin’s work has been shown in
diverse venues including the Jewish Museum in Prague, the
Pandamonium Festival in London, the Lavall Gallery in
Novosibirsk, the DeLeon White Gallery in Toronto, and numerous
editions of international conferences such as ISEA, ArCade and
SIGGRAPH. Her works can be found in several books and journals,
including Art in the Digital Age by Bruce Wands, The Computer in
the Visual Arts, by Anne Morgan Spalter, and Painting the Digital
River, by James Faure Walker. Rubin's studio is in New Haven,
Connecticut, USA.
May 6 Steve Danzig
Title to be confirmed
6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd Bedford Chambers, The Piazza
Covent Garden London WC2E 8HA, England
http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html
Awaiting outline.
June 3 David Plans Casal
MPEG7 and genetic co-evolution: Sound Improvisation Strategies
6:30 for 7:00; Film School Cinema, Birkbeck College 43 Gordon
Square, London WC1H 0PD Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren
Street, Russell Square
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hafvm/research/centre_fvm
Musical improvisation is driven mainly by the unconscious mind,
engaging the dialogic imagination to reference the entire
cultural heritage of an improviser in a single flash. This
workshop will introduce a case study of evolutionary computation
techniques, in particular genetic co-evolution, as applied to the
frequency domain using MPEG7 techniques, in order to create an
artificial agent that mediates between an improviser and her
unconscious mind, to probe and unblock improvisatory action in
live music performance or practice.
David Plans Casal is a musician and researcher, and digital
technologist at Brunel University. His research focuses on
artificial intelligence and music. He has given concerts at IRCAM
(Igor Stravinsky Hall), the Sonic Arts Research Centre in
Belfast, and several London venues. His research proposes that
musical improvisation is driven mainly by the unconscious mind,
engaging the dialogic imagination to reference the entire
cultural heritage of an improviser in a single flash. He uses
evolutionary computation techniques, in particular genetic
co-evolution, as applied to the frequency domain using MPEG7
techniques, in order to create an artificial agent that mediates
between an improviser and her unconscious mind, to probe and
unblock improvisatory action in live music performance or
practice.
Provisional CAS Programme for Autumn 2008
2 Sept Joint TESLA/CAS Meeting
7 Oct Nigel Johnson
4 Nov Joint MathArt/CAS meeting (afternoon/evening)
2 Dec Ranulph Glanville
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