Reminder - TOMORROW!
The CAS AGM followed by a talk by the New Zealand artist Murray
McKeich at System Simulation. The talk is a free event and is
open to the public.
Tuesday 2 September 2008
5:45 for 6:00 prompt - CAS AGM (to 6:30)
6:30 for 7:00 - Murray McKeich: Computational Creativity
System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers, The Piazza Covent Garden
London WC2E 8HA, England
http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html
Murray McKeich is a New Zealander currently resident in Melbourne
Australia where he is a lecturer and researcher in art at RMIT
University. Following an early career in commercial art, he has
since established himself as a leading practitioner of digital
media in Australasian contemporary art. Working with digital
photo-media, his exhibition projects include printed imagery and
animation. Described as both macabre and darkly seductive,
Mckeich's art weaves visions of surreal fantasy and magic from
the tiny pieces of every-day debris found in urban and domestic
environments. His recent practice uses generative software to
autonomously breed art-works.
Murray McKeich believes that computational tools are about to
become far more intimately integrated with human creativity.
Artists and designers will take on the role of creative
directors while their personalized software will work for them in
the capacity of highly trained, trusted and autonomous studio
assistants, capable of producing finished artworks without direct
supervision.
McKeich demonstrates that this form of practice is possible with
current off-the-shelf software and minimal programming skill.
More difficult is the psychological challenge of breaking with
culturally ingrained biological models of creative process and
forming new ones that are natural and native to computational
agency.
http://tinyurl.com/56o74o
Note: this will be our final meeting at System Simulation - a
tradition that goes back 40 years. They will be moving to
smaller offices later this year.
CAS 40 - 1968 to 2008 - 40 years of supporting the computer arts
http://www.computer-arts-society.org
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Paul Brown - based in the UK Aug-Dec 2008
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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