With my work hat on, there's an interesting event on 'computational
creativity' at the British Library organised by my colleague Nora McGregor
that some of you might be interested in. More details below!
We're hoping to have a crèche there to help people with kids make it along,
so drop us a line if you think that'd helpful for this or future events, or
just to find out more about it. It's something the MCG have wanted to do in
the past, so I'm personally interested in knowing how much demand there is
for crèches at daytime or evening events.
Cheers, Mia
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*Digital Conversation 11: Portrait of the Machine as a Young Artist *
Thursday, 18 February 2016 from 18:00 to 20:00
British Library (1st floor Staff Restaurant) - 96 Euston Road London, UK
Lon NW1 2DB
In this evening conversation we take a look at Computational Creativity, a
discipline operating at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and
Philosophy of Mind. Researchers are exploring the development of
artificially cognitive systems through the construction of machines and
algorithms that go some way towards modelling how our own creative
processes function, resulting in creative works of art, theatre, music and
poetry in their own right. Join us for presentations and a lively panel
discussion on human consciousness and artistry, what it means to create,
and tensions between AI and current copyright regimes.
Free, Booking essential: http://bit.ly/1ZztPFv
Presentations by:
Dr. Simon Colton, Painting Fool
<http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/07/can-computers-be-creative/viewgallery/306906>
Dr. Cat Gale, Beyond the Fence: The World's First Computer Generated Musical
<http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/dec/01/beyond-the-fence-computer-generated-musical-greenham-common>
Dr. Frederic Fol Leymarie, AutoGraff
<http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/autograff/wp/> and Aikon
<https://sites.google.com/site/aikonproject/>
Tom Hedges, Generating jazz lead sheets
<https://www.csl.sony.fr/publications.php?username=hedges>
Stephen McGregor, Vector space-models and Poetic Creativity
<http://conceptcreationtechnology.eu/?q=system/files/AgresMcGregoretal2015.pdf>
Dr. Burkhard Schafer, Copyright, law and ethics of machine co-production
<http://www.epip2015.org/a-fourth-law-of-robotics-copyright-and-the-law-and-ethics-of-machine-co-production/>
Moderator: Dr. Anna Jordanous <http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/akj22/>
*Digital Conversations is a quarterly evening talk series at British
Library hosted by the Digital Research Team. At these events we invite
inspirational and creative individuals over to share short,
thought-provoking presentations around a topic relating to the digital
transformations in research.*
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