Lansdown Lecture - Leonardo and Computer Drawing - 24 October 2007 - London
This public lecture is free. All welcome.
Summary
+ Leonardo and Computer Drawing
+ Clive Richards of Coventry University
+ Date: Wednesday 24 October 2007
+ Time: 5:00pm for one hour
+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
Cat Hill Campus: Room 137
Enquiries
Stephen Boyd Davis: [log in to unmask]
Leonardo and Computer Drawing
Professor Clive Richards will discuss the ingenious ways in which Leonardo solved
information design problems in his drawing, and suggest that Computer Drawing systems would
benefit from some of Leonardo's insights. The talk is based on a recent article for Information
Design Journal (Volume 14, Number 2, January 2006. 93-107)
The speaker
Clive Richards is a doctoral graduate of the Royal College of Art and has had a long
association with the Coventry School of Art and Design where he is Associate Dean.
In commercial practice he has worked on technical documentation for the aviation industry, corporate branding for businesses and public institutions, as well as the design of artists’ catalogues and books.
While researching into the application of computer graphics to designing in the late sixties and early seventies he made the first computer animation produced in any art and design school – this was recently celebrated in 2006, alongside the work of other pioneers in the field, at a festival of computer animation held at the National Film Theatre called “Bits in Motion”.
It was this early research that led Clive Richards to be responsible for the introduction of computing into the undergraduate design curriculum and the development of postgraduate studies in this area.
His theoretical work on diagrammatics has also been influential.
Venue
Room 137
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Date and time
Wednesday 24 October at 5pm
Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
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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