This Tuesday, March 22, 4pm in RHB 137a, Goldsmith’s U London.
we have the pleasure to host Andy Lomas
(who is the holder of the Lumen Prize (2014), who has seen his art
works
on display internationally including at SIGGRAPH and at Creative
Machine
(Goldsmiths, 2014); he is an Emmy awards winner for his professional
work
on special effects in film).
Andy will discussed how intricate structures and forms can be
created
emergently using computer generated models of morphogenesis.
Inspired by the work of Alan Turing, Ernst Haeckel and D'Arcy
Thompson,
Morphogenetic Creations is an ongoing series of art works that
explore
how intricate structures and forms can be created emergently using
computer generated models of morphogenesis.
The aim is for deep emergence, with rules for growth specified at
the level
of interactions between individual cells. Digital simulation
techniques are
used to algorithmically encode the rules, and processes are run over
many thousands of time steps. Typical final structures consist of up
to a hundred million individual parts, yielding levels of detail
that would be
difficult or impossible to obtain using more conventional
techniques.
Bio:
Andy Lomas is a digital artist and Emmy award winning supervisor of
computer
generated effects. He has had work exhibited in over 50 joint and
solo exhibitions,
including SIGGRAPH, the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Ars
Electronica Festival,
the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and the Centro Andaluz de
Arte Contemporaneo.
He has work in the D'Arcy Thompson Art Fund Collection, and was
selected
by Saatchi Online to contribute to a special exhibition in the Zoo
Art Fair at
the Royal Academy of Arts.
In 2014 Cellular Forms won The Lumen Prize Gold Award, as well as
the
Best Artwork Award from the A-Eye exhibition at AISB-50, and an
Honorary Mention from the jury at the Ars Electronica Festival.
His production credits include Walking With Dinosaurs, Matrix:
Revolutions,
Matrix: Reloaded, Over the Hedge, The Tale of Despereaux, Avatar,
and
he received Emmys for his work on The Odyssey (1997) and Alice in
Wonderland (1999).