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Programme 2005
New & Recent
- 24 January 2012: Eduardo Kac on Waldemar Cordeiro
- 29 November 2011: Monomatic
- 7 September 2011: Dr. Jack Tait: The Origin of Ideas & Analogue Programmer T4 with digital overtones
News
PAGE 67 is now available. Click on PAGE in the left-hand menu.
A significant recent book White Heat Cold Logic records the pioneering British computer art of the period 1960 to 1980.
Co-editors of the book are Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nick Lambert and Catherine Mason, all members of CAS.
More about the book See the book on the publisher’s site at MIT Press
The CACHe digital archiveof pioneering British computer art is now hosted at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts.
The Computer Arts Society now has a Facebook page.
Programme 2005
- December 13th
The Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts - November 15th
Sampling Practice - October 18th
Terminate CACHe! - July 26th
Art and Robotics a discussion led by Alex Zivanovic - July 19th
BLIP - The Interactive Mind and Art(efacts) - June 21st
Multimedia Technology at Greenwich - ten years on - May 23rd
Progress of the CACHe Project - May 19th
INSPIRE - April 12th
The New York Digital Salon - March 22nd
Artist's Talk - March 16th
The Patric Prince Collection - February 15th
Scanning the Horizon - February 1st
Musical Chords and Mathematical Necklaces: Composing Scores for an Electronic Piano
The Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Tuesday 13 December 2005
6:30 for 7:00pm
Speakers:
Stephen Boyd Davis
introducing Ralf Nuhn, Nye Parry and Sama'a al Hashimi
System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers The Piazza
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8HA
Tel: 020 7836 7406
Stephen Boyd Davis, Head of Centre
Introduction to the work of the Lansdown Centre
The Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University, named after the late John Lansdown, has had a pioneering role in several aspects of computer arts and continues to be a centre of innovation. Stephen will trace a very brief history including well-known individuals whose paths have intersected with the Centre such as John Vince, Paul Brown, John Lansdown and Huw Jones. He will highlight recent Centre developments in interactive media, sonic arts, games and other areas, charting emerging trends.
Ralf Nuhn, 3rd year PhD student
Ralf will talk about his exhibition of interactives, UNCAGED, at the V&A Museum of Childhood last year and at ZKM Karlsruhe. Combining tangible interfaces, reused domestic objects and interactive displays, Ralf's work playfully questions the apparent relationships between the real world and life on the screen.
Nye Parry, sonic artist and composer, member of Lansdown Centre staff
Nye Parry is a composer and sound artist working in installation, multimedia and contemporary dance. Exploring alternative modes of presentation for his music has led to an interest in sound installation and site-specific work. His work includes collaborations with artists in various media as well as sound work for major museums and other public spaces.
Sama'a al Hashimi, 2nd year PhD student
Most existing voice-controlled systems are actually speech-controlled: they exploit the linguistic more than the paralinguistic (non-verbal) as an input mechanism. Sama'a's work by contrast explores how other characteristics of voice can be employed in controlling interactive systems, including playful forms of interaction.
Sampling Practice
15 November 2005
Speakers: Jane Harris, Jeanine Breaker, Gordana Fontana Giusti and Martin Woolley
15 November 2005
6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday
Room 305 on the Bridge
Central Saint Martins College
The University of the Arts London
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP
Building 1 on this Map.
Central Saint Martins provides specialist education and research in the fields of fine art, fashion and textiles, film, video, and photography, graphics and communication design, three dimensional design, theatre & performance and interdisciplinary art & design. The college has always engaged with highly creative practice in its teaching and maintained this focus more recently across the rapidly expanding research community. The meeting will therefore focus on the ways in which original practice-led research can be explored in a variety of hands-on contexts, by extending the boundaries of what is possible through digital communication and information technologies. The event will include five presentations on current project work across fine art, fashion, textiles, performance and urban planning. Discussion themes will include 'visualising the unseen', cultural mapping, design & emotion and globalising performance.
Terminate CACHe!
6:30 for 7:00 Tuesday 18 October 2005
Speakers: Paul Brown & Dr. Nick Lambert, Birkbeck
System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers
The Piazza
Covent Garden
LONDON WC2E 8HA
The three-year AHRC-funded CACHe project - Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc... - came to an end in September 2005. The project focused on the early computer arts, from 1960-80 and especially on activities in the United Kingdom. One outcome of this initiative was the re-formation of the Computer Arts Society.
Paul Brown will talk about the background to the project, its aims, objectives and outcomes - and
Dr. Nick Lambert will discuss and give the first public demonstration of the project's key outcome - an online searchable multimedia database of Early British Computers Arts that is based on the SSL Musims software and which will shortly be available via the Arts and Humanities Data Service. www.ahds.ac.uk
Art and Robotics
a discussion led by Alex Zivanovic
6:30 for 7:00 Tuesday 26 July 2005
Alex Zivanovic will lead a discussion on the use of robots in art. The scope will include both robots used to generate art (e.g. Aaron) and robots as art ("cybernetic sculpture" e.g. The Senster). Alex will give a brief overview of both past and contemporary work, leading to an open discussion. The particular topics will depend on the interests of those taking part but could include:
- how can we use robots to explore Art ?
- how can robots be used to examine contemporary issues (surveillance, personal space, etc)?
- what are the constraints in producing such works (cost, complexity, etc) ?
- who would produce such works: artists, engineers or collaborations
- how would a collaboration work ?
- where should cybernetic sculptures be installed: art galleries or science museums ?
- possible future projects
System Simulation Ltd.
Bedford Chambers,
The Piazza,
Covent Garden,
LONDON WC2E 8HA
CAS is collaborating with BLIP at their next meeting:
BLIP - The Interactive Mind and Art(efacts)
7:30 - late, 19 July 2005
The Art Club
7 Ship Street
Brighton
Please email info@blip.me.uk to put your name on the guest list and mention you are CAS.
Multimedia Technology at Greenwich - ten years on
6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday 21 June 2005
Speaker: Tony Mann
The School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
King William
Court
Maritime Greenwich Campus
University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich first offered a BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology in 1995 The degree was designed for students wishing to use computers for creative purposes in the arts and entertainment worlds as well as the traditional computing industry This talk will discuss the issues involved in running such degree courses, and how they have developed in a fast-changing multimedia world, and will present work produced by students in the last ten years
On this visit it will also be possible to see the Computer Museum at Greenwich
Progress of the CACHe Project
6:30 for 7:00pm Monday 23 May 2005
Speaker: Nick Lambert and Catherine Mason
The London Knowledge Lab
CACHe (Computer Arts, Context, Histories, etc.) joint event with the Computer Arts Society.
The AHRC-funded CACHe Project in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck is presenting an update on the progress of their research into the history of computer arts in Britain. All are welcome at this event which will include a discussion of issues around archiving and digital imaging with demonstration of the custom-designed database by Nick Lambert, Research Fellow. PhD Candidate, Catherine Mason will present some of her research into early British computer animation, including screening of selected early films.
With thanks to the London Knowledge Lab and the School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck.
INSPIRE
6:00 - 9:00pm Thursday 19 May 2005
King William Court
University of Greenwich
Maritime Greenwich Campus
Directions: www.gre.ac.uk/about/campus/maritime.htm
Members of the Computer Arts Society are invited to the opening of INSPIRE, the annual Multimedia Technology degree show at the University of Greenwich. INSPIRE presents this year's crop of new media graduates from Greenwich: a chance to see the work of multimedia technology graduates as they come onto the job market. On show will be creative websites, edutainment, digital video, interactive television, 3D animation, and computer games.
The show is open to the public 12 - 4pm Friday 20 and Saturday 21 May
The New York Digital Salon
6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday 12 April 2005
!note change of date and venue!
Speaker: Bruce Wands Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Directions: Ian Gulland is building #30 here.
A printable map with travel instruction is here.
Director of the New York Digital Salon talks about the history of this influential institution.
This talk is presented in association with the Creativity and Cognition 05 Conference
Artist's Talk
6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday 22 March 2005
Speaker: Tony Longson
System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers The Piazza
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8HA
Tel: 020 7836 7406
Tony Longson's pioneering work was recently featured in the Scratch Code show at New York's Bitforms Gallery.
More of his work is here.
The Patric Prince Collection
6:00 for 6.30pm Wednesday 16 March 2005
Speaker: Douglas Dodds, V&A Museum
V&A
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL
Tel: 020 7942 2000
The Patric Prince Collection of digital art and its place in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Douglas is Head of Central Services in the V&A's Word & Image Department, which incorporates the National Art Library and the Museum's prints, drawings and paintings collections Prints and Drawings Study Room
Scanning the Horizon
6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday 15 February 2005
Speaker: Open discussion
System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers The Piazza
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8HA
Tel: 020 7836 7406
Given the ease of access to vast amounts of information in our online, broadband worlds, are there specific roles for artists in interpreting and guiding users through the jungle of information, by making "works" or by other means?
If there are, what should the CAS be doing to promote such activities?
If not, what other roles could artists adopt in this arena?
Discussion evenings are relaxed informal conversations about topics of immediate interest and beyond. All welcome
Musical Chords and Mathematical Necklaces: Composing Scores for an Electronic Piano
6:30 for 7:00pm Tuesday 1 February 2005
Speaker: Alan Sutcliffe, co-founder CAS
BCS London HQ
First Floor - The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London WC2E 7HA
The Davidson Building is on the east side of Southampton Street about 50m from the Strand
The number of necklaces of 12 beads each black or white is the same as the number of chords of 0 to 12 notes from an octave of semitones
Peter Zinovieff and Alan Sutcliffe are collaborating on a system to compose printed scores and realise them on an electronic piano
One piece will use all the chords there are
The context of this project will lead to talk of composition and improvisation and of music that no-one would compose