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- 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
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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
Past events from 2011
MONOMATIC @ CAS
Tuesday 29th November
6pm Room 212 at Ravensbourne College of Art
Greenwich Peninsula
just by the O2 Dome at North Greenwich tube
www.monomatic.net
vimeo.com/monomatic
All welcome!
Nick Rothwell and Lewis Sykes will present their joint art project – Monomatic – introducing their collaborative body of work and drawing out some of the interpretative, creative and technical challenges they’ve faced along the way.
Monomatic is a collaboration, experimental playground and halfway house between the work of Nick Rothwell – composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound designer – and Lewis Sykes – musician, interaction designer, experimental visualist, digital media producer and curator. They explore sound and interaction through physical works that investigate rich and sonorous musical traditions, such as PEAL: A Virtual Campanile – an installation which models the layout and operation of a traditional church bell tower – and the Modular Music Box – a reinterpretation of the familiar 19th century clockwork musical instrument.
Past Events
The Origin of Ideas & Analogue Programmer T4 with digital overtones
Dr. Jack Tait
Wednesday 7th September 2011
6:30 for 7:00pm start at Birkbeck College
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
The Computer Arts Society autumn season begins with a talk by drawing machine pioneer Jack Tait. Jack will give a presentation on programmable analogue drawing machines which will include material from his recently completed PhD and include new research directions. This event is free and members of the public are welcome to attend.
Jack will give a presentation comprising images selected from a 50 year period to identify common 'idea' factors in the body of his work. Speculations on art process and philosophical questions which may arise from them will be addressed. Videos of the programmer in action are included.
Synaptic Collaborations across science and digital art – a review from Australia
Dr. Ann Borda, Executive Director of VeRSI, and Dr. Richard Collmann (University of Melbourne).
Wednesday 6th Juy 2011
6:30pm start at Birkbeck College
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Dr Borda is a former head of JISC who now runs VeRSI, the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, an eResearch program established in 2006 and funded by the Victorian Government to accelerate and coordinate the uptake of eResearch in universities, government departments and other research organisations. Dr Collmann is a researcher who is extensively involved with new types of digital imaging.
Space Synapse - Bringing Space to Earth and astronaut and cosmonaut communities to the Internet.
Anna Hill MA RCA Founder of Space Synapse Systems discusses the motivations and the vision of the space technology company.
Thursday 19th May 2011
6:30pm start at Birkbeck College
Keynes Library at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Space Synapse is an emerging space technology company specializing in innovation architecture founded by Anna Hill, artist /designer and entrepreneur. The company aims to bring the experiences of Space to the Internet through gaming, virtual edutainment and environmental engineering. SpaceSynapse will supply augmented experiences, products and services to the education and entertainment mass market.
Development of Space Synapse's products has been funded in part by ESA's European Space Business Incubator programme at ESTEC at Noordwijk whereSpace Synapse was a member from 2006 to 2008. Space Synapse was founded in Dublin Ireland and is now based in London UK. The start-up is supported by in-house expert consultants with extensive international background experience in the design and engineering of projects in space and on the ground in the USA and Europe for clients that include NASA, ESA and commercial aerospace companies and start-up ventures. Space governance and Space Studies, international cooperation for human exploration and the peaceful uses of outer space are represented in our values that have a non-military commercialisation policy. Recent and ongoing projects for ESA by Space Synapse's in-house consultants comprise the development and flight testing of spaceflight physics experiments for schools, a terrain mobility test laboratory for the EXOMARS rover at ESTEC, an underground human isolation laboratory in Belgium and thedevelopment of European space industry sustainability guidelines.
The Question Concerning Interactive Art: Interactivity beyond Technology - Art beyond Institutions
Dr. Brigitta Zics
Wednesday 6th April 2011
6:30pm start at Birkbeck College
Room B30 at Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
(apologies, previous address was incorrect)
This lecture will discuss the radical change that technology brought to art practice. It will focus on interaction and on the paradigm shift that brought to aesthetics transform moving the focal point of production from an object oriented creation to an interconnectivity of interactive artwork and participant. It will be suggested that this new paradigm places aesthetics into a hybrid realm of disciplines where understanding human experience became the key element of artistic production. In order to gain insight into this co-existing models of artwork - spectator and human-computer will be presented and compared to the proposed aesthetic model of interactive artwork - participant.
As such, artists apply philosophical and scientific concepts in order to facilitate new experiences which might provide not only artistic and technological interventions but also can serve as testbed of applied philosophy and sciences. Furthermore it will be suggested that emerging interactive art works with the proposed aesthetic modality struggle to fit into existing format of display and distribution offered by institutions. The migration to new platforms has been already characterised; the question that remains whether traditional institution are prepared to rethink their way of distribution or novel methods will take over the display of progressive art.
More info: www.zics.eu
CAS lecture "Mixing Virtual and Physical Art: Tenderpixel Gallery and London's contemporary media arts scene"
Etan Ilfeld, Founder & Director
Tuesday 22nd February
6pm start at Birkbeck College
Room 317 at 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Launched in 2007, Tenderpixel is a distinctive gallery that foregrounds art, technology and participation. Etan Ilfeld will discuss its combination of digital and physical art in terms of audience interation and intervention, and consider how Tenderpixel has established a particular niche in the Central London art scene. He will also introduce its current exhibition, "Scapes" by Squidsoup:
"Created by Anthony Rowe, Gareth Bushell, Chris Bennewith, Liam Birtles and Alexander Rishaug, 'Scapes' conjures into being three-dimensional cities, landscapes and abstract architectures purely from sound, software and light."
Biography
Etan Ilfeld launched Tenderpixel as a platform to showcase emerging artists in central London. Ilfeld is particularly interested in the intersections of art, technology and media. He graduated in Physics at Stanford University, and has since added to his eclectic education a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Southern California, and a Masters in Interactive Media from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a professionally ranked chess master, filmmaker, and serial entrepreneur. Additionally, Ilfeld is a digital artist, and his New Kind of Cinema work has been featured and archived in Rhizome's ArtBase.
CAS Lecture by Flora Parrott - 'Dipole: digital art and rapid prototyping'
Tuesday 11th January 2011
Ravensbourne College of Art
North Greenwich
Flora Parrott is a recent graduate of the RCA who uses the creative possibilities of rapid prototyping and 3D printing in her interactive art. She develops sculptures that combine the mechanical and the organic in surprising ways, and her latest work, Dipole, is based on her current residency at the Ryedale Folk Museum on the North York Moors. Parrott is fascinated by the relationship and tension of the topography and underground structure of the Moors and the human desire to uncover the layers beneath the earth.
This CAS Meeting is also our first chance to have a tour of the new Ravensbourne College of Art. Recently relocated to a prime location next to the 02 Dome in North Greenwich, the College has opened a stunning nine-storey building that is full of the latest digital printing, recording and development technologies.
Please note the earlier starting time for the CAS Lecture: 5pm prompt. This is to accommodate the MA students who will be joining us for Flora's lecture.
The best way to reach Ravensbourne is to go on the Jubilee line to North Greenwich tube station and follow the signs to the Dome.
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