Event: University of East London / School of Architecture and Visual Arts / Digital Arts and Visual Communications
Digital Arts and Visual Communications Presents: 5 Digital Arts Speakers present and discuss their practice Wednesday 5th December / UEL Docklands Library Lecture Theatre / 12-4.30 http://www.uel.ac.uk <http://www.uel.ac.uk/> FREE EVENT, ALL WELCOME. Chris Speed Chris Speed's research addresses the synthesis and tensions between Social Navigation, Digital Architecture and Human Geography. He has recently returned from an artists residency programme at Unitec, Auckland, where the work 'Reading Rooms' (http://x.i-dat.org/speed/readingrooms) was developed to visualise how a building might look if its architecture reflected the books that its inhabitants were reading. Operating in real-time the system combined social and architectural data with dynamic 3D computer modelling to generate a 'social' map of a place. Chris Speed contributes to the continuing development and extension of the Cybrid / Arch-OS project that provides Portland Square with the technology and software to manifest social, environmental and architectural phenomena through digital systems. Speed is known for his Random Lift button, which has been installed in two of the elevators and is a component of the Arch-OS scheme. The button challenges employee's routines in the workplace, and offers a new model for developing social exchange through disorder. Chris Speed is based in i-DAT, at the University of Plymouth Christian Nold Christian Nold is an artist, designer and educator working to develop new participatory models for communal representation. In 2001 he wrote the well received book 'Mobile Vulgus', which examined the history of the political crowd and which set the tone for his research into participatory mapping. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, Christian has led a number of large scale sensory neighbourhood mapping projects and worked with multidisciplinary teams on academic citizenship research projects. In particular his 'Bio Mapping' project has received large amounts of international publicity and been staged in 16 different countries and over 1500 people have taken part in workshops and exhibitions. These participatory projects have a strong pedagogical basis and compliment Christian's formal university teaching. Christian Nold is based at the Bartlett, University College London. boredomresearch Collaborating as boredomresearch, Vicky Isley and Paul Smith have gained an international reputation for interrogating the creative role of computing. Their enthusiasm for scientific modelling techniques and fascination with natural systems inspires them to produce beautifully crafted software art that presents an exciting alternative to our technologically fraught lives. boredomresearch have produced a number of interactive sound applications, public artworks, online projects and computational soundscapes which have been shown both nationally and internationally at events such as CAe, Banff Centre of Arts (2007), ACE, Hollywood (2006), Third Iteration, Melbourne (2005), SIGGRAPH, Boston (2006) & LA (2005), FILE04, Brazil (2004), NOW, Nottingham (2004), Data:base, Dublin (2003), Electrohype, Sweden (2002), Garage, Germany (2002). Their computational system Ornamental Bug Garden 001 (2004) has been awarded honorary mention at VIDA 7.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition (2005) & Transmediale.05, Berlin (2005). Boredomresearch are Research Fellows in Computer Animation & Computer Art at the National Centre of Computer Animation, Bournemouth University UK, and are represented by [DAM] Berlin. Marc Garrett Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Emerging in the late 80's from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular 'Savage Yet Tender' alternative broadcasting 1980's group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) for a while with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS, dedicated to arts, technology and hacking. Marc Garrett is Co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow, of the net arts collectives and communities- furtherfield.org, furthernoise.org, netbehaviour.org, NODE London Festival of Media Arts, and the HTTP Gallery in London, UK. Helen Sloan Helen Sloan has worked as a curator, researcher, writer, editor and producer in media arts and culture since late 1980s. Helen has worked both freelance and as a curator at organisations such as Camerawork, FACT, ICA and Site Gallery as well as directing festivals such as Across Two Cultures in Newcastle 1996 (an early conference on the overlapping practice of creative thinking in arts and science) and Metapod, Birmingham 2001 - 2. Current areas of interest and curatorial work inlcude the points of intersection of science and culture, immersive environments, media arts and the creative economy, and wearable and soft technologies. Since 2003, she has been Director of SCAN, a networked organisation and creative development agency for media arts in the South of England working on media arts projects and strategic initiatives in arts organisations, academic institutions and further aspects of the public realm. Helen Sloan will chair the panel discussion _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
