**NEW THURSDAY CLUB SEASON AT GOLDSMITHS** Dear Friends & Colleagues,
this is the programme of our new Autumn 08 Thursday Club season of events at Goldsmiths. Please put the dates in your diaries and we do hope to see you there for stimulating presentations, discussions and exchanges, plus a glass or two of wine. The 1st event will take place this coming Thursday 25th October. For more info re our future events please check the Thursday Club website http://www.thethursdayclub.net With best wishes for a productive winter, Maria X :: Thursday Club Autumn Term 2008 Programmed and Organised by Goldsmiths Digital Studios. Supported by Goldsmiths Graduate School & Department of Computing. Programme of Events 1. Murray McKeich: Computational Creativity Date: 25 September 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Murray McKeich is a New Zealander currently resident in Melbourne Australia who has established himself as a leading practitioner of digital media in Australasian contemporary art. Working with digital photo-media, his exhibition projects include printed imagery and animation. Described as both macabre and darkly seductive, Mckeichs art weaves visions of surreal fantasy and magic from the tiny pieces of every-day debris found in urban and domestic environments. His recent practice uses generative software to autonomously breed art-works. McKeich believes that computational tools are about to become more intimately integrated with human creativity. Artists and designers will take on the role of creative directors while their personalised software will work for them in the capacity of highly trained, trusted and autonomous studio assistants, capable of producing finished artworks without direct supervision. McKeich demonstrates that this form of practice is possible with current off-the-shelf software and minimal programming skill. More difficult is the psychological challenge of breaking with culturally ingrained biological models of creative process and forming new ones that are natural and native to computational agency. MURRAY MCKEICH is a visiting fellow in the digital studios throughout September. He is a practicing artist and course co-ordinator in media arts at RMIT University, School of Creative Media, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently completing a PhD in Art/Digital Media at Monash University, Australia. 2. John Levack Drever & Lawrence Upton: Acoustic Performance Date: 9 October 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 3. Harold Cohen: AARON, the worlds first pure A.I. Artist Date: 16 October 2008 Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre Time: 17:00 - 19:00 4. Tim Hopkins: Les Noces Project Date: 23 October 2008 Location: George Wood Theatre, Dept. of Drama Time: 19:00 - 21:00 5. David Littler: Sampler Culture Clash Date: 6 November 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 6. Alexandra Antonopoulou: Once Upon a Time to Ever After AND Dawn Scarfe: Audible Auras Date: 20 November 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 7. John Lechte: A Digital Aesthetics: Is it Possible? Date: 4 December 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 8. Janis Jefferies in conversation with Liliane Lijn Date: 11 December 2008 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building Time: 18:00 - 20:00 To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ -- Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art & Computational Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
