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Wed 25 Nov: Kyle McDonald artist talk

On Wednesday 25 November, seminal computational artist Kyle McDonald is at Goldsmiths talking about working with code as medium and theme.

The event is free, courtesy of the creative streams in the Goldsmiths Department of Computing. All welcome – no need to book.

Where: Lecture Theatre, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths. Map
When: 6pm-7pm Wednesday 25 November 2015

Kyle McDonald is an artist who works in the open with code. He is a contributor to arts-engineering toolkits like openFrameworks, and spends a significant amount of time building tools that allow artists to use new algorithms in creative ways.

His work is very process-oriented, and he has made a habit of sharing ideas and projects in public before they’re completed. He enjoys creatively subverting networked communication and computation, exploring glitch and embedded biases, and extending these concepts to reversal of everything from personal identity to work habits.

Kyle has been a member of F.A.T. Lab, community manager for openFrameworks, adjunct professor at ITP, and has been a resident at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon, as well as YCAM in Japan. His work is commissioned by and shown at exhibitions and festivals around the world, including Ars Electronica, Sonar/OFFF, Eyebeam, Anyang Public Art Project, Cinekid, CLICK Festival, NODE Festival, FITC, and many others. He frequently leads workshops exploring computer vision and interaction.

Where: Lecture Theatre, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths
When: 6pm-7pm Wednesday 25 November 2015

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EAVI, Events, Videos, Women in Computing

EAVI Gigs XIV – Thu 26 November

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EAVI Gigs return for their second outing this November at the Amersham Arms. A night of free improv, music using interactive textiles, dismantled grime and more, with DJs til late.

Performances from fluxtrio (Hayes/Schroeder/Pestova), Yearning Kru, Phantom Chips, Gorenidal and Chi Po-Hao. Post-show DJs Spacer Woman and Team GBH will be running the whole gamut of human emotions with their excellent selections, so bring dancing shoes and emotional armour.

Where: Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY
When: 8pm – late, Thursday 26 November 2015
Tickets £5 – or buy £4.50 tickets online

fluxtrio (Hayes/Schroeder/Pestova)
https://fluxtrio.wordpress.com
fluxtrio brings together three performer­/composers who are known for their unique approaches to performance and their use of innovative instrumentation, both acoustic and electronic. This collaboration will combine their diverse skills, which include building digital instruments, pioneering novel technologies, improvisation techniques, and live electronic treatment of acoustic sounds.

Yearning Kru
http://yearningkru.tumblr.com
Yearning Kru combines some of the finest moments of the past twenty years of electronic music: the glitched, disjointed, sad beauty of Fennesz and Mego artists alongside the sample mangling genius of 0PN that finds the alien in the everyday. He has been critically acclaimed by Tiny Mix Tapes and the Wire, and releases on Quantum Natives.


Gorenidal
Gorenidal wrestles algorithmic beats and noise from an Atari and an fm synth running on an iPhone. He has a forthcoming release on Quantum Natives.


Phantom Chips
http://www.phantomchips.com
Tara Pattenden aka Phantom Chips is an artist, musician and maker of electronic noise instruments. For the past 5 years she has been working with soft circuitry to create interfaces that manipulate sound through touch and movement. As Phantom Chips she performs with an array of home-made instruments, concocting rhythms from manipulated found and recorded sounds. Phantom Chips has been known to invite the audience to wear and play her costumes and join her in creating sound through movement.


Chi Po-Hao
http://chipohao.com
Chi Po-Hao is a Taiwan based sound artist. He has been granted residencies at V2_Institute of Unstable Media in Rotterdam and Cité internationale des Arts in Paris. His works involve live electronics, referencing popular music and electroacoustic composition.

Events, Students

Hackcess Hackathon, 20-21 November 2015

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Hackcess is a hackathon focused on using digital fabrication and maker technologies to help disabled people live more independent lives, improving accessibility through technology.

It’s a two-day event hosted in partnership with Fab Lab London, Goldsmiths’ student-run Hacksmiths group, Autodesk, Ultimaker 3D Printers and the disability charity Whizz-Kidz. They’ll have a heap of technology for all you designers, makers, coders and product people to use to design new and exciting assistive technologies during the hackathon.

There will be food, drink, electricity, WiFi, 3D printers, digital fabrication equipment and traditional tools (that’s drills, hammers, wood and stuff like that) so that you can get on with the real work – changing lives. It will be a real opportunity to make change for good.

The event is open to makers and inventors of all ages including children. Young makers should be at least 18 years, unless accompanied with a parent/carer.

Where: Fab Lab London, 1 Frederick’s Place, Off Old Jewry EC2R 8AE
When: Friday 20 – Saturday 21 November 2015
Tickets and more details

Events, Women in Computing

Mon 9 Nov: Creativity apps, casual users and serious AI

kcomptonKate Compton, UC Santa Cruz, is speaking on creativity apps at Goldsmiths, University of London.

When: 1pm-2pm, Monday 9 November
Where: Room RHB 144, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London

Many creativity tools exist to support task-focused creativity, but in recent years we have seen a flourishing apps for casual creativity, fun and explorative creativity rather than task-completion. Creativity apps to make pottery, music, and Mario levels are bringing creativity to audiences outside of professional creative workers, but making this move requires new design patterns and best practices. Kate Compton will present some of her favorite new patterns that make these apps successful, and demonstrates them with new interactive prototypes.

Bio: Kate Compton is a long-time Procedural Content Generation (PCG) practitioner. She wrote the first paper on procedural platformer levels, generated the planets for Spore, and wrote the latest SimCity fire system. She is now a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz developing artificial intelligence to augment human creativity with generative art. She likes laser cutting, 3D printing, founding companies, and baking.

 

EAVI, Events, Staff profiles and activity

EVENT: Goldsmiths’ SoundLab Play Space breaks down barriers to digital music making

Goldsmiths Computing experts have been testing musical technologies to work out which are the easiest to use, sound the best – and can be used by people with learning disabilities to make the music they want to make.

On Wednesday 25 November they’re hosting a day of free, fun and interactive performance, debate and play sessions at Nesta.

Where: Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London EC4A 1DE
When: 4-6pm and 6-8pm Wednesday 25 November
Tickets: SOLD OUT Get free tickets for the SoundLab Play Space

Participants will be able to experiment with top musical technology and talk to the developers who make it. There’ll be a chance to play in a digital pop-up band, watch live-performances, try out fantastic music-making apps, and take some home for free.

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From music apps that let you compose, DJ or play countless instruments with a fingertip, to those that make a voice sound amazing even if it’s not quite in tune, the SoundLab researchers have spent the last year rigorously testing iPhone/Pad, Android and web programmes.

Whether you’re a technologist, artist, musician, teacher, health expert or policy maker, SoundLab Play Space is designed to bring different people together to get a new perspective on, and debate, the future of music making.

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The SoundLab project is led by Heart n Soul, with Goldsmiths’ Dr Mick Grierson, Dr Rebecca Fiebrink and Dr Simon Katan working on research. SoundLab is a collaboration between our EAVI group, award-winning creative arts company Heart n Soul, and Public Domain Corporation, a company providing interactive experiences and technology for the games and digital arts sectors.

SoundLab has been funded by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts, an initiative created by Nesta, Arts Council England, AHRC and the National Lottery.

Adapted from an article originally published in Goldsmiths News

Events, News, Staff profiles and activity

FREE TRAINING: Computing & Entrepreneurship Business Club

digital-entrepreneurship

This autumn, Goldsmiths Computing are running free drop-in workshops on the first Tuesday of 
the month.

Come to all, or come to just one. Participants will work in groups to complete a series of business computing & entrepreneurial challenges. All welcome, but especially suitable for people considering studying business or computing at university.

5pm-7pm, Tuesday 6 October 2015
How much am I worth? Discover how businesses use and track your data to create a picture of who you are, to sell you products and services. Book your place

5pm-7pm, Tuesday 3 November 2015
Why are we all brand junkies? Learn how businesses use brands and digital identities to sell products & services – and why we love them. Book your place

5pm-7pm, Tuesday 1 December 2015
How do social media sites actually make money? You use social media like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, but rarely pay for it. Find out how they make money and why these businesses are worth so much. Book your place

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Dr James Ohene-Djan is a senior lecturer in Business Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an internationally recognized innovator, designer and creator of digital products, services and businesses and has a strong strategic and technical understanding of creative approaches to implementing business solutions.

As co-founder and inventor of WinkBall Video Media, James pioneered key aspects of the use of video in social networking, reporting and mobile technologies. He is currently managing director of the digital businesses Bizwinks and RecoverySpaces.
He has appeared numerous times in the press and on BBC1, Sky News and CNBC.

EAVI, Events, Staff profiles and activity

Thu 8 October: EAVI experimental music night

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The legendary EAVI gigs are back for the new academic year, with a night of experimental & electronic beats, bass and new music at the Amersham Arms, New Cross.

EAVI gigs showcase a blend of music from electroacoustic pioneers to free improvisers, instrument builders and techno wizards. The gigs offer a way for EAVI’s research to find its way onto the stage and the dance floor. They are also a cheap, relaxed and friendly way to experience some of the most interesting, cutting edge new music you’ll find in London.

When: 8pm till late, Thursday 8 October 2015
Where: Amersham Arms, New Cross SE14 6TY. Map
Tickets: £5. Buy advance tickets for £4.50

This month’s performers > > > > >

grahamGraham Dunning – Rhythm and Drone Set
Master of mechanical techno and Ghost-in-the-Machine music, Graham Dunning presents his delicate and accidental form of techno. He is currently “maker in residence” at the Machines Room and hosts his own NTS radio programme, Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone. About Rhythm and Drone

irisIris Garrelfs
An internationally-successful composer/performer intrigued by change, voices and technology, Iris uses her voice as raw material which she transmutes into machine noises or choral works. Her most recent ‘performance walk’ took place at the National Gallery as part of the Soundscapes Late series. About Iris Garrelfs

nunoNuno Correia
Audiovisual artist and researcher Nuno Correia is interested in interactive multi-sensorial experiences. Nuno will present AVZones, part of Goldsmiths’ Enabling AVUIs research project. This is an iPad audiovisual app – an audio sequencer/looper with a visualizer.

helenaHelena Hamilton
Belfast artist Helena marks the end of her three month residency with EAVI with a performance of The Butterflies in my Brain, where she transforms an overhead projector into a site-specific, performative sound device where all sounds originate live from within and around the machine. About Helena Hamilton

roseRose Dagul & Penny Klein
Rose Dagul is a composer, cellist and vocalist based in London. She writes patterned pop music under the moniker Rhosyn. Tonight she improvises under her own name with violinist Penny Klein – possibly an echo of their project Alien Wind.

Kim Kate
Kim Kate is a London based producer / DJ who brings a synesthesiac image onto the dance floor. Kim Kate sonifies connections between the city, technology and human perception.

DJs
Chloe Freida from Alien Jams & NTS and Mike & Dan of Team GBH will yet again be taking over the decks, providing the perfect soundtrack in between the acts and giving us something wonderful to dance to at the end.