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Thu 24 Sept: Fashion | Bodies | Technologies

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Goldsmiths’ THURSDAY CLUB presents short lectures and a conversation with Elke Gaugele and Dani Ploeger.

Where: Location: RHB 2107, Richard Hoggart Building
When: 6pm-8pm, Thursday 24 September 2015
Free. All welcome, no booking required.

Dr. Elke Gaugele will raise a critical studies approach towards ‘Fashioning the Future’ phantasms, which are often inscribed in smart textiles as well as in its future technologies. Looking at issues that engage with fashion, body and technology he will suggest a perspective on ‘biometric subjectivation’ that entangles fashion and surveillance, with examples from the history, science and biopolitics of fashion.

Elke Gaugele is professor for Fashions & Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, dean of the Institute for Education in the Arts. She researches on fashions’ history of science as well as on biopolitics and new technologies in fashion; on aesthetic politics and postcolonial approaches in fashion, textile and cultural theory.

Artist Dr. Dani Ploeger will speak on digitized planned obsolescence and art, in relation to his recently published Leonardo paper Abject Digital Performance: Engaging the politics of electronic waste. His performance installations involve consumer technologies and readily available medical devices, and explore themes around the technologized body, ecology, sexuality and vanity.

Dani Ploeger is an artist and theorist, whose artwork has been featured in galleries and museums across Europe, North-America and China, as well as festivals including transmediale (Berlin), CYNETART (Dresden) and Arse Elektronika – a festival of sex and technology (San Francisco).

This event is co-organised with Goldsmiths’ MA Fashion and the Goldsmiths Fashion Research Unit and kindly sponsored by visiondirect.co.uk

THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

Events, News

Thu 17 September: Goldsmiths artist-in-residence presents new work

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This week, visual and sound artist Helena Hamilton presents the kinetic sound sculpture developed during her 3 month artist-in-residence at the EAVI research group within Goldsmiths Computing.

“Currently the material that I am sampling and researching is chalk. I am intrigued by both its sonic and visual qualities, using its brittleness and subsequent mark making as a measure of time/interaction/effort.”

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with Helena. All welcome.

EAVI is a research group focused on embodied interaction with sound and image. We broach issues of whole body interaction, haptic feedback, sound image relationships, all in live real time applications. They are a small group of academics, researchers, and PhD students, carrying out cutting edge research across a diverse range of topics including motion capture, eye tracking, brain computer interfaces, physiological bio-interfaces, machine learning, and auditory culture.

When: 4pm-6pm, Thursday 17 September 2015
Where: WB100, Ground floor, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths

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Events, Students

EXCEPT/0N Computational Arts show

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Welcome to our MA/MFA Computational Arts show EXCEPT/0N: Divided by Zero,  a show demonstrating the rich and diverse spectrum of possibilities in creative computation.

From Artificial Intelligence to algae, gender to generative algorithms, biometrics, affective computing, and sonic arts, EXCEPT/0N presents to the world a spectrum of the possibilities of creative computation, which is richer for the diversity and interplay in methods.

Held in the striking St James Hatcham building at our New Cross campus, EXCEPT/0N features work by students on the MA (one year) and MFA (two year) courses, based within the Department of Computing.

Where: Hatcham St James (church), St James, New Cross SE14 6AD Map
Opening party: 6pm-9pm Thursday 10 September 2015
Exhibition continues: Fri 10am-7pm / Sat – Sun 12pm-8pm / Mon 10am-7pm
View the exhibition website

The participating artists explain:

“In society, machines are widely available and technology becomes more transparent day by day. As artists, incorporating technology and computation into our working practice allows us to communicate in a language, which is shared across cultures.

“As music and art can be said to be ‘universal’ languages, so code can be understood as the common language of machines worldwide. Our creative approach to the use of technology, programming and machines allows us to communicate our vision and interact with others through society, technology, and across the vast space of human experience.”

Dr Mick Grierson, MA/MFA Computational Arts Programme Leader, says:

“Our students can program computers, make robots, and build mobile applications, but they aren’t simply engineers and technicians – they are examples a new form of media and fine art practitioner, capable of understanding and controlling complex computational technology in creative ways, for the purpose of producing entirely new works of art.”

EXCEPT/0N is the result of a year of intense study, equally focused on technical and critical aspects of computational arts.

The exhibition previews on Thursday 10 September at 6pm and will run until 14 September. Special performances have been scheduled for the exhibition’s opening night.

 

 

Events, Students, Women in Computing

Report from Sonorities 2015

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Mari Ohno, student on the MFA in Computational Arts, reports on Goldsmiths’ contributions to the international sound festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

From 22 to 26 April 2015 there are 19 events in and around the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. For the launch of the festival the festival, Goldsmiths’ Sonics Immersive Media Lab hosted a concert and listening room.

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I presented two electroacoustic compositions, entitled floating sound and speaking clock at the Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre.

floating sound is a composition using the sound of the composer’s bloodstream as a sound source, and was presented as an acousmatic live performance with 16 channel sound system on 23 April.

speaking clock is also a composition created with the recordings of speaking clocks in various sites around the world, and played in a loop during the festival at the SARC Surround Room.

My colleague Matthias Moos, who graduated from the MA Computational Arts last year, presented his installation piece ’Exhibit A – Oh My Gosh’ at the MultiMedia Room SARC throughout the festival. This piece is an audio-visual installation projected on the top of woofer speaker unit, to make a holographic illusion.

Events, Staff profiles and activity, Students

Goldsmiths Open Day, Saturday 4 July

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Join us at the Goldsmiths Summer Open Day at 11am-3pm on Saturday 4 July 2015.

Computing staff will be at our stand in the marquee throughout the day to chat about our undergraduate courses, what it’s like to study here, and work placements & careers.

You can also come to one of our famously lively talks & demonstrations from programme leaders and current students.

Morning talks in LG01, Professor Stuart Hall Building

  • 10.45 – 11.15am: Tim Blackwell
 introduces BSc Computer Science
  • 11.15 – 12noon: Marco Gillies introduces BSc Creative Computing, BSc Digital Arts Computing and BSc Games Programming
  • 12noon – 12.45pm: James Ohene-Dyan introduces BSc Business Computing

Afternoon talks in LG01, Professor Stuart Hall Building

  • 12.45 – 1.30pm: Tim Blackwell
 introduces BSc Computer Science
  • 1.30 – 2.15pm: Mick Grierson introduces BSc Creative Computing, BSc Digital Arts Computing and BSc Games Programming
  • 2.15 – 3.00pm: James Ohene-Dyan introduces BSc Business Computing

Events, MSc Computer games and Entertainment, News, Students, Women in Computing

Goldsmiths students win Ukie Game Jam again!

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‘Code Name Spy’ has been named as the winner of the biggest ever Ukie Student game jam, making it the second consecutive win from students at the University of Goldsmiths.

The jam, which ran 11-12 May 2015, saw 14 teams from Ukie’s student membership competing against each other to create the best game possible in 36 hours, with the theme’ identity crisis’.

The teams were paired with industry mentors and supplied with food and drink, with the winning game being given an exclusive pitch on Square Enix’s project Collective and receiving a specially made trophy for their university.

Goldsmiths student team leader Aldo Curtis said:

We had a great time and we are ecstatic to have been chosen as the winners with our game, Code Name Spy.

“We wanted to make something different which fitted the jam theme and this is why we came up with a conversation game where you play through a seven year old’s idea of a spy movie. We spent a lot of time laughing about the art, sounds and the ridiculous script, but we learned so much from the jam.

“We had a great venue at Goldsmiths, and being partnered with an industry mentor, like our own mentor Ed Fear, meant we could get valuable critique, tips, advice and comments on the game which really helped us create the best game possible in the given time.

The full Goldsmiths team were Aldo Curtis, Sam Hayhurst, Sokol Murturi and Andrea Castegnaro, all students on the MSc in Computer Games & Entertainment.

Dr Jo Twist, CEO of Ukie said, “The standard of games that the Ukie students managed to make in such a short period of time was amazing. The jam offers invaluable experience to games industry stars of tomorrow and gives them a chance to get quality one-to-one time with key industry people. All the entrants have really done themselves proud.”

Mentor of the Universe and CEO of Utopian World of Sandwiches, James Woodrow said:

“I am completely lost for words. It is such a privilege to have been awarded Mentor of the Universe! It’s very moving to have been put forward by the team. They put in a lot of hard work and it was an absolute pleasure to have worked with such a terrific bunch over the course of the jam.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what they do in the future as they really came together to produce something quite beautiful for their first ever game jam and I am sure they all have bright futures ahead of them in the industry. I hope that everyone involved enjoyed the experience as much as I did.”

‘Code Name Spy’ and all other game entries from the game jam will be available on Ukie’s website in the coming weeks.

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Events, News, Students

GENERATION: Goldsmiths Computing undergraduate degree show 2015

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Come to the 2015 undergraduate show for Goldsmiths’ Department of Computing, where students will demonstrate the most creative, innovative and accomplished projects that were produced during the academic year 2014-15.

Expect to see generative visuals + music, games, robots, projections, data visualisations, electronic instruments, product concepts and interactive installations.

And meet the creators of the work, who can tell you about the concepts and technologies, as well as their experience of studying computing at Goldsmiths.

Their work breaks down the boundaries between technical and creative disciplines, using computer programming to make work that is artistic, innovative and entrepreneurial. All are welcome. No booking needed.

  • Where: The Stretch, 2nd floor Goldsmiths Student Union,  Dixon Road, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
  • When: 3pm – 8pm Thursday 4 June 2015
  • Visit the GENERATION website