Here’s a video we made while wandering around the NIME exhibition this afternoon. The New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference runs at Goldsmiths 30 June – 4 July July 2014.
Category Archives: Events
Event: Sounding Out Digital @ Southbank
This weekend some of the most innovative digital producers, musicians, programmers and curators join together for a weekend of talks and discussions to discuss how composers working today can harness new opportunities presented by digital technology.
Part of the New Music Biennial, these two symposiums look at emerging trends in digital media, focussed on two themes of new platforms and audiences online. How can new developments in technology best be used to the advantage of composers? What works, what doesn’t? Are there any ethical implications, and what are they? In what direction are we headed? And what happens if we get left behind?
1. NEW PLATFORMS
10.30am – 11.50am Saturday 5 July 2014, Royal Festival Hall level 5 function room
Lively discussion and Q&A about the latest developments in the world of online platforms, and how these can be used in the best interests of the new music community. Our panel of experts includes Robin Rimbaud (AKA Scanner), Andrew Dubber (Bandcamp), Michela Magas (Stromotolite) and Brittney Bean (Songdrop). Chaired by Jean-Baptiste Theibaut (Sound & Music). Tickets available from Southbank Centre here
2. BUILDING AUDIENCES ONLINE
10am – 11.20am Sunday 6 July 2014, Royal Festival Hall level 5 function room
Engaging debate about the nature of online audiences in all of their different manifestations, and how to grow them! From live streaming to the immediacy of social media and audience interaction – and anything else you would like to bring to the table during the Q&A. Panellists include Shaun Blezard (Hugs Bison) and Lisa Meyer (Capsule). Chaired by Rich Whitelaw, Head of Programmes at Sound & Music. Tickets available from Southbank Centre here
NIME2014 conference: New Interfaces for Musical Expression
NIME2014 (the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression) runs Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 2014 at Goldsmiths, with an exciting programme of scholarly presentations and public events.
PUBLIC EVENTS
Anyone curious about the interface between music and technology is welcome to attend our public programme of concerts, exhibitions, keynotes, and hack sessions. We bring cutting-edge music interfaces out of research labs and onto the stage. If you’re excited about Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Nintendo Wii, or any range of highly creative apps for smartphones, and wonder how these things are invented, and what kinds of offbeat and experimental ways in which they could be used to make and perform music, then the NIME2014 public programme is for you.
Check the schedule of events and installations
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Chaired by Rebecca Fiebrink and Atau Tanaka from Goldsmiths Computing, NIME2014 presents with cutting edge research published as papers, presented as posters and demos, shared in workshops, performed and exhibited.
Read about the conference and how to register
YOU / ME / IT computational creativity exhibition
At the beginning of June, Blog.DoC travelled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to help put together the exhibition YOU / ME / IT.
The exhibition on computational creativity, curated by Goldsmiths PhD student Ian Gouldstone, was part of the International Conference on Computational Creativity 2014 and looked at the ways in which human artists and machines can collaborate. For those who missed it, we recreate the exhibition here…
Félicien Goguey & Benjamin Bartholet, France
Tanja Vujinovic, Slovenia
Ed Key & David Kanaga, UK & USA
Robert Seidel, Germany
Nicolai Troshinsky, Spain
Gibson / Martelli, UK
Exhibition: Digital Revolution @ Barbican
We’re really excited about the Barbican Centre’s Digital Revolution exhibition of art, design, film, music and videogames, which opens on Thursday 3 July 2014.
It promises to be the most comprehensive presentation of digital creativity ever to be staged in the UK – investigating dynamic developments in the areas of creative coding and DIY culture and the exciting creative possibilities offered by augmented reality, artificial intelligence, wearable technologies and 3-D printing.
The exhibition includes new commissions from artists Umbrellium, Universal Everything, will.i.am and Yuri Suzuki – plus our friends Gibson/Martelli, who brought showed their augmented reality piece MAN A at our You/Me/It exhibition in June 2014.
June 2014 Open Day – what you said
Thanks to all who came to our Open Day on 21 June 2014. It was great to talk to so many passionate potential students and their families.
Here’s what visitors to our Open Day stand told us:
- Very friendly and professional! I hope I can make it into here!
- The campus looks very nice – there is a friendly atmosphere.
- There is a lot of information given to students without asking and the teachers are very helpful and approachable.
- Very impressed with the lecture halls and the the way I was introduced to the course I intend doing’.
- I haven’t had the chance to look around yet but so far it is a very positive atmosphere and very nice staff.
- The college is very welcoming.
- Good lecturers.
- I especially enjoyed the lectures within the computing department. They were very informative and helped me to narrow down my choice of which computing course was best for me.
- It’s been a nice place to visit so far. All the staff seem inviting and easy to talk to.
- The location in London and the small, campus style of university – it seems very friendly and a good place to learn, work and have fun.
- I spoke with a Goldsmiths representative who visited my school twice and was interested from those conversations. My school’s careers department also referred me to Goldsmiths. I love the size of the university and the fact that it is in London.
- With its very appealing music computing course (music and computing are two of my key interests) I feel as if Goldsmiths is definitely a great option as opposed to other unis. I also think its proximity to London is very welcoming, along with the friendly impressions I have from coming here today.
If you missed our Director of Studies’ introduction talk to Computing at Goldsmiths, read the PDF notes vision of Computing education at Goldsmiths: rigour, independence, creativity and relevance. And do have a look at his 169 films on Vimeo, including the Introduction to Programming below.
Event: Data Summit 2014: Harnessing the power of data on the web
A FREE day-long conference, packed with amazing speakers, live workshops, great food and tons of cool swag. Come meet your fellow users and the whole import.io team.
When: Friday 27 June 2014
Where: Level 39, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf
Speakers include:
- Jon McLoone, Director of Technical Communications, Wolfram Research Europe Ltd
- JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist, Salesforce
- Charles Arthur, The Guardian’s Technology Editor
- Ian Massingham, Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
- Paul Joyce, CEO of Geckoboard
- David White, Founder & CEO of import.io
- Déborah Rippol, Director at UP Europe
- Robin Hawkes, Founder & Lead Developer, ViziCities
- Ben Rush, CEO, AudioLock
- Martins Vaivars, Infogr.am
- Andrew Fogg, Founder & Product Evangelist
