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Event: Complexity of Visual & Auditory Patterns

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Godfried T. Toussaint (Professor of Computer Science at the New York University in Abu Dhabi) joins Goldsmiths’ Summer Computing Seminars Series with a talk on measuring the complexity of vsual and auditory patterns.

When: 2pm – 3.30pm 6 June 2014
Where: Lecture Hall, Ground floor, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths
Cost: Free and open to the public

Abstract summary
A mathematical measure of pattern complexity based on the pattern’s sub-symmetries also correlates significantly with empirically-derived complexity measures of perception and production of auditory temporal and musical rhythmic patterns.

A sub-symmetry in a sequence is a subset of connected elements of the sequence that exhibits mirror symmetry. Not only does the sub-symmetry measure correlate highly with the difficulty of reproducing the rhythms by tapping after listening to them, but also the empirical measures exhibit similar behaviour, for both the visual and auditory patterns, as a function of the relative number of sub-symmetries present in the patterns.

This simple measure is also compared to the more complex measures of complexity, homogeneity, order, and symmetry proposed by F. Papentin & M. Krüger.

Events, News

Call for papers: Digital Arts as ‘Outsider’

In October 2014, King’s College London’s Underground Arts & Humanities Festival hosts the the conference for Computers and the History of Art (CHArt).

CHArt invites theoretical papers and demonstrations of academic and artistic work addressing – metaphorically or literally – questions of subversive content, design and communication, including:

  • Subversive engagement with digital arts and culture
  • Originality and experimentation v. standards, trends and hypes
  • Disruptions of the commonplace or the mainstream
  • Visual digital subcultures
  • Submerged identities
  • Visualising the underground
  • Elite audiences v. multi-peer connectivity
  • Working in partnership with or against diverse organisations
  • Cross-disciplinary subversive interventions (art/science; big data/visualisation; design/interaction).

Contributions are welcome from all sections of the CHArt community: art historians, artists, archaeologists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, philosophers, archivists, curators, conservators, educators, scientists, cultural and media theorists, content providers, technical developers, users and critics.

Digital engagement with art is thriving. Much of it is actively subversive of the traditional frameworks that enable art to be created and responded to – whether casually or professionally. This subversion takes various forms, including notions of value, uniqueness, fixity and location. The CHArt 2014 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the underground creation, display, consumption and study of art.

The online ‘urban dictionary’ defines underground as follows: “A genre in music and other forms of media intended for an elite audience, that is often characterized by its high levels of originality and experimentation, and does not conform to typical standards, trends, or hypes as set by the popular mainstream media.” If emerging conformity and new processes must be disrupted; then what is mainstream; and what is not? – and who can tell?

Deadline: Wednesday 30 May 2014

Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the proposed paper or demonstration, with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to chart@kcl.ac.uk by Wednesday 21 May 2014. Please note that submissions exceeding the stated word count will not be considered.

Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt can offer assistance with the conference fees for up to three student delegates. Priority will be given to postgraduate students whose proposals are accepted for presentation. An application form and proof of university enrolment will be required. For further details about the Helene Roberts Bursary please email anna.bentkowska@kcl.ac.uk.

Deadlines

  • 21 May 2014 – Submission of proposals
  • 16 June 2014 – Acceptance notification
  • 27 June 2014 – Speakers to confirm attendance, strictly with payment. All successful proposers will be eligible for the reduced registration fee of £100 (£50 for postgraduate student speakers).
  • 18 August 2014 – Paper submission. Papers submitted by this date will be considered for publication.
Events, Publications

You Are Here: Art After the Internet

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To mark the launch of the publication You Are Here: Art After the Internet, London’s ICA hosts a panel discussion exploring the effects and affects of the Internet on contemporary artistic practices.

It will trace a potted narrative exploring broad ranging issues such as sincerity and authenticity in the digital sphere. Led by Omar Kholeif, the panel will raise urgent questions about how we negotiate the formal, aesthetic and conceptual relationship of art and its effects after the  rise of the Internet.

Where: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
When: 6:45pm Wednesday 18 Jun 2014
Tickets: £5 – or FREE for students and ICA members. Book here

Panellists include:

  • Erika Balsom, lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College
  • James Bridle, writer for WIRED, ICON, and Domus
  • Steven Cairns, associate curator of Artists Film and Moving Image at the ICA
  • Lucia Pietroiusti, public programmes curator at the Serpentine Galleries

The artist Jeremy Bailey will stage an intervention.

Careers, Events, Inspiration

Submit your video game to the Radius exhibition

radiusRadius Festival is a new video games exhibition in central London. It’s presented directly by developers, and designed to inspire people to engage, learn and interact with each other in a vibrant surrounding.

Thursday 19 – Saturday 21 June 2014

Radius is for everyone: for people who love games, who are curious about the industry and who want to know more about developers and trends.

Developers – submit your game
If you have a game that could be presented at Radius, you are welcome to submit your game for consideration. The deadline for submissions is 2 June 2014. Read more and complete the games submission form.

Events, Staff profiles and activity

Event: EAVI experimental electronics & sound at Amersham Arms

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Goldsmiths Embodied AudioVisual Interaction Group dusts off the subs and heads back to the Amersham Arms this Thursday for another night of experimental electronics and sound art for the mind and body. This time, we are working with colleagues from the OCR Sound Art Curating Conference at Goldsmiths.

Performers
Cathy Lane  /  Yuri Suzuki  /  Rutger Hauser  /  Dajuin Yao + Wenhua Shi  /  Alex Thomas

Where: Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, Londion SE14 6TY
When: 8pm-2am 15 May 2014
Tickets: £5 on the door. Join on Facebook

Events, Inspiration

Event: Interaction experience @ Centre for Creative Collaborations

‘Contours’ is an immersive artwork where a series of tapestries responds to the presence of an interacting audience, by triggering soundscapes when they are touched.

Where: Centre for Creative Collaborations, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
When: 6pm – 8pm, Thursday 29 May 2014 – FREE

The sound composition is generated in real time through a custom code software and it changes in relation to a constant feed of data relating to the weather of Vienna. The abstract geometric decoration that connects the tapestries’ individual sensors to form giant ones is inspired by Wiener Werkstätte designs from the MAK Collection.

This constantly modulated data-driven soundscape is composed in real time and is reminiscent of a medical research environment; it serves as an acoustic feedback loop that alludes to the relationship between science and the body. They include sound modulation algorithms that are mainly creating realtime granulation and pitch shifting of samples prerecorded from tools usually employed to measure human body such as CT and PET scans, EKG plus various oscillators.

The artwork was commissioned by the MAK Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art in Vienna, as part of ‘Scientific Skin’, which features interactive experiments combining the human body and the latest scientific discoveries. The MAK invited the London based creative laboratory Bare Conductive to team up with Fabio L. Antinori and Alicja Pytlewska in order to develop a large-scale metaphor for the idea of breathing life into a textile skin.

A collaboration between Bare Conductive, Fabio Antinori and Alicja Pytlewska.
Screenprint, capacitive sensing, interactive tapestries, generative soundscape, custom code.

Events

Event: Depth in Digital Media

digitalindepthlogoRegistration is now open for an interdisciplinary symposium on Depth in Digital Media, taking place at the University of Warwick on Friday 30 May 2014.

The symposium explores the ways in which depth imagery is constructed and consumed in contemporary digital practices, and the ways in which we might interpret it. Most digital platforms’ content is consumed through flat screens and yet many of their aesthetics seem anxious to convey the illusion of depth. This curious and ubiquitous paradox is visible, for example, in digital cinema’s most recent spate of 3-D films and the institutional dimensionality of videogames’ fictional environments through which the player wanders. In computing, also, user interfaces and head-up displays demonstrate a renegotiated relationship to the image that is dependent on deep spaces made immediately accessible for spectators and users.

digital-imaging-in-popular-cinemaKeynote Speaker: Dr. Lisa Purse (University of Reading, author of Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema and Contemporary Action Cinema)

This symposium will investigate the different media that characterise contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural and political implications of their digital depth. How is this illusion of depth constructed, and to what ends? The symposium will investigate avenues through which academia might read and interpret both these images and the changing mediascape of which they are a part. It will also ask what these digital constructions of depth demonstrate about the changing culture that they help to construct.

Places are limited so please register as soon as possible