Category Archives: Staff profiles and activity

Careers, Staff profiles and activity, Women in Computing

Join our team! New lecturing posts at Goldsmiths Computing

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Goldsmiths Computing are recruiting six new staff to join our growing department.

The posts:

  • Lecturer in Computer Science
  • Lecturer in Computer Science (0.5FTE)
  • Lecturer in Games & Graphics
  • Lecturer in Games Art (0.5FTE)
  • Lecturer in Computational Arts (0.5FTE)
  • Post Doctoral Teaching & Research Fellow.

Lectureships pay £42,452 – £48,721 per annum (or the pro rata equivalent for part-time positions), including London Weighting. The Post Doctoral Teaching & Research Fellow position pays £34,110.

The deadline for applications is Monday 8 June 2015.

EAVI, Events, Staff profiles and activity, Students, Women in Computing

Sonorities launch party concert, Fri 17 April

Join EAVI and the Sonic Arts Research Centre for a free day of audio-visual performances and workshops for the launch of Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music. All welcome.

WORKSHOP in the GDS, Ben Pimlott Building
Fields: Sébastien Piquemal & Tim Shaw
Friday 17 April @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
“In this workshop we will introduce participants to using Fields as a performance or installation tool for mobile devices.” Please register at fieldsworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk

LECTURE – Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre
Dirt[y] Media Lecture: Caleb Kelly
Friday 17 April @ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
“This talk will fracture the narrative of the contemporary digital studio, a space imagined to be free from noise and contained. Re-reading media histories I will look at practices that are cracked, broken and at times actually dirty.”

CONCERT & LISTENING ROOM
Sonorities Launch Event
Friday 17 April @ 7:00 pm – Monday 20 April @ 7:00 pm
Join us for an evening of audio-visual performance as we launch the Sonics Immersive Media Lab facility. This concert also marks the London launch of Sonorities, the annual symposium and festival of contemporary music held at Queen’s University, Belfast.

This will be the first event held in the newly installed Sonics Immersive Media Lab at the converted church St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths, London SE14.

Concert Programme, 7pm-10pm Friday 17 April

Listening Room Programme, 7pm-10pm Friday 17 April

  • Laurie Radford: Vagus II
  • Jones Margarucci: Metamorfosi Interrotte (for fixed media)
  • Nicola Monopoli: 3 Stanzas
  • Vanessa Sorce-Lévesque: Dremen
  • Damian O’Riain: Configurational Energy Landscape No.9
  • Mari Ohno: Speaking Clock
  • Line Katcho: Aiguillage (Switches & Crossings)
  • Paul Fretwell: King’s Cross
  • James Surgenor: flux
  • David Berezan: Lightvessels
  • Richard Garrett: Once Below a Time
  • Sam Salem: The Fall (I)
  • Oliver Carman: Piano Fragments
  • Aidan Deery: Clearway
  • Roberto Zanata: Nero metropolitano
  • Félix-Antione Morin: Calligraphie II
  • Benjamin D. Whiting: Melodía sin melodía
  • Gilles Fresnais: Les chants de la terre (Earth songs)
  • Nicolas Marty: Nibelheim

Concert and Listening Room details

About Sonorities Festival at Queens University Belfast

EAVI, Events, Staff profiles and activity

Lecture on music conducting and repovizz

This Tuesday 14 April, Álvaro Sarasúa will give a talk about his work on expressivity in classical music conducting from naive listeners using repovizz.

Where: Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre (ground floor), Goldsmiths
When: 3.30pm, Tuesday 14 April at 15h30 in the

Álvaro Sarasúa is currently a visiting researcher at Goldsmiths’  EAVI research group. His research focuses on the analysis of conducting gestures performed by participants with different musical backgrounds with the aim to build more intuitive and expressive interfaces drawing upon a conductor-orchestra metaphor.

In this talk, Álvaro will discuss the results of studies with different subjects conducting on top of classical music excerpts and recorded with a Kinect camera, exploring the relationship between their movements and the expressive aspects of the performance.

In addition, he will discuss his use of repoVizz (an online repository for multimodal data developed in the MTG), make some demos about the current possibilities of the tool and explain the directions for future development under projects such as RAPID-MIX, in which EAVI is a partner.

 

 

Events, Staff profiles and activity

FREE Computational Creativity day, QMUL

On Friday 10 April, Goldsmiths Computational Creativity Research Group are co-hosting a free one-day academic workshop to present current research in computational creativity.

Where: Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS
When: Friday 10 April 2015
Tickets: Free – all welcome. Book online

Schedule

  • 09.15: Registration
  • 09.45: Introduction
  • 10.00: Modelling the architecture of the creative mind (ConCreTe)
  • 10.40: Evaluation of computational creativity (ConCreTe)
  • 11.20: Coffee
  • 11.40: Theoretical advances in automating fictional ideation (WHIM)
  • 12.20: Building the WhatIf Machine – technical challenges and progress so far (WHIM)
  • 13.00: Lunch
  • 14.00: Concept Invention Theory: Core Model and System Architecture (COINVENT)
  • 14.40: COINVENTing Mathematics and Music: Examples of Concept Invention at Work (COINVENT)
  • 15.20: Break
  • 15.30: Music Analysis and Point-Set Compression (Lrn2Cre8)
  • 16.10: Between data and creativity: Learning representations for music generation (Lrn2Cre8)
  • 16.50: Wine Reception
  • 17.30: End

For more details, contact Sue White email: s.a.white@qmul.ac.uk

EAVI, News, Staff profiles and activity

Goldsmiths researcher awarded Marie Curie Fellowship

about_presentation_800x400-783x250We are very pleased to announce that Dr Baptiste Caramiaux, post-doc on Goldsmiths’ MetaGesture Music project team, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.

Baptiste’s project, entitled MIM – Enhancing Motion Interaction through Music Performance will be carried out in partnership with McGill University, Montreal with a final phase at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

The project aims to enhance Human Motion–Computer Interaction through a multidisciplinary approach between experimental psychology, music technology and computational modelling.

The project contributes to two main uncharted research areas:

  1. It contributes to the fundamental understanding of sensorimotor learning processes by considering complex human motion, specifically motion in music performance.
  2. It represents an original application of computational modelling by modelling expressive musical gestures and transferring these models to interactive systems.

Congratulations, Baptiste!

This blog post was adapted from a recent post on the EAVI website

Events, Staff profiles and activity

William Latham’s MUTATOR 1+2 at Edinburgh Science Festival

Goldsmiths’ Professor William Latham is showing his work MUTATOR 1+2 as part of a new exhibition celebrating International Year of Light.

Curated by Edinburgh Science Festival, Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, How the Light Gets In brings together a selection of works by international artists intrigued by light in all its forms. The exhibits explore the beauty, form and function of light and its role as a metaphor for knowledge and enlightenment.

When: 4 April – 22 May 2015
Where: Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL

William Latham was one of the first pioneering UK computer artists and rapidly gained international reputation in the 80s.

His work blends organic imagery and computer animation, using software modelled upon the processes of evolution to generate three-dimensional creations that resemble fantastical ‘other-worldly’ forms such as ancient sea shells, contorted animal horns or organic alien spaceships. The work, produced in collaboration with mathematician Stephen Todd, blurs the barriers between art and science.

His new large-scale Mutator 2 interactive projections show the endless evolution of organic forms steered by the viewer picking and breeding the forms they like. Accompanying the projections are large digitally printed translucent mutation curtains.

With the projections complemented by early hand drawings, etchings and prints from the 1980s, large computer-generated Cibachrome prints and video art from his time at IBM.
Mutator 1+2 is Latham’s first major exhibition in Europe in over 20 years, and was initiated in Brighton at The Phoenix in 2013 (sponsored by Arts Council England). It then toured to iMAL Gallery in Brussels and Centre Space in Dundee.

computation and culture, Events, Staff profiles and activity

Goldsmiths to host international coding conference

LLVMOn 13 and 14 April 2015, Goldsmiths hosts a gathering of cutting-edge technology experts and enthusiasts at the fifth annual LLVM Conference, sponsored by Google, ARM and others.

LLVM is now used by everyone from amateur coders creating simple apps to Apple, Sony and Google.

Over two days, conference speakers will present the latest issues, developments and applications in the LLVM world, and help strengthen the network of LLVM developers and users through discussion, networking and workshops.

The event will be hosted and chaired by Andy Thomason, a specialist in game programming and compiler theory and lecturer on Goldsmiths’ MSc in Computer Games and Entertainment. Students from the Department of Computing will be showing their work over the course of the event.

The event is open to all, from industry or academia to professional or enthusiast. Material will cover a broad spectrum of themes and topics at various depths, from the technical deep-diving to the surface-scratching.

Registration is now open at £60 for two-day entry. As a limited number of tickets are available, please register as soon as possible.