This November promises to be a month full of events – most of which are free (or cheap) and open to everyone. Here’s what’s coming up…
6.30pm Thursday 3 November
Goldsmiths Showoff: Strange days
Comedy and cabaret in the pub featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts including Kate Devlin on the algorithms of online dating, Sylvia Pan on virtual humans, Sarah Wiseman on the quantified self, and Dee Harding on so-called experts.
4.30pm Monday 7 November
Lecture: What can Deep Neural Networks learn from music?
Douglas Eck (Google Brain) discusses Magenta, a project to generate music, video, images and text using machine intelligence.
4pm Wednesday 9 November
Lecture: Linguistic and perceptual colour categories
Christoph Witzle (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) discusses his work investigating how linguistic colour categories may be related to colour perception.
4pm Wednesday 16 November
Lecture: Cultural Computing: Looking for Japan
Renowned media artist Naoko Tosa discusses the role of information technology in enabling new understandings of a multicultural world.
4pm Thu 17 Nov NEW!
Lecture: The Hearing Body
Talk on using of sound to change people´s experiences of their body and the surrounding space, as well as its impact on emotion and behaviour.
6.30pm Thursday 17 November NEW!
Talk and performance: Unreal-time improv and actual-timeline composition
Composer and improviser Panos Ghikas discusses his research developing a live performance interface for navigation through audio-timelines with the purpose of re-sequencing audio gestures.
Friday 18 – Sunday 20 November NEW!
I am human: precarious journeys
Featuring interactive design by Goldsmiths Computing and music by Brian Eno, Sue Clayton’s multimedia installation traces the journeys of refugees as they navigate the perils of the sea, the national border and the camp.
Sat 19 – Sun 20 November
AdventureX: Narrative Games Convention
Now in its sixth year, AdventureX is a free event bringing together developers & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling. Encompassing everything from retro pixel-hunts to rich, branching narratives, AdventureX is celebration of creativity, indie development and geek culture.
3pm Thursday 22 November NEW!
Innovation Lecture Series: Kate Russell (BBC Click)
Kate Russell writes about technology, gaming and the Internet reports for BBC technology programme Click. Her book Working the Cloud is aims to help businesses better use the Internet.
4pm Wednesday 23 November
Characterising human imagination through art and science
Sheldon Brown (Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination) shows artworks that aim to engage components of cognition that make up “the imagination”.
4pm Wednesday 30 November
Lecture: Attention and cross-cultural differences
Eirini Mavritsaki (Birmingham City Uni) discusses her use of computational models to observe differences in visual attention in East Asian and European American cultures.
4pm Wednesday 8 December
Lecture: Composer, Performer, Listener
Jason Freeman (Georgia Tech) explores real-time music notation, live coding, laptop ensembles, mobile technology, and open-form scores.
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 December
Sex Tech Hack NEW!
A 24-hour hackathon exploring sex tech hardware, interfaces and apps, working on the themes of intimacy, companionship and sexuality.
Monday 19 – Tuesday 20 December
Conference: Love & Sex with Robots
In this 2-day conference, academics and industry professionals discuss their work on intelligent sex tech, teledildonics, ethics, gender and sex robots.
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