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.

nime-publicPUBLIC 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

nime-confCONFERENCE 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

data-summit

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

Register now

 

Free computing workshop for KS2 & Y7 teachers, 8-9 July

scratchHow to use Scratch and unplugged activities to teach programming concepts – a free two-day workshop at Goldsmiths 8-9 July 2014 with Professor Paul Curzon and Zali Collymore-Hussein.

The National Curriculum for Computing involves a large amount of new content, namely programming that will be particularly challenging for KS2 –KS4 teachers. It is acknowledged that teachers will need support to acquire the necessary subject knowledge and skills to deliver this discipline.

This workshop aims to equip you with a good understanding of programming concepts and computational thinking, offering practical ways to teach the related KS2 programmes of study. It is suitable for teachers new to the free programming language Scratch.

8 July 2014

  • Teaching Computing Unplugged to Young Children
  • Introducing programming fundamentals through interactive games made in Scratch

9 July 2014

  • Deepen understanding of programming concepts through interactive quizzes made in Scratch
  • Tackling Control Projects using Scratch and Raspberry Pi

Complete the attached booking form and email to teacherscentre@gold.ac.uk


Creativity, independence and learning by doing.