{"id":153,"date":"2012-04-30T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:04:54","slug":"cast-launch-wine-sushi-pecha-kucha-and-paul-the-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"CAST launch party: sushi, pecha kucha and Paul the Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10111384-CAST-e-invite-graphic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-154\" title=\"10111384-CAST-e-invite-graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10111384-CAST-e-invite-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10111384-CAST-e-invite-graphic.png 490w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/10111384-CAST-e-invite-graphic-168x300.png 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a>On Thursday 26 April 2012, the Department of Computing hosted the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/cast\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAST (Centre for Creative and Social Media)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event was a huge success and a highly enjoyable evening. Our compere for the evening was <a href=\"http:\/\/markgrist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Grist<\/a>, former MA Creative and Life Writing student, and Edinburgh Fringe Slam champion 2010, Mark Grist (markgrist.com), who has just completed two national tours with his performance poetry. His double act, Dead Poets, seeks to challenge preconceptions of poetry and hip hop, and was recently featured on BBC 6 Music with Steve Merchant. Recently, a video of Mark\u2019s rap battle with Blizzard went viral which has earned him a huge amount of media attention with the Independent on Sunday calling him a \u2018Face to Watch\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our brilliant Pecha Kucha speakers included:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greyworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biog-AS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Andrew Shoben<\/em><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/greyworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greyworld<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/ecl\/staff\/b-morrison\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blake Morrison<\/em><\/a> (Creative and Life Writing, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/staff\/c-brauer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chris Brauer<\/em><\/a> (Co-Director of CAST, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/psychology\/staff\/french\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chris French<\/em><\/a> (Psychology, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/sociology\/staff\/back\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Les Back<\/em><\/a> (Dean of the Graduate School, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li><em>Lisa Moretti<\/em> (CAST <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/pg\/ma-msc-digital-sociology\/\" target=\"_blank\">MA Digital Sociology<\/a>, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/staff\/m-dinverno\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mark d&#8217;Inverno<\/em><\/a> (Computing, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/icce\/staff\/s-prime\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sian Prime<\/em> <\/a>(ICCE, Goldsmiths)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our speakers were challenged to brevity and impact: 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explore innovation in their field. They did an absolutely fantastic job and we are really grateful to them for their involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Other stars of the evening were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/staff\/pg-research\/p-tresset\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Tresset<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2011-06\/17\/sketching-robots\" target=\"_blank\">Paul the Robot<\/a>, Annette Walker and her tap-dancing, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/showcaseofwork\/mogees-brunozamborlinphdstudent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Zamborlin&#8217;s incredible Mogees<\/a> installation which turned the railings on the venue&#8217;s staircase into musical instruments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About CAST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year, students in CAST have enjoyed Innovation Internships at the Wall Street Journal, Telegraph Media Group, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Livestation, Runnymede Trust, and Headshift.<\/p>\n<p>CAST programmes offer interdisciplinary teaching across computing and professional disciplines with students learning applied computing and research methods to complement the fundamentals of journalism, sociology and cultural studies.<\/p>\n<p>CAST is currently accepting applications for the 2012\/13 academic year on the following programmes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/pg\/ma-digital-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">MA\/MSc Digital Journalism<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/pg\/ma-msc-digital-sociology\/\" target=\"_blank\">MA\/MSc Digital Sociology<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/pg\/ma-creating-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">MA\/MSc Creating Social Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 26 April 2012, the Department of Computing hosted the launch of CAST (Centre for Creative and Social Media). The event was a huge success and a highly enjoyable evening. Our compere for the evening was Mark Grist, former MA Creative and Life Writing student, and Edinburgh Fringe Slam champion 2010, Mark Grist (markgrist.com), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CAST launch party: sushi, pecha kucha and Paul the Robot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[30,33,8,7,12,24,11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}