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This November promises to be a month\u00a0full of\u00a0events – most of which are free (or cheap) and open to everyone. Here’s what’s coming up…<\/strong><\/p>\n 6.30pm Thursday 3 November<\/strong> 4.30pm Monday 7 November<\/strong> 4pm Wednesday 9 November<\/strong> 4pm Wednesday 16 November<\/strong> 4pm Thu 17 Nov\u00a0NEW!<\/span><\/strong> 6.30pm Thursday 17 November\u00a0NEW!<\/span><\/strong> Friday 18 – Sunday 20 November\u00a0NEW!<\/span><\/strong> Sat 19 – Sun 20 November<\/strong> 3pm Thursday 22 November NEW!<\/span><\/strong> 4pm Wednesday 23 November<\/strong> 4pm Wednesday 30 November<\/strong> 4pm Wednesday 8 December<\/strong> Friday 17 – Saturday 18 December<\/strong> Monday 19 – Tuesday 20 December<\/strong> This November promises to be a month\u00a0full of\u00a0events – 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 … Continue reading Goldsmiths Computing events in Nov-Dec 2016<\/span>
\nGoldsmiths Showoff: Strange days<\/a><\/strong>
\nComedy 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.<\/p>\n
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\nLecture: What can Deep Neural Networks learn from music?<\/a><\/strong>
\nDouglas Eck (Google Brain) discusses Magenta, a project to generate music, video, images and text using machine intelligence.<\/p>\n
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\nLecture: Linguistic and perceptual colour categories<\/a><\/strong>
\nChristoph Witzle (Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen) discusses his work investigating how linguistic colour categories may be related to colour perception.<\/p>\n
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\nLecture: Cultural Computing: Looking for Japan<\/a><\/strong>
\nRenowned media artist Naoko Tosa discusses the role of information technology in enabling new understandings of a multicultural world.<\/p>\n
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\nLecture: The Hearing Body<\/a><\/strong>
\nTalk on\u00a0using of sound to change people\u00b4s experiences of their body and the surrounding space, as well as its impact on emotion and behaviour.<\/p>\n
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\nTalk and performance: Unreal-time improv and actual-timeline composition<\/a><\/strong>
\nComposer 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.<\/p>\n
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\nI am human: precarious journeys<\/strong><\/a>
\nFeaturing interactive design by Goldsmiths Computing and music by Brian Eno, Sue Clayton\u2019s multimedia installation traces the journeys of refugees as they navigate the perils of the sea, the national border and the camp.<\/p>\n
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\nAdventureX: Narrative Games Convention<\/a><\/strong>
\nNow 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.<\/p>\n
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\nInnovation Lecture Series: Kate Russell (BBC Click)<\/strong><\/a>
\nKate Russell writes\u00a0about technology, gaming and the Internet reports for BBC technology programme Click<\/em>. Her book Working the Cloud<\/em> is aims to\u00a0help businesses better use the Internet.<\/p>\n
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\nCharacterising human imagination through art and science<\/a><\/strong>
\nSheldon Brown (Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination) shows artworks that aim to engage components of cognition that make up “the imagination”.<\/p>\n
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\nLecture: Attention and cross-cultural differences<\/a><\/strong>
\nEirini Mavritsaki (Birmingham City Uni) discusses her use of computational models to observe differences in visual attention in East Asian and European American cultures.<\/p>\n
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\nLecture: Composer, Performer, Listener<\/a><\/strong>
\nJason Freeman (Georgia Tech) explores real-time music notation, live coding, laptop ensembles, mobile technology, and open-form scores.<\/p>\n
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\nSex Tech Hack\u00a0NEW!<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nA 24-hour hackathon exploring sex tech hardware, interfaces and apps, working on the themes of intimacy, companionship and sexuality.<\/p>\n
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\nConference: Love & Sex with Robots<\/a><\/strong>
\nIn this 2-day conference, academics and industry professionals discuss their work on intelligent sex tech, teledildonics, ethics, gender and sex robots.<\/p>\n
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