{"id":2320,"date":"2017-01-31T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2017-01-31T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T13:53:24","slug":"memo-akten-gives-inspiring-talk-to-computational-arts-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"Artist Memo Akten inspires Computational Arts students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blogpost by Theo Papatheodorou, programme leader of\u00a0MA\/MFA in Computational Arts<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MA\/MFA in Computational Arts students got a real treat on 23 January when renowned computational artist\u00a0Memo Akten<\/a>\u00a0visited the MA\u00a0to run a crit session and discuss his work and process.<\/p>\n

When Memo first came in, he discussed his role in the openFrameworks community. The students in the Workshops in Creative Coding<\/em> class on the MA are using\u00a0openFrameworks<\/a>\u00a0to make interactive audiovisual applications using computer vision, machine learning, networking protocols, sensors and a lot more. Memo’s contribution to openFrameworks is great and it was really enjoyable listening him talk about his involvement.<\/p>\n

We then went through 15 of the best end-of-term project assignments and Memo gave feedback, ideas and critiqued the work for the benefit of the students.<\/p>\n

The highlight of the session came later when Memo gave a talk about his work. It wasn’t a typical talk listing his contributions and achievements (among other things the\u00a0Golden Nica at Ars Electronica<\/a>). He hopped between selected projects highlighting a\u00a0common thread: how ideas are formed, how he picks tools, collaborators and how he (occasionally)\u00a0pitches ideas to clients.<\/p>\n

Some nuggets of wisdom from his talk:<\/p>\n