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All seminars to be held in The Small Hall (Main Building), unless otherwise stated.
To be added to the email mailing list, please contact Mark Bishop by email:
m.bishop@gold.ac.uk
- Thursday, 21st January, 16.00
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Dr. Michael Casey
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/computing/staff/MC.html
Audio Information Retrieval for Creativity Support
Abstract: With the introduction of content-based multimedia information retrieval systems, artists and composers now have tools at their disposal that support creativity in fundamentally new ways. The MUSCAIC (MUsical moSAIC) as a new method for composing music by replacing segments from a target audio clip with 'similar' segments from an audio database consisting of indexed sound clips. The resulting audio sequence is composed of content from the source database but is constrained to preserve the perceptually salient features of the target- such as rhythm, harmony and spectral dynamics.
In this talk I will give an overview of audio-based music information retrieval (MIR) describing the application of audio feature extraction, similarity measurement and pattern processing to creative systems. The talk will also include a brief discussion on standardisation of such tools within the MPEG-7 International Standard and an account of how international standardisation of multimedia information retrieval technologies is changing the global creative landscape
- Thursday, 19th February, 16.00
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Prof. Igor Aleksander
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College, University of London
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/research/neural/aleksander.html
Machine Consciousness: Does the Idea Make Sense?
Abstract: Since 2001 there has been a series of conferences on this topic spanning approaches from the functional (behaviour is an indication of consciousness) to the material end (mechanism is an indication of consciousness). I shall take a brief look at this spectrum and then discuss our own material approach. This is broken down into five axioms, introspectively obtained. The lecture then looks at these as specifications for interlocking neural models describing applications in intelligent processing and robotics as we go along.
- Thursday, 26th February, 16.00
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Prof. Ernest Edmonds
University of Sydney, Australia.
http://www.ernestedmonds.com/
New technology, New art: studies of collaborative research in art and technology
Abstract: The seminar describes research collaborations between an HCI team and artists who ware artist-in-residence with the group. The collaborations resulted in new performance art works, new interactive works and a new instruments and art forms. The research included a full study of the processes of collaboration and innovation. The creative user always seems to want something different to what the technologist has provided. Being creative, they come up with new ideas, change their minds and, from a system designer's point of view, always move the design goal posts. The seminar describes research that has been investigating how future systems should, and could, support creative practice. The presentation will discuss the implications of this research for building new information technology environments and developing new art forms.
- Wednesday, 4th March, 16.00
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Prof. Steve Torrance
Universities of Sussex & Middlesex, UK.
Email: stevet@sussex.ac.uk
Computer Consciousness: what is it and should it be?
Abstract: Steve Torrance is interested in materialist and computational theories of consciousness, and in the place of the study of consciousness within science. He is examining the differing conceptions of science and mind that emerge from AI-based cognitive science and from contrasting approaches, which are critical of computationalism. This work also involves examining the links between mind and value. He is on secondment to Sussex. He is also a member of the School of Health and Social Sciences at Middlesex University, where he is Professor of Cognitive Science.
- Wednesday, 12th May, 16.00
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Dr. Warren Neidich
University of Sydney, Australia
http://www.ernestedmonds.com/
Some Stories Concerning the Mutated Observer
Abstract: Warren Neidich's multi-media and interdisciplinary practice operates at the margins of multiple discourses, which include, photography, cinema and new media as they inform and constitute visual/ haptic culture resulting in new forms of subjectivity.
He is currently the ACE-AHRB fellow of the Arts Council of England in the department of computing and the visiting artist in the Department of Visual Arts. Confirmed one-person exhibitions for 2004 and 2005 include Micheal Steinberg Fine Arts, New York City, Bureau Freidrich, Berlin,Germany, and Edward Mitterand, Paris. He is co-founder of the on-line Journal of Neuro-aesthetics and his book Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain has recently been published by DAP and the University of California, Riverside.
- Thursday, 3rd June, 16.00 – Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Computing, 25 St. James, New Cross
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Dr. Mark Tribe
University of Columbia, New York, USA.
http://nothing.org/
Art & the Internet
Abstract: An unlikely alliance has formed, an alliance of artists, technologists and intellectual property scholars to create alternative models for the sharing of all kinds of content, from art and scholarship to software code. The corporations have won, at least temporarily, the battle for legal access to the content they control. The frontlines, however, are upstream of these corporations, at the point of creation, where artists and coders still have control over their content. By adopting open source models of collaborative authorship and licensing, artists, coders and others can create an autonomous zone, a creative commons.
Mark Tribe is an artist, curator and educator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. He is Director of Art and Technology at the Columbia University School of the Arts. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, an online platform for the international new media art community, and served as Rhizome’s Executive Director until mid-2003. He now chairs the Rhizome.org board of directors and also serves on the boards of the New Museum of Contemporary Art and ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. His most recent art project, Revelation 2.0 , was commissioned by Computer Fine Arts. He is currently working on curatorial projects for inSite_05 in Tijuana and San Diego, and ARCO in Madrid. Previous curatorial projects include Agenda for a Landscape at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and Game Show at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. In 2002, Mark was Visiting Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence at Williams College. He speaks widely on art and technology and frequently participates in grant selection panels and award juries. Prior to founding Rhizome.org, Mark lived in Berlin, where he made art and designed web sites at Pixelpark GmbH. He received a MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990.
- Friday, 11th June, 12.00
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Dr. Matt Jones
University of Waikato, New Zealand
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~mattj/publications.html
RELAX
Abstract: In this talk, we'll explore how a handheld computer can be used to enable interactive experiences that vary in pace from fast and immediate through to reflective and delayed. We describe a system that asynchronously combines an offline handheld computer and an online desktop Personal Computer, and discuss some results of an initial user evaluation.
Matt Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Waikato University. He's worked on topics ranging from small screen web browsing to immobile mobile communities (see http://www.undofuture.com). For the past several months he has been travelling around the world (well, Asia, South Africa, Finland and USA) frenetically trying to find material for a forthcoming book on Mobile Interaction Design (Wiley). He is currently enjoying an EPSRC Visiting Fellowship at UCLIC (UCL, London).
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