Dear live coders,
Here's news of an upcoming series of free online talks on the
'algorithmic pattern' theme - exploring pattern structures, the rules
behind them, and their place in the real world of technology. It
includes a talk on live coding visual patterns by Sarah Groff
Hennigh-Palermo.
The talks start this week, taking place during May and June 2022. For
dates/times in your local timezone, please see the website, clicking
"view in my time":
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/
---| Talk #1 |-----
Laura Devendorf: Weaving algorithmic patterns with AdaCAD
Designed to be a drafting tool for weavers, AdaCAD could also be
viewed as a visual programming language for making generative art
within the extremely rich constraints of frame and jacquard looms.
Laura will introduce ADACad and some of the projects created with it,
and will take us through trying the software out for ourselves.
Laura Devendorf is an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute and
the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado
Boulder, where she directs the Unstable Design Lab, and holds a
courtesy appointment in the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance
PhD Program.
Full info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/laura-devendorf/
Signup:
https://forms.gle/uvwTH5M2zzin66bYA
---| Talk #2 |-----
Vernelle Noel: The algorithm of wire bending
Craft practices, knowledges, and communities are disappearing. These
practices carry with them histories and cultures of people,
knowledges, and social ties to communities. One of these practices is
wire-bending in the Trinidad Carnival, which began in the 1930s. Some
reasons for its disappearance include dying practitioners, lacking
pedagogy, changing practices, and techno-centric developments. How
might we employ algorithms, patterns, and mathematics in the
restoration, remediation, and reconfiguration of this practice,
knowledge, and community? In this talk, I share The Bailey-Derek
Grammar, a mathematical description of this dying craft which has
aided in documentation and transmission of this knowledge.
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is a design scholar, architect, artist, and
Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab.
Info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/vernelle-noel/
Signup:
https://forms.gle/18xmTEJTyx2m1Uj5A
---| Talk #3 |-----
Ron Eglash: The End of Innocence for Craft Grammars: why we need
Decolonial Computing
At one time, simulations of crafts were rare, and practitioners could
claim a kind of innocence. With the MetaVerse, AI, and other
computational invasions of every aspect of life, a decolonial approach
to craft grammars is desperately needed.
Ron Eglash is a Professor in the School of Information at University
of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Cybernetics, his M.S. in Systems
Engineering, and his PhD in History of Consciousness, all from the
University of California. His work includes the development of
ethnocomputing, the technology appropriation framework, and generative
justice.
Full info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/ron-eglash/
Signup:
https://forms.gle/pBtDCQamSjq6uNw27
---| Talk #4 |-----
Manjunath B C: Konnakol
Manjunath B C is a highly accomplished musician touring performances
worldwide, including of the mridangam percussion instrument. On-line,
he is perhaps best known as a strong proponent of Konnakol, the
Carnatic tradition of reciting intricate vocal rhythms, via his (often
viral) videos demonstrating the topic. This online talk will take the
form of a live discussion with algorithmic musician and pattern
researcher Alex McLean, exploring some of the time-twisting and indeed
mind-bending structures of Konnakol.
Emerging info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/manjunath-b-c/
Signup:
https://forms.gle/vsFG3M1cj2nKis2G7
---| Talk #5 |-----
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo: Live coding patterns
For the fifth instalment of the series, Sarah, a dialogue aficianado,
will be joined by Alex McLean for an interview-style chat about her
work and ideas — including what analog video art has taught her about
approaching the digital; historic video cruft; and the perfection of
imperfection.
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo (aka Sarah GHP) is a video artist and
javascript developer based between Brooklyn and Berlin. She often
takes her algorithmic visual art to the stage, creating it live with
her handmade javascript framework La Habra, including as part of the
audio/visual live coding band Codie. Sarah’s writing on Computer
Critical Computer Art demonstrates a thoughtful cultural, aesthetic
and political grounding behind her glitchy, abstract and instantly
recognisable work.
Full info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/sarah-ghp/
Signup:
https://forms.gle/pnn3vZzJJKkqTPadA
---| Talk #6 |-----
Bekah Smith: Juggling 'siteswap' patterns
Among her multiple talents, Bekah Smith is a professional juggler with
20 years experience, including touring and teaching around the world
and co-founding her own circus. Passing juggling patterns is her
speciality, using the siteswap juggling notation system to generate
and experiment with new patterns from mathematical formalisms. In this
hands-on talk, Bekah will introduce us hands-on to juggling siteswaps,
and give insights into some of the mathematical, creative constraints
that underlie them.
Emerging info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/bekah-smith/
Signup:
https://forms.gle/tHmCCssasahPJy9PA
More info:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/
Hope you can join us!
This talk series is funded as part of a UKRI fellowship, grant number
MR/V025260/1.
--
Alex McLean
Blog:
http://slab.org/
Research Fellow at Then Try This:
https://thentrythis.org/about/alex-mclean/
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Received on Sun May 22 2022 - 09:18:46 BST