Adrian, Dave and I are giving a talk at the computer arts society in
central london tomorrow. It's part of an event which is booked up, but
I understand you don't have to book for our bit at 6pm.
Apologies for the late notice, I did forward it here a while back but I
think it got caught up in the mailing list spokes.
alex
attached mail follows:
** PLEASE CIRCULATE **
'RULES: algorithms | structures | intuition'
A special LKL Maths-Art meeting organised jointly with the Computer Arts
Society
Tuesday 4 November, 2.30 - 5.00pm Lectures & 6.00 – 7.30pm Live
Coding performance and talk
***ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND THE 6.00 LIVE CODING PERFORMANCE/TALK
***Afternoon lectures are fully-booked, but contact paul@paul-brown.com
to check on late availability
LECTURES
2:30 - registration & coffee
2:45 - Alan Sutcliffe, ' Packing Circles, Dissecting Polygons, Animated'
- Doyle spiral circle packings are described and the problem of their
construction outlined. The first animation shows the self-similarity
within a packing using simple endless zooms. The second animation shows
some decorative uses. A recursive method of dissecting any polygon into
mainly pentagons is described. The method is applied to single and
multiple polygons. Animations in which one variable is changed gives
perhaps surprising results including some 3d effects.
3:30 - Paul Prudence, 'From Vector to Vertex - A non-deterministic
Journey'
- Paul will talk about his work as an artist and real-time visual
performer (VJ) working with generative/computational systems, audio
responsive visual feedback and processed video, beginning with early
generative mathematically based works done in Flash to more recent work
using the video synthesis toolkit VVVV, including his sound responsive
signal-feedback works.
4:15 - Janis Jefferies, 'Common Threads: re visiting a math/textile
archive'
- Recognition of the relationship between mathematics, mathematical
forms and textiles has been substantially documented across a variety of
disciplines. For example; the investigation of complex binary systems of
Inca knotted forms, knot, braid and lace theory, the mathematical
symmetry of woven pattern forms, and crochet. Mathematicians often try to
discover new facts regarding old phenomena. New phenomena are rarely
discovered but they do determine different conditions under which old
ones, Artists are concerned with arranging phenomena in a manner that has
not been seen before, or perhaps to increase the spectators' awareness of
the phenomena. Often this involves complicating the effects rather than
simplifying them. Thus, mathematicians and scientists rarefy and isolate
phenomena to control them in abstract thought or in a laboratory, whereas
artists embrace complexity and manipulate phenomena intuitively. The
differences in method have resulted in divergent vocabularies for
describing similar visual effects, and the two approaches can appear more
disparate than their phenomenal commonality would suggest.
5:00 - Refreshments
PERFORMANCE
6:00 - 7.30 Live Coding performance and talk by Slub (Dave Griffiths,
Adrian Ward and Alex McLean.
http://slub.org )
- Dave, Adrian and Alex will introduce the emerging performance
practice of live coding -- writing and modifying software while it runs,
in order to improvise live music and video. The history of live coding
will be introduced, along with contemporary live coding platforms and
fringe developments such as programming with a game pad and controlling
synthesisers with onomatopoeia. Slub sound emerges from slub software;
melodic and chordal studies, generative experiments and beat processes.
Process-based sonic improvisations; live generative music using hand
crafted and live coded apps, scripts and l-systems in networked
synchrony. With roots in UK electronica and tech culture, slub build
their own software environments for creating music in realtime. Only
custom composition and DSP software is used. Everything you hear is
formed by human minds. Slub project their screens so that the audience
are able to appreciate their live software development process, which
does not adhere to industry quality control standards.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alan Sutcliffe is sometime editor of PAGE, bulletin of the CAS, I
have always known more about maths and music than about anything else,
and took up computer graphics in the 1970s as a CAS member.
Paul Prudence is an artist and real-time visual performer (VJ). He
is also a writer, researcher and lecturer in the field of visual music
and computational synaesthetic Art. Paul is contributor to a number of
books dealing with computational design and generative art. Recent
exhibitions/performance in which his work has been included are
Artificial Emotion 3.0 in São Paulo, Tomorrow Now - Engage the Code in
Venice, Code in Motion in Turin and Hacktronic in Boston US.
http://transphormetic.com
http://dataisnature.com
Janis Jefferies currently holds a Crafts Council Spark Plug
curating award that seeks to examine the creative and dynamic
relationship between mathematics, mathematical forms and craft through an
exploration of a particular maths and textile archive, called Common
Threads, that is held in the Constance Howard Resource and Research
Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths, University of London. Janis is an artist,
writer and curator, Professor of Visual Arts at the Department of
Computing, Goldsmiths University
of London, Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre
in Textiles and Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of
contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally
through exhibitions and texts. In the last five years she has been
working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr Tim
Blackwell) and has been a principal investigator on projects involving
new haptics technologies and generative software systems for creating and
interpreting arts objects.
http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/staff/JJ.html
Alex McLean is a member of slub and PhD student in Arts and
Computational Technology at Goldsmiths College. He co-organises the
dorkbotlondon meetings of people doing strange things with electricity,
helps run the runme.org software art repository, and is a member of the
TOPLAP organisation for the proliferation of live algorithm
programming.
Adrian Ward is a member of slub, a very part-time software artist and
technical director of a company specialising in software for interactive
experiences. For eight years he ran Signwave, an eclectic software
company, using it as an excuse to do whatever he felt, whenever he liked,
but had to get a proper job once he got a mortgage. He is a member of
TOPLAP, did Grade 4 on the trumpet, and still enjoys the occasional weird
electronic noise.
Dave Griffiths is a member of slub, and has been writing programs to make
noises, pictures and animations using a variety of languages for many
years. He is the author of many free software projects exploring these
areas, and uses much of it in performances and workshops around Europe.
He is part of the Openlab free software artists collective and TOPLAP. He
lives in London where he makes computer games.
TIME: 2.30 - 5.00pm & 6.00 - 7.30pm, Tuesday 4 November 2008
PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS
[Travel information / Maps at:
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=32
]
Next LKL Maths-Art seminars: December 9 at 6pm: Daniel Piker, 'Intuitive
Geometry'; December 12 at 2.30pm: Special seminar - 'Anamorphic art: A
technical & demonstrations seminar'.
Visit the website and seminar archive:
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/events/maths-art
Join the email list for future seminar announcements:
http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lkl-maths-art
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Dr Phillip Kent
London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
23 - 29 Emerald St
London WC1N 3QS
p.kent@ioe.ac.uk
tel 020 7763 2156 mobile 07950 952034
www.ioe.ac.uk/tlrp/technomaths
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