Thu 6th November 2008
2-5pm
@ Camberwell College of Arts
Seminar Room Basement
Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
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Melissa Bliss is an artist based in London. She has a long history of social engagement with technology and her work is often collaborative. Her key interests are people and place and internal and external geographies. Her works use a variety of media such as performance, installation, sound and video. She has shown work nationally and internationally in Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost in New York, Beacon Art Projects in Lincolnshire, FRED in Cumbria, EASTinternational in Norwich and node-l media arts festival in London. She has worked with young people for several years using mobile phones to make videos, take photographs and record sound. Her work can be found at www.livingcinema.org. She is also a director of Living Cinema, an independent film company which makes unusual documentaries www.livingcinema.com.
23-24 October 2008
10-4:30pm
@ Camberwell College of Arts
Seminar Room Basement
Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
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You are invited to attend a two day electronics workshop conducted by Leon Barker (PhD Candidate SCIRIA, Camberwell).
Day 1: Introduction to electronics
Day 2
Please visit http://ccw-public.wikispaces.com/Electronics for updated information.
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 1-4.30pm
Ground Floor Seminar Room (G17)
Research Office
Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
You are invited to attend a Research Seminar at SCIRIA. There will be presentations about Early Computer Art by Catherine Mason and Nick Lambert:
Lunch 1 pm, talks 2 – 4.30 pm
Catherine Mason will talk about her new book, ‘A Computer in the Art Room’:
The origins of British Computer Arts 1950 - 1980'. This uncovers the little-known history of early British computer art. Described for the first time is the crucial role played by art schools in fostering important cross-disciplinary digital collaborations. This was a unique period in which art students could learn to program computers and construct their own hardware, before the onset of PCs and 'user-friendly' systems.
Dr Nick Lambert from the Computer Arts and Technocultures Project (CAT), a joint venture between Birkbeck and the V&A, will discuss ‘Parallel Evolution’:
The development of computer arts in the 1980s to 90s’. The art show at the SIGGRAPH graphics conference was a major American and international venue for computer art. From the late 1970s onwards, the Los Angeles-based art historian Patric Prince collected a significant amount of early computer art that was closely linked with SIGGRAPH, and this was later donated to the V&A, becoming the research material for CAT.
9-10 July 2008
10-4:00pm
@ Camberwell College of Arts
Seminar Room Basement
Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
Participants will gain first hand experience of using the Developer Tools and Cocoa framework to build a fully working software application. The emphasis is upon utilising existing tools and functionality, requiring no previous programming experience. Conducted by Mark Hill (SCIRIA Research Assistant).
Day 1: Developer Tools
• Interface Builder
• Xcode
Day 2: Building An Application
• Step-by-step tutorial
• Additional resources (site, forums, and documentation)
Requirements: A Mac computer running OS X 10.4+ with the developer tools installed (these can be found on the OS X installation disc).
4-5 June 2008
10-4:30pm
@ Camberwell College of Arts
Seminar Room Basement
Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
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You are invited to attend a two day electronics workshop conducted by Leon Barker (PhD Candidate SCIRIA, Camberwell) and Marcus Kirsch (RCA Interaction design graduate).
Day 1: Electronics workshop - Making interactive circuits with Arduino boards:
Day 2: Writing programs using Processing 1.0 / Java
Please visit http://ccw-public.wikispaces.com/Electronics for updated information.
Wednesday, 23 April 2008,
6.30pm
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Banqueting Hall
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU
A striking parallel between contemporary algorithmic art and classical Islamic art is that both are full of examples of text trying to become figure, or image that reverts to its basis in text. In digital art, the medium consists of code, which may or may not be expressed as image, sound, action, etc. In religious Islamic art, the written and spoken word of the Qur'an are considered to be the direct speech of God. Yet despite the constraint of clear and unambiguous Sunni scripts, I observe a fascinating will to figuration in Sunni Islamic art whereby letters and words start to look like bodies. I will show examples Islamic artworks where the text seems inexorably to give rise to a figure, and digital artworks that struggle to make manifest code that wants to stay latent. I "explain" the "will to figuration" drawing from new media theory, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and the thought on latency and manifestation developed in Shi'i Islam.
Laura U. Marks, a Canadian writer and curator of artists’ media, is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (2002). She is researching relationships between classical Islamic art and new media art, for a book prospectively titled Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art. Dr. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Canada. www.sfu.ca/~lmarks
Image: Detail, Album containing the surah Al-Fâtihah, signed by Muhammad Kazim (Iran, 1802-3)
An evening to launch and discuss Richard Colson's new book, Fundamentals of Digital Art, which examines how digital technology is forcing a rethink of creative priorities for artists today. Colson, senior lecturer in digital arts at Thames Valley University, has spoken to practitioners and theorists in digital arts across the world and, alongside examples of digital art from the last four decades, offers practical know-how for readers involved or looking to become involved with digital art.
A panel discussion will include: Ed Burton, research and development director at creative development agency Soda and creator of the Bafta-winning Sodacontructor (go to sodaplay.com to try it yourself); James Faure Walker, painter, digital artist, and writer, and research fellow at arts and science research group Sciria; Charlie Gere, author of White Heat, Cold Logic and director of research at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.
£7 / £6 Concessions / £5 ICA Members.
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Tuesday 18 March 2008 7:30 pm Nash Room
TFRG - University of the Arts London
The Textile Futures Research Group, University of the Arts London (UAL) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) explore the coded enquiry of three artists and researchers. Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, TFRG Guest Artist, Dr Barbara Rauch, Deputy Director SCIRIA (Sensory Computer Interface Research & Innovation in the Arts), UAL and Nicola Naismith, Lecturer at Norwich School of Art and Design.
Following presentations, Dr Jane Harris , Director of TFRG, Helen Sloan, Director of SCAN and Jess Laccetti, Institute of Creative Technologies, will conduct a panel discussion with the artists.
Tickets are £10 / £8 Concessions / £6 ICA Members
Available from the ICA: www.ica.org.uk / Box Office: +44(0)20 7930 3647
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH.
Wednesday March 5 2008, 12.30 - 5 pm at Camberwell College of Arts, Research Office, Wilson Road
There will be four short presentations covering a wide range of subject matter, with interesting points of connection:
By James Faure Walker
22-23 November 2007 in Wilson Road, basement
Simple practical introduction to basic circuit construction, driving motors, LEDs, flashing lights, how to fit sensors into circuits (simple light effecting circuits)
15-20 participants (groups of 3 or 4)
By Leon Barker and Tobie Kerridge