Goldsmiths Creative Computing Department at Lunch Bites

Location: Space 7, Culture Lab
Time/Date: 22nd July 2010, 13:00 - 14:00

For Thursday’s Lunch Bites we welcome colleagues from Goldsmiths University London, Creative Computing department; Professor Mark d'Inverno (Head of Department), Professor Robert Zimmer (Co-Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios), Dr. Patrick Tresset, and Dr. Mick Grierson. 

Goldsmiths Digital Studios is a hub of radical experimentation, fundamental investigations and innovative practices, forging links between digital technologies and artistic practice. It is a crucible for original theories, new departures in the technological arts and pioneering, and commercially viable, sustainable software products.  Leading academic specialists with interests in computing, art, music, design and culture staff the Studios.  The staff work closely with artists and digital media professionals - from the culture industries, film production, design consultancies, museums and galleries, interactive media content providers, software development houses, and hardware design laboratories - to explore and extend the use of today’s digital technology and to define and implement the art and design technologies of tomorrow. 

Mick Grierson is an experimental artist specialising in real-time interactive audiovisual research, with specific focus on cognition and perception. Through a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates media engineering, therapy, interactive gaming, sound, music and audiovisual arts, Grierson is applying research in brain-computer interfaces, audio-visualisation, participation and gaming to develop a range of interactive audiovisual software in partnership with industry and public organisations. This work is being developed in collaboration with a wide range of different communities to create highly experimental creative outputs, whilst also contributing to the creation and enhancement of consumer-grade real-time interaction hardware and software for brain-computer interfacing and technology-led creativity. Grierson's work is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 

Patrick Tresset will present some of the latest progresses on the AIkon-2 project. The Aikon-2 project is a computational and robotic investigation into sketching faces. For more information on the Aikon-2 project see http://www.aikon-gold.com. The Aikon-2 project is co-directed with Prof. Fol Leymarie and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Mark D’Inverno’s research interests cover the application of intelligent agents in biology, music, art and design. For example, agent-based modelling and simulation of the self-organising system of adult stem cells. I'm really interested in how you build and sustain interdisciplinary teams to tackle current local and global problems. Other research interests include the theory and practice of Intelligent agent and multi-agent systems. Social modelling. Formal methods specifying the design and architecture of software systems. 

Looking forward to seeing you all at Lunch Bites, 22nd July, Space 7, 1-2pm.

Published: 16th July 2010