tag: Lecture
Neal White: Context is half the work
Date(s):
Wed 29 9:00 PM
Host:
Neal White
Detailed text:
APG- Socially engaged practice in contemporary art is based on models that for years have pushed the responsibilities of artist out into the world beyond galleries and into the exhibition circuit. With their emphasis on topics such as value, exchange and sharing of knowledge, organisations like APG (Artist Placement Group) provide models and implemented processes from which an open-networked culture can learn. What might be drawn from these examples for new forms of intervention through media, and what can be changed, based on the lessons learned?
Biography:
Neal White is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Critical Practice, Post-Graduate Department at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. He has exhibited widely, most recently with work last year at Henry Moore Institute, Barbican Gallery, ICA/Goldsmiths, International 3 MAnchester. He is currently working in collaboration with N55 on a commission for Arts Catalyst, and with the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. He has recently given talks at Tate and written for 'Contemporary' Magazine. He is an advisor to the board of O+I (formerly APG) and was a co-founder of art/ technology group - Soda.
Prof. Robin Baker: A new learning environment
Date(s):
Wed 29 9:00 PM
Host:
Robin Baker
Detailed text:
The College is seeking to move to another site and it's important that we have not just a new building but a new kind of education suitable for the 21st century: we will have a new kind of learner and we need to understand how to respond.
Biography:
Robin Baker: Royal College of Art - including Professor of Visual Computing; speaks abroad on media subjects. Director of the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
Armin Medosch: Welcome and Introduction
Date(s):
Wed 29 9:00 PM
Host:
Armin Medosch
Detailed text:
A short welcome note and introduction to the festival and it's themes.
Biography:
Armin Medosch is a writer, curator and media artist. He is associate senior lecturer in digital media at Ravensbourne College's Postgraduate Program. He has written and edited several books on new media and network culture, his latest work including texts on wireless community networking and free and open source culture.
His latest work as a curator includes a contribution to the exhibition OpenNature at NTTICC Tokyo and the forthcoming exhibition Waves, Riga 2006. In his spare time he is conducting research on collaborative and participative art forms, open cartography and mobile and interactive travelogues.
Karel Dudesek: The design of conflicts in the era of political correctness
Date(s):
Fri 31 9:00 PM
Host:
Karel Dudesek
Detailed text:
My early performance's and television experiments have also addressed political correctness, participatory culture, freedom of speech and copyright. Conflicts nowadays are in certain areas extinguished and in others alive and intensive as not known before.
The importance of establishing conflicts in design and art processes, in architecture and product design is in my opinion an important skill which should be an integrative part of higher education in the UK. Some questions will be asked: Is terrorism the only alternative to entertain bored consumers? Why the Islam inherited the bad boy game after the collapse of Communist empire? Post Creutzfeldt-Jakob economy, or is the bird flu the only ecological rescue? From skills, to knowledge, who needs wisdom in a consumer oriented society?
Biography:
Karel Dudesek is co founder of IUPA (Institute of unknown political affairs), Minus Deltat (music and performance group) the Ponton Media Lab in Hamburg, director of Van Gogh TV- Atlanta/Meckelfeld, former director of the New Media department at the University of applied Arts- Vienna and today Course Leader for Postgraduate studies in Ravensbourne.
Dr. Gernot Tscherteu: Meme Tracking - Tools To Track How Ideas, Concepts And News Spread Over The Net
Date(s):
Fri 31 9:00 PM
Host:
Mag. Dr. Gernot Tscherteu
Detailed text:
The web is undergoing a fundamental shift. More and more webusers become active producers of webcontent. (Currently Technorati searches more than 27 million weblogs online) As web media producers need to know more about meme and information dissemination, new tools and concepts have been developed: These Tools help to find out: where are the information hubs, what are upcoming topics, who is reading my weblog and what do people think about it. The presentation introduces relevant web-tools and services for meme tracking and is demonstrating how they may produce new forms of media competence and proactive content production.
Biography:
Mag. Dr. Gernot Tscherteu
Mediadesigner and Mediaresearcher
realitylab.at, Vienna (A)
Social scientist educated at University of Vienna. Dissertation "media.cultures.realities" about the impact of digital media on the production and communication of knowledge. Media and interaction designer since 1991. Design and research projects for Austrian Academy of Science, University of Applied Arts, EDVG, Sysis AG, ZKM Karlsruhe, Streetvision London. Co-founder of "planhaus", office for architecture and design, together with Claudia Pöllabauer-Tscherteu (1999). Head of "realitylab" with special interest in weblogs and other forms of social software, knowledge-management, and LED-displays in public space. Find publications and projects at www.realitylab.at (some english papers available).
Lectures held on 31st March
Mike Phillips: Auto-Creativity V1.7
Date(s):
Sun 20 9:00 PM
Host:
Mike Phillips
Detailed text:
Auto-Creativity V1.7 - A slash and burn transmedia compression codec for artists and designers
Auto-Creativity V1.7 says: "Burning a DVD today? Burn a museum tomorrow."
Warning: The illegal burning of anything is not supported by Auto-Creativity V1.5. This idea is protected by copyright law and critical theories. Unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this idea, or any portion of it, may result in severe cultural and creative penalties. If you are uncertain about your right to burn any material you should contact your legal advisor or regional arts council.
Biography:
Mike Phillips is the director of i-DAT [The Institute of Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth, and heads the Nascent research group]. Private and public sector grant funded R&D orbits digital architectures, transmedia publishing and generative media. Recent projects include the 'Arch-OS' architectural operating system and the LiquidPress.
Reto Wettach: Physical Interaction Design
Date(s):
Sat 20 9:00 PM
Host:
Reto Wettach
Detailed text:
Computing power is not restricted to devices with lots of buttons and a little screen, like mobile phones or PCs. Computing power is more and more dissolving into spaces and everyday objects. The research community is talking about “ubiquitous computing”.
Reto Wettach is going to give an introduction into this field. The main focus of his talk will be the art of prototyping: How can creative people put their ideas into reality?
Biography:
Prof. Reto Wettach, stone mason, writer and designer. Since 2005 Reto is
setting up Germany’s first MA/BA course for Interaction Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. He is also heading the research lab Interaction Design Lab IDL. Before joining the University in Potsdam, Reto was an associate professor at the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea. Previously to that, he worked as designer and researcher at Sony in Tokyo and at IDEO in San Francisco.
Giles Lane, George Roussos & Natalie Jeremijenko: Robotic Feral Public Authoring
Date(s):
Sat 20 9:00 PM
Host:
Giles Lane
Detailed text:
Proboscis and Birkbeck College will present and demonstrate the results of the Robotic Feral Public Authoring research project, combining hobbyist robotics, environmental sensing and public authoring. Building upon the existing Feral Robots (hacked toy robots with environmental sensors) and Urban Tapestries projects (knowledge mapping and sharing), the project investigates new community-based interventions for pollution mapping related to local knowledge and context.
http://socialtapestries.net/feralrobots/
Biography:
Giles Lane is co-director of Proboscis, a non-profit creative studio based in London. He leads the Social Tapestries research programme is the principal investigator for the Robotic Feral Public Authoring project.
Dr George Roussos is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Natalie Jeremijenko is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Design at University of California San Diego and a member of the Bureau of Inverse Technology. Natalie held an EPSRC Visiting Fellowship with Proboscis for the Robotic Feral Public Authoring project.
Shu Lea Cheang: Selling it, buy one get one
Date(s):
Sat 20 9:00 PM
Host:
Shu Lea Cheang
Detailed text:
I like to be served. I can not afford to be served. self-service, yes, takeaway, yes. with a style! treat me, treat me to a five star. no need for drink coupons. bill me. google me. money in the wire. How do you swing between serving and served? in between, the revolution did take place down the squares.
Biography:
Shu Lea Cheang is a mobilized digital artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production. Currently travels in the eurozone.
high res-image http://babylove.biz/html/exhibition.html
Richard Gras: Machinima - MakingMovies With Video games
Date(s):
Sat 20 9:00 PM
Host:
Richard Gras
Detailed text:
Machinima is the making of short animated films using videogames. In this presentation Ricard will introduce to the audience the concept of Machinima by exploring why users of games are turning producers, review the techniques that are being used as well as explore the new distribution channels utilised by Machinimators. The talk will feature exclusive Machinima footage.
Biography:
Richard Gras works at LA INTERACTIVA developing content in collaboration with film, TV and videogames production companies. As consultant and speaker he has taken part in the Showcomotion Conference, Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Fest., NY Machinima Film Fest. & Bradford Animation Fest. As producer he has collaborated in projects with companies of the likes of EA, SONY and Activision.
