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Sun Jan 18 18:21:36 CET 2009

**NEW THURSDAY CLUB EVENTS** NEW THURSDAY CLUB EVENTS** 

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

Programmed and Organised by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
Supported by the Goldsmiths Graduate School and the Department of Computing. 

*noise=Noise: Mind Body Brain*

Date: *21 January 2009* **NOTE THIS IS A SPECIAL THURSDAY CLUB EVENT TAKING PLACE ON A *WEDNESDAY***
Location: Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building
Time: 18:30-21:00

Mind Body Brain is an evening concert exploring noise (music) through research into new interfaces for musical expression and perceptions of noise. The evening will be split into two segments. In the first segment each artist will give a synopsis of their current work and research. The second segment will be a live concert. This event brings together artists from music, computing, design and psychology. Through the course of the evening you may hear ghost voices and mains
electricity through Disinformation; a brain playing music through Mick Griersons' brain computer interface, and strobe-ing lights and sounds with John Bowers' infra-instruments. 

Curator: Ryan Jordan. 

Artists:

*DISINFORMATION*
Through his ground-breaking Disinformation project (active since 1995),noise DJ and installation artist Joe Banks pioneered the use of electromagnetic (radio) noise from sources such as live mains electricity, lightning, industrial and IT hardware, laboratory equipment, trains, magnetic storms and the sun as the raw material of musical and fine-art publications, exhibits and events. Disinformation
has been the subject of ten UK solo exhibitions, experienced by over 100,000 people and described by The Guardian as some of the most beautiful installations around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_(art_and_music_project)

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ROBERT ATWOOD*
Robert Atwood has been experimenting with improvised performances on improvised instruments for several years, first as part of Toronto's "Urban Refuse Group" and subsequently as a solo project in London, UK. He also has explored improvisational music with traditional instruments and effect-processed instruments with Toronto's "Brain Harmonic", and has used and developed sound feedback and sequencing software for performances with London's "Openlab" collective, and live-coding feedback patches for Loss-Livecode. His broad theme of sound performances is the improvisational reaction to generated feedback, in electronic circuits or in software synthesis. In this performance he will use Feedback Machine #1, consisting of a discarded 8-inch woofer cone with a homebuilt amplifier rig and some pedal-effects. The feedback loop is completed by the performer's hands which conduct sound directly from the speaker cone to a pickup microphone. The result of this feedback is further process

ed by a specially-developed sequencer program, which samples segments of the sound, sequences them into a loop, and also feeds the output of the loop back into the individual samples. Thus there are two feedback loops on different time scales which the performer will attempt to
control, with only partial success, resulting in an unpredictable polyrhythmic performance.
http://robert.lurk.org/

*MICK GRIERSON*
Mick Grierson is an experimental artist specialising in real-time interactive audiovisual research, with specific focus on cognition and perception. He works in film, music, and software development, both inside and outside industry, designing, developing and producing new approaches to creating audiovisual experience. In addition to working in traditional roles in film and television, he has designed commercial audiovisual software for the entertainment industries, which has led to several high profile commissions, including title design and digital audiovisual installations for the hit TV show Derren Brown: Trick of
the Mind. In January 2008, he collaborated with the Sonic Arts Network to create a freely available interactive audiovisual interface for use by the deaf and hard of hearing. In addition he is lead developer on the Mabuse Audiovisual Composition Software Environment. He is currently working on a three year fully funded AHRC project on audiovisual cognition at Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios.
http://www.mickgrierson.co.uk/

*SLUB*
slub is a live coding band with Dave Griffiths, Alex McLean and, occasionally, Adrian Ward. Grifiths writes programs to make noises, pictures and animations. He lives in London where he makes film effects software and computer games. McLean
has been triggering distorted kick drum samples with Perl scripts for far too long.  He is a PhD student of Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths College. Griffiths and McLean are both members of the Openlab free software artists collective and the TOPLAP organisation for live algorithm promotion.
http://slub.org/

*JOHN BOWERS & LIAM WELLS
*Bowers and Wells will simultaneously perform GforGuitar (Wells) and GforGround (Bowers). The performances will be accompanied by computer generated sounds and images derived from multiple cross-modal feedback processes. All material will be tuned in relation to harmonics and sub-harmonics of the AC supply frequency 50 Hz, our fundamental, G.

John Bowers works with home brew electronics, self-made instruments and reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, alongside contemporary digital technology. He is concerned with making performance environments that combine sound, vision and human gesture at a fundamental physical level. Recent work includes projects to build a music synthesizer using 19th century techniques (The Victorian Synthesizer), explorations of random circuitry (Ohm-My-God), a
miniaturisation of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville's Dreamachine (My Little Dreamachine), and a reconstruction of early television technology (This Nightlife Instrument). He was recently artist in residence at Fylkingen in Stockholm. He is co-founder of the Onoma Research label and also plays electric guitar in the fundamentalist noise rock band Tonesucker. John Bowers is part of the Interaction Research Studio, Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.
http://www.onoma.co.uk/jmbowers.html

Liam Wells is a UK based artist working in a number of improvised practices,
which explore repetition & irregularity in multiple layered non-linear audio/ visual works. Through a number of linked practices including drone-based noise compositions/ improvisations, installation, video-performances and networked/ net art, he explores textural detail and difference within immersive environments. He is a postgraduate student at theUEA's Electronic Music Studio and is currently Course Leader of Norwich University College of the Arts' (BA Hons) Film and Video. Previously he has been involved in the creation of networked improvisational
environments through involvement with a variety of organisations,including the co-curating of various multi-site works with n0media (www.n0media.net <http://www.n0media.net>) and has recently performed audiovisual works at DIT (Ireland), Fylkingen (Sweden), Norwich Gallery (UK) and City Gallery (Lithuania). Wells is also one third of neo-noise--prog outfit TRANSEPT who have recently been awarded an Arts Council England Escalator Grant for New Music.
http://www.liamwells.co.uk

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*
Nick Montfort: Changing the Way Interactive Fiction is Told *

Date: *22 January 2009*
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

This is a special event co-hosted by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios and New Media Forum, Dept. of Media and Communications

Stories give pleasure and provoke not only because of what happens in them, but also because of how they are told. It is not just the sequence of incidents that makes Lolita, Ulysses, or The Odyssey so compelling, but also the perspectives used, the order in which events are related, and the distance of the narrator from the characters. Nick will describe techniques for automatic narration, discussing an implemented architecture for interactive fiction development. The system allows many different sorts of interactive fiction to be programmed, and, using a general plan for narrating, allows the telling to change during interaction.

NICK MONTFORT is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
http://nickm.com/me.html

*** FUTURE EVENTS ** FUTURE EVENTS ** *
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1. Joe Banks: Disinformation - Research, Development, and Experimental Painting*
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5 February 2009*
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

The Disinformation art project was conceived in 1995 as a strategic extrapolation of the modes of production associated with underground experimental music and electronic noise (considered as a highly specialised, esoteric, and sometimes confrontational form of popular culture) into the territory associated with more conventional forms of visual fine art and "high" culture. 

*2. Giorgos Artopoulos & Eduardo Condorcet: The House of Affects Project. /Correlating Digitally Distributed Narrative to Adaptable Spaces/

19 February 2009*
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

The House of Affects is an interactive audiovisual environment aiming to use several video projections in a dark room. 

*3. Arthur Elsenaar: Fundamentals of the Computer-controlled Human Face as a Medium for Kinetic Art.*
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5 March 2000*
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building 
Time: 18:00 - 20:00 

Controlling the human face by a computer instead of the brain can make the face perform in unexpected and often surprising ways. 

*4. Derek Holzer: TONEWHEELS: Experiments in Opto-Electronic Synthesis and Graphical Sound [TBC]
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*19 March 2009*
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music instruments such as the Variophone [Evgeny Scholpo (USSR) 1930], the Welte Light-Tone Organ [Edwin Emil Welte (DE) 1936], the ANS Synthesizer [Evgeny Murzin (USSR) 1958], and the Oramics system [Daphne Oram (UK) 1959]. 

*5. Rachel Armstrong: Bio Feminism: Move Over Darwin
    Respondent: Joanna Zylinska

26 March 2009*
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Bio Feminist science promotes the treacherous biology of the cyborg challenging notions of aliveness, performing every transgressive act possible within autopoietic systems at a molecular level and redefining our view of evolution.

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Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies  Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr www.cybertheater.org 

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