Wednesday 29th September, at 6pm UK/ 7pm BCN. on Zoom.
In English

In this new event, Helen Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan will present their artistic research project entitled “In the mouth of the polar bear: The undead feeling of the world”, carried out within the framework of DONE 5. This project engages with the production of transpecies animacy in the domains of edu-tainment, policing, and the military industrial complex. More information

The commissioned artists will present their project in conversation with the three curators and the rest of the participants of the DONE5 programme.

Dr. Helen V. Pritchard is an artist and geographer whose work considers the impacts of computation on social and environmental justice. Helen is an Associate Professor of Queer Feminist Technoscience at i-DAT, Plymouth University and a research fellow at Goldsmiths University of London.

Cassandra Troyan is a writer, artist, and researcher whose work explores the intersections of gendered and colonial violence, radical histories of resistance, and speculative futures beyond capital. Cassandra teaches creative-critical writing practices as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Linnaeus University in Sweden.

Free admission. Details on how to access the Zoom meeting will be confirmed upon registration.

Registration

It can also be followed through Foto Colectania’s Youtube channel

 

Bees, Robots and Light : A Celebration of South West Creative Technology

In 2018 the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) began a £6.5m Research England funded project to expand the use of creative technologies across the South West.

We’re now ready to share the learning from an incredible three years, as we launch our SWCTN Final Report.

Taking place on Youtube we will be joined from around the South West by partners from Plymouth, Falmouth, Exeter, Bristol and Bath, looking at the amazing projects that were developed and what the future holds.

In a unique partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE), Bath Spa University, Falmouth University, Plymouth University, Watershed and Kaleider, the main focus of the SWCTN was to build a network across the South West and support big thinking.

We ran three one-year funded programmes around the themes of Immersion, Automation and Data, with the aim of linking up research, prototyping and business development in the world of creative technology.

Three years later we have supported 75 research fellows, 24 prototype teams, plus a whole host of microgrants. It has been a wonderful journey, and with the added challenge of the pandemic, a time of great learning for all of us.

In this celebration we will be sharing our learning, bringing all of our partners together to speak about their part in this groundbreaking R&D project, asking questions about how we can support the future of creative technology in our specific regions as well as in the wider South West.

Come join us and help raise an online glass to the past three years and an exciting future.

Online details to be sent closer to the event

The event will be BSL interpreted and contain automated live captioning but please email hello@swctn.org.uk if you have any further questions or access requirements.

Tickets:

 

Ars Electronica Garden LEONARDO LASER

[Anti]disciplinary Topographies

Leonardo/ISAST (US), University of Art and Design Linz (AT), The LASER Hosts Global Network.

https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/antidisciplinary-topographies/

Culturing transnational dialogue for creative hybridity

Leonardo LASER Garden gathers our global network of artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together in a series of hybrid formats addressing the world’s most pressing issues. Animated by the theme of a “new digital deal” and grounded in the UN Sustainability Goals, Leonardo LASER Garden cultivates our values of equity and inclusion by elevating underrepresented voices in a wide-ranging exploration of global challenges, digital communities and placemaking, space, networks and systems, the digital divide – and the impact of interdisciplinary art, science and technology discourse and collaboration.

Dovetailing with the launch of LASER Linz, this asynchronous multi-platform garden will highlight the best of the Leonardo Network (spanning 47 cities worldwide) and our transdisciplinary community. In “Extraordinary Times Call for Extraordinary Vision: Humanizing Digital Culture with the New Creativity Agenda & the UNSDGs,” Leonardo/ISAST CEO Diana Ayton-Shenker presents our vision for shaping our global future. This will be followed by a Leonardo Community Lounge open to the general public, with the goal of encouraging contributions to the cultural environments of different regions through transnational exchange and community building.

Credits

Leonardo/ISAST & the Global Network of LASER Hosts in partnership with the Interface Culture Department, Institute for Media, University of Art and Design Linz

Organizing Committee:

Christiana Kazakou, Leonardo LASER Program Lead  (UK/GR)
Vanessa Chang, Leonardo Senior Program Manager (US/SG/AU)
Tami Spector – Leonardo LASER Committee Co-Chair (US)
Alan Boldon – Leonardo LASER Committee Co-Chair (UK)
Nina Czegledy – Leonardo LASER Committee (CA)
Piero Scaruffi – Leonardo LASER Committee (US)
JD Talasek – Leonardo LASER Committee (US)

Participating LASER Hosts:

LASER Alberta (CA) / LASER Auckland (NZ) / LASER Cambridge (UK) / LASER Fortaleza (BR) / LASER Helsinki/Espoo (FI) / LASER Linz (AT) / LASER Mexico (MX) / LASER Montreal (CA) / LASER Nomad (DE) / LASER New York City (US) / LASER Pasadena (US) / LASER Rio de Janeiro (BR) / LASER Santa Fe (MX) / LASER São Paulo (BR) / LASER St. Petersburg(RU) / LASER Tempe (US) / LASER Toronto (CA) / LASER Totnes (UK) / LASER Vienna (AT) / LASER Zurich (CH)

LASER Host Institutions & Partners:
ArtSci Salon (CA), The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (CA), Medical University of Vienna (AT), University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), CrossLab, University of Fortaleza (BR), Atelier Tania Fraga (BR), University of Cambridge (UK), Hexagram (CA), University of Bergen (NO), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (MX), Aalto University (FI), Dartington Hall Trust (UK), Life Science Zurich (CH), Wageningen University Research (NL), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI), University of Zurich (CH), ETH Zurich (CH), Artists in Labs Program at the University of the Arts, ZHdK (CH), World Wildlife Fund Volunteers (CH), Art and Science Node (DE), CYLAND Media Art Lab (RU), Fulcrum Arts (US), ArtCenter College of Design/Williamson Gallery (US), Ubiquitous Lab (DE), AUT University (NZ), LevyArts (US), Washington University in St. Louis (US), Arizona State University (US), Biodesign Institute (US), Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (US), National Cancer Institute (US), University of Alberta (CA), Interface Culture Department, Institute for Media, University of Art and Design  Linz (AT), SciArt Santa Fe (MX), Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (BR), Helsinki Design Week (FI), Vienna Biennale for Change (AT), Evolutionary Ecology, Biological Intelligence Lab – Southern Cross University (AU), Biologiezentrum O.Ö Landeskultur G.m.b.H. (AT), Leisenhof Gärtnerei (AT)

For a full list of our international LASER Hosts Network please see leonardo.info/laser-hosts

LEONARDO LASER LINZ – with Christiana Kazakou from i-DAT.

Die Gartenlaube,

The Garden Gazebo 10.

September 2021, 14.00 bis 17.00 Uhr

Leonardo LASER Talks – LEONARDO LASER LINZ, Garden Gazebo at Ars Electronica 2021 at the University of Art and Design in Linz, supported by Interface Cultures.

Hybrid Futures

Christiana Kazakou (UK), Dr. Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (AT), Dr. Monica Gagliano (IT), Dr. Martin Pfosser (AT), Leisenhof Gärtnerei Linz (AT), Mag. Gabriele Winkler (AT), Dr. Christa Sommerer (AT), Fabricio Lamoncha (ES)

Linz is joining the Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) network with an international program hosted by Interface Cultures at Ars Electronica 2021. Artists, scientists, scholars and the general public are invited to join conversations about sustainable ways of living, environmental protection, and artistic and scientific developments for a “climate-modern” future. In a modernized “Gartenlaube,” Climate-Care, Climate-Digital and Climate-Social — terms proposed by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein — will be debated and discussed with a focus on Interspecies Collaboration, The Mind of Plants, Herbal Pedagogy, and Biodynamic Farming. It will be supported by the exploration and celebration of artistic and folk wisdom, to bring everyone together for a ”Gartenlaube Waltz.”

https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/hybrid-futures/

 

 

 

That BBC relational database Monkey reference at about 18.40 into The Unbelievable Truth, Series 26, episode 5. The old 2002 Generator and Notes Towards the Complete Works, also mentioned here on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Generator

 

Christiana Kazakou to present her paper:

Global Perspectives: Multi-spatial trajectories at the nexus of art and science discourse

at:

International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021: Creating Spaces and Cultivating Mindsets for Learning and Experimentation

Online, 13–17 September 2021

Co-organised by the Network for Transdisciplinary Research and Transdisciplinarity Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

More information and call for contributions: http://transdisciplinarity.ch/td-net/Aktuell/ITD-2021.html

Organisation(s) associée(s) : 

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

Associated universities : 

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

 

 

Christiana Kazakou has been accepted into Ars Electronica’s 6-week global programme titled “A Manifesto for Creative Producing,” which brings together creative producers from various disciplines and backgrounds.

This interdisciplinary collaboration emerges as a critical linchpin in an increasingly interconnected world, with the results on display at this year’s festival edition.

A common commitment to collaborative process, relationship building, and creative problem solving can be seen across industries and sectors. The creative producer creates spaces for open-ended creativity, multiple perspectives, and unexpected connections that will help us imagine different realities, and forge different paths that allows us to take responsibility for a more equitable digital future.

During an exciting 6-week programme, emerging and established Creative Producers will have a space to gather and develop; to critically reflect on our role and its impact on the New Digital Deal; and to co-author a manifesto for Creative Producing.

The program will engage the participants in an open, playful, and collaborative process to further define practice and capture a global perspective.

Wednesday, July 14 LOCATION: Innovation Stage TIME: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Mohamed Hossam, a member of i-DAT’s MRes Digital Art & Technology Programme, contributes to a panel discussion about Sensory Narratives and Culture Interfaces at thee Maker Faire Cairo.

https://cairo.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/3161/

 

Very pleased to be hackathoning through the launch events for the Real Ideas Organisation’s Devonport Market Hall.

Video clips rendered by Joel Hodges and Musaab Garghouti:

Unreal Engine 5 Photogrammetry demo:

Powderham Castle Stair well data capture by Dr Alejandro Veliz Reyes and his team and rendered by Musaab Garghouti.

Murmuration: Joel Hodges remix.

Congratulations to Chris Booth, Programme Leader for BA/BSc Digital Media Design & BA/BSc Internet Design, for winning the University wide Programme Leader of the Year!

https://www.upsu.com/news/article/upsu/UPSU-SSTAR-Awards-2021/

This year’s Staff SSTAR Award Winners…

The SSTAR Awards stands for Student Staff Teaching and Representation Awards. They are the chance for students and staff to show their appreciation for someone who has made a difference to their University experience this year. This could be a caring personal tutor, an engaged course rep, an inspiring lecturer or an individual who champions equality and diversity.

Why is it important?

This year more than ever it’s important for us to recognise those individuals who went above and beyond in their role to support students. We know that the year has not been easy for anyone, but we want to highlight the people who went out of their way to make it better for others.

These awards are incredibly powerful, whether your nominee wins or not, your words can mean so much to that person. Because knowing you have made a difference for at least one person can really mean the world.

– Emi Dowse – VP Education 2020/21

 

 

Here is what the nominators said:

[testimonial name=”Anon…”]“Chris is the sort of Programme Leader that makes teaching look easy. While it has been no easy year at all, the organisation and communication that Chris has given to the student body and course has been so clear and well structured that you’d almost forget we’re in a pandemic.”[/testimonial] [testimonial name=”Anon…”]”From the get-go, Chris makes it seem like all his attention is solely on our course and year, but having had him over several years, I know he exhibits the same individualism and attention to all years. This makes a huge impact on the student body, his enthusiasm and dedication to the subject and teaching means we (the students) also want to engage and do the best we can within modules our modules and in university life too.”[/testimonial] [testimonial name=”Anon…”]”We have some exceptional lectures on our programme that go out of their way to make sure we are well informed and supported but Chris has used his experience of being an alumni student on our course to tailor teaching to the level and style that he knows excites us and encourages us to do our best.”[/testimonial] [testimonial name=”Anon…”]”This year I became a course rep to be a part of the student feedback process. Chris involves us (the course reps) at every opportunity to help guide the programme and to ensure there is support available for all students in the best way possible. As such, he has leaned on us to gather the student opinion and see where he can help out. Just some results of this that Chris has proactively setup are weekly social sessions and breakfast clubs. Due to the nature of our courses and our personalities, it can be all to easy for us to become our own form of socially isolated and so, offering a platform for simple social interactions makes a huge impact to those of us who need it.”[/testimonial] [testimonial name=”Anon…”]”There is no doubt from the student body that Chris is a great lecturer, but on a personal note, with the enthusiasm and understanding in his teaching style and support, I have personally become a lot more confident and proud in the work I submit. As a result, I am have been successful in landing a role that is a door opener to my dream job. It’s for this reason I am nominating Chris for Programme Leader of the Year. With his enthusiastic, resilient and determined approach, he has made our years of uni, the most valuable they could be, both in terms of educational quality and in personal development.”[/testimonial] [testimonial name=”Anon…”]“Chris has been one of the best lectures I have ever come across in my 4 years at Plymouth, he is patient, kind, always willing to help you and support you. He’s constantly going out of his way for others and everyone that comes across Chris always leaves with a smile on their face. He is the best thing to happen to digital media design and deserves this award.”[/testimonial] [testimonial name=”Anon…”]“Chris has been a brilliant programme leader. He has had to step up to this role and he has really grabbed the bull by the horns. He always has time for students and is always very supportive. I have had some home issues this year and Chris has been so understanding and kind it has been really helpful. I am very grateful for the way Chris has managed the course this year and really feel he deserves this award especially considering the current situation of the World!”[/testimonial]