[spectre] October Meeting - Richard Brown

[Paul Brown]

Members of the public are welcome (please pass on) -

The next Computer Arts Society meeting will be:

Richard Brown
Interactive Art: complexity, emergence and mimetics

Tuesday 2 October 2007
6:30 for 7:00PM
System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers
The Piazza Covent Garden
London WC2E 8HA, England
Direction at: http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html

In my talk I will show examples of three artworks, Alembic, Biotica  
and the Mimetic Starfish that use real-time 3D computer simulations  
and interactive interfaces to enable participants to engage with  
complex, emergent and mimetic processes. In contrast to digital  
media, I will also show how these processes can be realised in  
alternative artworks using electrochemical, electromagnetic and  
electrostatic systems, some of which were shown at the recent Pask  
inspired exhibition "Maverick Machines" in Edinburgh.

Biography:
Richard Brown has a BSc in Computers & Cybernetics and an MA in Fine  
Art and creates interactive artworks using multi-media technology,  
computer programming, electronics and interfacing.  Between 1995 and  
2001 Richard was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, where  
he created and exhibited three major interactive works Alembic,  
Biotica and the Mimetic Starfish. The research outcomes of Biotica  
were published as a book entitled "Biotica: Art, Emergence and  
Artificial-Life".

In 2001 Richard was invited as Artist in Residence at the Centre for  
Electronic Media Arts (CEMA), Monash University.  In 2002, an award  
from NESTA (the National Endowment of Science Technology and the  
Arts) enabled Richard to work as an independent artist and  
researcher, between 2002 and 2003 he was based in Australia as an  
Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victorian College of Arts,  
Melbourne University.

In 2004 Richard moved to Edinburgh where he participated in the EPIS  
entrepreneurial scheme hosted at Edinburgh University, Scotland. In  
2005 he won an Ideasmart award to develop a novel interactive  
lighting system and is currently Research Artist in Residence in  
Edinburgh Informatics.

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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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