[spectre] New Thursday Club Season @ Goldsmiths

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou]

**NEW THURSDAY CLUB SEASON AT GOLDSMITHS**

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

this is the programme of our new Autumn 08 Thursday Club season of events
at Goldsmiths. Please put the dates in your diaries and we do hope to see
you there for stimulating presentations, discussions and exchanges, plus a
glass or two of wine.

The 1st event will take place this coming Thursday 25th October. For more
info re our future events please check the Thursday Club website

http://www.thethursdayclub.net


With best wishes for a productive winter,
Maria X
::

Thursday Club
Autumn Term 2008

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


Programme of Events


1. Murray McKeich: Computational Creativity

Date: 25 September 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Murray McKeich is a New Zealander currently resident in Melbourne
Australia who has established himself as a leading practitioner of digital
media in Australasian contemporary art. Working with digital photo-media,
his exhibition projects include printed imagery and animation. Described
as both macabre and darkly seductive, Mckeich’s art weaves visions of
surreal fantasy and magic from the tiny pieces of every-day debris found
in urban and domestic environments. His recent practice uses generative
software to autonomously breed art-works.

McKeich believes that computational tools are about to become more
intimately integrated with human creativity. Artists and designers will
take on the role of creative directors while their personalised software
will work for them in the capacity of highly trained, trusted and
autonomous studio assistants, capable of producing finished artworks
without direct supervision. McKeich demonstrates that this form of
practice is possible with current off-the-shelf software and minimal
programming skill. More difficult is the psychological challenge of
breaking with culturally ingrained biological models of creative process
and forming new ones that are natural and native to computational agency.

MURRAY MCKEICH is a visiting fellow in the digital studios throughout
September. He is a practicing artist and course co-ordinator in media arts
at RMIT University, School of Creative Media, Melbourne, Australia. He is
currently completing a PhD in Art/Digital Media at Monash University,
Australia.



2. John Levack Drever & Lawrence Upton: Acoustic Performance

Date: 9 October 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00



3. Harold Cohen: AARON, the world’s first pure A.I. Artist

Date: 16 October 2008
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
Time: 17:00 - 19:00



4. Tim Hopkins: Les Noces Project

Date: 23 October 2008
Location: George Wood Theatre, Dept. of Drama
Time: 19:00 - 21:00



5. David Littler: Sampler – Culture Clash

Date: 6 November 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00



6. Alexandra Antonopoulou: Once Upon a Time to Ever After
AND
Dawn Scarfe: Audible Auras

Date: 20 November 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00



7. John Lechte: A Digital Aesthetics: Is it Possible?

Date: 4 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00



8. Janis Jefferies in conversation with Liliane Lijn

Date: 11 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00


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-- 
Maria Chatzichristodoulou
[aka maria x]
PhD Art & Computational Technologies
Goldsmiths Digital Studios