[spectre] CAS December Meeting - Iris Asaf - London 2 December

[Paul Brown]

The Computer Arts Society is pleased to announce that our final
presentation for Autumn 2009 is by the architect and creativity
researcher Iris Asaf.  This talk is free and members of the
public are welcome to attend.


Wednesday 2 December 2009
7:00 for 7:30pm  ==  !Please note the later start!
Birkbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square
Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive

Title: Uncertainty and The Algorithmic Conceptualization of The
Design Process: The Quest for Novelty and Creativity in
Architectural Design

Speaker: Iris Asaf

The creative process has always constituted an essential
mechanism: that of an uncertain exploration, the development of
premeditation to envision something that has not yet been made,
or that may surprisingly appear.  Interestingly, this relation
between creativity and unpredictability has been especially
prevalent with the enhanced use of generative systems in
architectural design.

The presentation will discuss the way in which various approaches
to generative systems in design set the stage where the
architectural design process can be viewed as an uncertain quest
of potentialities. In this quest, design is a way of
algorithmically thinking and conceptualizing ideas, and the
potential for creativity lies within the dialogue between what
has been algorithmically defined and what has surprisingly
emerged.

Iris Asaf is an architect and a PhD candidate at the Bartlett
Graduate School, University College London. Her doctoral work
focuses on developing a critical theoretical perspective on the
use of computerized form-generation tools (or generative systems)
in relation to creativity in design. She is also interested in
the cultural and conceptual transformations of the design process
as a result of the developments of information technologies and
evolutionary tools.

She has practiced as an architect and taught theory courses in
Architecture, and she holds a B.Arch (Cum Laude) and an MSc
(First Class Honours) in Architecture from the Technion – Israel
Institute of Technology.  She is currently teaching on the
Bartlett Graduate School's MSc in Adaptive Architecture and
Computation.  Iris has also been the recipient of numerous
international grants and awards in design and research, such as
The Gertrude Award for research excellence and UCL's ORS and GSRS
Research Awards.



On behalf of the CAS management committee I would like to wish
all our members and friends the greatest good fortune for the
coming New Year.


CAS Spring 2010 Programme – provisional

Please note that our first meeting for Spring 2010 will be on 3
February at the BCS as part of the Birkbeck/V&A Digital Arts
Histories meetings.

3 February - Ideas Before Their Time – at BCS 9:15-5:00 followed
  by a CAS talk by Brian Reffin Smith at 6:00

4-5 February - Decoding the Digital - a 2 day conference at the V&A

2 March - Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore – at the London Knowledge Lab.

6 April - Tina Gonsalves – at the London Knowledge Lab.

4 May - visit to Goldsmith’s College Maths & Art Archive
  organised by Janis Jefferies

14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics – CAe 2010 at the BCS
  co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics

14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts – EVA 2010 at BCS
  sponsored by BCS CAS SG


CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years
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http://www.computer-arts-society.org

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