[spectre] CAS May Meeting - Tina Gonsalves

[Paul Brown]

**PLEASE NOTE our April meeting is cancelled and May rescheduled
as follows**

The BCS Computer Arts Society Specialist Group invite you to our
May meeting at the London Knowledge Lab.  This meeting is open
to the public and is free.

DATE: Tuesday 4 May 2010
TIME: 6.30 for 7.00pm
PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS
Nearest tubes: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Line), Russell
Square (Piccadilly Line) and Chancery Lane (Central Line). 
Buses:  19, 38, 55, 243.
Map:  http://tinyurl.com/yfcvjut

Speaker:  Tina Gonsalves

Title:  CHAMELEON

Tina Gonsalves is currently working with world-leaders in
psychology, neuroscience and emotion computing in order to
research and produce emotionally interactive installations.  She
is currently honorary artist in resident at the Institute of
Neurology at UCL in London, visiting artist at the Media Lab at
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA and
artist in resident at Nokia Research Labs, Finland as part of the
Australia Council Connections Residency.

She will discuss the process of building about her latest
project, CHAMELEON. The project uses facial emotion recognition
software to build up an empathic relationship with the audience.
The coding is built on research in social neuroscience. The
project arises from cross-disciplinary research integrating
emotion neuroscientist  Prof Hugo Critchley,  social
neuroscientist Prof Chris Frith, computer scientists Prof
Rosalind Picard and Dr Rana Kaliouby from the MIT Media Lab.  She
will also discuss her current works in development in mobile
technology.

http://www.tinagonsalves.com

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The CAS Spring 2010 programme continues:

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
The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group

http://www.computer-arts-society.org

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