[spectre] Sonic Pattern and the Textility of Code, June 17th, Sheffield UK

[alex]

Sonic Pattern and the Textility of Code
Daytime symposium and evening performances
Sheffield, Wednesday 17th June 2015

This event is the second edition of an ongoing series, exploring
diverse viewpoints (weaving, knitting, live coding, mathematics,
generative visuals/music, and digital making) on how sound, image and
threads allow us to both sense the abstract and conceptualise the
tactile. This second symposium will focus on code as live material,
and material as coded form, exploring in new light thrown by artists
and makers increasingly using code in their practice alongside other
materials.

Symposium
10.30am – 5pm, Electric Works, Sheffield

Six speakers will address the theme from their different disciplinary
perspectives, confirmed so far (in alphabetical order):

* Theo Burt (http://www.theoburt.com/)
* Mattias Jones (http://madebyjones.tumblr.com/)
* Gemma Latham (http://gemmamaylatham.co.uk/)
* Sharon Mossbeck (http://sharonmossbeck.com/)
* Francesca Sargent (http://fo.am/kernow/)


Evening performances
>From 7:30pm, Access Space, Sheffield

Exploring the sonic pattern theme through an evening of intensive
patterned sound and light, including:

* Paul Wolinski (http://www.paulwolinski.co.uk/)
* Theo Burt (http://www.theoburt.com/)
* Tim Shaw (http://tim-shaw.net/) and John Bowers (http://jmbowers.net/)
* xname and Yaxu (http://xname.cc/phantasmata)

Sonic Pattern and the Textility of Code is co-curated by Karen
Gaskill, Crafts Council, and Alex McLean, University of Leeds.

Part of Sheffield Design Week. http://www.sheffielddesignweek.co.uk/

Made possible through funding and support from Crafts Council,
theUniversity of Leeds, the CCI Exchange, the EPSRC Communities and
Culture Network+ project “Inhabiting the Hack”, the AHRC Digital
Transformations Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves project, and the support
of Access Space, Electric Work, Danger Noise Audio and Sheffield
Design Week.