lovebytes
Alex May Lovebyets 2012_MG_6868
Artists and curators talk about the Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition
Fri 23 March 2012, 1pm
at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
This special event brings together artists and curators from the "Intuition and Ingenuity" touring exhibition to discuss the impact of Alan Turing's life and ideas on contemporary art.
2012 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, one of the greatest minds Britain has ever produced. Between inventing the digital computer and helping to decode the German Enigma machine, to founding the science of Artificial Intelligence, the world today would have been a very different place without him and his ideas. His work on morphogenesis (the biological processes that cause organisms to grow in a particular shapes) and the now famous Turing Test for machine intelligence have captured the imagination of artists for decades whilst his technological developments have given them the tools to create new kinds of artworks. This exhibition, which takes its name from Turing's own writing on the subject of mathematical reasoning, brings together a number of important artists from digital art pioneers to emerging contemporaries.
Speakers
Sue Gollifer (Co-curator), Anna Dumitriu (Artist and co-curator), Alex May (Artist), Gordana Novakovic (Artist) and Ernest Edmonds (Artist)
Speakers Profiles:
Sue Gollifer
Sue Gollifer is an artist an academic and a researcher at the University of Brighton, UK, and an early pioneer of new media art, her work is in national and international public and private collections. She is the Director of the ISEA International Headquarters, and is on a number of National and International Committees, including (CAS) the Computer Arts Society, (DAM), Digital Art Museum, (CAA) College Arts Association, USA, Executive Board and the Vice President for Annual Conference, and CoLab, AUT University, New Zealand and SIGRAPH Art Gallery, Emerging Technologies and Computer Animation Festival review committees and a member of the Board of the ACM SIGGRAPH's DIGITAL ARTS COMMUNITY (DAC). She has been a curator of a number of International Digital Art Exhibitions including, ArCade, the UK Open International Biennale Exhibition, of Digital Fine Art Prints 1995 - 2007 and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Exhibition'04: Synaesthesia. In 2006 she was awarded an iDMAa Award, The International Digital Media Arts Award for her 'Exceptional Services to the International New Media Community'. Gollifer is the assistant editor of the journal Digital Creativity, published by Taylor Routledge. arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/sue-gollifer
Anna Dumitriu
Anna Dumitriu is an artist whose work blurs the boundaries between art and science. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile and is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum in London. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust funded art project entitled "Communicating Bacteria", collaborating as a Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group at The University of Hertfordshire (focussing on social robotics) and Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence on the on the UK Clinical Research Consortium Project "Modernising Medical Microbiology". She is also a contributing editor to Leonardo Electronic Almanac, co-chair of the Alan Turing Year 2012 Arts and Culture Subcommittee and a member of the Alan Turing Year 2012 International Advisory Committee. See unnecessaryresearch.org, www.normalflora.co.uk and www.artscienceethics.com
Alex May
Alex May works with light emitting technologies, computer programming, math, power tools, and physical objects as a canvas to create hybrid collisions of images and unexpected context. Developing his own software to combine 17th Century scientific theories of perspective and projective geometry with the real-time possibilities of readily available technologies such as high power graphics cards, Arduino, and Microsoft's Kinect, Alex's work uncovers and explores new artistic mediums that offer joyful extensions of the human experiences at best, and darkly invasive and upsetting self-reflection as its shadow.
Gordana Novakovic
Originally a painter, with 12 solo exhibitions to her credit, Gordana has more than twenty years' experience of developing and exhibiting large-scale time-based media projects. Her artistic practise and theoretical work that intersects art, science and advanced digital technologies has formed five Cycles: Parallel Worlds, The Shirt of a Happy Man, Infonoise and the ongoing Fugue. A constant mark of her work throughout her experiments with new technologies has been her distinctive method of creating an effective cross-disciplinary framework for the emergence of synergy through collaboration. Gordana exhibited and lectured at leading interdisciplinary festivals and symposia, and artistic and scientific conferences. Her works from the ongoing Fugue Cycle (www.fugueart.com) has been widely presented and exhibited. Alongside her artistic practice, in the last six years Gordana has been artist-in-residence and also a Teaching Fellow at Computer Science Department, University College London, where she has founded and curates the Tesla Art and Science Group www-typo3.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/tesla/. She has received a number of international and British academic awards. gordananovakovic.net/ www.fugueart.com/
Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds was born in London in 1942. He has a PhD in logic and has been inspired by Alan Turing throughout his career. He is a research professor at UTS, Sydney, and DMU, Leicester. His art is in the constructivist tradition and he concentrates on systems and computation. He first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed a generative time-based work in 1985. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is collecting his archives. His work is represented in the Digital Art Museum (DAM Projects GmbH, Berlin): www.dam.org/artists/phase-one/ernest-edmonds
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK
Alex May Lovebyets 2012_MG_6868
Artists and curators talk about the Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition
Fri 23 March 2012, 1pm
at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
This special event brings together artists and curators from the "Intuition and Ingenuity" touring exhibition to discuss the impact of Alan Turing's life and ideas on contemporary art.
2012 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, one of the greatest minds Britain has ever produced. Between inventing the digital computer and helping to decode the German Enigma machine, to founding the science of Artificial Intelligence, the world today would have been a very different place without him and his ideas. His work on morphogenesis (the biological processes that cause organisms to grow in a particular shapes) and the now famous Turing Test for machine intelligence have captured the imagination of artists for decades whilst his technological developments have given them the tools to create new kinds of artworks. This exhibition, which takes its name from Turing's own writing on the subject of mathematical reasoning, brings together a number of important artists from digital art pioneers to emerging contemporaries.
Speakers
Sue Gollifer (Co-curator), Anna Dumitriu (Artist and co-curator), Alex May (Artist), Gordana Novakovic (Artist) and Ernest Edmonds (Artist)
Speakers Profiles:
Sue Gollifer
Sue Gollifer is an artist an academic and a researcher at the University of Brighton, UK, and an early pioneer of new media art, her work is in national and international public and private collections. She is the Director of the ISEA International Headquarters, and is on a number of National and International Committees, including (CAS) the Computer Arts Society, (DAM), Digital Art Museum, (CAA) College Arts Association, USA, Executive Board and the Vice President for Annual Conference, and CoLab, AUT University, New Zealand and SIGRAPH Art Gallery, Emerging Technologies and Computer Animation Festival review committees and a member of the Board of the ACM SIGGRAPH's DIGITAL ARTS COMMUNITY (DAC). She has been a curator of a number of International Digital Art Exhibitions including, ArCade, the UK Open International Biennale Exhibition, of Digital Fine Art Prints 1995 - 2007 and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Exhibition'04: Synaesthesia. In 2006 she was awarded an iDMAa Award, The International Digital Media Arts Award for her 'Exceptional Services to the International New Media Community'. Gollifer is the assistant editor of the journal Digital Creativity, published by Taylor Routledge. arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/sue-gollifer
Anna Dumitriu
Anna Dumitriu is an artist whose work blurs the boundaries between art and science. Her work has a strong international exhibition profile and is held in several major public collections, including the Science Museum in London. She is currently working on a Wellcome Trust funded art project entitled "Communicating Bacteria", collaborating as a Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Adaptive Systems Research Group at The University of Hertfordshire (focussing on social robotics) and Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence on the on the UK Clinical Research Consortium Project "Modernising Medical Microbiology". She is also a contributing editor to Leonardo Electronic Almanac, co-chair of the Alan Turing Year 2012 Arts and Culture Subcommittee and a member of the Alan Turing Year 2012 International Advisory Committee. See unnecessaryresearch.org, www.normalflora.co.uk and www.artscienceethics.com
Alex May
Alex May works with light emitting technologies, computer programming, math, power tools, and physical objects as a canvas to create hybrid collisions of images and unexpected context. Developing his own software to combine 17th Century scientific theories of perspective and projective geometry with the real-time possibilities of readily available technologies such as high power graphics cards, Arduino, and Microsoft's Kinect, Alex's work uncovers and explores new artistic mediums that offer joyful extensions of the human experiences at best, and darkly invasive and upsetting self-reflection as its shadow.
Gordana Novakovic
Originally a painter, with 12 solo exhibitions to her credit, Gordana has more than twenty years' experience of developing and exhibiting large-scale time-based media projects. Her artistic practise and theoretical work that intersects art, science and advanced digital technologies has formed five Cycles: Parallel Worlds, The Shirt of a Happy Man, Infonoise and the ongoing Fugue. A constant mark of her work throughout her experiments with new technologies has been her distinctive method of creating an effective cross-disciplinary framework for the emergence of synergy through collaboration. Gordana exhibited and lectured at leading interdisciplinary festivals and symposia, and artistic and scientific conferences. Her works from the ongoing Fugue Cycle (www.fugueart.com) has been widely presented and exhibited. Alongside her artistic practice, in the last six years Gordana has been artist-in-residence and also a Teaching Fellow at Computer Science Department, University College London, where she has founded and curates the Tesla Art and Science Group www-typo3.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/tesla/. She has received a number of international and British academic awards. gordananovakovic.net/ www.fugueart.com/
Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds was born in London in 1942. He has a PhD in logic and has been inspired by Alan Turing throughout his career. He is a research professor at UTS, Sydney, and DMU, Leicester. His art is in the constructivist tradition and he concentrates on systems and computation. He first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed a generative time-based work in 1985. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is collecting his archives. His work is represented in the Digital Art Museum (DAM Projects GmbH, Berlin): www.dam.org/artists/phase-one/ernest-edmonds
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK