Professor Frederic F. Leymarie
2005-2006Softwares :
- Recommended (packages/softwares) :
- Document processor (based on TeX/LaTeX): LyX : free @ www.lyx.org .
- Text/program editor : xemacs
: free @ www.xemacs.org .
- Image manipulation package: GIMP : free @ www.gimp.org .
- Image processing programming environment : processing : free @ processing.org .
Events :
Check our our events website and our calendar.
- Arts Computing Invited speakers, (usually on) Tuesdays, Lecture Hall, BP building
- March 15, 17h, MB150: Jon Phillips on "Open Source
and Open Content"
- www.doc.gold.ac.uk/mscac/events/2006/jon-phillips/
- Jointly organised with LiquidCulture
: http://liquidculture.cc/node/24
- Abstract: The Internet enables collaboration and sharing on
an obviously
unprecedented level. This talk discusses two different
International movements that continue to emerge that effect design and
society. In particular, Open Source Software development is a global
movement of software developers extending themselves on-line to
collaborate and develop free software. Similarly, the newer Free
Culture
and Open Content movements are connecting media producers - designers,
artists, and anyone producing media around the globe with legal and
accessible media - movies, images and sound.
Through a discussion of Inkscape, an Open Source Drawing program, Open Clip Art Library, a public domain clip art repository, and Creative Commons' ccHost, the media hosting engine which powers ccmixter.org, an overview of some possible strong routes for International collaboration and media sharing are provided. - Followed by a lecture by Yvonne Rainer, on her work in dance and film, The Theater, 18h15; organised by the Drama Dept. : http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/drama/dis-play.php
- March 14, 16h15-17h15: Tom Kemp (Paintings, Oxford)
- Computers and Art; yes, but where's the art?
- Abstract: Tom Kemp is an artist who's just trying to figure out the pointof it all. He has employed many techniques along the way, includingvarious forms of computers and computing, during which he hasnoticed a desperate lack of art in the majority of computer art,especially in his own work. Is there a fundamental problem hereor is everything just too new? Is the fundamental problem that,in computing, everything is always just too new?
- URL : www.tomkemp.com
- March 7: Kester Sheridan and Patrick Tresset (Goldsmiths, Digital Studios)
- Both projects (their MSc's thesis) have recently been selected for Potentially Someth;ng:
- TellyVision (Kester)
-
There is a growing trend in technology for convergence. Modern devices
such as mobile phones do not have just one function but many - combining
the functionality of a telephone, a camera and an mp3 player all into one
device. This trend can also been seen in home entertainment with the
convergence of the computer and television into one single entertainment
centre. For me this convergence of the television set and the computer
provides an interesting opportunity for the artist to truly ‘interrupt
live television’, allowing us to apply the techniques developed by video
artists to the live medium of television and so interrupt the expectations
of the spectator for a medium that is taken so much for granted. I shall
discuss the design and development of the ‘Telly Vision’ application,
which provides the tools for me as an artist to create such art work which
challenges the spectator’s view of the medium. I will also discuss the
design and development of the ‘Media Montage’ application which allows me
to create collages using images, sounds and movies. - AIKON (Patrick)
-
Computer vision and image processing in java applied to drawing generation.
The AIKON system in its present development is able to sketch faces automatically,
starting from a picture, typically a photographic snapshot of a scene with humans.
Once a digital image is considered, the system automatically finds where some of the
faces (or face-like patterns) are and isolate these. Each face image pattern is then
used to produce a stylised portrait. The style which the system aims at using is derived
from the one I have developed over the years in my artistic practice. The goal is for the
final system to mimic the process developed by myself, rather than aiming at results
exactly reproducing my way of drawing a portrait. Nevertheless, the produced sketches are
in the style of the artist. Various steps in the process of producing a sketch by the
artist were isolated, including: image segmentation, filtering, shape selection and
depiction, filling and shading. The implementation of these steps relies
on an understanding of human visual perception, of the artist’s work process, and of
advances made in computer vision. - www.doc.gold.ac.uk/aikon/
- Feb. 28: Gretchen Schiller (Brunel University, School of Arts)
- Choreographic interactive art
- Abstract: This seminar presents the way in which movement-based interactive art challenges the ways in which dance traditionally describes the body-medium. The intent of this choreographic research is to magnify and heighten the public’s awareness of how bodies are coupled to the environment through various processes of direct, indirect and continuous action-response and feedback experiences. The notion of the kinesfield is presented to describe this body-medium which shifts the locus of attention away from the body and space, or dance and technology as separate subjects of discourse, and focuses instead on the qualitative, relational and differential movement dynamics which take place among them.
- URL : ...
- Feb. 21: Alex Zivanovic (Imperial College, Mechanical Engineering):
- The Senster and Other Interactive Cybernetic Sculptures
- Abstract:
Edward Ihnatowicz was an artist based in London who produced some of the earliest interactive cybernetic sculptures in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In particular, he designed The Senster, which was the world's first computer controlled interactive robotic sculpture, unveiled in 1970 at Philips's technology showcase in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Senster was a large, hydraulically actuated robot which responded to the sounds and movements of the people around it. The presentation will describe the development of his work, describing how a conventional artist became a pioneer in computer art. It will give details of the sculptures, his ideas behind them and will outline works by other artists which have common features. - URL: www.senster.com
- Thursday Club: 18h-20h, Seminar rooms (ground floor), BP building
- Organised by the Digital Studios and C^4 : http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cccc/events.php
- March 16:
INTIMACY
In Telematic and Proximal Encounters and/or Relationships
In Performance and Performative Environments
by Prof. Johannes Birringer (Chair of Drama and Performance
Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel University),
Rachel Zerihan, PhD candidate (Performance and Live Art Research Unit,
Nottingham Trent University),
Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x], PhD candidate (Digital Studios
& Drama Department, Goldsmith's College) -
Feb. 23rd: Nick Lambert on "Raking the Embers: Exploring the Early History of
British Computer Art" ---- Outline:
From 2002 to 2005, the Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc (CACHe)
Project at Birkbeck investigated the origins of computer art in the UK,
from 1960 to 1980. Using unique archives and the personal recollections of
the pioneers, they set out to document this overlooked but important area
of postwar British art. In the process they uncovered several notable
collections, such as that of the Computer Arts Society and the robotic
artist Edward Ihnatowicz. Through their book, "White Heat and Cold Logic"
and the database of the artworks, the CACHe Project intends to
re-establish the British contribution to the development of digital art.
Nick Lambert, the project's Research Fellow, outlines the major outcomes
of CACHe in terms of:
*The history of Computer Art
*Contemporary computer arts practice
*The preservation of digital artworks and new media art
*Creating a long-lasting and accessible digital archive
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/ - Whitehead Seminars, Wednesdays, 4pm-5pm, BP Lecture Hall.
- Organized by Computing, Cognition, and Psychology
- http://www.mcs.gold.ac.uk/seminars/2006/lent.html
- March 8: Ron Chrisley: "A Role for Art in the Science of Consciousness?"
- March 15: Chritian Haan: "The brain..."
- March 22: Irving Biederman: "The neural basis of perceptual
and cognitive pleasure.."
Homeworks : (updated February 8)
- Latests homeworks:
- Prepare your website
(for Jan. 20) :
- Use the data you had previously prepared or improve on it.
- Create a publication list: put your first essay there.
- Prepare your 2nd seminar (for Jan. 31):
- Pick a topic from lectures or seminars on the "Image Processing" topic.
- Send topic by email Monday Jan. 23.
- Do a bibliography search.
- Select a few papers, write
a summary/essay, present it.
- 2nd Essay, on Image Processing (due Feb. 13; include code and access to demo).
- Recommended: dowload Processing .
- Past homeworks:
- Finalize your "summary" sheet:
- Look at examples from Frederic and Thomas.
- Readings for Oct. 19 (see below).
- 1st essay and seminar presentation on Gestalt.
Past events :
- Workshop on Design and Computing, week of Jan. 23-27 :
- Instructor : Jasper Speicher from TellArt.com
- Inaugural Lecture
- Tuesday, Oct. 25, 5h30-6h30pm, Ian Gulland Lecture Theater
- "From the infinitely large to the infinitely small"
- www.doc.gold.ac.uk/morpholingua
- Workshop on the Design Process, week of November 21-25
- Instructor : Karl Aspelund
- Register and fill--in survey :
Outline (2005-6)
Giuseppe, Changing heads, From a series of changing heads,
Copperplate engraving, Italy c.1700. Werner Nekes Collection
