This major exhibition explores the twilight world of human/machine creativity in contemporary art, including installations of video and computer art, artificial intelligence, robotics and apps by twenty-five leading artists including well-known international artists, Goldsmiths staff and students.

The exhibition will feature international artists such as Naoko Tosa and Yoichiro Kawaguchi (Japan) Jon McCormack (Australia), Cécile Babiole (France) Félix Luque Sanchez (Belgium), Quayola (Italy) alongside leading artists from Goldsmiths and 2014 Lumen Prize gold and bronze award winners, Andy Lomas and Patrick Tresset and leading digital artists Memo Akten and William Latham.

Many of the works on show will be created live in the gallery using specially-designed hardware such as customised drawing machines, video projection, robots arms and 3D printers.

The show has been curated by Goldsmiths professors and artists William Latham, Atau Tanaka and Frederic Fol Leymarie.

Creative Machine reveals the interdisciplinary nature of computer art, with many of the artists collaborating with scientists in areas such as Neuroscience, Bioinformatics, Maths, Biology and Psychology. The artists showing use a range of novel technological approaches including machine learning, cellular growth simulation, fuzzy logic, organic structure mutation and automated aesthetic selection to create work, allowing them to explore new uncharted creative domains.

The artists are shown across six main themes: Mechanical Creative; Robotic Drawing and 3D Printing; Machine Image/Sound; Mutation Art; Pioneers and Critical Practice.

William Latham, Professor of Computer Art in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths said: “The vision for the Creative Machine Exhibition is to show exciting works by artists who use original software and advanced technology in the creation of their work, often blurring the roles of the artist and machine in the creative process. The aim is also to coincide the timing of this exhibition with the current wider growth of public interest in digital art stimulated by such events as The Barbican Digital Revolution Exhibition.”

Professor Atau Tanaka added: “Goldsmiths Computing is proud to contribute to this digital revolution and take a lead in the debate about what defines digital art”.

Artists showing in the Creative Machine are: Memo Akten, Cécile Babiole, Daniel Berio, Damian Borowik, Paul Brown, Sean Clark,  Simon Colton, Brock Craft, Ernest Edmonds, Ian Gouldstone, Harwood/Wright/Yokokoji, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, William Latham, Lillevan, Andy Lomas Manu Luksch, Alex May/Anna Dumitriu, Jon McCormack, Parashkev Nachev, Vesna Petresin, Quayola, Félix Luque Sanchez,  Naoko Tosa, Peter Todd, Balint Bolygo and Patrick Tresset.

The opening of the exhibition is preceded by the Goldsmiths’ Human Interactive Conference, which explores human-machine interaction across computer games, neuroscience, psychology, robotics and computer art.

The exhibition is supported by The Arts Council England and the Enterprise Office at Goldsmiths.

Renowned Monash electronic media artist and computing researcher, Associate Professor Jon McCormack is one of the 25 international artists selected to exhibit works atCreative Machine.

A major exhibition, Creative Machine, will explore the twilight world of human/machine creativity, with many artists collaborating with scientists in areas such as Neuroscience, Bioinformatics, Maths, Biology and Psychology.

Associate Professor Jon McCormack said the exhibition is a fantastic way of showcasing how far computer art has come.

“Artists are pushing the technological and cultural boundaries of machine creativity with increasing vigor”, Associate Professor McCormack said.

“This exhibition is sure to cause significant debate as to what defines digital art and how the concepts of authorship and autonomy are altered by technology.”

McCormack’s work for the exhibition, “Niche Constructions” is an infinite series of abstract line drawings created by software agents that evolve and change over time. The software uses the biological concept of niche construction, a process where organisms modify niches through their activities and choices. Some biologists argue the process plays a fundamental role in biological evolution, human anthropology and culture.

The show will be curated by Goldsmiths professors and artists, William Latham, Atau Tanaka and Frederic Fol Leymarie.

Artists will be using a range of novel technological approaches including machine learning, cellular growth simulation, fuzzy logic, organic structure mutation and automated aesthetic selection to create work, allowing them to explore new uncharted creative domains.

The exhibition encompasses six main themes: Mechanical Creative; Robotic Drawing and 3D Printing; Machine Image/Sound; Mutation Art; Pioneers and Critical Practice.

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Rodolphe Gelin Keynote Speaker – Humanoid robots for everyone

Professor William Latham – Chair

Dr. Steven Collins – Challenges Creating Human Interactive Virtual Environments for Games and Entertainment

Guy Davidson – Total War: Creating a Very Large Game

Dr. Henrietta Bowden-Jones – Internet addiction disorder: a modern illness

Professor Elisabeth Hill – Chair
Jed Ashforth – Project Morpheus; Bringing VR to the Living Room
Professor Nilli Lavie –  Brain interactive: The attention challenge
Professor Mike Sternberg – Interactive Modelling of Biological Macromolecules
Professor Jonathan Freeman – i2 media research: applying psychology to unlock value in the commercial world

Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie – Chair

Limor Schweitzer – 3D printable social robots

Professor Ajay Kapur – Building a Symbiotic Human/Machine Orchestra

Dr. Parashkev Nachev – Distributed psychophysics

Professor Robert Zimmer – Chair

Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink – Data as Design Tool

Dr. Jean-Christophe Baillie – Dual Universe

Rich Holleworth – Putting the man in the machine – an overview of performance capture at the Imaginarium

Atau Tanaka – Chair

Heather Kelley – Mind and Body: Engaging Humans with Play

Memo Akten – Data Dramatization

Dr. Freida Abtan – Dislocated Presence

Professor Mark d’Inverno – Creative Feedback

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