The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).
2 May 2013 - Laika : Eulogies and Prophecies by Lior Lerman and Jonathan Shohet

2 May 2013 – Laika : Eulogies and Prophecies by Lior Lerman and Jonathan Shohet

Laika : Eulogies and Prophecies Compiling an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Mythology By Lior Lerman and Jonathan Shohet At the C4CC (Centre for Creative collaboration) website     Laika – Eulogies and Prophecies is the second part in a series of performances about the way people have looked towards and away...
14 May 2013 - BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA - One-day symposium

14 May 2013 – BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA – One-day symposium

BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA One-day symposium at Goldsmiths, University of London Date: Tuesday 14 May 2013 Venue: New Cross, MRB Screen 1 The event is free and open to all. Programme bellow but also available to download here  Symposium description: ‘Life’ signifies many things. To begin with, it is a...
25th May 2013 - Forget the Book: Writing in the Age of Digital Publishing

25th May 2013 – Forget the Book: Writing in the Age of Digital Publishing

Forget the Book: Writing in the Age of Digital Publishing 25th May, Goldsmiths, University of London  Book free places here: http://forgetthebook.eventbrite.co.uk/# Doug Sery (MIT Press) and Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths) in conversation. You are invited to join a conversation that is not about the past or future of the book but...
SPECIAL EVENT - The Shed Gallery - Wendy McMurdo – Olympia and The Loop

SPECIAL EVENT – The Shed Gallery – Wendy McMurdo – Olympia and The Loop

  Tin Shed Gallery Wendy McMurdo – Olympia and The Loop Download the poster flyer as pdf Download the press release   Where Tin Shed Gallery Ben Pimlott Building Foyer Goldsmiths College, New Cross London, SE14 6NW Exhibition open Monday 4th March – Friday 22nd March 2013, 10am to 5pm....
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28 March 2013 - Endless War, a work in progress - GRAHAM HARWOOD

28 March 2013 – Endless War, a work in progress – GRAHAM HARWOOD

THURSDAY MARCH 28th 2013 6-8pm VENUE C4CC - Centre for Creative Colaboration website GRAHAM HARWOOD Title - Endless War, a work in progress. A walk through the wikileaks Afghan War Diaries by NGRAM analyses. The talk will be contextualised by showing segments of the Artwork, Endless War by YoHa and Matthew Fuller which was begun...
7 March 2013 - Immaterial and Sonic Bodies: affect, audition and automaticity - Lisa Blackman and Julian Henriques

7 March 2013 – Immaterial and Sonic Bodies: affect, audition and automaticity – Lisa Blackman and Julian Henriques

Immaterial and Sonic Bodies: affect, audition and automaticity Thursday Club, Thursday 7th March 2013 at the CENTRE FOR CREATIVE COLLABORATION  Lisa Blackman and Julian Henriques, Goldsmiths, Department of Media and Communications Download the pdf    
17 Jan 2013 - Methods Lab public lecture - prof Laura Marks

17 Jan 2013 – Methods Lab public lecture – prof Laura Marks

Methods Lab public lecture Ben Pimlott lecture theatre Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross Thursday Club 17/1/2013 - 6-8pm in Art and Culture Studies in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She is a theorist, curator and critic. Her books include: Enfoldment & Infinity (2010); Touch (2002); The Skin of the Film...
28 Feb 2013 - Sean Cubitt - The Order of Display from lithography to raster

28 Feb 2013 – Sean Cubitt – The Order of Display from lithography to raster

Ben Pimlott lecture theatre Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross Thursday Club 28th February 2013 - 6-8pm Sean Cubitt The Order of Display from lithography to raster   The progressive scanning that dominates screen displays (and its close relatives among digital printing technologies) has a genealogy taking us back through the Trinitron mask and the Dzworykin...
6 December 2012 - Sounding the Archive

6 December 2012 – Sounding the Archive

Sounding the Archive Archiving, Documenting and Curating sound. James Bulley (Composer, Curator) Kathrine Sandys (Sound Artist, Curator) Fiorenzo Settimio Palermo (Hugh Davies Archivist, Edison Fellow at British Library) A talk exploring the contemporary landscape of archiving, documentation and the curation of sound works. The presentation will feature materials from the Hugh Davies archive at the...
The Thursday Club moving to Centre for Creative Collaboration Kings x

The Thursday Club moving to Centre for Creative Collaboration Kings x

The THURSDAY CLUB  is moving to  Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street Kings Cross WC1X 9NG 6 – 9 pm View Larger Map
SPECIAL EVENT:::Tin Shed Gallery – Press Release  - Wednesday 14th November – Wednesday 20th November

SPECIAL EVENT:::Tin Shed Gallery – Press Release – Wednesday 14th November – Wednesday 20th November

Tin Shed Gallery – Press Release  Download the file here   Tin Shed Gallery – Press Release   Where: Tin Shed Gallery Ben Pimlott Building Foyer Goldsmiths College, New Cross   Private View & Panel:                                    Thursday 29th November, 6pm – 8.30pm   Exhibition open:                  Friday 30th November – Friday 14th December, 10am – 6pm. ...
25 October 2012 - a project on wireless sniffing (Utrecht, NL)

25 October 2012 – a project on wireless sniffing (Utrecht, NL)

http://aetheraddresses.tumblr.com/what http://aetheraddresses.tumblr.com/ * Brief bio Gabriel Menotti is an independent curator engaged with different forms of cinema. He has organised pirate screenings, remix film festivals, videogame championships, porn screenplay workshops, installations with film projectors, generative art exhibitions and academic seminars, among other things. His works and research results have been presented in events such as...
8 November 2012 - An exploration through Art-Creativity-Technology & Wellness

8 November 2012 – An exploration through Art-Creativity-Technology & Wellness

8 November 2012 – An exploration through Art-Creativity-Technology & Wellness Presenting R. Martin, R. Ashford, S. Joseph Moderated by :R. Miller At the Centre for Creative Collaborations 6pm-9pm ONE OF THE BEST THURSDAY CLUB EVENTS Your browser does not support the video tag Rain Ashford presentation Your browser does not support the video tag Your...
4 October 2012 - **EVENT** GEOGRAPHIES OF CRAFT - panel

4 October 2012 – **EVENT** GEOGRAPHIES OF CRAFT – panel

A THURSDAY CLUB EVENT 4TH OCTOBER 2012 Centre for Creative Collaboration 16 Acton Street Kings Cross WC1X 9NG Free event poster_GEOGRAPHIES OF CRAFT               Textile crafting is enjoying resurgence in popularity, of late. At the forefront of the revival is knitting, performed and practiced collectively in pubs, cafes or...
22 November 2012- The Girls Hacking Club present a 'women in technology' panel

22 November 2012- The Girls Hacking Club present a ‘women in technology’ panel

hursday 22nd November 2012 The Girls Hacking Club present a 'women in technology' panel. The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online purchases, few are involved...
SPECULATIVE ART PRACTICES

SPECULATIVE ART PRACTICES

Name: Bill Psarras (Arts and Computational Technology) http://billpsarras.tumblr.com/ Title: Botanizing on the non-places: new media geographies of everyday life Through my talk I will aim to approach several speculative ideas of my PhD practice regarding a series of artistic outputs/experiments that I am already practicing and researching concerning the conjunction of walking process, new media...
31 May 2012 - Speculative art practices

31 May 2012 – Speculative art practices

The last in a series called Emergent Practices A monthly series of interdepartmental, knowledge sharing panels at Goldsmiths, curated by Mafalda Dâmaso (Dept of Visual Cultures) January to May 2012 The presentations will be followed by an open discussion. Name: Bill Psarras (Arts and Computational Technology) http://billpsarras.tumblr.com/ Title: Botanizing on the non-places: new media geographies...

29 March 2012 – Phenomenology as a method of enquiry

The presentation of two research papers will be followed by an open discussion. The third in a series of seminars convened by Mafalda Dâmaso for the Thursday Club and the Graduate School. Emergent Practice aims to serve as a chance for doctoral students to discuss their work with their peers in an informal setting. Claude...
15 March 2012- The need for a paradigm change - Emeritus Professor John Wood

15 March 2012- The need for a paradigm change – Emeritus Professor John Wood

John’s artworks in the mid 1960′s used electronic systems to make musical installations and toys. Troubled by the impending crises of biodiversity depletion and climate change he then developed systems for informing practising designers and for re-designing design. He is currently setting up a metadesign network in a number of countries. http://metadesigners.org/ http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=154 http://deafschoolmusic.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/TheRevMaxRipple...
Dislocation: Questions of war, place, trauma and context in the transmediations of art on public giant screens

Dislocation: Questions of war, place, trauma and context in the transmediations of art on public giant screens

1 March 2012 - ART, CULTURE, MEMORY AND TRAUMA: Current curatorial and artistic practices and traumatic inheritance of social and political conflictual events,memorialization and aesthetization

1 March 2012 – ART, CULTURE, MEMORY AND TRAUMA: Current curatorial and artistic practices and traumatic inheritance of social and political conflictual events,memorialization and aesthetization

Part1 _ Part2 _ The symposium Art, Culture, Memory and Trauma will take place Thursday 1 March2012 at Goldsmiths, University of London as part of the Thursday Club. The symposium is part of the art initiative Through the Roadblocks, by NeMe. The event is hosted by Professor Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths and is organized in collaboration...
23 February 2012 - THEORIES OF EMERGENCE

23 February 2012 – THEORIES OF EMERGENCE

The second in a series of seminars specially convened by Mafalda Dâmaso for the Thursday Club and the Graduate School. Emergent Practice aims to serve as a chance for doctoral students to discuss their work with their peers in an informal setting. image Emergent Practice aims to serve as a chance for doctoral students to...
9 February 2012 - Cross-Wired: Sonified Generative Environments

9 February 2012 – Cross-Wired: Sonified Generative Environments

_ Paul will talk about the aesthetics, techniques and philosophies behind his visual music performance works as well as an overview of the research interests that lay at the core of Dataisnature.com Biography Paul Prudence is a audio-visual performer and installation artist working with computational, algorithmic and generative environments. His work, which had been shown...

26 January 2012 – Emergent Practices 1

Emergent Practices 1 A series of 4 panels convened by Mafalda Dâmaso (Visual Cultures, PhD researcher) on 26 Jan, 26 Feb, 26 March and 26 May. Emergent Practice aims to serve as a chance for doctoral students to discuss their work with their peers in an informal setting. The challenges of public engagement Bianca Elzenbaumer...

19 January 2012 – ALPHA VILLE

Alpha-ville is an organisation exploring the intersection between arts, technology and society. Its main activity is Alpha-ville Festival, a London based digital culture festival that has been running since 2009. The Alpha-ville Directors introduce International festival of Post Digital Culture SESSION WITH THE FESTIVAL DIRECTORS AND GUEST ARTISTS: Keiichi Matsuda & James Alliban presenting CELL,...

12 January 2012 – Jonathan Trayner

 regular series of events, performances, readings, papers and discussions that foreground debates in art and technology from 12 January through to 15 March 2012. Thursday 12 January 2012 Jonathan Trayner For the Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water, 2010, replica tools (steel and wood) For the Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water, 2010,...
13 October 2011 - Augmented Realities and Physical Spaces

13 October 2011 – Augmented Realities and Physical Spaces

            Augmented Realities and Physical Spaces Andy McWilliams will discuss Jaaga, the space he did a 3 month residency, and the work he prepared for it, his own personal development over that period, the evolution of the work. Parag K. Mital How can an embedded intelligence such as an iPhone...
29 September 2011 - What Part Can Creative Practice play in Times of Crisis

29 September 2011 – What Part Can Creative Practice play in Times of Crisis

                    Vinay Gupta  is one the world’s leading thinkers on infrastructure theory, state failure solutions, and managing global system risks including poverty/development and the environmental crisis. He works at both the theoretical level, building models and mapping tools like Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps (used by US...
9 June 2011 - Art's Chiastic Relationship with the law

9 June 2011 – Art’s Chiastic Relationship with the law

Internet art has been characterised as providing a particularly effective means to critique the force of the law through its employment of networked digital technologies (Stallabrass, 2003; Paul, 2003). This reflects a more general understanding of the law and art as being in an oppositional relationship (Douzinas & Nead, 1999). However, Jeremy will propose that...