Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 7 p.m.
Georgia Tech Music Department (Couch Building)
Making
CheesY Music With ChucK |
Chuck+Audicle is a free cross-platform environment for
writing and rewriting live music code. Once we encode a few assumptions of
musical structure, we can begin making cheesy music and shaping it as it
progresses. ChucK was originated by
Ge Wang and Perry Cook. Graham Coleman is a
Master's Student in Computer Science and a Grad Assistant with GTRI. He's
worked several projects involving some subset of {computational, intelligent,
speechpainting, playlist, re-, synthesis} and has dabbled in supercollider
and max/msp. He also records cheesy music with the Men of Science and
participates in Atlhack. |
Aphorisms for Generative Artists |
In this talk Philip Galanter will present a broad
discussion of generative art through a series of short guiding observations
for artists. Each aphorism will be presented and illustrated with his
own artwork as well as examples by others. Artworks presented will
include installations, sound art, digital prints, and videos. Both
technical and critical aspects will be commented upon. Philip Galanter is an
independent artist who recently relocated to Atlanta. He holds an
M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, and a B.A. in Philosophy.
Previously he was the Associate Director for Arts Technology at New York
University, At NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program he created the
course "Foundations of Generative Art Systems". His current
artistic work includes generative hardware systems of his own design, video
installations, digital fine art prints, and light-box transparencies. He also
has earlier experience in performance art, and electronic, experimental and
pop music. Long ago Philip created MIDI music software products for
Hybrid Arts, and firmware for electronic games at Williams Electronics. As a
curator Philip collaborated with others on "ArtBots - the Robotic Talent
Show" in 2002 and 2003, as well as on "COMPLEXITY", the first
touring fine art exhibition addressing art and complex systems. Philip
has spoken on the the Fine Art / Complexity Science nexus at numerous forums
including the International Conference on Complexity Science, the Complexity
and Philosophy Workshop, the College Art Association, and the International
Generative Art Conference. |
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Relations between us and the artificial
life/intelligence created by us, represent now more than ever the human idea
of what “life”, “creation” and “responsibility” for these two is. The Robot
as a symbol of the Big Other, the Robot as the Alien, the Monster, the Golem;
the Robot as a stand-in for any relationship between the categories of
'margins' and 'main', oppressed and oppressor will be my main concerns in
this presentation. Not long ago I found in the web a curious discussion on
the robot sensitivity. The core question was: “Is man the one who gives
feelings to the robot, OR the robot already has some?” Although these two
agendas are usually predefined by the philosophical/religious background one
has, they represented the general human dream of having a personal slave and
our fear that the slave sooner or later will rebel against us. Does the
question about robot being sensitive is a question of fear or curiosity? Boryana is an artist and
curator based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She makes photographs, films, performances
and combinations of all these. Rossa’s projects - “Spookybots”,
“Robo-Sapiens”, “Roboriada”, “Citizen Robot”, and the curatorial project
"Defenseless and Bad" are dedicated to human/machine relations and
have been exhibited at L Gallery Moscow, Foundation for Art and Creative
Technologies (FACT), Liverpool, Society for Art and Technology (SAT), Montreal;
CMU Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand; National Gallery of Fine Arts and Goethe
Institute, Sofia. In 2004 together with the Russian artist Oleg Mavromatti,
Rossa establishes UTRAFUTURO - an international group of artists that works
in the intersection of technology, ethics and human/machine identity. Rossa’s
recent project “MEART & the Black Square”, collaboration of Ultrafuturo
Group with SymbioticA Research Group and Steve Potters Group was shown at the
1st Moscow Biennale (2005), as a part of the parallel project Art Digital at
M’ARS Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow. |
Dorkbot is free and open to the public.