** NEW THURSDAY CLUB ** NEW THURSDAY CLUB ** Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS
6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required. *8 MAY with CAMILLE BAKER & MARILENE OLIVER : MINDTouch & Making DICOM Dance The Digitised Body as a site for performing subjectivity* MINDTouch explores ideas of non-verbal transference, telepathic collaboration, and the participant as performer, using biofeedback and mobile phone technology under meta-goals of studying "liveness" within mobile networked environments. This project involves creating a mobile networked performance that utilizes a database of archived of streamed and/or archived video clips created by video enabled mobile phones, to then be retrieved, streamed and remixed during a live visuals performance(s). The event or events will form a performative, collaborative, non-linear narrative montage or remix, that will possibly be streamed back out to anyones phone and the internet, and then archived. These events will be starting in London, UK in July + October, Vancouver in Aug/Sept, and possibly Perth and Asia next year. Participants are considered the performers /collaborators in creating clips for several live mixed events and a unique performances from the mobile video archive, to help type of collective consciousness. The participants invited to participate in the video blogs are asked to explore their own consciousness, non-verbal emotional / affective senses and dream states, embodiment, communication, using of mobile media tools to express themselves non-verbally. This research explores mobile video/media on phones for their immediacy, low quality - imperfectness, but spontaneity, at the speed of thought - with its rewriting, superimposing, and remixing of ideas, flashes and clashes of images and emotion, layering of meaning and stream of consciousness and equivalent - or simulation of telepathy and collective, if chaotic intelligence. More info on project http://www.smartlab.uk.com/2projects/mindtouch.htm CAMILLE BAKER is a PHD Candidate at SMARTlab, University of East London, conducting research on Networked Performance Media, funded by BBC R+D. Her research interests include: mobile devices, video art, live cinema, performance/ interactive media, responsive environments & installation, telematics, new media curating and networked communities. www.swampgirl67.net & Making DICOM Dance: Marilene Olivers practice-based research looks at medical and laser imaging technologies that scan bodies and break them down to bytes. Oliver examines from an artists perspective, the processes needed to convert flesh to pixel (digital photography), flesh to voxel (MRI, CT and PET) and flesh to xyz co-ordinates (3D laser scanning). Oliver will present a selection of artworks made using MRI data (where the subject of the scans is bespoke) and CT data (where the subject of the scans are either infamous or anonymous). The presentation will be both technical and theoretical, concentrating on the performative puppeteering activity that emerges when working with MRI and CT data. MARILENE OLIVER is currently a research student in the Fine Art Print department at the Royal College of Art. Oliver has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Academy, Royal Institution, Science Museum (UK). She has had a number of solo shows in Europe. Oliver was awarded the Royal Academy print prize in 2006 and the Printmaking Today prize in 2001. Her work is held in a number of private collections around the world as well as a number of public collections such as The Wellcome Trust and the Victoria and Albert Museum. --- 15 MAY with COLM LALLY & VERINA GFADER : Condensation revisited: strategic walking / access to knowledge / economics of things / conversation pieces --- 29 MAY with RICHARD COLSON : Linking the Senses --- 5 JUNE with ALEX MCLEAN & DAVE GRIFFITHS : Live Coding --- 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 todays (and tomorrows) cultural landscape(s). For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ -- Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art & Computational Technologies Goldsmiths Digital Studios ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre