{"id":2979,"date":"2007-10-06T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cybertheaters.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/06\/new-thursday-club-season-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:23:19","slug":"new-thursday-club-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"New Thursday Club Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supported by the Goldsmiths Graduate School and Digital Studios<\/p>\n
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6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW<\/p>\n
FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.<\/p>\n
11 OCTOBER with CHRIS BOWMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n
GEO Landscapes and other sites of investigation\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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Chris Bowman (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) gives an overview of his recent project GEO Landscapes. This presentation is an introduction to Phase 01 of the GEO Landscapes project which was recently demonstrated at BetaSpace, an experimental exhibition venue for interactive artworks at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and explores prototype narrative structures which simulate \u2018on-site\u2019 engagement by a
\npotential visitor to a given site ( in this instance the Brickpit Ring walk at the Sydney Olympic Park) or multiple sites of investigation. The long-term aim of GEO Landscapes is how to create an augmented interactive audio-visual story-telling experience using interpretive mobile technologies and this will be defined over an iterative series of
\nphased developments. The ultimate experience is designed to be accessed through three principle technologies; a) handheld mobile devices, b) interactive audio visual public display and c) and web-community.<\/p>\n
Bowman’s creative work for GEO Landscapes and other \u2018sites of investigation\u2019 features an exploration between corresponding video sequences, selected narratives and site-specific information (GPS) captured across two or more locations. Socially, this drawing together
\nof the virtual and the augmented space is designed to enrich the presence of the individual in the spaces or places and thereby enhance the interconnectivity of the user in the associated environment that supports remote creative collaboration and information access.<\/p>\n
CHRIS BOWMAN is an Australian based artist, writer, director and teacher who works with film, and convergent media display systems. His research interests include interactive narrative systems, schematic representations of spatio-temporal interactive artworks and related film theory. Chris currently lectures in the Visual Communication Program in The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at UTS. He is an active
\nmember of the Creativity and Cognition Studios and Co-Director of the Digital Design Group both at UTS.<\/p>\n
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1 NOVEMBER with VERONIQUE CHANCE & RACHEL STEWART<\/strong><\/p>\n
Live Run(ner) & Thinking Blue Sky<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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Veronique Chance’s research project (PhD Candidate Goldsmiths) considers
\nthe dynamic relation between the physical presence of the body and its
\npresence as a screen image, through which she examines the impact of
\nvisual media technologies on our conceptions and perceptions of the body
\nas a physical presence. The effects of these technologies on traditional
\nnotions and conditions of physicality and representation mark, she
\nsuggests, a shift in our relationship to, and understanding of the body
\nas a physical presence as we become more used to interacting and
\ncommunicating with the body through the immediacy of screen images. This
\nhas led to questions regarding the body as a material presence and to
\nthe technologically mediated image becoming associated with notions and
\nideologies of disappearance and disembodiment. Chance understands the
\ncondition of the body as being very much embedded in the material world
\nand approaches her project through the proposition of what she calls
\n‘the physicality of an image’, through which she argues for a
\nreconceptualisation of the materiality of the body through its physical
\npresence as an image.<\/p>\n
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For the Thursday Club Chance will present Live\u2019 Run(ner), an artwork in
\nprogress that will record and transmit live the Great North Run through
\nher own live experience of running the event. The idea is to recreate a
\nlive transmission of her eye-view in real-time, as she run the course,
\n(literally \u2018moving image\u2019). Viewers would experience the event through
\nher eye-view as she runs, through being able to \u2018pick up\u2019 a signal on
\ntheir home computers and at wireless hotspots in the City.<\/p>\n
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VERONIQUE CHANCE is an artist practitioner and educator working across a
\nrange of media. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Fine Art by Practice
\nat Goldsmiths. She also works as a Mentor for Artists in Residence
\nProject, Morley College, London; Associate Lecturer, Foundation Course,
\nWimbledon School of Art; and Visiting Tutor, Fine Art\/ArtHistory,
\nGoldsmiths.<\/p>\n
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Rachel Stewart’s research (PhD Candidate Goldsmiths) is based around an
\nengagement with the psycho-geography of the everyday sky and its
\nrepresentation with contemporary visual culture. Stewart is interested
\nin how experiences of freedom, imagination, spirituality, orientation
\nand weight are contextualised within manifestations of the skies of the
\npost-human landscapes of C21st.<\/p>\n
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Her research addresses the literary and visual trope of the sky,
\nspecifically the blue sky. The specific material she will discuss is an
\nindex of sky photographs that she has been collecting for a number of
\nyears. The photographs all detail a sky at the occurrence of \u2018a sky
\nevent\u2019 i.e. the sky above the screening of James Benning\u2019s Ten Skies, or
\nthe Whitechapel exhibition of Gerhard Richter\u2019s Atlas, or the sky above
\nManuel de Landa talking of the sky as a painting of intensive different
\nat the Creative Evolutions Conference in 2005. The photographs detail
\nonly the particular sky and contain no other visual information. They
\ncould be construed as \u2018eventless\u2019. However, seen together these images
\ncreate a visual subject, a subject that works in a familiar way but also
\nstarts to describe a new set of relations with this space.<\/p>\n
RACHEL STEWART is a contemporary art curator and PhD candidate at
\nGoldsmiths Visual Cultures. As a curator she has worked both in
\npartnership with Helen Hayward and on behalf of other organisations on
\ncommissions that include working with Mark Wallinger, Amy Plant, Lothar
\nGoetz, Daziell+ Scullion, James Ireland, Simon Periton, Mark Titchner,
\nFlorain Balze and Rose Finn-Kelcey. From 1994-1998 Stewart set up,
\nedited, published and distributed independent arts magazine ENGAGED.<\/p>\n
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22 NOVEMBER with JOSEPH TABBI<\/strong><\/p>\n
Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Three Case Histories<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Supported by Goldsmiths Department of English and Comparative Literature<\/p>\n
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In this talkm, Joseph Tabbi introduces a new literary and arts collective, Electronic Text + Textiles,whose members are exploring the convergence of written and material practices. While some associates create actual electronic textiles, Tabbi has explored the text\/textileconnection as it manifests itself in writing produced within electronic environments. His online laboratory consists of two literary web sites, EBR<\/a>, a literary journal in continuousproduction since 1995, and the Electronic Literature Directory<\/a> , a project thatseeks not just to list works but to define an emerging field. Rather than regard these sites as independent or free-standing projects, Tabbi presents their development in combination with the current (and similarly halting) development of semantically driven content on theInternet (e.g., The Semantic Web, or Internet 2.0).<\/p>\n
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His purpose is to determine to what extent concepts<\/strong> can flow through electronic networks, as distinct from the predominant flow of information<\/strong>. The latter, in which documents are brought together by metatags, keywords, and hot links, is arguably destructive of literary value. Where tagging and linking depend on direct, imposed conectivity at the level of the signifier, the creation of literary value depends on suggestiveness, associative thought, ambiguity in expression and intent, fuzzy logic, and verbal resonance. At a time when powerful and enforced combinations of image and text threaten to obscure the differential basis of meaning as well as the potential for bringing
\ntogether, rather than separating, rhetorical modes, Electronic Text + Textiles seeks to recognize and encourage the production of nuanced, textured languages within electronic environments.<\/p>\n
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JOSEPH TABBI is the author of two books of literary criticism, Cognitive Fictions (Minnesota, 2002) and Postmodern Sublime (Cornell, 1995). He edits EBR and hosted the 2005 Chicagomeeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. He is Professor of Literature at the University of Illinois, Chicago.<\/p>\n
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13 DECEMBER with ALEX GILLESPIE, BRIAN O’NEILL & ROBB MITCHELL<\/strong><\/p>\n
Cyranoids…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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How can \u201cspeaking the thoughts of others\u201d enhance and subvert social
\ninteraction both face-to-face and remotely ?<\/p>\n
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What is a cyranoid ? Cyranoids are people whose speech is being
\ncontrolled by another person. The term comes from the character Cyrano
\nde Bergerac in Edmond Rostand\u2019s 19th Century play. Cyrano, who is ugly
\nbut articulate, helps his handsome but inarticulate friend win the heart
\nof Roxane by providing eloquent and witty prompts from the sidelines.
\nThe outcome is that Roxane falls in love with Cyrano\u2019s mind through
\ninteracting with the body of his friend. Stanley Milgram, a social
\npsychologist, in the 1970s coined the term cyranoid to describe a person
\nwhose utterances were being controlled by a second person, the source,
\nvia radio transmission. The cyranoid wears a headset which receives
\ninput from a microphone in a different location. The source then speaks
\ninto the microphone, and the cyranoid just has to repeat what they hear
\nin their ear. So that the source knows what is going on, the cyranoid
\nalso wears a microphone which transmits everything it hears back to the
\nsource. In this way one person can control the utterances of another
\nunbeknownst to other people. While the headsets used by Milgram were
\nconspicuous and limited to transmitting verbal data, now, it is possible
\nto use incredibly inconspicuous equipment to transmit both verbal
\ninstruction and for the source to receive a video stream of what the
\ncyranoid is seeing. The internet means that the cyranoid and the source
\ncan be separated by huge distances, with sources simply \u2018logging in\u2019 via
\nthe web to a given cyranoid, being able to see and hear what the
\ncyranoid hears and sees, and then being able to transmit thoughts to the
\ncyranoid or living, breathing avatar.<\/p>\n
The audiences are invited to participate in a social event cum
\nperformance seminar and experience being cyranoids, synchronoids or
\nsources…<\/p>\n
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ALEX GILLESPIE holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of
\nCambridge. His research concerns the Self and self-reflection and
\nexplores the social interactional and cultural basis of the self. He is
\na Lecturer at Stirling University and, currently, Co-chair of the
\nOrganising Committee for the Fifth International Conference on the
\nDialogical Self.<\/p>\n
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BRIAN O’NEILL is a clinical psychologist at Southern General Hospital,
\nGlasgow. He is interested in cognitive impairments, the disability they
\ncause and how assistive technology for cognition might provide useful
\ntreatments. He also is founding member of Thunder Bug sound system.<\/p>\n
ROBB MITCHELL is an artist, curator and events organiser who has
\nexhibited and lectured widely in the UK and abroad, among other venues
\nin: Market Gallery (Glasgow), Edinburgh College of Art, Intermedia
\nGallery (Glasgow), Galerie Bortiers (Brussels), Artspace (Sydney), FACT
\n(Liverpool), Mediabath (Helsinki), ICA (London), CCA (Glasgow), National
\nMuseum of Scotland (Edinburgh), Ars Electronica (Linz) and Eyebeam (NYC).<\/p>\n
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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone
\ninterested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity,
\ninteractivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in
\ntoday\u2019s (and tomorrow\u2019s) cultural landscape(s).<\/p>\n
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THURSDAY CLUB BOARD<\/p>\n
MIGUEL ANDRES-CLAVERA PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Member of Social Technology and Cultural Interfaces Research Group.<\/p>\n
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MARIA CHATZICHRISTODOULOU [aka MARIA X], Thursday Club Programme Manager; PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Sessional Lecturer Birkbeck
\nFCE; Curator; Producer.<\/p>\n
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BRONAC FERRAN Director of boundaryobject.org; Member of DCMS Research and KT
\ntaskgroup; Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England until March 2007.<\/p>\n
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JANIS JEFFERIES, Thursday Club Convener; Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths; Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles; Curator; Artist.<\/p>\n
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SARAH KEMBEDr.; Reader in New Technologies of Communication, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College; Writer.<\/p>\n
MICHELA MAGAS PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Co-director Stromatolite
\nDesign Studio.<\/p>\n
CARRIE PAECHTER<\/p>\n
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Professor of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths College; Dean of the
\nGoldsmiths Graduate School.<\/p>\n
ROBERT ZIMMER Professor of Computing, Goldsmiths College; Co-director Goldsmiths
\nDigital Studios.<\/p>\n
For more information Maria X at drp01mc@gold.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n
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To find Goldsmiths check http:\/\/www.goldsmiths.ac.uk\/find-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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