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Code as Environment, Environment
as Code
Saturday 29 November
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Canal Side East Lecture Theatre
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield
HD1 3DH
FREE
If sound is a quality of spatial experience,
in a virtual environment it is first pure data. If the machinic
space of data and code can be usefully described in architectural
terms [the software/hardware architectures] how do we describe
our experience of these?
Ultrasound is sound at a frequency in
excess of 20kHz - outside the threshold of human hearing - we
can measure such frequencies and other 'invisible' environmental
phenomena, we can describe [the data] and mediate these to make
them perceptible.
As we develop machines capable of operating
in more than 4 dimensions simultaneously, and as these become
increasingly tectonic as well as electronic; actual as well as
virtual - what ecosystems, what artificial paradises, landscapes
or environments do we [and they] occupy.
The Conference session focuses on two
full papers, with contributions by invited guests. The first paper
is from Neil Spiller [Reader in Architecture and Digital
Theory, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL] who will present
his latest research into reflexive environments and architectures
- the virtualities of a supersensitised architectural space -
a space highly responsive to natural process and the physical
environment. Transgressing the now ubiquitous [but misunderstood]
idea of cyberspace - this research "examines those virtual,
sensing and transmission technologies that have started to embroider
spaces together; some simply actual, others virtual and actual,
others still rampaging over the full 'virtuality continuum'"[ns]
The second paper extends recent Digital
Research Unit [DRU] research by Martin Howse and Jonathan
Kemp ['artificial paradises' or 'ap'], who recently spent
six months in residence at the DRU, Huddersfield. ap's research
has concentrated on the development of 'fmo1', which attempts
to transpose non-metaphoric systems and grammar theory [of computer
languages, abstraction and data containers] to the realm of expanded
cinema.
Together these papers and the discussion
they generate, will "expose code as environment and environment
as code" [ap] through the presentation
of projects that render the invisible visible.
Martin Howse
Born United Kingdom 1969. Artist, programmer, theorist and film-maker.
Founded ap [artificial paradises] in 1998 to produce and explore
performative and distributed artistic software investigating issues
of physical data manifestation and generation within a free software
context. Martin Howse has performed and collaborated worldwide
using custom software and hardware modules for data/code processing
and generation. He currently also writes regularly for Linux/free
software publications and has partipated in related conferences
and workshops.
Jonathan Kemp
Born UK 1962. Educated in Philosophy, Jonathan Kemp has organised
and collaborated across various fields in art, design, and science,
exhibited in various shows and performances in UK, USA, and Europe
[video, performance, speculative design, data processing, copyleft],
and has participated in open source and sci-art based residencies
[Germany and Spain]. Since 2001, he has been a collaborator with
Martin Howse on various ap projects.Further information will be
announced soon.
Contact
Derek Hales
Director of Research
Department of Architecture
Huddersfield University
T: + 00 44 [0]1484 473589
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Last Updated 14.10.2003
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Related Links:
ap
www.1010.co.uk
fm01.druh.co.uk
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