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Workshop

The Potter, The Surface and The Algorithm


22 Feb 2018, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

43 Lewisham Way. MARs Research Hub.

Event overview

Cost Free / Book here
Department Art
Website Booking & further information
Contact kende001(@gold.ac.uk)

An Art Research Seminar led by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Rowena Harris and Sam Plagerson

Video still ‘Brain training helps paraplegics move legs again’, CNN.com 2017 (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/12/opinions/can-coding-the-brain-save-or-destroy-us-finn-opinion/index.html)

Please note: Strike action is planned for this day and the event may be cancelled at short notice.

The Potter is a person who has developed an embodied knowledge and tacit understanding of materiality which manifests as a fluent and unconscious skill. The ‘pot’ therefore announces itself as a visual and material incarnation of this specific form of labour. The Surface can be understood as the upper fascia of an entity - it’s outer membrane - it’s image to the world - but in this way it also describes a lack, a ‘mere surface’, and thus masks depths, structures and complexities that cannot be visibly seen. An algorithm can be understood as a series of computational steps that convert an input to an output, as well as the (seemingly) opaque language of interactions between technologies that unite a larger data-ecology.

Presentations from Sam, Ciarán, and Rowena, configure and reconfigure the relationship between these terms in different orientations, as they pass this triangle of terms between each other. The seminar includes a work-in-progress exhibition, performative talks, and a slide presentation, alongside a space for discussion after each researcher’s contribution. You are invited to spend more time in the exhibition space before and after the event.

>Be me 32 years old in Winnipeg.
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh

A Reverse Conversational User Interface?
Rowena Harris
http://www.rowenaharris.com

Digital Mimesis: Forensics, Averaging and the Generative
Sam Plagerson
http://www.samplagerson.com

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22 Feb 2018 2:00pm - 5:00pm
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