Event overview
Part of the Thursday Club current season
Murray McKeich is a New Zealander currently resident in Melbourne Australia where he is a lecturer and researcher in art at RMIT University. Following an early career in commercial art, he has since established himself as a leading practitioner of digital media in Australasian contemporary art. Working with digital photo-media, his exhibition projects include printed imagery and animation.
Described as both macabre and darkly seductive, Mckeich’s art weaves visions of surreal fantasy and magic from the tiny pieces of every-day debris found in urban and domestic environments. His recent practice uses generative software to autonomously breed art-works.
Murray McKeich believes that computational tools are about to become far more intimately integrated with human creativity. Artists and designers will take on the role of creative directors while their personalised software will work for them in the capacity of highly trained, trusted and autonomous studio assistants, capable of producing finished artworks without direct supervision.
McKeich demonstrates that this form of practice is possible with current off-the-shelf software and minimal programming skill. More difficult is the psychological challenge of breaking with culturally ingrained biological models of creative process and forming new ones that are natural and native to computational agency.
A visiting fellow from Australia, Murray McKeich (murray.mckeich@rmit.edu.au) will be in the digital studios throughout
September. He is a practicing artist and course co-ordinator in media arts at RMIT University, School of Creative Media. Melbourne, Australia. He is currently completing a PhD Art/Digital Media by research at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is conducting research interviews with relevant artists and theorists in the field of generative digital art and also undertaking a series of site related art projects (working with Jon McComrack at Melborne University at Australia).
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701pt/thethursdayclub/?page_id=14
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Sep 2008 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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