Event overview
Professor Atau Tanaka gives his inaugural lecture, Getting Physical: Visceral Music Machines, with a question and answer session held by Tony Herrington, Editor-in-Chief of The Wire magazine.
Getting Physical: Visceral Music Machines
Professor Atau Tanaka, from the Department of Computing, presents his inaugural lecture, Getting Physical: Visceral Music Machines, at the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre on 23 January. This event will also include a Q&A session from Tony Herrington, Editor-in-Chief of The Wire magazine. This is part of the Made in Goldsmiths event series.
Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths and CTO of Clicmobile. Atau Tanaka was born in Tokyo, and was raised in the U.S. He bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and research. He moved to Paris with a residency at the Cité des Arts to work at IRCAM, was Artistic Ambassador for Apple France, and was researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris. He was also active in the Tokyo noise music and media arts scenes.
Atau creates sensor-based musical instruments for performance and exhibition, and is known for his work with biosignal interfaces. His recent work seeks to harness collective musical creativity in mobile environments, seeking out the continued place of the artist in democratised digital forms. His work has been presented at Ars Electronica, SFMOMA, Eyebeam, V2, ICC, and ZKM. His work is supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, UK and French research funding bodies, and the European Research Council (ERC). He has been mentor at NESTA, Artistic Co-Director of STEIM in Amsterdam, Director of Culture Lab Newcastle, and is currently Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The Made in Goldsmiths series, launched in Spring 2013, has been created to showcase our excellent scholars and find out more about their work. It has been designed with our staff and students in mind, and offers the chance to not only find out more about the work that goes on here, but to meet each other in an informal setting.
Patrick Loughrey, Warden, said: "Every day at Goldsmiths, our staff are researching, discovering and creating. ‘Made in Goldsmiths’ provides an opportunity for our campus community to find out more about this work, whether it’s a book, research, a film or an exhibition."
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Jan 2014 | 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
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