Dr Jamie Forth

Staff details

Dr Jamie Forth

Position

Lecturer

Department

Computing

Email

j.forth (@gold.ac.uk)

Jamie is a musician, artist/coder, and interdisciplinary researcher interested in perception, culture and creativity

Jamie is a musician, artist/coder and interdisciplinary scientific researcher. His artistic research engages with theory and practices of computational art, specialising in sound, data analysis and technological forms of social and political intervention. Jamie’s scientific research focuses on the development of computational methods for modelling processes associated with the perception, cognition and creation of music. He has undertaken post-doctoral work in the fields of computational creativity and artificial intelligence; statistical modelling of music and natural language; multi-agent systems; and knowledge representation and discovery within the Semantic Web.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD (Computer Science), Goldsmiths, University of London 2012
  • MA (Electroacoustic Composition), City University, London 2004
  • BMus Hons (Music), City University, London 2003

Teaching and supervision

Jamie is programme convenor for BSc Creative Computing.

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

  • Algorithmic folding Forth, Jamie ORCID logo . 2025. Algorithmic folding. In: Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson, eds. Artmaking as Embodied Enquiry – Entering the Fold. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 221-242. ISBN 9781789389685
  • Computational Creativity and Live Algorithms Wiggins, Geraint A.; and Forth, Jamie . 2018. Computational Creativity and Live Algorithms. In: Alex McLean and Roger Dean, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190226992
  • IDyOT: A Computational Theory of Creativity as Everyday Reasoning from Learned Information Wiggins, Geraint A.; and Forth, Jamie . 2015. IDyOT: A Computational Theory of Creativity as Everyday Reasoning from Learned Information. In: Tarek R. Besold; Marco Schorlemmer and Alan Smaill, eds. Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines. 7 Paris: Atlantis Press, pp. 127-148. ISBN 9789462390843

Article

Conference or Workshop Item

  • Conceptual spaces of metre and rhythm Forth, Jamie ; and Wiggins, Geraint A.. 2012. 'Conceptual spaces of metre and rhythm'. In: 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC). Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Tools for Music Scholarship and their Interactions: A Case Study Lewis, David ; Woodley, Ron; Forth, Jamie ; Rhodes, Christophe ; and Wiggins, Geraint . 2011. 'Tools for Music Scholarship and their Interactions: A Case Study'. In: Supporting Digital Humanities. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Musical creativity on the conceptual level Forth, Jamie ; McLean, Alex; and Wiggins, Geraint A.. 2008. 'Musical creativity on the conceptual level'. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity. Madrid, Spain.

Performance

  • screensaver (dance with live coding) Harrington, J Neve; and Forth, Jamie . 2017. screensaver (dance with live coding). In: "Movement Computing Conference (MOCO), London, June 2017", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.

Report

  • On Movement, Rhythm and Data Forth, Jamie ORCID logo ; Sentler, Susan; and Chua, Christina J.. 2021. On Movement, Rhythm and Data. Documentation. so-far.online, Singapore.

Thesis