Staff in the Department of Computing

Gwen has a BA in Social & Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths and is currently studying towards an MSc in Media & Communications (Data and Society) at London School of Economics.

My background specialism is in the area of project management for projects funded by the European Commission Framework Programme (since 2005). Most recently, my experience lies both in the pre and post award management of projects funded by the UK research councils as well as other international funding bodies and organisations. My expertise lies in the areas of financial management, management of the work programme, report writing, proposal writing, project administration, dissemination & event organisation and contractual management.

Room 2, Hatcham House, 17-19 St James

Nicky maintains and upgrades equipment for the Computing department, and help staff and students with computer issues. He also works with other departments and private sector partners to deliver projects including art installations, formal dinners and prototype mixed-reality performances.  If you need him he's usually in the basement, the attic, the vestry or possibly the organ.

Nicky has been with the department for several years. He lives in New Cross and has a dog. Sometimes he plays accordion and dances with the Morris men.

Rachel Falconer is an independent curator, researcher and development consultant operating at the critical intersections of contemporary art practice, emergent technologies, civic data infrastructures and networked culture.

Drawing on her international experience in the film, viral and gaming industries to inform her systems-based practice, Rachel has conceived and delivered multi-scale interdisciplinary public programming, alternative exhibition models and innovative public research platforms spanning a diversity of industries and critical modes of engagement with technology.

She is regularly invited to speak to at public events and has chaired public debates at institutions including including Tate, Barbican, V&A, Royal College of Art, The Lumen Prize, Wieden & Kennedy, Rhizome, London Design Festival, and Furtherfield, and her written contributions have been published across a wide range of platforms including the Guardian, A-N, Furtherfield, Dazed Digital, and The White Review.

She is a contributing author to academic publications, most recently her chapter on distributed digital knowledge production and creative practice was published by in the Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2016.

Education

• MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art
• BA Industrial Design and Multimedia Communications UCL / Il Politecnico di Milano

Research Interests

AI / Machine Learning / Digital culture / speculative design / bio-technology / civic infrastructures / innovation and social enterprise / mixed-reality technologies / distributed knowledge production

Professional projects

• Chair: The Lumen Prize Seminar Series [2016 ]
• Curator: Cognitive Bias: Visual thinking for a digital age, The Drawing Room London, 2016
• Co-Curator: V&A Digital Futures series [ 2014, ongoing ]
• Co-Curator: Fabricating Empathy, School of Machines, Making and Make Believe, London/Berlin [ 2015]
• Curator: Maker Mile Launch, in Association with Machines Room, London and Takram Studio, Tokyo, London Design Festival] [2015]
• Curator: SECOND FOUNDATION, after Roy Ascott, the Goethe- Institut London [ Featuring artists Claire Tolan and Kei Kreutler ]
• Curator: INFRA_SPECTION #Stacktivism Residency Cycle 2014 – 2015 in association with Bloomberg [ artists include Kari Altmann, Kei Kreutler, Matthew Plummer Fernandez and Huw Lemmey ]
• Curator: Perlin Noise – Electronic Music and Sound Art Public Programme series, The White Building Hackney Wick [ Including sound artists Claire Tolan and Annie Goh ][ 2015 ]
• Keynote Speaker: Leaky Box Scenarios - Alternative Residency Models and the Digital Age, Nordic Culture Point, FABRIKKEN, Copenhagen.
• Chair: Capture and Consumption: images and digital culture, Tate Modern
• Curator: Piratbyrån and Friends, FURTHERFIELD Gallery London [2014]
• Chair: Capture and Consumption: images and digital culture, Tate Modern    [ with James Bridle, Katrina Sluis ] [ 2015 ]
• Speaker and panelist: Cultural Value and the Digital: Practice, Policy and Theory, TATE Britain
• Speaker: Critical Value of Art and Technology residencies, ICT Art & Connect, Watermans & Brunell University [ 2014]

Room 2, Hatcham House, 17-19 St James

He has a B.Eng in Industrial Automation and an MFA in Sonology, and is the founder of Ukraine's first FabLab. He is also an inventor, DJ and MOOC addict.

Eamonn Martin's role includes:

All system administration tasks involved in maintaining and supporting Windows, Unix and Linux servers and associated hardware and software for the Department of Computing.

Development of an in-house student/course management system and associated database-backed, web-based user interfaces. Maintenance of the departmental website, including the development of a secure departmental intranet system for staff and students.

Sourcing suppliers for IT equipment and arranging hardware and software purchases.

Research interests

Algorithms, neural networks, MIDI, Java.

Current research

• Systems and network integration and administration.
• Web-based database application development.
• Program transformation and analysis (eg. using Grammatech CodeSurfer)