Dear DMRN,
Here's news of an upcoming series of free online talks on the 'algorithmic pattern' theme - exploring pattern structures, the rules behind them, and their place in the real world of technology.
The talks will take place during May and June 2022, starting next week. For dates/times in your local timezone, please see the website, clicking "view in my time":
Laura Devendorf: Weaving algorithmic patterns with AdaCAD
Designed to be a drafting tool for weavers, AdaCAD could also be viewed as a visual programming language for making generative art within the extremely rich constraints of frame and jacquard looms. Laura will introduce ADACad and some of the projects created with it, and will take us through trying the software out for ourselves.
Laura Devendorf is an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she directs the Unstable Design Lab, and holds a courtesy appointment in the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance PhD Program.
Vernelle Noel: Wire bending in the Trinidad Carnival (title TBC)
Vernelle Noel is an artist, architect and design researcher, and directs the the Situated Computation + Design Lab at Georgia Tech. Dr. Noel will share her work in and around preserving the otherwise undocumented living heritage of wire-bending for the Trinidad Carnival, in the form of the Bailey-Derek shape grammar.
Emerging info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/vernelle-noel/
Ron Eglash: The End of Innocence for Craft Grammars: why we need Decolonial Computing
At one time, simulations of crafts were rare, and practitioners could claim a kind of innocence. With the MetaVerse, AI, and other computational invasions of every aspect of life, a decolonial approach to craft grammars is desperately needed.
Ron Eglash is a Professor in the School of Information at University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Cybernetics, his M.S. in Systems Engineering, and his PhD in History of Consciousness, all from the University of California. His work includes the development of ethnocomputing, the technology appropriation framework, and generative justice.
Ron Eglash is a Professor in the School of Information at University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Cybernetics, his M.S. in Systems Engineering, and his PhD in History of Consciousness, all from the University of California. His work includes the development of ethnocomputing, the technology appropriation framework, and generative justice.
Manjunath B C: Konnakol (title TBC)
Manjunath B C is a highly accomplished musician touring performances worldwide, including of the mridangam percussion instrument. On-line, he is perhaps best known as a strong proponent of Konnakol, the Carnatic tradition of reciting intricate vocal rhythms, via his (often viral) videos demonstrating the topic. This online talk will take the form of a live discussion with algorithmic musician and pattern researcher Alex McLean, exploring some of the time-twisting and indeed mind-bending structures of Konnakol.
Emerging info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/manjunath-b-c/
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo: Live coding patterns
Sarah GHP is a video artist and javascript developer based between Brooklyn and Berlin. She often takes her algorithmic visual art to the stage, creating it live with her handmade javascript framework La Habra, including as part of the audio/visual live coding band Codie.
For the fifth instalment of the series, Sarah, a dialogue aficianado, will be joined by Alex McLean for an interview-style chat about her work and ideas — including what analog video art has taught her about approaching the digital; historic video cruft; and the perfection of imperfection.
Bekah Smith: Juggling 'siteswap' patterns (title TBC)
Among her multiple talents, Bekah Smith is a professional juggler with 20 years experience, including touring and teaching around the world and co-founding her own circus. Passing juggling patterns is her speciality, using the siteswap juggling notation system to generate and experiment with new patterns from mathematical formalisms. In this hands-on talk, Bekah will introduce us hands-on to juggling siteswaps, and give insights into some of the mathematical, creative constraints that underlie them
Emerging info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/bekah-smith/
More info: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/
Hope you can join us!
This talk series is funded as part of a UKRI fellowship, grant number MR/V025260/1.
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Alex McLean
Blog: http://slab.org/
Research Fellow at Then Try This: https://thentrythis.org/about/alex-mclean/
Research Fellow at Then Try This: https://thentrythis.org/about/alex-mclean/
