UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
           COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                          presents

        "Blurring Boundaries: Art, Life and Computation"

 Anna Dumitriu (Visiting Research Fellow CCNR, University of Sussex)
   and Alex May (Independent Artist/Director Quadratura Ltd)

                  1 December  2010  (Wednesday)
                     Lecture Theatre A161

                Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                          1 -2  pm


                Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                Refreshments will be available



Abstract:

Artist Dumitriu will discuss her project "The Emergence of Consciousness"
which uses performance art both as a potential scientific methodology
and as a means of widening public understanding of the issues of 
artificial life, machine consciousness and techno-ethics. She will also 
talk about her work with microbiology, her project "Cybernetic Bacteria" 
and her role as co-chair of the Alan Turing Year (2012) Culture 
Committee.

Alex May's work focuses on the use of digital projection, 3D video
mapping, illumination, and optics to create animated trompe l'oeil 
effects using scientific theories of perspective and projective 
geometry. He is a veteran programmer specializing in, but not limited 
to, high performance, real-time audio/visual processing, creating his 
own software to facilitate his own art projects as well as releasing 
open-source tools that are in use by digital artists worldwide.

The Emergence of Consciousness
http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/EoC/Home.html
Cybernetic Bacteria
http://www.normalflora.co.uk/
3D Video Mapping
http://www.quadratura.info

Collaborating artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May are exploring 
possibilities of joint work with the Adaptive Systems Research Group 
and the rest of UH Science, Technology & Creative Arts as visiting 
researchers and this talk will give an overview of their work and 
interests.

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