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About Us
Blip
was founded in 2002 by Jon
Bird, Drew
Gartland-Jones, James
Mandelis and Sam
Woolf. Sadly, Drew died in November 2004 which was a great
loss to both his family and friends as well as Blip and the wider
generative music community. You can read
tributes to Drew here.
Our
committee now has six members, who are a mix of artists, scientists
and people whose practice involves both disciplines. We also benefit
from the support of three
advisers who have been very instrumental in the success of
Blip.
By putting on events
in public venues in Brighton we aim to:
bring high quality artists and scientists to the region that people might not otherwise have
an opportunity to see;
showcase talent from the local artistic and academic communities.
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Organizing
Committee
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Bill
Bigge studied sculpture at the Norwich School of Art and Design,
graduating in 1995. He has worked at the University of East Anglia
setting up a publishing group and teaching creative writing students
how to make books, and worked with local writers and literary groups
on various projects. He is now researching a PhD in evolutionary
robotics at the University of Sussex where he is also the technician
in charge of the Autonomous Systems Lab. He is working on several
collaborative arts adventures. |
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Jon
Bird is a research fellow in the Centre
for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the
University of Sussex. His research focuses on modelling
adaptive behaviour using computer simulations and robots.
He has collaborated on a number of arts projectors,
ranging from evolutionary curation to generative films
and networked weaving. He is currently working on the
AHRC funded DrawBots project which aims to artificially
evolve robots that can draw. |
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Alice
Eldridge is a musical scientist or a scientific musician, depending on who
is asking. After years of playing music and thinking science, she
is currently combining the two by developing biologically-inspired
algorithmic musical software at the University of Sussex. Besides
this, Alice plays in a wide range of electro/acoustic ensembles
and teaches at Northbrook College, Brighton. |
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Theresa
Gartland-Jones has been combining lecturing
with creative interactive installations for the past
15 years, receiving an arts council Major Personal Development
Award and Year of the Artist award to produce projects.
Her interest in the potential of computers to further
artistic practice led to her gaining a postgraduate
computer science qualification before embarking on full-time
research for a PhD at Kingston University in the Faculty
of Art, Design and Music. |
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James
Mandelis is doing a PhD in the evolutionary
and real-time control of MIDI at the University of Sussex.
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Sam
Woolf has a PhD in Interactve and Generative
Processes in New Media Art from the University of Sussex.
As part of his research he constructed a couple of software
art tools: the GooglePoweredGoggleBox and the SoundTracker.
He has collaborated with sculptor Tine Bech on Boundless
in Space, a pink sculptural form augmented with responsive
robotics, and Echidna, a Theremin-like sculpture that
responds to proximity by emmiting and modifying sound.
He is currently working in film post-production in London.
Sam would like to point out that in the photo it's a
soldering iron in his mouth.
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Previous Committee Members
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Drew
Gartland-Jones was one of the founders of
Blip and sadly died in November 2004. He had wide
experience as a musician and scientist, having worked
as head of music degree, freelance composer and performer,
software architect, and AI researcher. He was head
of the Creative
Systems Lab and the Music
Informatics degree programme at the University
of Sussex. He spent his time building interactive
installations and music toys (he had a long list of
exhibitions over the last decade), and researching
the computational modelling of creativity in general.
He is greatly missed.
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CiCi
Blumstein is an award winning German born
filmaker and performance artist and artistic director
of Hexenkessel. CiCi works internationally as a writer/director,
choreographer and producer. Her films have been shown
at festivals in the UK, France and Germany. CiCi was
on the Blip committee during 2003 and helped organize
our first festival, the Big Blip 03. |
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Blip
Advisers
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Sue
Gollifer is a Principal Lecturer in Fine Art
Printmaking at the University of Brighton. She is the
Course Leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in Digital
Media Arts (DMA) and for the MA in Printmaking and Professional
Practice.Her primary research is on 'The impact of new
technology within the practice and pedagogy of Fine
Art' and she has presented a number of evaluative and
analytical papers on this subject at major international
conferences. She has been a professional artist / printmaker
for over 30 years, exhibiting work regularly throughout
the world and her work is held in major national and
international public collections. |
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Phil
Husbands is Professor of Artificial Intelligence
in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.
He is the co-director of the The
Sussex Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
(CCNR). His research focuses on the development
of artificial nervous systems for robots, with emphasis
on visually guided robots acting in the real world --
in particular, the development of biologically inspired
behaviour generating networks incorporating virtual
diffusable neuro-modulators; theoretical and practical
development of evolutionary and other stochastic algorithms
for hard engineering optimisation problems, particularly
multi-criteria and multi-objective problems; computational
neuroscience; computer manipulation of sound and image;
history and philosophy of AI; machine learning. He is
currently writing a book on the history of British cybernetics.
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Garrett
Monaghan is an independent consultant who has
worked extensively as a practitioner in the Arts and
Education. He has a PhD in Culture and Communications
from the University of Sussex and is currently Associate
Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Film
and Media at the University of Portsmouth. |
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For further information email
info@blip.me.uk
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