Presentation, performances and exhibition of work 7.30 pm at the Sussex Arts Club, Brighton..

As part of the AHRC sponsored workshop on the Interactive Mind and Art(efacts), Blip is organizing an evening event with a talk, performances, films and an interactive installation.

Mitchell Whitelaw talked about:
Dynamic Artefacts: Interaction and A-life Art

When artists draw on the scientific practice of artificial life, they construct works which are unlike conventional artefacts in many ways. Their works entail interaction in multiple domains: between audience and artwork, between artist and generative system, and within the a-life system, between formal elements or software agents. This presentation will introduce the practice of a-life art and propose some links with the interactive mind paradigm.

Mitchell is an academic, writer and artist with interests in new media art and culture, especailly complex generative systems and digital sound and music. His work on a-life art has been published internationally, most recently in the book Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra

Alice Eldridge - fond punctions - interactive audio-visual piece for cello, MAX/MSP and processing

Tim Blackwell - Swarm Techtile: A Sound You Can Touch - an exploration of visual and sonic texture

Stuart Smith - netjacking performance

Phillip Minns aka Madonna over Yorkshire - remixing the evening's sound events with sound tracks old and new

Lars Schuy and Stuart Smith - Reel Speak - an interactive installation

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen - a film of The Changing Room - an interactive performance merging physical and digital experiences

Alex Zivanovic - a film about Edward Ihnatowicz' Senster