Talk by Paul Brown 7.30 pm at theLighthouse Media Centre, Brighton followed by works in progress at Sumo Bar, Brighton.

Paul Brown is a writer and practicing artist with more than two decades experience in the field of digital media. In 2001 he was the Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, has had many Artist-in-Residence post around the world, been Professor of Communication Design at Queensland University of Technology, Professor of Art & Technology at Mississippi State University ... the list goes on.

In the last few years alone his work has been exhibited in New York, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Berlin, Brisbane, San Jose, Glasgow, Adelaide, Madrid, Cracow, and Johannesburg.

At the time of his talk, he was a Senior Research Fellow on the CACHe project at Birkbeck, University of London, which was awarded £250,000 from the AHRB to research the history of the computer arts in the UK to 1980. Currently he is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, working on a multidisciplinary project: Computational Intelligence, Creativity and Cognition.

After the talk there were two works in progress downstairs in the Sumo bar:

Alice Eldridge demonstrated some of her experiments in generative composition using adaptive systems;

Katie Bentley exhibited some of her evolved GA graphics.