Talk by Jon Pettigrew 7.30 pm at the Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton followed by work in progress by Bill Bigge at Sumo Bar, Brighton.

Jon Pettigrew, co-founder of www.sseyo.com, which created Koan, the generative music software, gave a talk entitled Generative Film. This is the abstract of his talk:

Creating attractive content from computer based encoded human rules is the new art. Applying generative systems to visuals and audio at the same time is the challenge I have taken up. A history of generative art will be reviewed, from its use by Chomsky to the growing art and academic interest in the concept.

The generative film Reflets, completed in 2000 and premiered in January 2001 will be discussed and the generative component shown. Some of the technical and creative issues will be discussed.

A short animation dance film Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) will be shown. This is part of a youth film in which generative narrative will be trialed. An event early in the film will help define the fuzzy rules which make the film resolve in different ways.

Future applications for generative film will be proposed.

After the talk Bill Bigge presented robotic works in progress downstairs in the Sumo bar.