Talk by Ken Rinaldo 7.30 pm at the Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton followed by work in progress by Andy Webster at Sumo Bar, Brighton.

Ken Rinaldo is an internationally recognised artist who creates interactive installations, often inspired by biology and artificial life. He gave an overview of his work in a talk entitled Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny. Here is the abstract:

Ken Rinaldo will trace the development of his artwork discussing early experiences in marine biology, computer science and conceptual art. His talk will be focused on a central idea underlying his artworks: the hypothesis that Technology recapitulates Phylogeny. In this process technological systems learn and recap the evolved wisdom of living systems. Rinaldo will show artificial life and interactive artworks illustrating the idea that biology and technology are inevitably symbiotic, and part of a larger law of living systems. Living systems, through adaptive behaviour and evolution, naturally seek symbiotic relationships with their environment; our evolving machines, through mimesis and co-evolution, will continue to imbed themselves deeper into our sensorium.

After the talk there were two works in progress by Andy Webster downstairs in the Sumo bar: A005Y to Watermelon a high speed colour swatch work; and Strangers in the Night, a video of a generative drumming performance that was commissioned for the opening of Air Guitar: Art reconsidering Rock Music at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, made in collaboration with Jon Bird.