Computational Arts-Based Research and Theory

A look the meaning of uniqueness and through an investigation of Twitter's algorithm and generative snowflakes

This week we looked at speculative practises, ideas around thinking into the future and imaging other pasts and futures, writing practise as time travel. One of the ideas which caught

I was originally planning to write about some the other ideas which came to mind whilst researching my end of term project. However along the way I changed my mind

This week's lecture was title “What is it like to be a thing?” and drew from Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing — Ian Bogost and

This week we looked computational art and post-phenomenology. To be honest although I'd heard of the word phenomenology I didn't really know what it meant, so had to look that

This week we had a guest lecture by Rachel Falconer. She introduced herself with a brief run down of her background in curating across various art institutions. The lecture talked

This week we looking at the ideas around touch. I read chapter five of Matters of Care - Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds by María Puig de

This week we had a guest lecture from Dr Sarah Wiseman. She talked about her research paper titled Repurposing emoji for personalised communication: Why  🍕means “I love you”. She talked

This week we were expecting to have a guest lecture by Rachel Falconer but unfortunately she was unwell. (Edit - see my blog post following Rachel's lecture) The reading was

This week began the second term with an unexpected announcement that the whole class would fail the final project unless everyone got at least a pass mark. The class was

This week we looked at topological methods, and also discussed some of the ideas around digital witnessing from last week. We had read Digital Narratives and Witnessing: The Ethics of

Produced by: Julian Burgess and Isabel McLellan This  project traces a path from coding today to our early computational  practices, through the lens of posthuman analysis. We are studying how

This week we looked at the concept of Computational Art and Witnessing, where computers are used to witness events, often at a distance, often both physical and temporal. Prior to

This week the lecture focused on using Material Semiotics, as a tool for describing things in relationship to other things. Using it anything can be seen as a product of

This week there were also no lectures scheduled and so I went to Paris for the Grow conference  on creative coding. All the talks were really good and it was

This was reading week so we had no lectures scheduled. VisitsI visited the Creative Machine 2 exhibition at Goldsmiths. It was titled An exhibition exploring the twilight world between human

This week our reading was from Lucy Suchman, Human–Machine Reconfigurations or Demystifications and Reenchantments of the Humanlike Machine. The topic is one that interests me immensely and that I've

This week we had a seminar in smaller groups to being thinking about our group project for the end of term 1. I partnered with Izzy Mclellan and we began

This week our lecture and seminar were covered by Professor Atau Tanaka. He talked about his background, practice and some of his works, which focus mostly around using computation in

This week we read the draft blog post Algorithm by Tarleton Gillespie. In groups in class, we talked about how the use of the word algorithm has changed. The majority

This begins my journey on the Computational Arts-Based Research and Theory module as part of my Masters Degree at Goldsmiths. I'm much more apprehensive of this module than any others