Visions and Imagination: Advanced ICT in Art and Science :: November 24, 2007, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Computer Science Department, University College London, Gower Street, London :: All participants must register in advance.

This symposium will centre around methodological questions and problems within the emerging field of art and science, particularly those involving the use of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT). The history of computer art/media art now covers a period of almost half a century, so it is clear that the use of ICT in art practice has a long tradition. However, though the field of art and science applies ICT in a novel, challenging and often controversial manner it still appears to be relatively overlooked. ICT is not only a major facilitator and catalyst in the process of amalgamating art with science; it is also capable of linking the two fields in a truly exploratory way. In addition, many contemporary art and science projects result from experiments using ICT methodologies in ways similar to those used in the latest scientific and technological research.

This one-day symposium will bring together representatives of all the relevant communities to present, debate, and formulate a preliminary positioning and assessment of the field of ICT-enabled art and science. A small group of invited key figures such as practising artists, curators, scientists and futurists, curators, educators and representatives of funding bodies will be strongly encouraged to take a visionary and speculative approach in addressing what they perceive to be the relevant questions and problems.

Speakers and Abstracts

Alexa Wright and Mike Lincoln: The Art and the Science of A Speech-based Interactive Installation
Ann Borda: Community and Innovation : JISC Funded Activity in the Arts & Humanities
Anthony Steed: Mixed-Reality Systems: Revealing the Real and Virtual Worlds
Gordana Novakovic: Neuroplastic art
Helen Sloan: Method or hypothesis: the changing role and importance of ICT in arts andscience projects
Janis Jeffries: In Collaboration
Julie Freeman: Combining the odd: carp behaviour, nanotextures, empathy detection
Liliane Lijn: Starshine -Stardust: Are we so different?
Paul Brown: The Pursuit of Autonomy: Art that Makes Itself
Peter Bentley: Viewing Systemic Computation
Stelarc: Extra Ear - Ear on Arm