[PD-announce] Symposium in Bristol, uk, on june 22nd

[adam armfield]

dear list members,

i am posting this announcement for Joseph Hyde, please
write to him with any enquiries 

best wishes
adam
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Real Time Everything: new directions in media software

One-day symposium, Wednesday 22nd June 10:00-3:00,
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol (uk)

Over the last few years, a 'new breed' of media
software has emerged, offering a range of new
possibilities - indeed, a whole new approach - to
musicians, artists, programmers and other creatives
working with digital media.

Key features of these next-generation tools are:

1) modular structure - infinite configurability
allowing the user to tailor the software to their own
needs, effectively blurring the boundaries between
different media, software applications, and between
programmer and end user.

2) expandability - systems can be configured that use
multiple computers to allow for more processing power,
or to allow remote collaboration, multi-site projects
or telematic perfomance

3) real-time functionality - these tools are built in
such a way that everything is immediate and
interactive, even computationally-intensive tasks such
as video processing and 3D rendering.

This intensive one-day symposium will look at several
of these systems with experts from the field alongside
examples of creative applications, with opportunities
to discuss both the practical uses and the wider
implications of these developments.

This event is run as a collaboration between
Watershed, Bath Spa University College and Sonic Arts
Network.  It represents the launch of RAM (the
Realtime AudioMedia group), a new research unit at
Bath Spa specialising in the development of realtime
media tools and their application, and a lead up to
SAN's large-scale The Connectors event in September
(also at Watershed).

Provisional schedule

10:00 – 12:00 Poster Sessions

Max/MSP: Dr Barry Moon (Bath Spa University College)
PD: Martin Dupras (University of Western England)
SuperCollider: Martin Robinson (University of
Middlesex)
Processing: Yasser Rashid
The OpenCV library: Dr Paul Hill (University of
Bristol)
Csound: Professor John Ffitch (University of Bath)
The Composers Desktop Project: Richard Dobson and Dr
Archer Endrich

1:00 – 2:00 Practical Demonstrations

Artists Martin Robinson and Dr Nick Rothwell talk
about their work using some of these tools

2:00 – 3:00 Panel Discussion

A discussion of some of the wider implications raised
throughout the day

There will be a nominal fee of £6.00 (£4.00
concessions) for attendance at the symposium.  To
reserve your place, call the Watershed box office on
0117 927 6444.  They can help you with directions etc;
for detailed queries on the symposium email Joseph
Hyde – j.hyde at bathspa.ac.uk

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Dr Joseph Hyde
Director, Realtime AudioMedia research group
Course Director, MA in Creative Music Technology
Bath Spa University College

Email: j.hyde at bathspa.ac.uk
URL: http://www.theperiphery.com
Phone: 01225 875640

Address:
Bath Spa University College
Newton Park
Newton St. Loe
Bath BA2 9BN
UK




	
	
		
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