Part of the Contemporary Music Festival 2009:
Music and Evolution - 200 years of Darwin
2:00pm | Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building. Saturday 28 February 2009.
i-DAT Presents ‘Variations’, a digital composition in three forms:
A10: “These two months at Plymouth were the most miserable which I ever spent”. A lament.
F10: Laws of Variation. (the pigeons orifices, ripe cooing fetishes, ignore poetic fishes, etc)
M10: Gene-Pool (the shallow end).
i-DAT presents ‘Variations’ a digital audio/visual composition in three forms. Variations is inspired by Darwin’s thwarted attempts to leave Plymouth to embark on his legendary voyage on HMS Beagle. Variations is a collection of generative work that playfully explore some of the concepts revealed by his insights.
Composed and performed by i-DAT.org, with Andrew Evenden.
Contemporary Music Festival 2009: Music and Evolution - 200 years of Darwin
Friday 27 February to Sunday 1 March
The LiquidPress consolidates a series of new media publishing activities which explore the construction and dissemination of emergent media in the form of ‘trans-media digital content’; ‘liquid’ media that can flow through a range of media form. The LiquidPress responds to the changing world of publishing/broadcasting as it moves from paper/TV/WWW/CD to digital generative media forms, and from fixed/passive to live, dynamic, active and locative media. http://www.liquidpress.net/
Generator: curated by Spacex & STAR, with support from the Institute of Digital Art & Technology and the Arts Council of England (Collaborative Arts Unit). Spacex Gallery, 1 May - 22 June 2002, and touring in the UK.Generator will present a series of ‘self-generating’ projects, incorporating digital media, instruction and participation pieces, drawing machines, experimental literature, and music technologies. All work will be produced ‘live’, in real-time, with some elements continuing indefinitely. The exhibition can also be described as ‘generative’ in that it will develop and expand over time, by acting as a point of connection for different generative practices across disciplines, pointing to the relationship of visual arts to other media - especially sound works, performance, and issues relating to chaos theory and complexity, neural networks and artificial life. http://www.generative.net/generator/
“artefacts can change their meaning not just over the years as different histriographical and institutional currents pick them out and transform their significance, but from day to day as different people view them and subject them to their own interpretation.”. The ‘Artefact’ Project takes this fluidity as its starting point. The Artefact and its interpretation panel slowly evolve as visitors to the website play with it and reinterpret its meaning. At the core of the Artefact Project is a 3D database drawn from the V&A Collection. For the duration of the show the ‘Artefact’ evolves through a generative breeding of this ‘genetic’ information. At some point in its evolution the ‘Artefact’ will become the collection. ‘Artefact’ is a MODEL project… May 16th - June 9th 2002. http://www.i-dat.org/projects/artefact/
