International Festival of Digital Arts, 2012 - Seminars

These seminars will accompany each exhibition and address various issues arising from new media arts and interactivity. They are free and open to everyone, although priority will be given to students from Goldsmiths, London University. If you would like to attend please book your place either online or by calling Box Office on 020 8232 1010. Details of the exhibitions can be found HERE

Seminar 6 : Art in Virtual Reality / virtual spaces, Game-space as an Artistic Medium

Saturday 25 August, 17.00 – 19.00 followed by drinks
to coincide with Joseph Farbrook’s installation 'Strata-caster' (Sat 25 August – Sun 14 October 2012)

Chaired by Jonathan Munro – with Joseph Farbrook, Corrado Morgana and Rui Filipe Antunes

Jonathan Munro is an artist, curator and educator. He has worked collaboratively with Gareth Goodison as captincaptin since 2007 and is codirector of the artist run organisation TINT, dedicated to art which is derived from, and reflects upon the intersections of technology and culture. Jonathan is currently studying on the MFA Computational Studio Arts program at Goldsmiths University. During 2011 he co-hosted the Furtherfield on Resonance 104.4fm live radio show every Wednesday. http://www.jonathanmunro.com/

Joseph Farbrook grew up in New York City and Santa Fe, raised by his father, a concrete poet, and his mother a painter. Farbrook creates virtual reality art installations, video sculptures, and videographs. He has also created media-reflexive live performances mixed with interactive screen projections. Farbrook's latest work explores the intersections between video, video games, and sculpture.

Farbrook exhibits both nationally and internationally including SIGGRAPH2010, the AC Institute in NYC, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, La Fabrica Arte Contemporaneo in Guatemala, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo in Columbia, as well as venues in the Netherlands, China, Czech Republic, and the USA. Farbrook teaches interactive media art at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. http://farbrook.net

Corrado Morgana is an artist, electronic musician (semi-retired), curator and educator. He is currently programme leader for Computer Games Design at University of Wales Newport. His research project examines arts and videogames crossover practice, specifically transgressive and subversive production within existing game engines. Alongside HTTP/Furtherfield.org, an international arts collective, he has co-curated 'Zero Gamer' and 'Game-Play', national touring exhibitions which explore game spectatorship and independent and experimental production.He has been involved in various large scale collaborative projects. These include Node.London a practical framework for media arts whose March 2006 season presented over 140 media arts events within London and also Open Congress at Tate which mapped free, libre and open source strategies onto general cultural production. He has produced video work, collaborative online projects and performed live electronica at various international venues, has dabbled in virtual reality research and has taught extensively about online practice. He has worked in a variety of digital guises from web developer to computer salesman. Most importantly he is an incorrigible gamer. http://gamecritical.net

Rui Filipe Antunes is a PhD candidate in Arts  and Computational Technologies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work has been awarded twice in the VIDA competition of art and artificial intelligence (editions 12th and 13th) and features in a number of publications such as Preble’s Artforms or the Journal of Virtual Worlds.  A large number of curatorial projects and shows have included his work in the last ten years, including in 2010: Post Human/ Future Tense, at the Arcade Gallery, in Chicago; FILE 2010 – Media Arte, São Paulo, Brasil; or {S0NiK} Fest, BronxArtSpace, NY. In 2009 his work featured in the exhibition Lá Fora, in Lisbon, a perspective of historical and contemporary art by Portuguese living abroad. He has taught multimedia and computing in Portugal for ten years. Currently he is a visiting lecturer at the City University and the University of Greenwich in London. He is also part of Piki Productions. http://www.pikiproductions.com/rui/

Parag K Mital is a London-based PhD-student in Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a member of the Embodied AudioVisual Interaction (EAVI) group at Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Parag is exploring embodied audiovisual perception borrowing from the literature of cognition, information retrieval, film studies, signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, and mobile augmented reality. http://pkmital.com