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Tidal MerzA: Combining affective modelling and autonomous code generation through Reinforcement Learning
Get PDFThis paper presents Tidal-MerzA, a novel system designed for collaborative performances between humans and a machine agent in the context of live coding, specifically focusing on the generation of musical patterns. Tidal-MerzA fuses two foundational models: ALCAA (Affective Live Coding Autonomous Agent) and Tidal Fuzz, a computational framework. By integrating affective modelling with computational generation, this system leverages reinforcement learning techniques to dynamically adapt music composition parameters within the TidalCycles framework, ensuring both affective qualities to the patterns and syntactical correctness. The development of Tidal-MerzA introduces two distinct agents: one focusing on the generation of mini-notation strings for musical expression, and another on the alignment of music with targeted affective states through reinforcement learning. This approach enhances the adaptability and creative potential of live coding practices and allows exploration of human-machine creative interactions. Tidal-MerzA advances the field of computational music generation, presenting a novel methodology for incorporating artificial intelligence into artistic practices
Staging Desire: Hermès, Orientalism, and the Queer Male Fantasy in Fashion Imagery
Get PDFMagazine Photography Project: A 20-page special cover story in collaboration with the French luxury brand Hermès, May 2024, magazine cover + pp. 98-117, Numéro Berlin. The series of images offers a re-interpretation of Hermès' S/S 2024 menswear collection. The visual narrative simulates the semi-Orientalist atmosphere often present in Hermès’ fashion and advertising imagery, drawing inspiration from North African locales—particularly Tangier—as historic sites of queer male fantasy and artistic fascination.
By evoking the aesthetics of these geographies, the project interrogates the ways in which masculinity is both idealised and othered within luxury fashion’s visual lexicon. Tangier, with its long-standing associations with European writers, artists, and travellers who sought both sexual and creative liberation, becomes a key reference point. The project examines how the constructed image of the exoticised male figure operates as a site of projection, fantasy, and desire, reflecting broader questions about masculinity’s role in the production of escapist luxury narratives. Through a critical lens, the series challenges the persistence of these tropes in contemporary fashion photography, recontextualising them to explore new possibilities of representation
Moving together in the border space: collaborative explorations using sonic objects to sound-scape interdependencies
No full textIn this Dream Team session, participants are invited to engage in the co-production of sonic landscapes using guitar and synth pedals. No musical experience is necessary. We invite listening to self and other(s), self in relation to other(s), and bring an opportunity to reflect on habitual patterns of engagement with the social and physical environment, the timbre and tempo of co-presences becoming mutually aware, and how rhythmic flows may evolve in relation to individual and mutually emergent feelings and urgencies. Starting from no input, the evolving sonic landscape offers a means of articulating qualitative shifts in participants' ongoing interconnectedness, through shared communication and expression, enabling knowing and be(com)ing known in ways rendered inaccessible by the constraints of verbal and visual language, bringing a different perspective from which participants may experience a common recognition and mutually apprehended understanding of individual and shared psychosocial tendencies.
As a mode of engagement, the sonic offers a means to experiment with progression and change in relation to others, to observe conditions (both internal and external) that enable or constrain interdependency and to develop co-constructed worlds through an unfolding, improvised soundscape. The workshop invites and accommodates multiple readings and/or analogies, with opportunity for further reflection across modalities (verbal and/or written/visual), and an emphasis on emergent rather than intended outcomes.
We are interested in evolving our understandings of auditory modes of relation, moving toward audio inquiry as a method for exploring relational questions that exist between (or around or through) people who are informed by differing cultural frameworks, plural lived experiences and not-yet-compatible theoretical perspectives.
Without wishing, therefore, to impose our own perspectives on the process of sense- making through this auditory encounter, Ettinger’s (1995) notion of subjectivity-as- encounter in the matrixial borderspace (see also Giffney, Mulhall & O’Rourke, 2009) provides a provisional meeting point for ransdisciplinary reflection on experiences of contact and connection, and of making meaning as we go along, in the absence of shared lexical and conceptual references, and in a scenario where participants may experience themselves as partial subjects. As Butler (2004:99) describes it: ‘We are invited into the space in which we are not one, cannot be, and yet we are not without the capacity to see. We see here, as a child or, perhaps, an infant, whose body is given as the remnants of another’s trauma and desires. By grounding in a mostly non-lexical experience, and then facilitating critical reflection across modalities, we navigate that loss (and other losses) and familiarise ourselves with a primal territory of being-in-relation that is often outside conscious awareness
A creative practice approach to developing resilience and wellbeing through dance in secondary education. The Quest: A Hero’s Journey
No full textPresentation at the International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS), Warsaw, Polan
Culture Box: Using multi-sensory arts and creative activities to decrease social isolation and loneliness in people with dementia during COVID-19
Get PDFCulture Box was an 18-month research project working with care homes and people with dementia to address social isolation and loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project ran for 18 months using a remote and digital Participatory Action Research framework to include the preferences and needs of people with dementia throughout. It resulted in Culture Box’s expansive archive of materials to support activity coordinators and facilitators with high quality arts-based and creative interventions. These interventions used physical and virtual resources during the pandemic, but the virtual resources in particular remain highly relevant now that the pandemic has passed. All the archived materials can be found on the project websit
Paul Coldwell- Natura Morte & other works
No full textExhibition of prints from 2020-24 focusing on still lives and showing the influence of Giorgio Morandi.
Paul Coldwell is a practicing artist and Professor in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London. He has exhibited widely, his work included in numerous public collections, including Tate, V&A, The British Museum, Arts Council of England, the Musee d’art et d’histoire, Geneva and MoMA (New York).
This exhibition presents a selection of prints made by Coldwell including a recent portfolio of etchings entitled The Studio, created during lockdown from small models assembled in his studio. The prints explore the genre of still life, beginning as playful constructions and evolved through manipulation in the computer, before being realised as multiple blocks woodcuts with each block laser cut and hand printed by the artist.
Throughout his career he has acknowledged the profound influence of the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. Like Morandi, Coldwell’s work is focused on objects, the everyday items which accompany our daily lives but that have little financial value. Through this, the intention is to focus on incidental events and relationships and propose alternative values.
Interview with Dr Ben Thomas on
https://italiana.esteri.it/italiana/en/eventi/interview-to-paul-coldwell-an-english-artist-hosted-by-the-italian-cultural-institute-of-london
Architecture is Climate: Chronograms of Architecture
No full textThe research collective MOULD was invited by the Jencks Foundation and e-flux to develop a 'chronogram' developing the seminal architectural diagrams of Charles Jencks. Our diagram traced the connections between climate breakdown and architecture. It has been widely exhibited and published, both as a printed diagram and an embroidery installation
Character is Structure: The Insider's Guide to Screenwriting
No full textDeveloping their ideas about screenwriting honed through industry experience and academic practice, Hughes and Wilkes dig into how and why we tell stories for the screen.
In Character is Structure; The Insiders’ Guide to Screenwriting, the pair focus on key elements of narrative design which help writers gain a greater understanding of the characters they are creating and the narratives that they want to tell. With detailed examples and practical exercises Hughes and Wilkes showcase how writers can create work that will resonate with audiences, satisfy studio execs and wow festival juries.
Building on the global traditions of folk and fairy stories the duo have created a set of unique paradigms which are present within the cinematic landscape of the twenty-first century. These will assist screenwriters in delivering narrative arcs that are emotionally satisfying and structurally sound. Using a range of modern examples including Oscar winners (JoJo Rabbit), box office smash hits (Black Widow), indie gems (Lady Bird) and foreign markets (#Alive) Hughes and Wilkes showcase how their ideas can be applied to works in progress right the way through to final polishes
Making meaning: An investigation into staff’s relational experience of academic development in an applied arts assessment context
Get PDFThis article investigates the role of an academic development programme associated with the implementation of newly designed assessment criteria in the UK-based Arts University. The introduction of new assessment criteria was accompanied by a pan-university academic staff development intervention. In a small-scale qualitative study, we researched staff’s experience of meaning-making and present three interconnected themes: the relationships between attendees; their relationship with the criteria; and relational understandings within the context of expectations of academic development. We deploy Honneth’s theory of recognition and make recommendations for policy makers and academic developers to support the design of socially just academic development opportunities
Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography
Get PDFOver the past year colleagues from LCC and UAL's Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG), Dr Nela Milic (EPRG), Dr Paul Lowe, Dr Mark Ingham (EPRG), along with two UAL PhD alumni, Dr Vasileios Kantas and Dr Sara Andersdotter (EPRG) have editied the Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography. This key volume of research has 27 chapters by leading practitioners in the fields of memory, photography, and autobiography. It includes chapters from Dr Jennifer Good and Sophy Rickett from LCC, with contributions from two LCC doctoral students, Elin Karlsson (EPRG and Mireia Ludevid Llop (EPRG). Other UAL colleagues who successfully submitted chapters were Natalie Payne from LCF and Tim Stephens (EPRG) from the Exchange.
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Autobiographical memory and photography have been inextricably linked since the first photographs appeared during the 19th century. These links have often been described from each other's discipline in ways that often have led to misunderstandings about the complex relationships between them.
The Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography covers many aspects of the multiple relationships between autobiographical memory and photography such as the idea that memory and photography can be seen as forms of mental time travel and the effect photography has on autobiographical memory. Covering key topics such as identity, trauma, and remembrance, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, sociologists, psychologists, artists, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, educators, and students