The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2017-2018 :: Andrew Hugill :: Creative Computing

  • Thursday 12th October 2017, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Creative Computing is a transdisciplinary field that combines tacit and explicit knowledge in order to improve human creativity. Its processes are intentionally divergent and convoluted, resulting from encounters between the objective precisions of computer systems and the subjective ambiguities of human beings. Hugill considers some specific examples of creative attempts to misuse digital technologies in both music and computing. The common thread is ’Pataphysics, a set of ideas which have grown steadily from their inception in the energetic mind of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) to become a prevalent and energetic force in both science and art today. Professor Hugill will consequently discuss such key ideas as creativity, style, logic, flow, exceptions, contradictions, and the pataphysical ‘clinamen’.

Andrew Hugill is a composer and musicologist, computer scientist and literary scholar. He is director of the Centre for Creative Computing at Bath Spa University. He is a panel member of several research councils in Europe and the UK. He is a reviewer for MIT Press, Routledge, and other publishers. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Creative Computing and the Cultural Computing book series. His publications include ‘Pataphysics: A Useless Guide’ (2012) and ‘The Digital Musician’ (2008/2012).

3D Scans using Faro Laser Scanner

Here are some of the scans we have made using our Faro X130 3D Laser Scanner

This is a 3d laser scanner capable of capturing objects and buildings, architectural façades, complex structures etc.  It measures distance by illuminating a target with a laser and analysing the reflected light.

The scans were processed and optimised using the Faro Scan software and exported to a lower resolution web friendly format.

2017 End of Year Exhibition

 

Avery Hill Winter Gardens

 

Unit 15 Exhibit

 

Future Cities 6: The Marvellous [An AVATAR Conference]

Friday 21st April 2017
10.30am – 5pm
Location: The Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre
10 Stockwell Street, Greenwich, London SE10 9BD

5pm – Drinks reception and Future Cities 6 Exhibition Private View
(Location: Project Space)

Keynote Speaker:
Michael Hansmeyer

Neil Spiller
University of Greenwich

Dagmar Motycka Weston
University of Edinburgh

Shaun Murray
University of Greenwich

Mark Morris
Architectural Association

Nic Clear
University of Greenwich

You+Pea
[Sandra Youkhana + Luke Caspar Pearson] Bartlett School of Architecture

“Let us not mince words: the marvellous is always beautiful, anything marvellous is beautiful, in fact only the marvellous is beautiful.”
— André Breton, ‘Manifesto of Surrealism’ (1924)

Future Cities 6 will be the sixth AVATAR (Advanced Virtual And Technological Architecture Research) conference hosted by the Department of Architecture and Landscape held at the University of Greenwich. It builds on the previous success of Future Cities, Future Cities 2, 3, 4, 5 events – that have been international, cross-industry, multi-disciplinary event themed around pressing architectural issues related to the challenges faced by megacities, the architectural discipline and pedagogical challenges in an increasingly technologically advanced, yet resource-constrained world. This year the theme of the conference will centre on The Marvellous and asks what creative opportunities architectural design in the twenty-first century offers and how it is possible to work with such tensions. It also raises questions about how we may deal with the nature of ecology, urban environments and an increasing global society – all composed of many different, often contradictory bodies.

Accompanying the conference is an exhibition in the Stockwell Street Project Space featuring works by five of the participants. Keynote speaker Michael Hansmeyer is exhibiting prints of his dazzling 3D ‘Digital Grotesques’ that are currently part of the ‘Printing the World’ exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Hansmeyer is also exhibiting a video specially commissioned for the Pompidou show. Young London based architectural design practice You+Pea (Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson) are showing their highly exuberant ‘Tokyo Backup City’ project. Dr Shaun Murray is showing some of the extraordinary drawings that were recently part of an exhibition at the Lightroom Gallery at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. Professor Neil Spiller will be exhibiting more staggering works from the ‘Communicating Vessels’ project and Nic Clear will be showing a series of new works, ‘Dreamspaces’, studies for his Chthonopolis Project that will shortly be featured at the ‘The Factory’ gallery, London.

The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Neil Spiller :: Surrealism in the Groove

  • Thursday 3rd November 2016, 6.30pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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This lecture will examine the affects Surrealism has had on record cover design particularly in the “Heavy Rock” genre in the last 3 decades of the Twentieth Century. Surrealism has also influenced the bizarre stage antics of some artists and the making of their videos. There will also be the book launch of Neil Spiller’s new book Architecture and Surrealism –  A Blistering Romance which charts the relationship between one of the most popular artist movements of the 20th century and 100 years of architectural thinking. In an era of wearable technology, big data and the fascinating possibilities for new spaces and buildings, Architecture and Surrealism is a breath-taking resource of spatial ideas, visionary buildings and occasionally mad-cap notions of our built world. 

Neil Spiller is Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London prior to this he was Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory.  Before this he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He has guest edited 7 AD’s, his eighth “Celebrating the Marvelous” is due in 2018. He is on the AD editorial Board. His books include Cyberreader: Critical Writings of the Digital Era (2002), Digital Dreams (1998), Visionary Architecture – Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006) and Surrealism and Architecture- A Blistering Romance (2016). His architectural design work has been published and exhibited on many occasions worldwide, his drawings are held in many international collections. He is an internationally renowned visionary architect and his work has a remarkable graphic dexterity. Spiller is also recognised internationally for his paradigm shifting contribution to architectural discourse, research / experiment and teaching.

 

An AVATAR Conference :: Future Cities 5 Surreal Mythologies

An AVATAR Conference [Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research]

  • Friday 1st April 2016
  • 10.30am > 5pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre 0003

    11 Stockwell Street

    Greenwich, London SE10 8EY

     

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Future Cities 5

Surreal Mythologies

ALL WELCOME – FREE ENTRY

Morning session: Minotaurs, Hermes and Mythic Muses

 

1030 – Welcome

1045 – Nic Clear – University of Greenwich

1130 – Mark Morris – Cornell University

1215 – Neil Spiller – University of Greenwich

 

1300 – Lunch

 

Afternoon session: Taste, Architecture and Fashion

 

1430 – Tim Waterman – University of Greenwich

1515 – Wolfgang Tschapeller – Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

1600 – Paul Gorman- keynote speaker – Journalist, author, commentator on visual culture

 

1700 – Drinks reception

 

An AVATAR Conference FUTURE CITIES 4: RECONCILING OPPOSITES

An AVATAR Conference

FUTURE CITIES 4: RECONCILING OPPOSITES

  • Friday 17th April – 10am > 5pm + Drinks reception from 5pm
  • Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

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Keynote Speaker – MICHAEL SORKIN

City College of New York / Michael Sorkin Studio

 

JUSTIN McGUIRK

Strelka Press / Writer, Critic, Curator

 

IAN WORLEY

Enderby Group, Greenwich

 

NIC CLEAR

University of Greenwich

 

NEIL SPILLER

University of Greenwich

 

MARK MORRIS

Cornell University

 

SIMON WITHERS

University of Greenwich

 

ED WALL

University of Greenwich

 

SIMON HERRON

University of Greenwich

 

Department of Architecture and Landscape
University of Greenwich
Academic Building 11
Stockwell Street
Greenwich
London SE10 8EY

http://architecture.gre.ac.uk

 

 

Future Cities 3: Abundance

An AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research) group conference.

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Thursday 10th April 2014
9.45am – 6.00pm

  • Howe Lecture Theatre [QA080]
  • Greenwich Maritime Campus
  • Old Royal Naval College
  • London SE10 9LS

Much of our current urban view is characterised by a swingeing human fall-back position that values sophism, tardiness and economic stringency. This view is predicated on a concern, and a commercialisation of this concern, that we have finite resources and runs hand in hand with a distrust of exuberance, creativity, for its own sake and “out of the box” thinking. This Future Cities 3 conference is themed “Abundance”. It will posit new ways to find abundance in the city, whether through synthetic technology, augmented reality, Utopian thinking or the digitally fabricated Baroque.

The conference will be an antidote to architectural urban Methodist-ism and worthy nothingness. It will be a tsunami of ideas, images and speculations facilitated by a timely optimism – an optimism founded on new materials, new ways of thinking, new tactics and protocols of space, and finally the syncretic opportunities of architecture in the 21st Century.

Keynote speaker:

EVAN DOUGLIS
Evan Douglis Studio

Speakers:

NEIL SPILLER
University of Greenwich

MARK MORRIS
Cornell University

RACHEL ARMSTRONG
University of Greenwich

FLEAFOLLYARCHITECTS
University of Greenwich / The Bartlett UCL

MARK GARCIA
University of Greenwich

ED WALL
University of Greenwich

NIC CLEAR
University of Greenwich

MAX DEWDNEY
University of Greenwich

ELIZABETH ANNE WILLIAMS
University of Greenwich / Louisiana State University

SIMON HERRON
University of Greenwich

An accompanying exhibition is open from Monday 7th April – Friday 11th April in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Queen Anne Building, Greenwich Maritime Campus.

Exhibition Private View – Thursday 10th April 6pm (following the conference).

To reserve a place at the conference, please contact: as71@gre.ac.uk.
Admission is free.

 

 

Open Lecture :: Neil Spiller :: Maverick Deviations

  • Open Lecture Series 2013/2014
  • Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055
  • Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
  • Wednesday 2nd October; 6PM

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Neil Spiller will talk about his 30 years of work, Drawing Drawings and pushing the architectural envelope.

Neil Spiller is Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory at the University of Greenwich, London.

He guest edited his first Architectural Design (AD), Architects in Cyberspace in 1995 followed in 1996 by Integrating Architecture, Architects in Cyberspace II (1998), Young Blood (2000), Reflexive Architecture (2002), and Protocell Architecture with Rachel Armstrong (2010).  Neil’s books include Cyberreader: Critical Writings of the Digital Era, Digital Dreams and Visionary Architecture – Blueprints of the Modern Imagination. He is on the AD editorial Board. His architectural design work has been published and exhibited on many occasions worldwide.