- 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).