[spectre] [O3one] :: Art & Science :: MONDAY, APRIL 17 :: 6pm

[marko stamenkovic]

O3one :: Andricev venac 12 :: Belgrade :: www.o3.co.yu
Monday:: 17/04/2006 :: 6 pm.

Artist Talk::
Gordana NOVAKOVIC :: University College London / Dept. of Computer Science
ART & SCIENCE: FUGUE – Audiovisualisation of the Artificial Immune System ::
<http://www.fugueart.com/>www.fugueart.com
<http://www.gordananovakovic.net/writings/fuguepaper.pdf>www.gordananovakovic.net/writings/fuguepaper.pdf
<http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/csnews/artist_in_residence.htm>www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/csnews/artist_in_residence.htm
<http://www.gordananovakovic.net/>www.gordananovakovic.net



FUGUE [www.fugueart.com] is the result of a collaboration between 
artists, new music composer and computer scientists. The result is an 
on-going project which provides a new way of communicating complex 
scientific ideas to any audience. Immersive virtual reality and sound 
provide an interactive audiovisual interface to the dynamics of a 
complex system for this work, an artificial immune system. Alongside 
with providing the greatest immersive effect currently available, 
this technology offers the potential to control and calibrate 
particular audio-visual elements.

Gordana Novakovic is the Computer Science Department's first 
Artist-in-Residence. Gordana's collaboration with the Department 
began in 2004 when she sought a technical partner for her Arts 
Council England Individual Grant 'City Portrait'. In 2005 she was 
awarded a Leverhulme artist-in-residence Fellowship at UCL, and also 
an AHRC/ACE Art and Science Fellowship with Dr Peter Bentley as the 
collaborating scientist.

Gordana belongs to the generation of artists who pioneered electronic 
art. Originally a painter [University of Arts in Belgrade, 
1969-1974], with 12 solo exhibitions to her credit, she has more than 
20 years' experience of developing and exhibiting large-scale 
time-based media projects, such as 
<http://www.infonoise.net/>Infonoise. A constant mark of her work 
throughout her experiments with new technologies has been her 
distinctive method of creating an effective cross-disciplinary 
framework for the emergence of synergy through collaboration.

During her residency, Gordana will work closely with Dr. Peter 
Bentley, Anthony Ruto, and the Australian composer Rainer Linz, on 
the interactive artwork <http://www.fugueart.com/>Fugue. In addition, 
the team will collaborate on a new scientific tool for the 
audiovisualisation of the immune system. Gordana will also attend 
departmental seminars and other research events, and she hopes that 
her personal interactions with members of other research interest 
groups inside and outside the department will open up further 
interdisciplinary opportunities. A forthcoming exhibition in the new 
Computer Science building will show some of her large-scale 
paintings, along with documentaries of her previous projects, showing 
the evolution of the ideas behind her current work.

Gordana was awarded for the project:
Arts Council England Individual Grant in 2004; Arts and Humanities 
Research Council/Arts Council England Art and Science Fellowship (Dr. 
Peter Bentley Principal Applicant as a collaborative scientist) in 
2005; Leverhulme Artist in Residence Grant in 2005


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Marko Stamenkovic


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