[NetBehaviour] New Thursday Club @ Goldsmiths: ALEXANDRA ANTONOPOULOU & ELEANOR DARE. 20 NOVEMBER, 6-8pm.

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]]

NEW THURSDAY CLUB EVENT with ALEXANDRA ANTONOPOULOU &* ELEANOR DARE *on *20 NOVEMBER, 6-8PM*

SEMINAR ROOMS, BEN PIMLOTT BUILDING (GROUND FLOOR), GOLDSMITHS

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

Come and join us for stimulating presentations and discussions, and a glass or two of wine...


ONCE UPON A TIME TO EVER AFTER

& 

CYBERTEXTS



Alexandra Antonopoulou: ONCE UPON A TIME TO EVER AFTER

Are fairytales fiction? Are "true" stories reality? How can we learn
through narratives? Alexandra will explore interaction and learning
through narratives, which is part of her PhD research. Her /Beauties and Beasts/ book was shown at the exhibition /Blood on Paper/ at the V&A. Alexandra will also present her interactive cookbook, which connects generations via food.

ALEXANDRA ANTONOPOULOU is a PhD candidate in Design, Goldsmiths
http://thursclubalex.blogspot.com/
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.com/
http://everafteralex.blogspot.com/

AND

Eleanor Dare: CYBERTEXTS

In /Cybertexts/ (1997) the writer Espen Aarseth attempts to define the medium
specificity of computational texts. In identifying subtler levels of
medium specificity Aarseth  asks us to expand our categorisations of what
constitutes literature and of what is literary.

These emerging categorisations necessitate a new literary aesthetic and an
awareness of the dangers inherent in imposing naturalized literary terms
onto new forms of textuality. Eleanor's work is concerned with the
specificity  of different forms, what qualities can she best deploy when
using computational means for generating narrative? How do these
qualities differ when those means are more traditional? Where is the
subject in this equation, and how relevant are long-held ideas of agency
and 'reception' in the reader-writer nexus within a dynamic and networked
writing system?

Eleanor Dare is a PhD candidate in Arts and Computational Technology, GDS,
Goldsmiths.
www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma501ed/


Alexandra Antonopoulou and Eleanor Dare will discuss how these issues have impacted upon their individual practices and how their backgrounds and goals diverge but also converge in unexpected ways.




FUTURE EVENTS:


*John Lechte: A Digital Aesthetics: Is it Possible?*

Date: 4 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00



*Janis Jefferies in conversation with Liliane Lijn*

Date: 11 December 2008
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Time: 18:00 - 20:00


For more information check: http://www.thethursdayclub.net


THE THURSDAY CLUB IS ORGANISED BY GOLDSMITHS DIGITAL STUDIOS AND SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THE DEPT. OF COMPUTING

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ 


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Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Art and Computational Technologies  Goldsmiths Digital Studios skype: mariax_gr www.cybertheater.org 

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