Art, science and invention

Edinburgh College of Arts Research Seminar Series

Richard Brown: Informatics artist-in-residence
(and Mimetics)

Richard Brown works as a hybrid artist, inventor and entrepreneur creating interactive and mimetic experiences using a wide variety of media, including the digital, the analogue and the chemical. His work explores the perception of space, time and energy encompassing ideas from cybernetics, artificial life, interaction design, emergence, complexity and alchemy. In his lecture he will show examples of his work, describing the influences that have defined his explorations as he has moved between art and science, and across the analogue and digital divide. See Mimetics for further information.

Wednesday 23 January 2008, 4-5pm,
edinburgh college of art
Hunter Building lecture theatre
Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF

Computer Science Writing Competition 2006-07

Two bites at the cherry - get paid for your descriptions of Informatics research.

EPSRC is offering awards of up to £1000 for descriptions of EPSRC-funded research; entrants can range from people who have not had any writing published before to professional science writers.

For information about the competition, please see: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/cswriting/default.htm

Informatics will also offer two awards of £200 each for the best description of Informatics research (EPSRC-funded or otherwise). Informatics reserves the right to use all entries in media for which Informatics makes no charge, such as our web pages; we reserve the right not to offer a prize if there is no entry we want to use on our web pages.

We encourage you to enter the EPSRC contest, and to get a second bite at the cherry by submitting your work for the Informatics web site as well.

To enter the Informatics competition, please copy your entry to Diana.Sisu@inf.ed.ac.uk .

The deadline for entries is 31st January 2007.