{"62727":{"#nid":"62727","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Marc Downie - The OpenEnded Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPart artist\u0027s talk, part manifesto, this lecture will\ndescribe recent work by the New York based art collective The OpenEnded Group.\nThis work spans film, public art, dance and installation. Always in\ncollaboration, always in real-time their practice has spawned a parallel series\nof investigations into the tools and representations used to make digital art.\nThis thought has become embodied in a new open source platform for programming\nart called Field. What kinds of tools do we need to survive the complex forms\nthat we can create? what kinds of interactions can we have with the code that\nwe write? and what kinds of collaborations and communities of artists might\narise around these platforms? At stake in these questions is nothing less than\nthe artist\u0027s relationship to digital media itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/openendedgroup.com\/index.php\/about\/artwork-summaries\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESee Artwork Summaries\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbout Marc Downie\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarc Downie is an artist and artificial intelligence\nresearcher. Born in Aberdeen, UK, he has an MA in natural science and a MSci in\nphysics from the University of Cambridge, graduating at the head of his class\nwith the Mott Prize in the Natural Sciences. In 2005 he obtained a PhD from\nMIT\u2019s Media Lab, writing a thesis entitled \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/openendedgroup.com\/?page_id=126\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChoreographing the Extended Agent.\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d Downie\u2019s complex algorithmic\nsystems are inspired by natural systems and a critique of prevalent digital\ntools and techniques. His interactive installations, compositions, and\nprojections have presented advances in the fields of interactive music, machine\nlearning, and computer graphics. In addition to extensive collaborations with\nhis key colleagues Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, Downie has worked with Merce\nCunningham, Bill T. Jones, and Trisha Brown. While he was at the MIT Media Lab,\nhe collaborated extensively with colleagues there, playing key roles in\nprojects such as as AlphaWolf (A Prix Ars Electronica honorable mention in\n2002), Dobie (SIGGRAPH 2002), and (void *) (SIGGRAPH 2000), and Jeux Deux\n(2006). Downie\u2019s solo works include the series \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/openendedgroup.com\/?page_id=63\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMusical Creatures\u003C\/a\u003E (2000-3), which have been exhibited internationally. Downie\nhas made his \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.openendedgroup.com\/field\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emultimedia authoring system Field\u003C\/a\u003E available to others as an open source project.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe OpenEnded Group\u0027s work spans film, public art, dance, and installation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-11-14 11:21:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:28","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-11-22T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2010-11-22T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-11-22T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-11-22 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-11-22 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-11-22 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62728":{"id":"62728","type":"image","title":"The OpenEnded Group","body":null,"created":"1449176394","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:54","changed":"1475894547","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:27","alt":"The OpenEnded Group","file":{"fid":"191553","name":"Picture_2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Picture_2_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Picture_2_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":254299,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Picture_2_0.png?itok=LvhGOMPl"}}},"media_ids":["62728"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"},{"id":"1227","name":"School of Music"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"6865","name":"artist"},{"id":"4251","name":"dance"},{"id":"2402","name":"film"},{"id":"11255","name":"installation"},{"id":"8655","name":"public art"},{"id":"11256","name":"the openended group"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech College of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-2156\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}