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BIO
Dave Miller
Curently Research Fellow at University of Bedfordshire
UNESCO Chair in New Media Forms of the Book
AR book project - Sherwood Rise: http://itsthetruth.org
Project research: http://augmentedwonder.blogspot.co.uk/
Art practice: http://davemiller.org
My art work draws out the invisible forces that make life difficult. It's about caring and being angry.
My practice enables me to express feelings about the world around me, to explain things in a meaningful, yet subjective way, and make complexed information accessible. Themes in my work are: human stories, injustices, contentious issues and campaigning.
My work is generally in the form of political short stories and drawings. Frequently my work is digital, hand-drawn on the computer, or composed by computer programs (I write code). Over the years I have made booklets, prints, Net Art, interactive stories, networked performances, and recently have focused on augmented reality and transmedia.
I view my work as social comment, tactical media, activism - that incorporates political cartoons/ graphic novels, journalism, satire, social realism and documentary.
Curently Research Fellow at University of Bedfordshire
UNESCO Chair in New Media Forms of the Book
AR book project - Sherwood Rise: http://itsthetruth.org
Project research: http://augmentedwonder.blogspot.co.uk/
Art practice: http://davemiller.org
My art work draws out the invisible forces that make life difficult. It's about caring and being angry.
My practice enables me to express feelings about the world around me, to explain things in a meaningful, yet subjective way, and make complexed information accessible. Themes in my work are: human stories, injustices, contentious issues and campaigning.
My work is generally in the form of political short stories and drawings. Frequently my work is digital, hand-drawn on the computer, or composed by computer programs (I write code). Over the years I have made booklets, prints, Net Art, interactive stories, networked performances, and recently have focused on augmented reality and transmedia.
I view my work as social comment, tactical media, activism - that incorporates political cartoons/ graphic novels, journalism, satire, social realism and documentary.
Richard Stallman: talk for RIMAD at University of Bedfordshire
Dates:
Wed Mar 20, 2013 18:00 - Wed Mar 20, 2013
Location:
Luton,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
A Free Digital Society
Activities directed at "including" more people in the use of digital
technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is
invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by
immediate practical convenience. However, if we also judge in terms
of human rights, whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on
what kind of digital world we are to be included in. If we wish to
work towards digital inclusion as a goal, it behooves us to make sure
it is the good kind.
Brief biography:
Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and
started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org)
in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it
and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system,
basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens
of millions of computers today. sStallman has received the ACM Grace
Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for
Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
http://www.stallman.org
For more info please contact Dave Miller (david.miller@beds.ac.uk)
RIMAD on Twitter: @rimadresearch
RIMAD weekly seminars: http://rimad.wikidot.com/seminars-2012-13
Activities directed at "including" more people in the use of digital
technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is
invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by
immediate practical convenience. However, if we also judge in terms
of human rights, whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on
what kind of digital world we are to be included in. If we wish to
work towards digital inclusion as a goal, it behooves us to make sure
it is the good kind.
Brief biography:
Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and
started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org)
in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it
and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system,
basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens
of millions of computers today. sStallman has received the ACM Grace
Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for
Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
http://www.stallman.org
For more info please contact Dave Miller (david.miller@beds.ac.uk)
RIMAD on Twitter: @rimadresearch
RIMAD weekly seminars: http://rimad.wikidot.com/seminars-2012-13
Aleph Null: new online generative interactive visual art
Hi JIm
This is really beautiful, great work, and must have been really tough programming to write this in javascript. One improvement I personally think would be to make the controls easier - I pressed the keys but wasnt sure what I had selected, even though I saw the colours changing.
My wish list - could you add sound? Or make it respond to sound? eg - if I could play an mp3 music file which triggers the generative process? Just an idea, maybe this has been done already?
all the best, Dave
This is really beautiful, great work, and must have been really tough programming to write this in javascript. One improvement I personally think would be to make the controls easier - I pressed the keys but wasnt sure what I had selected, even though I saw the colours changing.
My wish list - could you add sound? Or make it respond to sound? eg - if I could play an mp3 music file which triggers the generative process? Just an idea, maybe this has been done already?
all the best, Dave
Connecting Conversations with Grayson Perry
I'd love to go as find his work interesting, but the tickets are £10 - too much. I'll pay £2 - what do you say?
monochrom: Der Streichelnazi
Not sure if I get it really - the Austrians learn to show their love in public for Nazis again, as they have been denying themselves this since the war? I know it's only a joke but sorry I don't think it works. Is this really letting the real feelings out? I doubt it, I would think that people have moved on by now. Would it be more fun if the Nazis petted the Austrians, maybe this is more what what people want, and maybe closer to what happened?
Wow, just... wow
Me too, I don't see why you used DHL. I think it spoils it. Is it just an advert? Wouldn't the piece be more satisfying if it didn't involve DHL? Or if it criticised DHL?
