[AG-TECH] Global Threads Seminar - Jean-Claude Risset

[Michael Daw]

Tues 10th December
Test at 16:30 UTC, seminar at 17:00 UTC

Contact: Michael Daw, michael.daw at man.ac.uk
Venue: Windmer Room
DPPT slides: http://www.t0.or.at/~fuchs-eckermann/risset/risset.ppt
DPPT server: creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk

This seminar is the second of a short series, the first of which was given
by Benoit Mandelbrot. The topic will be the nature of fractal structures
from the inventor of fractal geometry for the science side, and the fractal
nature of his musical compositions from a composer who recognizes those
structures in his work for the artistic dimension.

Jean-Claude Risset
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Composer, professor, Stanford University, Director of Research at the French
National Centre for Scientific Research, Marseille, France, winner of the
CNRS Gold Medal, founding member of IRCAM at the Georges-Pompidou Centre,
Paris, France.

Biography (in French): http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00000082/

Automatically translated version:
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Global Threads Project
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Global Threads seeks to create distributed, physical-digital environments
that bring artists, scientists, and other creative thinkers together for
creative explorations of alternative ways of knowing the world -- models of
actuality.  These environments will be platforms for evolving prototypes for
those concerned with problems of knowledge and learning in the contemporary
world.

Global Threads will initiate worldwide interaction through a series of
events based on global networks.  Global Threads is dedicated to developing
the technology that permits human participation that transcends time, space
and culture, and will provide examples of the integrative powers of the new
technology that can bring about the development of new models of learning
and understanding.

Global Threads embraces multiple cultures and will welcome the participation
of as many people as possible in both structured and non-structured ways.
Our collective human experience is our collective human knowledge.

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Michael Daw
SVE Group (Supercomputing, Visualization and e-Science)

Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building,
University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7026
Fax: +44 (0)161 275 6800
Email: michael.daw at man.ac.uk

http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/daw
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