[x] Fri Sept 28, 7pm: Dom Lopes: "A Philosophy of Computer Art"

[MIles Thorogood]

Rats, I'll be unable to attend tonights most intriguing talk.

best,
Miles


On 2012-09-23, at 10:56 AM, Jim Andrews wrote:

> Dominic Lopes, author of A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009),
> will talk about his book to the group of x on Friday September 28. Doors
> open at 7pm and Dom starts 7:30-7:45pm. Discussion will take place after his
> talk.
> 
> Dom teaches philosophy at UBC.
> 
> Dom's book is the first by a professional philosopher on the subject of
> computer art. One could say--quite loosely--that there are several books,
> such as Manovitch's The Language of New Media, which seek to develop a
> philosophy of computer art, where computer art is art in which the computer
> is crucial as medium. How do such approaches differ from what a philosopher
> might consider to be a philosophy of computer art? What is a 'philosophy of
> computer art?' Pick up Dom's book before the event and find out.
> 
> RELEVANT LINKS
> 
> A Philosophy of Computer Art: http://apoca.mentalpaint.net
> A review by Jim Andrews:
> http://netpoetic.com/2009/11/reviewed-a-philosophy-of-computer-art-by-dominic-mciver-lopes
> A video interview: http://vispo.com/lopes
> Dom's site: http://lopes.mentalpaint.net
> 
> DOMINIC LOPES BIO
> 
> Dominic Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the
> Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He works
> mainly in aesthetics and is a member of the UBC aesthetics group. His
> research focusses on pictorial representation and perception; the aesthetic
> and epistemic value of pictures, including scientific images; theories of
> art and its value; the ontology of art; and computer art and new art forms.
> He is working on a pair of books entitled Beyond Art and Four Arts of
> Photography and has just co-edited (with Diarmuid Costello) a special issue
> of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on the media of photography.
> 
> Paloma Atencia-Linares recently interviewed him on the topic of "Pictures,
> Bytes and Values" for the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics.
> 
> Lopes is Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics (and will be
> president in 2013-15). He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the
> British Society of Aesthetics, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
> Philosophical Association Pacific Division, a member of the Editorial Board
> of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and co-editor (with Berys
> Gaut) of Wiley-Blackwell's New Directions in Aesthetics book series. He
> served for three years as an Associate Dean in the UBC Faculty of Arts.
> 
> LOCATION
> 
> Dom's talk will be the first at our new location for group of x
> get-togethers, thanks to Arne Eigenfeldt: at SFU downtown in the Goldcorp
> Centre for the Arts at 149 West Hastings street in room 3420, the third
> floor electroacoustic studio. There's great tech available here and more
> space than in my apartment. But food and drink are not permitted in the
> studio. After Dom's talk and the discussion, let's head over to Charles Bar
> (or wherever we figure would be good).
> 
> 
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