[cec-c] I am genderless like cacti and certain species of fishŠ 19 Jan 2018

News & events from CRiSAP View this email in your browser I am genderless like cacti and certain species of fish... CRiSAP presents an event exploring Voice, Intelligent Machines and Identity 19 Jan 2018 | 3-7pm London College of Communication Free, booking required As HAL9000, the errant robot in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey slowly malfunctions and “dies” he sings ‘Daisy Bell’. The use of the song, written by Harry Dacre in 1892, was inspired by author Arthur C. Clarke’s visit to Bell Labs in 1961, where he heard the IBM704 sing the song in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis. Five decades later machine generated voices are ubiquitous and robots are fulfilling more and more roles in our everyday lives. Voice is still one of the main ways in which we communicate with these personal assistants, system controllers or sexual partners and they with us. I am genderless like cacti and certain species of fish… seeks to explore the current state of speech synthesis and the social, political and cultural issues in computer voice generation through presentations from leading artists and researchers; Professor Roger K Moore, Chair of Spoken Language Processing at University of Sheffield, Siri Landgren, artist, Alice Emily Baird, artist, researcher and member of Multivocal and Professor Cathy Lane, composer, sound artist and academic. Book Tickets  - -   This event is part of the Beyond 2001: New Horizons an exhibition celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University’s Archives and Special Collections Centre. Students will produce and show work alongside invited artists and academics that offer new perspectives inspired by archive material from 2001: A Space Odyssey. A cross-school collaboration celebrating all things screen, the exhibition will be set in motion with accompanying performances, events, panels and workshops, punctuated by screenings of the film for staff and students. #Beyond2001 CRiSAP Calendar Large Objects Moving Air (LOMA 18) | Jan 8 I am genderless like cacti and certain species of fish...  | Jan 19 City Sonic Places Symposium | Feb 2 Helicotrema: Playlist | Online now Reflections on Process in Sound: Autumn Issue 5 | Online now Seismograf Journal: Sound Art Matters | Online now Aurality and Environment | Dec 1 - Feb 4 Art for the Environment | Jan 26 - Mar 18 Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a University of the Arts London research centre, based at London College of Communication. Dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice, the centre's aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practised.

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