PUBLIC LECTURE - Online Artist Talk – Dept. of DIGITAL ARTS/ Ruth Schnell
This is an online artist talk, please join Zoom meeting
Meeting
ID: 989 2757 2746
Bill Seaman will discuss selected works exploring his creative process, notions of Recombinant Poetics
and Recombinant Informatics.
BILL SEAMAN (musician/ composer,
recombinant poet, prof. at Duke University, USA)
Seaman's work often explores an expanded
media-oriented poetics through various technological means — Recombinant Poetics. Such works often explore the combination
and recombination of media elements and processes in interactive and generative works of art. Seaman enfolds image/music/text
relations in these works, often creating all of the media elements and articulating the operative media-processes involved.
He is self-taught as a musician/composer. He “composes” computationally, in particular using the audio program Ableton Live.
He often collaborates with others in terms of his musical output. He has been articulating a new field – Neosentience (with
scientist Otto Rössler). He is deeply interested in Computational Creativity and Emergence, co-directs the Emergence Lab,
and is Graduate Program Director, Computational Media, Arts and Cultures, Duke University. He is a professor in the Department
of Art, Art History & Visual Studies there. Current research includes a transdisciplinary search engine related to Neosentience
and AI - The Insight Engine.
