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Public Keynote Talks, Designing Interfaces for Creativity Symposium (organised by Chris Kiefer)

9.30am - 1pm

The Designing Interfaces for Creativity (DesInC) Symposium is being held at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, on 3 & 4 November 2016. As computational technologies become increasingly embedded in the physical world, designers and makers of interfaces for creativity are bringing skills and expertise from progressively wider fields and practices into their work. What and how can designers of creative technologies learn from practitioners in broader design disciplines, past and present? The symposium will explore interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the design of tools, interfaces and instruments for creativity, including (but not limited to) sound, music, video, film, crafts, visual arts, software arts and gaming.

The keynote talks are open to the public, the speakers will be:

Andrey Smirnov, Moscow State Conservatory

Andrey Smirnov (1956) is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, collector, writer, composer. He is a researcher and senior lecturer at the Centre for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory, and a lecturer at the Rodchenko School for Modern Photography and Multimedia where he teaches courses on history and aesthetics of electroacoustic music, sound design and composition, new musical interfaces and physical computing. In 1992-2012 he was the founding director of the Theremin Center in Moscow. He has conducted numerous workshops and master classes in the U.S., Europe and Russia, and participated in various festivals and conferences. Since 1976 he conducts research on the development of electronic music techniques and gestural interfaces. His collection of the historical documents and original electronic musical instruments has been combined with extensive research into the history of music technology with broad experience in composition, interactive performance and curatorial activities, resulted in a series of exhibitions "Sound in Z", "Generation Z", "Pioneers of Sound". He is the author of the book "Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia", (Koenig Books, London/Cologne, in partnership with Sound and Music, London, 2013). 

Michael Doser, CERN 

Michael Doser is a research physicist at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, who has specialized in working with antimatter, using it either as a tool (to study the strong interaction), or as an object of study itself (formation of anti-atoms, study of matter-antimatter asymmetry, measurement of the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter) and is the spokesperson of the AEgIS experiment at CERN. In addition, he lectures on antimatter, and is editor of Physics Letters B and of the Review of Particle Properties. He is also involved in numerous outreach activities, both locally and internationally (Europe and Asia), speaking to a wide spectrum of non-specialist audiences, from school children to decision makers, often also at art-related events

Alexander Bone, Mettle Studio

With ten years experience and three masters degrees in product and innovation design, Alex has a broad spectrum of understanding in the subject. He is a founding member of Mettle Studio, a design and innovation consultancy that work at the intersection of hardware and software, bringing together a wide range of skills from machine learning and AI to user centred design. He also works as a visiting Lecturer in experimental design at the Royal College of Art, where he previously studied and has worked as a consultant on the Future of Water and Transport. Alex has awards from the RSA and The Royal Commission of 1851.

More information about the event can be found at https://desinc.mfm.sussex.ac.uk/