Writing Archive

Fear and loathing in Bab-Vegas

I recently found myself back in familiar Newcastle  territory with fellow LiSC folks Shaun, Conor and Sanne for the ‘Food for Thought’ workshop at the DIS2012 conference. The workshop involved the ethnographic study of drinking large quantities of beer and eating nasty kebabs on the edgy streets of Newcastle, a somewhat unusual workshop activity but [...]

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Talk by Dan O’Hara

Next Wednesday (6th June) LiSC and the School of Computer Science will host an invited talk by Dan O’Hara :- “Emergence and the Synthetic Aesthetic” : Not all aesthetic forms are the product of human design. Skeuomorphs – stylistic forms that result from the process of functions becoming obsolete – are the memory capacity of [...]

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