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EASy MSc
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Articles/Essays, EASy MSc, Music
Brian Eno and Generative Art
Tonight, I’m heading to Brighton Dome to see a performance of Brian Eno’s seminal album Apollo as part of Brighton Festival, which Eno is curating this year.
Two years ago, I wrote an essay about Eno (and the wider theme of generative art) as a piece of coursework for a course called “Generative Creativity” (part of the EASy MSc at the University of Sussex). I thought today might be a good opportunity to put it online for posterity. Below is Part One of the essay, which is essentially a short biography of Eno, concentrating on his contribution to generative art and music.
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EASy MSc, Life
Update
This blog has been sorely neglected recently, mainly due to being extremely busy with my MSc thesis. I handed that in a few week ago, but I’ve not particularly felt like writing much since. I’ve got several things that I want to post, which will doubtless appear over the next few weeks or months. [...]
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EASy MSc
Artificial Life project progress
If you read Axelrod’s original paper (PDF), you’ll see why this picture is A Good Thing. It works!
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EASy MSc
Autumn Term Projects
I have now chosen all my coursework/essay topics for this term. The “titles” aren’t really finalised, they’re just brief summaries of what the project is about.
Artificial Life – An agent-based model of meme transfer
Can global cultural distinctions emerge from local convergence? I will be recreating Robert Axelrod’s model of cultural influence from his [...] -
EASy MSc
A couple of links..
Seminar groups:
Life and Mind
New Approaches to Modelling Evolution/Ecosystems
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My name is Jamie Matthews. I like science, software, music, photography and all-round miscellaneous geekery.feeds
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