TDC Talk: Brian Reffin-Smith
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Queens Building, De Montfort University
The next Transdisciplinary Community (TDC) Seminar will be held at 2pm on Wed 26th February, Room 0.09, ground floor, Queens Building, Mill Lane, Leicester, LE2 7DR.
Brian Reffin Smith, raised in Leicestershire, is an artist, writer, theoretician, teacher and musician with degrees from Brunel University and the Royal College of Art. In his internationally shown art work, and teaching, he uses the concept of "détournement" or hijacking, of ideas, techniques and metaphors from science, computing, cognitive psychology and other disciplines to make art. He won the first ever Prix Ars Electronica, in Linz, Austria, in 1987, and has played in the notorious Portsmouth Sinfonia. He taught widely in Europe, and spent 25 years teaching at the École Nationale Supérieure d'art, Bourges France, after a Fellowship and teaching at the Royal College of Art in London. He has taught at most major London art institutions and widely in Europe. He is the author of many books and articles, and of the widely distributed "43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art", described by Wired as "timeless". He is a book- and peer-reviewer for Leonardo and is a Regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique, Paris, holding the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy. In 1998, after a short operation, he became a Zombie.
