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David Cope and the Science of Algorithmic Composition


“To some extent, this match is a defense of the whole human race. Computers play such a huge role in society. They are everywhere. But there is a frontier they must not cross.

Deep Media is a blog about how narrative is changing in the Internet age. Ranked by Google among the top 50 blogs covering advertising and marketing, it is edited and primarily written by Frank Rose, author of The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, published in 2011 by W.W. Norton & Co. The book has been featured in the Guardian and the Observer (London), La Stampa (Turin), and the Huffington Post, and it was hailed as "an essential overview" in the International Journal of Advertising. 

Frank spent most of the past decade working as a contributing editor at Wired, writing for the magazine and for the Epicenter blog on such topics as the making of Avatar, Sony's enormous gamble on the PlayStation 3, Samsung and the rise of the Korean techno-state, and the posthumous career of Philip K. Dick in Hollywood. He has lectured at the Columbia Business School, the Columbia Journalism School, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, and the Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism at USC; given keynote talks at the likes of Social Media Week, ad:tech Sydney, and the Guardian's Changing Media Summit in London; and participated in debates about the future of media at South by Southwest, Ars Electronica, the Cannes Film Festival, MIT's Futures of Entertainment conference, and numerous other places. ...

Hertz Festival emphasizes and demonstrates prominent optico-acoustic works, by framing a potent arena of expressive Audio-Visual activity. Moreover, Hertz disseminates and transmits innovation in sound and digital arts by functioning as the absolute counterpoint to the embrace of new cultural and aesthetic techniques.

In the 2013 edition, which takes place at ’’Megaron Mousikis - Athens Concert Hall’’ on 8th + 9th February, we are widening the thematic spectrum of the festival by hosting live performances, installations, projections and outdoor projects. These will be constructed and presented by major figures in the fields of exploring and utilizing new media, towards an aural and optical navigation and synthesis.

Hertz Festival 2013 operates as a kaleidoscope of expression, taking audiences on a unique and captivating journey – one that is exemplary, enriching, intense, fertile, multi-textural, ear and eye expansive and vital.

You’re probably kept awake at night wondering about the future of interaction design and user experience, tossing and turning as you ponder the interactive interfaces we’ll be engaging with in the world of tomorrow.

Microsoft’s Kinect has proven a compelling proof of concept for gestural control of music. But it could be just the beginning of mass-market gestural sensing technologies. The Leap Motion, like Kinect, promises to be affordable gear.

Firewall is an interactive installation created by Aaron Sherwood and Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and manipulate expressive visuals.

It’s that time of the year when we slowly begin wrapping up the 2012. Before we say goodbye, take a short but well deserved break, lets take a quick moment to look back at some of the best and most memorable projects of 2012.