Me vs the Boffins

About 2 years ago Simon from Imperial College called me and said they were developing some new graphic design software and they'd like to talk to me about it.

The software they proposed was supposed to generate graphic design automatically. Needless to say I thought it was the worst idea I'd ever heard of and the boffins left disappointed.

Today I had an email from Simon saying that there has been some progress and as part of the London Design Festival Imperial are hosting a public debate on the merits and potential of computational creativity and would I be happy to sit on the panel and take the 'anti' view.

In a fit of madness I said yes.

Here's an exhibition of computer generated artwork from the same faculty.

And here's a report on the whole thing from More 4 News.

I'm pretty busy right now but I'm going to try and put some thoughts together tonight and tomorrow afternoon. Anyone like to contribute? Anyone got any opinions on the subject?

I'm not sure how all this works, but would anyone like to be in the audience? Let me know in the comments and I'll see what I can do. Anyone already going?

Anyone think I'm nuts and that computational creativity is the way forward?

Comments

[Brad Brooks]

"Anyone think I'm nuts and that computational creativity is the way forward?"

Christ no. What a horrible f**king idea. Give 'em hell!