John Matthias is a musician and composer. And a particle physicist. He’s speaking tonight at the final lecture in the Connections series at the Royal institution, Hearing Connections: The Sonification of Natural Systems, an examination of the processes behind transforming our neuronal connections into music. I asked him the same set of questions I asked the other presenters (see Daniel Jones’ answers), and particularly like John’s reading list.
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[Royal Institution] Hearing Connections' Daniel Jones
Friday November 18, 2011 @ 11:40 AM (UTC)I’m wildly excited about next Monday’s lecture in the Connections series (the events I’m guest curating at the Royal Institution) – Hearing Connections: The sonification of natural systems. This is the final lecture in the series, and it takes a lateral step in the theme by looking at the physiological connections in our brains and how they can be used as inspiration for artistic expression. Specifically, the lecture is a demonstration of how a group of exceptionally talented musicians and scientists have translated neuronal pathways into sound.
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[Tech Weekly] Behind the Tech City Talks
Monday October 03, 2011 @ 05:45 PM (UTC)Tech Weekly producer Scott Cawley and I have been very busy over the last few months developing the Tech Weekly Tech City Talks series, four evenings of debates on Mondays in October at Imperial College London between front benchers and the people at the coalface about the realities that lie behind the UK government’s Tech City initiative.
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[Royal Institution] Guest curating "Connections" with James Burke, The Serendipity Engine & Cortical Songs
Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 10:32 AM (UTC)I’m curating a series this November at The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, and I’ve selected three events that fall under the umbrella, “Connections”: a lecture by science historian James Burke, an experimental classical music performance that takes its inspiration from neuronal patterns, and live demo of a machine that produces serendipity. It’s all very exciting.
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[Public Talks] sameAs: Serendipity Monday 8 August 2011
Sunday August 07, 2011 @ 02:15 PM (UTC)The Serendipity Engine gets its first outing on Monday 8 August at The Driver in London at sameAs, an evening of conversation and intellectual stimulation. I’ll be presenting with my co-conspirator, Kat Jungnickel, who’ll also be showcasing her Enquiry machine with Julian McHardy. The three of us will be joined by Natalie Downe of Lanyrd.
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[Public Talks] The Filter Bubble at the RSA
Monday June 13, 2011 @ 06:21 PM (UTC)I have the great pleasure of chairing an event with Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You at the RSA next Thursday. You can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be pressing him about the ways technology can (and cannot) promote serendipity. I’ll also be picking apart the technological determinism of the book’s main argument (hearkening back to the agenda of US legal scholar Cass Sunstein), and why he is opposed to the “Daily Me” that the web can offer, as popularised by MIT Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte.
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[Public Talks] Alone Together at the RSA
Tuesday June 07, 2011 @ 05:29 PM (UTC)Sherry Turkle’s keynote presentation at the RSA on Wednesday was a real treat for me; it was the first time we’d seen one another since I interviewed her for The Virtual Revolution in November 2009, and since she had published the book she had been working on.
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[Public Talks] Age of Entanglement: position statement
Friday June 03, 2011 @ 05:42 PM (UTC)Friday evening I sat on a panel with Professors Sherry Turkle and Nick Tyler (chaired by Prof John Naughton) at the British Library. The question we’ve been asked to consider is whether or not we are too intertwined with technology.
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[Public Talks] The Age of Enlightenment: Are We Too Intertwined with Technology?
Wednesday May 18, 2011 @ 11:19 AM (UTC)I will be on a panel with Prof Sherry Turkle from MIT (author of Alone Together, the third in her trilogy examining identity in the age of the internet) and Prof Nick Tyler from UCL at the British Library next Friday 3 June at 1830. Here’s the blurb:
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[ENGAGE 2010] Supercharge your Serendipity
Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 09:28 AM (UTC)I opened the Internet Advertising Bureau’s ENGAGE2010 summit in October (followed – intimidatingly – by Carol Bartz, Yahoo!’s formidable CEO) with a talk that aimed to provoke the advertising creatives in the room to consider what impact that their actions were having on the experiences of the people who consume the World Wide Web.
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