"Expelled from the smaller, friendlier world in which previous centuries of men moved with confidence born of familiarity, we are today compelled to cope with an expanded scale of events in a big, alien, redefined world. In order to live freely and fully in our new world, we have to learn to map its strange vistas, to discern in them harmonious structures appreciable by our visual sensibilities, and to arrange our lives in conformity with the new perspectives.
So far, we have failed to live up to the twentieth-century challenge. Science has opened immense new vistas to us, but we have failed to utilize our new technology fully or share it wisely. We shrink from accepting the deeper and richer sense of life, uniquely in our twentieth-century world, that is sometimes touched upon in the best moments of our best artists. We have not yet found our places in this broadened world."-- Gyorgy Kepes, "Structure in Art and Science" (1965)
Jon's interests include art, music, graphics, artificial life, generative modelling, cellular automata, graph grammars.
CSE1370/CSE2370: This is one of a series of occasional talks on varied topics for interested 1st and 2nd year computing students. The talks are associated with CSE1370/CSE2370, a zero-point unit `Advanced First/Second-year Projects'; zero points but it does appear on your academic record. (Note that anyone can attend the talks.) The projects are for interested students and run in 2nd semester. Staff members, and postgraduates, will offer project topics in Computer Science, Software Engineering and related fields. But if you have a particular project idea of your own, contact Lloyd Allison who will try to find a supervisor for it.