Public Lecture: Simon Yuill

"Social Versioning Systems"



Date: Wednesday 23rd February
Time: 17.00hrs
Venue: Collegezaal, Overblaak 85, Rotterdam
Travel: NS / Metro Station, Blaak, tram 1
Entry: free, all welcome



Simon Yuill is an artist and programmer based in Glasgow. He is
currently working on a long-term project, spring_alpha, a free
software sim-society game based upon a series of utopian images by
the artist Chad McCail. Within spring_alpha, social change is linked
to changes in the fabric of the simulation code. The task of
re-imagining society also means reimagining the software.

During his research fellowship at Media Design Research at PZI, Simon
Yuill is developing a 'Social Versioning System', a project using
information design to open up the way issues in and changes to such
code can be visualised and made available to game-players, developers
and programmers.

Simon's talk will contextualise such work and also link to: software
art; social software; free software; social art practices; software
as culture

A short description of the 'Social Versioning System' project can be found at
http://www.spring-alpha.org/documents/module_03/svs_proposal.pdf/

Links http://wwww.yourmachines.org/
http://www.spring-alpha.org



Simon Yuill is currently Research Fellow at Media Design Research,
Piet Zwart Institute, the centre for postgraduate research and
education of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/

The development of spring_alpha has also been supported by the
Netherlands Institute for Media Art. http://www.montevideo.nl/