Tim Cowlishaw

Publications Publicaciones

• “Tiny Tools” and “Little Loops”: software art as care-ful software practice – Cowlishaw T, EASST 2022, Madrid.
• The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a post-human ontology of digital design via the study of discards – Cowlishaw T, Inmaterial: Diseño Arte y Sociedad 2022.
• Designing an interactive and collaborative experience in audio augmented reality – Bauer V, Nagele A, Baume C, Cowlishaw T, Cooke H, Pike C, Healey P, EuroVR 2019
• Seen by Machine: Computation Spectatorship in the BBC television archive – Chavez Heras D, Blanke T, Cowlishaw T, Fiala J, Herranz Donnan A and Man D, Digital Humanities 2019
• Personalising the public: personalising linear radio at a public service broadcaster – Cowlishaw T, Burlington T, Man D, Fiala J, Barrington R and Wright G, IBC 2018
• The case for public service recommender algorithms – Fields B, Jones R and Cowlishaw T, FATREC 2018
• Quote extraction and analysis for news – Newell C, Cowlishaw T and Man D, Proceedings of KDD Workshop on Data Science, Journalism and Media 2018
• Tellybox: Nine speculative prototypes for future TV – Miller L, Moore J, Cowlishaw T, Cooke H, Onumonu A, Hentschel J, Howe T, Needham C, Sedriks S and Sewell R, Proceedings of ACM TVX 2017
• The Right To The Network: Radical Urbanism of Digital Public Space – Cowlishaw T, Contributoria, 2015 [archived]

Teaching Docencia

• Critical and Speculative Design (Sessional lecturer), MA Design Research, BAU School of Art and Design, Barcelona (2021-2023):
  • 2023: Refuse, Reuse, Repair: Waste & Speculation [slides] [handout] [summary]
  • 2022: Poder, Perdición y Periferias: Especulación con desechos [slides]
  • 2021: Especulación como adivinación, Adivinación como especulación. [slides 1] [slides 2]
• Functional Programming, (Sessional lecturer) MSc Computer Science, University College London (2017).
• Information Retrieval (Teaching assistant), MSc Computer Science, University College London (2016).
• Introduction to Programming (Teaching assistant), BSc Computer Science, University College London (2016).
• Physical prototyping with Arduino, (Instructor, short course), Ravensbourne College, London (2009).
• Generative graphics with processing, (Instructor, short course), Ravensbourne College, London (2009).

Talks, exhibitions, workshops, etc. Charlas, exposiciones, talleres, etc.

• Workshop programme on AI, Music and Creativity for secondary school students as part of the ALIA – Inteligencia artificial programme at CCCB, Barcelona (2024).
• Mentes, Mentiras y Materialidades (Minds, Lies and Materials) (2023 – 2024) – Workshop on the materiality and environmental impact of AI as part of the cycle of events for the exhibition Intel·ligència artificial at CCCB, Barcelona.
• Moderator of the panel discussion The Philosophy of Design Concepts at Let’s Define conference 2023, Barcelona, Spain.
• Presentation: “From Refuse to Refusal: A Media ecology of Digital Waste” at the Material Ecologies of Media Symposium, Royal Holloway University, London, UK, June 2023.
• Work-in-progress presentation at RMIT Practice Research Symposium Europe, Barcelona, Spain, April 2023.
• In Parallax (2023) – Installation, in collaboration with Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove, shown as part of the exhibition “Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar” at MOMI, New York, USA.
• Work-in-progress presentation at RMIT Practice Research Symposium Europe, Barcelona, Spain, December 2022.
• Co-chair of the Graphics and Spirituality session at DRS 2022 in Bilbao, Spain.
• Participation in the PhD Day at DRS 2022 in Bilbao, Spain.
• Extrasensory Excess (2022) – Collaborative workshop as part of the “Medios Sintientes” programme at Medialab Matadero, Madrid.
• Creativity, Sound, R&D, and Material Exploration (2022) – Invited lecture to students on the MA Digital Humanities programme at King’s College London.
• Speculation as Divination, Divination as Speculation (2022) – Invited lecture to students on the BA and MA Design Management programmes at Central St Martins, London.
• The Situationists’ Walkman (2022) – Immersive audio installation in collaboration with Matt Spendlove, supported by an Innovate UK Creative Industries Fund grant.
• Rhizome (2021) – Interactive VR experience in collaboration with Matt Spendlove, supported by an Innovate UK Creative Industries Fund grant.
• Assembly Now! (2020) – Installation, in collaboration with Sally Golding and Spatial, exhibited at Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia and online.
• Alluvial Sharawadji (2018, 2020) – Installation, workshop and talk at Eufònic Festival 2018 (Sant Carles de la Rapita, Spain) and Eufònic Urba 2020 (Barcelona, Spain)
• #goals: Measurement, control and capitalist realism in mediated leisure (2019) – Talk at Theorizing the Web 2019, New York City, USA.
• “Keeping it Weird” in Radio R+D (2019) – Talk at “Enredant les ones”: XRCB Radiolab 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
• Identifying disinformation at BBC R&D (2019) – Talk at EBU Data in the Newsroom conference 2019, Munich, Germany.
• BBC: music experiences, a view from the future (2018) (2018)– Talk at Reworks Agora, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Keeping creativity in Broadcast R&D (2018) – Talk at Sónar+D, Barcelona, Spain.
• Singing with Machines (2018) – Workshop with Jakub Fiala at Sónar+D, Barcelona, Spain.
• A Digital Dérive: Situationist strategies for reclaiming digital public space (2018) – Talk at Theorizing the Web 2018, New York City, USA.
• A Digital Dérive (2017) – Workshop at Mozfest 2017, London, UK.