• Date
        May 31, 2017

        Alien WebMD

        Daria Taback / USA
        MFA Student at UC Davis

        dptaback@ucdavis.edu, www.dariataback.com

        Alien WebMD is an Internet zine that visually expresses a collective consciousness about various topics, mediated through the unique and self-referential language and framework of the Internet, using illustrations, audio, gifs, memes, video, prose, popups, essays, and images collaged together. The zine further explores virtual renditions of real and imagined places as interpreted through the lens of DIY web technology, and invites a non-hierarchical exploration of interactive webpages.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        The Anthropocene Cookbook - Eating for our future survival

        Zane Cerpina / Norway
        cerpina.zane@gmail.com, www.bezane.net

        Humans have been cultivating animals and plants for more than 10,000 years. But we can no longer live of mother Earth's resources the same way as we did before. With the presence of the new geological epoch - the Anthropocene, it becomes evident that “the ecological catastrophe has already happened” (Morton). We have to adjust now if we want to survive. The important question for our near future is how to feed the soon-to-be 9 billion population.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        "Walking" expanded book

        Christian Felipe Lizarralde Gómez, María Griselda Gómez Fries, Camila A. Campos Quintana, David Moreno Galeano, Santiago Valencia / Colombia
        Univalle University
        cristian.lizarralde@correounivalle.edu.co, http://hiperlab.univalle.edu.co

        Creation Social Interface (ISC) is a doctoral research about the interactions between two knowledge interfaces: the community of the island of La Plata in Bahía Málaga, located in the Colombian Pacific of Valle del Cauca, and the Hipermedia Laboratory (HiperLab) of the Universidad del Calle (Colombia), with the purpose of designing collaborative artistic practices as a device for the conservation of the ancestral knowledges of the South Pacific of Colombia.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        simulating nature

        Daniel Miller / USA
        University of Iowa
        daniel-w-miller@uiowa.edu, http://www.danmillerart.com/

        Daniel Miller will discuss how his artworks explore relationships to the physical world through simulating natural systems. These artworks investigate the parallels and inconsistencies between the human experience and the natural world we inhabit. Underlying themes explored in Miller's recent work include: climate change, human impact, the body/mechanical processes, animal communication and the relationship of technology to nature. Miller will discuss earlier works and highlight the research, design and fabrication of his recent projects.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        Hacker Poetics

        Fred Paulino / Brazil
        gambiology
        mail@fredpaulino.com

        Ethics is a widely discussed concept in philosophy. It is related to the actions of man on the collective realm, guided by character and social rules. This article aims to discuss ethics through hacking. The definition of “hacker ethic” proposed by Levy1 allows us to compare a hack to an intervention. To hack is to transfigure any given system - inserting something not originally intended in it, subverting its original use, redefining its role.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        Towards Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction: Learning to Create in a Common Effort

        Peter Beyls / Belgium
        peter@peterbeyls.net, http://www.peterbeyls.net

        Interactive composing implies dynamic on-the-fly musical negotiation between a live performer and some musical aptitude captured in a computer program. Much software interfacing human and artificial players involves mapping features in human input to parameters affecting output involving responsive behavior.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        Plateaus: Computation, Geology, Ontology

        Zachary Kaiser, Rebekah Blesing, Gabi Schaffzin / USA
        Michigan State University
        kaiserza@msu.edu, http://mediated.space

        “The smooth skin of the device demands gore to feed its gloss.”
        —Benjamin Bratton

        In this ArtistTalk, we will present a recent work, entitled, Plateaus: a meditation on the geological nature of mobile technologies and the socio-political and environmental implications of the mining of minerals for those technologies. Plateaus seeks to elicit an understanding of the relationship between humans, geology, and media technologies: media not as immaterial but as geological.
      • Date
        May 31, 2017

        Electronic sound audio and visual mural for the subway system of Santiago

        Yto Aranda / Chile
        Rao Caya: art, nature and technology
        yto.lab@gmail.com, www.yto.cl

        Electronic mural project, sonorous and visual, specially conceived for the main wall of the station “Los Orientales” of the Metro of Santiago (Subway). This is composed of eight hexagonal modules, which were built from an updated pictorial concept using contemporary technologies. Fusion between painting, electronics and digital. Its theme is nature, in particular, water cycles. In short, an "electronic mural" that tells us about nature created especially for citizenship. Ko means water in Mapudungun.
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