• Date
      June 2, 2017

      The Aesthetic Experience of Augmented Reality Art

      Meng Qu / Chinese
      Hiroshima University
      Paper
      http://kinghoodqu.wixsite.com/qumeng

      In the digital age, we create new technological forms and media artworks that define new relationships between the environment and us. Artists and actors are increasingly using their own mobile computing devices and AR to create artworks. When we experience an artwork in an "Augmented Space", we can consider it as an interactive event. As a result, we can treat interaction, immersion and realization as three components of the events within augmented space. In this paper, by using the dynamic event concept and through analyzes of famous mobile AR artworks, we reach three major conclusions of aesthetic experiences in AR artworks: the event of real-time interaction is the aesthetic manner; the immanent event of the fuzzy boundary immersion is the aesthetic distance; and the immanent event of augmented realization is the aesthetic purpose.
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      Capricious Creatures: Animal Behavior as a Model for Robotic Art

      Treva Pullen / Canada
      OCAD University
      Paper
      http://trevapullen.com

      This paper examines issues related to playfulness, cuteness and the modeling of animal behaviors towards the designs of robotic art. Exploring historical and contemporary case studies of the playful ecology and creations of robotic art, as entry points to a multi-faceted discussion of human-machine engagements considering the lens of philosophical, art historical and curatorial methodological research this text tracks an abbreviated legacy of new media art production beginning with the animal modeled works of Canadian artist Norman White.
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      The Return of Wonder: Speculative Robotics and Re-enchanting the Machine

      Treva Pullen / Canada
      OCAD University
      Paper
      http://trevapullen.com

      This paper tracks the critique/reconfiguration of wonder as a mode of critical engagement, with our contemporary condition and the current philosophical paradigm shift towards theorizing the nonhuman; a resurgence in speculative wonder. Comparing the aesthetic language and actions of the Steve Daniels' robotic art work Device for the Elimination of Wonder, 2015, this text unpacks the historical shift from enchantment during the pre-Enlightenment period towards the post-Enlightenment disenchantment of magic, wonder and speculative fiction.
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      Everything Boils Down to Vibrations

      Alba Triana / Colombia

      Colombian composer / intermediate artist, Alba Triana, will talk about some of her recent musical installations, related to the poetic exploration of the fundamental physical properties of resonant objects that emit sound and/or light. These musical pieces cross the disciplinary boundaries of art, science, and technology; Unfolding in time and space, to be heard, walked and seen.
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      Where is Art and Where is Science in Art-Science?

      Annick Bureaud / France

      Art-Science is a strange construction where neither of the two words qualifies the other. It is not a genre, nor a movement, nor an aesthetic or a single ideology. Art-Science is a nebula of practices and approaches, of desires and politics. Based on recent projects -such as Trust Me, I'm an Artist, FEAT/Futuro Emerging Art and Technology, LASER Paris- and a larger number of works of art, this talk will address some of the issues raised by the burgeoning area of Art. -Science displaying some of our implicit biases and prejudices.
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      The Future is Extracted: from the oil to the Soil

      Bronac Ferran / United Kingdom

      As we limp back from big data sets, searching for some Bio-Peace and precarious balance, algorithms dangling from our brows, brains fractured to reveal neural mysteries. What exactly have we found? Did our inexorable look ahead force us to look back? Beyond the delusions of Google glass and other optimistic and technological solutions, how accurately will we navigate the challenges of this century?
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      From Wetware Art to Greenness Studies

      Jens Hauser / Germany
      University of Copenhagen

      After unraveling the terms "life" and "nature", both supposedly non-technological terms, the concepts of "green" and "nature" must also be uncoupled. Research on biomediality has shown that contemporary art forms that use biotechnologies as a starting point highlight - paradoxically - both their "liveliness" and their authenticity, on the one hand, and their explicit technique and artificiality, on the other. . We find a similar problem with the culturally ubiquitous trope of the greenery: Liveliness and greenness are linked through "biofacticity," the idea of biological artifacts that both grow and are, in fact, technically built from the ground up.
    • Date
      June 2, 2017

      Sounding Conflict: Aural Experiences in the Everyday

      Pedro Rebelo / United Kingdom – Portugal

      This talk will present methodologies and strategies associated with recent participatory sound arts projects in the UK (Sounds of the City, Belfast), Brazil (Som da Maré, Rio de Janeiro) and Portugal (Sou Cigano, Castelo Branco). These projects explore how sound is related to ideas of place, identity and the everyday. The participatory strategies rooted in authors such as Paulo Freire and the notions of broadcast creativity (Georgina Born) inform this work that aims to affirm the sound arts as a vehicle for social intervention, documentation and change. These projects have identified the power of sound when it comes to space, territorial politics and conflicts.
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