• Date
        June 2, 2017

        Projects Desluz and ZN:PRDM (Neutral Zone: a River Passes Through Me) by Poéticas Digitais Group

        Gilbertto Prado / Brazil
        University of São Paulo / Anhembi Morumbi University
        Paper
        http://www.gilberttoprado.net

        The purpose of this communication is to present some recent projects developed by the Poéticas Digitais group related to the theme of environment and flow, visible and invisible forces, and how to dialogue with the construction of the context, in which the public is part of a large collaborative system related to the environment. The discussed projects are: “Desluz” (2010) and “ZN:PRDM – Zona Neutra: Passa um Rio Dentro de Mim (Neutral Zone: A River Passes Through Me)” from 2013.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        The Sagamine Satoyama Plan

        Haruo Ishii / Japan
        Aichi University of the Arts
        Paper
        http://kankyo-media.com

        The Sagamine Satoyama Plan is an initiative underground in the Sagamine district of Nagakute City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. This is a comprehensive undertaking, aiming at the preservation of the agriculture rooted in the natural environment of the area, the creation of a distinctive local culture and enhanced human interaction between local residents. The initiative is carried out on the understanding that the locality's natural environment and agriculture form a single ecosystem, along with such elements as local festivals, the internet, and renewable energies.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        Mental Maps of Traditional Fishermen in the Caribbean Sea

        Fabian Leotteau / Colombia
        Universidad de Caldas
        Paper
        http://www.ucaldas.edu.co

        Traditional fishermen of Old Providence, Taganga and La Boquilla, Colombia rely on mental maps as a tool to identify the best locations to fish. Fishermen read natural signs and use geometry, arithmetic and images in the mind to create mental navigation maps for fishing in the Caribbean Sea. Life experiences provide the empirical knowledge to create oral stories and life histories in the development of mental paths in the minds ideological heritage of the fishermen. These mental paths, revealed by the researcher-artist through drawings visualized, form a metalanguage that has its own visual codes, a visual alphabet and a glossary of images.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        Journalism visualization devices: six visual modes of seeing

        Hugo Plazas / Colombia
        University of Narino
        Paper
        http://www.udenar.edu.co

        The growing number of visualization devices in the online journalism world draws attention to the mechanisms both technical and symbolic that build the relationship between the producer and the user in the interaction with the device. This relation has been studied in different approaches and empirical research; some of them related to the visual studies field. This paper aims to contribute to the study of the visual aspects of this relationship through the analysis of the implicit representation of the user that the producer depicts into the device.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        TURBA Concert in 15 movements for 64 neural oscillators

        Patxi Araujo / Spain
        UPV/EHU
        Paper
        http://www.patxiaraujo.com

        TURBA is a hybrid environment of artistic speculation that combines an electromechanical robotic device and its sonification with the network structure of 64 neural oscillators and the social context of the collective behaviors. None of the actions generated by TURBA is previously arranged: no sound, no movement, no pattern is deliberately produced. Quite the opposite, these elements come alive because of their own processes in their own network structure.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        Place-making With Telepresence: A Navigation Guide to A Journey into Time Immemorial's Seven Exhibition Spaces

        Claude Fortin / Canada
        McGill University
        Paper
        https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/people-contacts/postdocs/claude-fortin

        A Journey into Time Immemorial is an interactive website that historically represents the everyday way of life of Stó:lō-Coast Salish peoples in a computer-generated naturalistic setting. This paper closely examines aspects of its seven exhibition spaces to investigate the relationship between the poetics of new media and contemporary curatorial practices in Indigenous culture. By doing so, it seeks to showcase an award-winning example of how an Indigenous community made use of digital technologies and online platforms to reclaim the right to curate, design, and display its own living history, to extend placemaking into cyberspace, and to establish a direct relationship with the general public.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        Prolegomena for a Transdisciplinary Investigation Into the Materialities and Aesthetics of Soft Systems

        Jonas Jørgensen / Denmark
        IT University of Copenhagen
        Paper

        This paper presents exploratory research on the materiality, aesthetics and ecological potential of soft robots. Within the still emerging paradigm of soft robotics research, bio-inspiration is often hailed as being of central importance. The paper argues that soft robotics should equally be seen as giving prominence to materiality and the enactive and processual potential of soft matter. The paper excavates different notions of materiality within media art that uses soft robots and in technical soft robotics research practices and discourses. Against this background, the author's own practice-based experiments with soft robots are presented.
      • Date
        June 2, 2017

        The Demise of the Frame: A Media Archeology of Motion Prediction

        Ricardo Cedeño Montaña / Germany
        Humboldt-Universität in Berlin
        Paper
        http://drnn1076.pktweb.com

        Prediction theory emerged during the WWII in order to improve anti-aircraft artillery and resulted in algorithms devised to statistically predict airplanes and missile paths. Although today prediction is the backbone of the video compression, the historical and technical connection between this mathematical theory and contemporary imaging technologies has not been sufficiently determined. Using a media archaeological approach this paper discusses how the implementation during the 1990s of prediction algorithms to video compression has generated an entirely new type of moving images.
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