Designing for Bottom-Up Adaptation to Extreme Heat
Jennifer Weiler, Stacey Kuznetsov, Piyum Fernando, Emily Ritter, Nathan Greene and Priyanka Parekh / USA
arizona state university
Paper
In the wake of global climate change, our world is projected to heat up and experience more extreme heat waves over the next few decades. Phoenix, Arizona, where this research was conducted, is one of the hottest locations on the planet and presents a testbed for understanding and addressing heat-related challenges. This paper focuses on adaptation as a design strategy that compliments existing approaches to mitigate human impact on the environment. We report on findings from a summer-long diary study that reveals how extreme heat impacts human lives, how participants cope with extreme heat. These findings motivated our critical making work themed around adaptation, focusing on artifacts for visualizing, coping with, and utilizing extreme heat. In constructing these artifacts, we critically reflect on both the benefits and drawbacks of designing for adaptation and suggest hybrid approaches that mitigate human impact on and help people adapt to climate change.
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- June 2, 2017
Electronic art in Brazil: Exhibition spaces, museological strategies and digital archive
Cleomar Rocha, Maria Luiza Fragoso, Nara Santos, Tania Silva, Reynaldo Thompson, Marcos Cuzziol and Priscila Arantes / Brazil - Mexico
Federal University of Goiás, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University of Santa Maria, University of Brasilia, University of Guanajuato, Itaú Cultural, Anhembi-Morumbi University
Panel
http://www.medialab.ufg.br, http://www.nano.eba.ufrj.br/, http://w3.ufsm.br/ppgart/, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4783019U2, http://www.ugto.mx/, http://www.itaucultural.org.br/, http://ppgdesign.anhembi.br/
This panel intends to discuss operational strategies for public and private exhibition spaces, proposed by artists, curators, professionals in expography and museology in the field of Brazilian Electronic & Digital Art, from early experiences to a contemporary perspective.
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- June 2, 2017
Cinematic Experiences and Bio Visualization
Ricardo Rivera and Aaron Brakke / Colombia - USA
Nonlinear, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Panel
The panel's goal is to explore art / science / technology relationships amidst the proliferated production of scientific and artistic data and the various forms of representation beyond traditional two-dimensional static interfaces. This panel is interested in gathering an interdisciplinary intercontinental group that includes producers of biological data, artists, and producers of the moving image, scientists and architects to provoke a dialogue about how bio visualization is becoming an intensified avenue for scientific and artistic exploration and knowledge production. that had not been possible until recently. This panel will explore the relationship between data and its imaging in interactive environments, mediated by biological concepts. The panelists will address how the representation of the big data in virtual or interactive environments have moved beyond metaphor and biomimicry and how they provide a vital contribution to all living beings that must find creative ways to coexist and survive the Anthropocene.- Date
- June 2, 2017
Biomedical Signals in Media Art: towards the awakening of internal peace
Claudia Robles Angel and Lasse Scherffig / Germany
San Francisco Art Institute
Panel
http://www.claudearobles.de, http://www.lassescherffig.de
This panel undertakes a deep and critical reflection about the general usage of biomedical signals from the mid 1960s to now-adays and their inclusion in artistic work, in regard both to the artistic application of these signals as well as the consequent theoretical implications. The members of this panel discuss concrete applications of biomedical signals in dance, performance and installation, the role of the enacting self embodied in these systems and the implications interactive installations have for the self-perception through technology. They focus on the complex and hybrid relationships between body, technology and environment, the perceptual qualities emerging from it, as well as the ethical implications of employing these systems.- Date
- June 2, 2017
"New realities of the Body in Contemporary Performance"
Isabelle Choinière, Andrea Davidson and Enrico Pitozzi / Canada - United Kingdom - Italy
Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Chichester, University IUAV of Venice
Panel
This panel considers the new and multiple relationships of the senses emerging in contemporary creative processes and performance integrating new technologies. Arguing that such practices call for a re-evaluation and analysis of notions of performativity, corporeality and representation as well as of the terminology employed to describe them, it considers the sensory-perceptual deconstruction, reorganization and reconstruction involved when the body is "touched" by, interacts with, and "incorporates" the effects of technology. And as these new approaches are also expressed through collaborations, hybrid artistic approaches, new forms of interdisciplinarity and communities of practitioners, the panel will look at the implications of this activity for existing networks of research-creation, looking at their specificity and considering how participants in these networks exchange, interact and collaborate.- Date
- June 2, 2017
Decolonizing Design Futures
Kevin Hamilton, Anita Say Chan, Fabian Mauricio Prieto Nanez, Stacey Robinson and Tania Pérez Bustos / USA - Colombia
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, National University of Colombia
Panel
Through critique, proposition, and hopeful exploration, this panel will examine the colonial roots of design as a practice of future-projection. Together the papers and discussion will contribute to a new understanding of the influence of colonial power on contemporary design processes, and will begin imagining new decolonial approaches to design as a process and a situated cultural practice.- Date
- June 2, 2017
Archiving Digital Heritage: pioneers of fin-de-siecle Latin America
Reynaldo Thompson, Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda, Andres Burbano, Ricardo Dal Farra, Jose-Carlos Mariategui, Jose-Manuel Ruiz-Martin, Andrea Sosa and Rejane Spitz / Mexico, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil
University of Guanajuato, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Alameda Art Laboratory, Universidad de los Andes, Concordia University, Andean High Technology, Free Media Library, Central University of Ecuador, National University of La Plata, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Studio XX
Panel
http://www.arteyempresa.ugto.mx/eng_cvthompsonreynaldo.html, https://www.sfu.ca/siat/people/faculty/gabriela-aceves-sepulveda.html, http://www.burbane.net/, https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/ricardo-dal-farra.html, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_Manuel_Ruiz_Martin, https://studioxx.org/en/erandy-vergara
This panel tries to open a discussion on the history of the hybridization of art and technology in the last five or six decades, with reference to any specific country, in the Latin American region. It consists of 33 countries of all sizes, from the extensive Brazil to the small islands of the Caribbean.- Date
- June 2, 2017
Design for the Non-Human
Tyler Fox and Elizabeth Demaray / USA
University of Washington, Rutgers University
Panel
http://www.tylersfox.com, https://elizabethdemaray.org
New forms of technology now support shared experiences between humans and other species and may enhance the function of nonhuman life forms. Design for the Non-Human, brings together artists and designers working on generative, agent-based artworks that either (1) allow a non-human life form to use technology in such a way that its abilities are greater than those of a non- technologically enabled member of its own species, or (2) extend the sensorium of us humans to the sensory experiences of our companion species.- Date
- June 2, 2017
Panel on Sonology: sonifying the conflict
Julian Arango / Colombia
Universidad de Caldas
Panel
https://sonologiacolombia.wordpress.com
The experimental sound practices extend the acoustic referent of the conflict and produce cultural objects related to experiences of violence, displacement and social disparity. The Panel on Sonology will gather five artist-researchers whose works allow us to reflect on the role of music, sound art and sound design on communities disturbed by social inequality and violence. From different perspectives, the panelists will show personal modes of sonifying the conflict, discussing artistic experiences where experimental sound practices have been introduced in communities traced by social disruption: (1) Musical instrument building in the periphery, by Tomas Laurenzo ( 2) Acoustemology of the Armed Conflict in San Juan Nepomuceno, by Luz Eneida Ramirez (3) Mestizo Machines by Jorge Barco, (4) Sound: expression of the conflict and pedagogical tool, by Joaquín Llorca and (5) In the interstices of a memorial: A Review on Triangulation Gender/Sound/Technology, by Ana María Romano G. .
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