Interactive Performances for Dance, Sound and Biosignals

Javier Jaimovich, Francisca Morand / Chile
Departamento de Sonido – Universidad de Chile
javier.jaimovich.clwww.emovere.cl

This workshop will focus on understanding the meaning and possibilities of different physiological signals (biosignals) and the technologies available to measure them. We will demonstrate the use of different biosensors and discuss the creative methods used in our work at Emovere project, which focuses on developing interactive dance performances that utilize biosignals to amplify, understand and connect with the internal functions of the human body. We use physiological signals such as electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography (ECG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) as materials that access an intimate and – usually – inaccessible biological dimension that is in constant change, affected by external and internal stimuli.

The workshop will explore the rationale behind interaction designs, compositional techniques and outcomes of different artistic pieces that utilize biosignals in performance scenarios. Participants will join in a co-creative experience using their heart rate and speech with the objective of creating a collaborative sound environment that builds on explorations around sound poetry and biofeedback.

  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    Villages of the world workshop, an aesthetic technological mediation of identities and territories

    Sebastian Gonzalez, Paola Fernanda Lopez, Paola Cuartas, Sebastian Lopez / Colombia
    Estratosfera Visual Collective
    http://estratosfera.com.co

    The workshop "Villages of the world", a technological aesthetic mediation of identities and territories, consists of the creation of a video installation based on the collective construction of contents based on identity, memory and heritage. The video installation seeks to generate new ways for the habitants of the San José sector of the city of Manizales, Caldas, Colombia (known for their problems of territorial organization) to relate to each other and to their territory through technological mediation, collective construction and participatory approach to community social empowerment.
  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    Domains, Publics and Access. WikiSprint for a Media Archaeology of the Present

    Paz Sastre and Aisel Wicab / Mexico
    Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

    Domains, publics and access is an ongoing research in media archaeology of the present. The core of the research is a wiki where everybody can collaborate with cataloguing, preserving and documenting projects that offer access for the general public to the domains of art, culture, science, economics, politics and technology. The collection brings together projects that have emerged in different countries from the second half of the 20th century to the present day related to open access, open content, open government, open science, open design, open education, open spectrum, citizen journalism, citizen science, collaborative economy, commons, co-ops, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrencies, DIY, free software, free culture, community currencies, solidarity economy, grassroots media, p2p, piracy, tactical media, etc. The main goal is to preserve the memory of projects that appear and disappear day by day in different countries using the online tools such as Wayback Machine and MediaWiki. The reason for this is that historically the limits of access have never been stable and will continue to change but we are losing the traces of the present for future generations without even noticing it.
  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    MetaMediaLab: Ontohacking & Metagaming in the Algoricene

    Jaime Del Val / Spain
    Reverso – Metabody
    http://www.metabody.eu

    Metamedialab is a citizen lab for exploring and elaborating minor perceptions, a laboratory of research into the ways in which media shape societies not so much at the level of content but of their very structures, particularly in terms of how they organise perception. This is what we will call metamedia: the thinking of the very frameworks and perceptual structures mobilised by media. Ontohacking implies a critical reinvention of such structures, which alters the way bodies move, relate and constitute social ecologies.
  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    Interactive Performances for Dance, Sound and Biosignals

    Javier Jaimovich, Francisca Morand / Chile
    Departamento de Sonido - Universidad de Chile
    javier.jaimovich.clwww.emovere.cl

    This workshop will focus on understanding the meaning and possibilities of different physiological signals (biosignals) and the technologies available to measure them. We will demonstrate the use of different biosensors and discuss the creative methods used in our work at Emovere project, which focuses on developing interactive dance performances that utilize biosignals to amplify, understand and connect with the internal functions of the human body. We use physiological signals such as electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography (ECG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) as materials that access an intimate and – usually – inaccessible biological dimension that is in constant change, affected by external and internal stimuli.
  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    Elastic Spaces - Projected Narratives of Being and Belonging

    Santiago Tavera, Anthony Head, Laura Acosta / Canada - United Kingdom Concordia University, Bath Spa University
    www.santiagotavera.com
    anthonyhead.co
    lauramariaacosta.tumblr.com

    The workshop, Projected Simulations of Being and Belonging, invites interdisciplinary artists and researchers to collaborate on a series of video projections to be displayed on the windows and facades of a building in La Universidad de Caldas and/or the city of Manizales. During this workshop, experiments with digital media will explore experiences of dislocation. Participants will combine fictional and personal narratives of belonging or displacement in order to construct digital visions of peace. Stemming from an exploration of states of dislocation and technical video/graphic experimentation, this workshop will result in the creation of outdoor projections in a public space. This workshop is about generating social collaboration between participants in order to work towards conflict resolutions between heritage surfaces and subjective narratives, past histories and illusions of the future, and finally, effects of war and visions of peace. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with video camera setups, multiple projections on buildings, video mapping and motion graphic tools. The use of digital media presents the potential to simulate a state of disembodiment (elasticity, alteration, translation) for viewers and participants. Framing a public context with video projections allows for the simultaneous activation and archival of a cultural site.
  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    Art + Digital Culture <-> Public Policy

    Ricardo Dal Farra, Felipe Londoño, Diego Pimentel / Canada - Colombia - Argentina
    Concordia University / CEIArtE-UNTREF, Universidad de Caldas, Centro Cultural San Martín
    http://www.concordia.ca/finearts/music/faculty.html?fpid=ricardo-dal-farra

    Art + Digital Culture <-> Public Policy" will join invited expert speakers and will be open for participation of the general public too, considering that many people attending ISEA are also experts coming from a variety of electronic arts fields. There will be test-cases and people presenting about their experience and perspective on public policies related to digital culture in general and electronic art/art & science in particular.
  • Fecha
    1 junio, 2017

    Hyper-listening: Praxis

    Budhaditya Chattopadhyay / India
    Leiden University
    http://budhaditya.org/

    Contemporary world is strained with intensified conflicts between nations, and within various sects and segments of peoples. The future human societies need to learn how to resolve conflict of interests, values and beliefs. Acceptance and tolerance are essential for the humanity to navigate the challenging times ahead, which is marked by scarcity of natural resources and an unprecedented human-made decay in the environments, leading to possible anthropocenic calamities. It is my assumption that the root of all conflicts is essentially embedded in a lack of ability to listen carefully to the other. As philosopher Gemma Corradi Fiumara suggests, a propensity to listen to the others, without making immediate judgments, may potentially lead to bridge the troubled water of difference. My proposal is to employ an inclusive, mindful and contemplative listening practice coined “hyper-listening” as a way to approach conflict resolution.
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    1 junio, 2017

    HAPLAB: A Sci-Fi Workshop on Horror and Possibility

    Sophia Brueckner / USA
    University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
    http://www.sophiabrueckner.com

    “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” - Frederick Pohl

    For decades, science fiction authors have explored both our wildest dreams and greatest fears for where technology might lead us. This workshop ties science fiction with speculative/critical design as a means to encourage the ethical and thoughtful design of new technologies.
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