• Date
      May 24, 2017

      Visualizing the Meditating Mind: the Aesthetics of Brainwave Data

       
      Lian Loke, Caitilin de Berigny, Youngdong Kim, Claudia Núñez Pacheco and Karen Cochrane / Australia
      University of Sydney
      Paper
        Meditation is an ancient Eastern practice, which is receiving renewed popularity as a secular approach to health and well-being. Recent advances in commercial EEG sensor technology provide opportunities for visualizing biological brainwave data by artists and designers, outside the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry. We chart the creative development of an aesthetic visualization, Narcissus Brainwave that aims to provide insight into the shifting states of mind during the practice of meditation, informed by a series of user studies with meditators and non-meditators. Interestingly, assumptions we made from the interpretation of brain-wave sensor data about when a meditative state was achieved did not always resonate with how meditators understood the quality of their inner meditation experience. This may be due in part to the limitations of a single electrode EEG device. Issues also arise related to personal preferences and cultural conventions for interpreting the meaning of the Buddhist-inspired visual symbols representing our model of meditation. Our study has revealed some of the challenges of visualizing the meditating mind and creating meaningful aesthetic visualizations with commercial devices.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Nonhuman Creation: Images from the End of the World

      Joanna Zylinska / UK
      University of London

      Today, in the age of drone media, satellite photography and CCTV, image making is increasingly decoupled from human vision and agency. It can also literally show us the end of the world. The notion of "non-human creation" proposed in this talk will broaden the human-centric idea of image-making to embrace imaging practices from which the human is absent: from the high-tech contemporary examples provided by traffic control cameras. , space photography and Google Earth, going through processes of taking impressions in deep time such as fossilization.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Research projects with practical relevance: Art & Technology

      Klaus Fruchtnis / France – Colombia

      Creative processes and practices are increasingly recognized as research, either for its methodology, for its process, or for its power to contribute ideas and solutions to society on a large scale. Artist, technologist and researcher, Klaus Fruchtnis, focuses his practice on fostering innovation and creativity through education, and studies the ways in which digital technologies can be used in creative processes. With the advent of digital technologies, a significant change in education is necessary; as well as the study of new genres of artistic expression, and new ways of transmitting information and knowledge.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      On Space Curves as a Substrate for Audiovisual Composition

      Lance Putnam / United Kingdom
      University of London

      In this talk, I present the use of spatial curves as a fundamental construction for audiovisual composition. Curves provide an attractive starting point for audiovisual synthesis, as they provide a natural translation between sound and graphics. Systems for producing curves for art, design, and scientific research date back to at least the 18th century, and we see similar constructions persisting through mechanical, electronic, and digital technologies. Digital technologies break with the past allowing a precise and interactive control of these curves that allows a much more adjusted perceptual-computational circuit.
    • Date
      May 25, 2017

      Adriana Amodei

      Switzerland
      She is a Sociologist from La Sapienza University of Rome. He obtained a diploma of Fine Arts from the KOEFIA Academy in Theatrical Costume. In 1997 he won the MACRO Municipal Gallery Award for the video-installation Extensión. He has participated in individual and group exhibitions in public and private spaces in Basel, Zurich, Graz, Split, Milan, Genoa, Florence and Rome. He has also participated in festivals and multimedia events with videos and video-installations in Locarno, Lucerne, Burges, Casablanca, Athens, Belfort, Salerno, Rome, Pesaro and Urbino.
    • Date
      May 25, 2017

      Jorge Gomez

      Venezuela
      Jorge is a sound artist, flutist musician. He has done extensive work in the field of Radio Art and Sound Art, his works have been presented in different artistic spaces in Venezuela and several countries; He has been a jury member at the International Radio Biennial in Mexico, Creator of the subject of Sound Art in Venezuela at UNEARTE. Producer of the first Sound Art album in Venezuela. Winner of first prize at the Sixth International Radio Biennial with the program “La Jaula Silenciosa de Juan”, in homage to John Cage, 2006. Producer of the Ibero-American Encounter of Sound Art “Speaking”. He is currently a professor of Sound Art at the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE).
    • Date
      May 25, 2017

      Pedro Lopez

      Spain
      Multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses improvisation, vampirization and design of virtual electroacoustic instruments and multichannel sound specialization. Acoustic and electronic percussion. Computer programming and design of installations and interactive audiovisual projects controlled by different types of sensors. Technical development and design of projects for the web environment, programming and network administration. Promoter and main manager of the sound art and experimental music network http://modisti.com    
      http://pedrolopez.tk
    • Date
      May 25, 2017

      shell sherry

      Spain
      Intermediate Artist. He studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid and a degree in Political Science at the University of Madrid. Since 1991 she has been an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca. She has carried out various individual works, continuously, from 1973 to the present in Spain, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland. Since 1976, he has focused his work on developing the concept of Installation, as an In Situ work, in large-scale concrete spaces -many of them of an Intermediate character-, expanding his activity to Performance at the beginning of the 1980s. Concha Jerez's compositional activity has been linked to the radio medium since the late 1980s, having produced works of radio art for stations such as RAI, ORF, Radio France, YLE, and ABC in Australia.
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