Sunday, 30 July 2017 - 10:00am to Thursday, 3 August 2017 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
LEONARDO 50TH ANNIVERSARY
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds. Birds of a Feather sessions are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2017 attendees. The sessions are free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, and non-commercial in nature. Sessions are presented in the convention center, official conference hotels, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Theater. More info soon! http://s2017.siggraph.org/birds-feather
Human destiny is to evolve and expand, and that of course include technology development. We are questioning our human biology and challenging what it means to be human. Robots both fascinate us and make us feel uneasy. The idea of creating a humanoid machine or device has existed man’s imagination ever since Antiquity. For time immemorial, man has fantasized about how to create a spark of being in an artificial body. The manner in which such phantasms were manifested depended on the technological endowment of the period in which he lived. Nowadays, robots represent one of the most complex technical achievements of the humankind. It is the paradigm of how to adjust the world to our own measures, found already established throughout the entire history of art and science, which is swiftly taking over the space of the natural by the development of new technologies. The historical transformation of the body is reaching new peaks in connection with the artificial technological structure. There is a time frame being established, based on the recognition that nothing is ever going to be the same as before, when exactly the robots, as well as artificial bio-organisms are going to be the ones who will reason for us what the essence of life is, or what it means to be human. Robots are interesting from the point of humanist philosophy, as they arise the questions concerning the difference between the living - non-living – created - born. When we are in the interaction with robots, we cannot see their inner mechanisms, so at the first sight we simply believe that they are human. The mimesis of a robot, a device with a series of sensors, controls, and pneumatic drives is becoming a simulacrum of the presence of human emotions.
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Maša Jazbec (Slovenia), after having finished the study of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Education Maribor (Slovenia) continues her study at the post-graduate department of Interface Culture, at the University of Arts and Design Linz (Austria). During her study she completes a residence at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences IAMAS (Japan). Her projects, exhibited as artworks, have always shown her understanding of new media as a research artistic practice, stemming from the tradition of the video and the new artistic thought, linked to the current situation in the contemporary society. She is also active as a curator of artistic-scientific events within the frame of the new media culture festival Speculum Artium in Trbovlje (Slovenia). She is currently a Ph.D candidate at Empowerment Informatics, University of Tsukuba, Japan and a visiting researcher at ATR (Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories).
For more than two decades, media artist and designer Anne Niemetz has been working in the areas of audio-visual design, interactive installation and wearable technology. Her newest work, Drone Sweet Drone, an installation of an embroidered drone swarm using Arduino technology, is a combination of these interests. By fusing the traditional with the technologically advanced, Drone Sweet Drone, asks us to consider the ordinary and extraordinary ways that drones affect our everyday lives.
Anne Niemetz holds a Media Arts degree from the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG), Germany, with a focus in digital media and interactive sound installation. She continued her studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where she received an MFA in Design and Media Arts in 2004. In 2007 she moved to New Zealand, where she holds the position of Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of the Media Design programme at Victoria University of Wellington.
Anne is a media artist and designer working in the fields of wearable technology, interactive installation and audio-visual design in general. She is particularly fascinated by the convergence of art, science, design and technology, and she pursues collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects.
Her work has been exhibited in the World of Wearable Art show Wellington (2013), BODY festival Christchurch (2010), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong (2008), The ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2006, 2000, 1999), Happy New Ears festival, Kortrijk, Belgium (2006), LACMA - Los Angeles Country Museum of Arts, USA (2004), MAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Santiago de Chile (2003), SIGGRAPH Cyberfashion Show in San Diego, USA (2003), Montevideo Institute, Amsterdam, Holland (2000), and at various other international festivals and screenings.
TUESDAY, 2/2/2016
2-8pm
Broad Art Center, Room 4230
Digital Artist Alex May (UK) presents his video mapping workshop: “Painting With Light”
in Lecturer Refik Anadol’s Motion Class, co-sponsored by the Art|Sci Center.
Alex May's words on his workshop:
"As part of my art practice I developed my own video mapping software (called Painting With Light), designed primarily for myself, but secondarily to be an accessible route into using the technology for artists who don't necessarily have any prior experience of working with mapping, projectors, or even particularly extensive digital skills.
Originally released in 2012, I've used it for many of my installations and live performances - including a 75 minute show at Tate Modern, London. During this time I've continued to develop the features of the software, and have run many workshops in various countries to introduce the software and processes; to share enough so that participants are able to practically do video mapping and take it in the direction they're interested in."
An acoustic construction: hyper sound speakers amplify and present sounds from nature.
UCLA Professors Charles Taylor, Evolutionary Biology and Victoria Vesna, Design | Media Arts present the work of Professor Takashi Ikegami and his students Atsushi Masumori, Itzuki Doi, and Norihiro Maruyama. This is one aspect of a multi-year transdisciplinary collaborative project “Mapping the Acoustic Communication Networks of Birds” funded by NSF and will be presented at the upcoming Artificial Life conference in New York.
In this installation the participant/viewer experience sound that can be directed to give a 3D experience and “view” the soundscape from different angles and reflections — similar to the reflections/refraction of light seen through diamonds. Highly directional hyper sound speakers and motion sensors create immersive, targeted soundscape patterns in some ways richer than those which occur naturally. By moving around the viewer can view and review their sound environment with a heightened awareness. We anticipate that Birdsong Diamond will leave viewers with new questions about their soundscape environment.
Echo & Narcissus was an installation that explores this ancient myth as a metaphor for the interaction between two individuals who cannot communicate. An interactive visual projection on water and multi-channel soundtrack of Echo’s voice used counterpoint to produce a series of visual and sonic relationships.
As one looked into the water one would see an image of their own face gradually materializing, dematerializing, disappearing, then reappearing once again. Echo’s voice permeates the space, moving throughout the gallery creating a haunting affect.
Echo & Narcissus is directed and produced by artist/curator David Familian, who is artistic director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts in UC Irvine. His collaborating team included actor Marie Chambers (voice of Echo), media artist Eric Parren (programmer of the interactive elements) and author Terry Wolverton (writer of the Echo’s monologue).
Duality is an Art|Sci manifestation of complexity emerging from a tiny network of billions of tiny self assembled, self-organized, non-linear connections that materialize in time and space through holistic processes and which are a kinesthetic visualization of wandering in and out of the fuzzy borders of chaos and order. We use a real network, where the creator has given permission to its expanding and collapsing spatio-temporal morphogenic and often catastrophic dynamics.
This project represents the transition in science and art from giving up on the clock to embrace a cloud in terms of Karl Popper’s important statement “we live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.” In the laboratory we build electro-ionic clouds. In the gallery we let them self create images songs and dance for this Art|Sci exhibition entitled Duality. It is the duality of the dark space between the known and unknown, determinism and surprise, mathematical form and fuzziness from which the atoms, electrons and ions speak to the visitors without censorship.
Brainstorming Turing: Celebrating Alan Turing + 25 Years of AI and Society Journal
100 years have passed since Alan Turing was born and we celebrate this historically important individual together with many organizations around the world. We look to show his eccentric creativity in addition to reminding all of the huge contribution he made to computation and artificial intelligence. Short talks by computer / neuro / nano scientists and humanists are accompanied by artists inspired by Turing’s legacy and persona. Additionally, students from UCLA will participate with their ideas of how Turing informs and inspires their work and lives in this time when social networking, robotics and automatic brains are part of daily life.
2012 also marks 25 years since the establishment of AI & Society journal that owes its formation to Turing’s legacy. The Art | Sci center is partnering with this interdisciplinary publication to honor Turing and all those who have contributed over the years. A special issue based on the symposium is planned.
