Short introductions of the artworks presented by the Metacreation Lab in the presence of the contributing artists.
Languages: EN
Bios
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Arshia Sobhan
IR
Arshia Sobhan is a PhD student at the Metacreation Lab for Creative AI, where he explores the intersection of generative AI and non-Western art forms. His work involves a research-creation approach to explore new creative avenues for calligraphic Arabic script while critically examining the impact of mainstream creative AI on this art form.
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Erica Lapadat-Janzen
CA
Erica Lapadat-Janzen creates media art, performances, and installations. By emphasizing aesthetics, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
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Matt Gingold
AU
Matt Gingold is a creative producer and transdisciplinary artist who weaves together critical theory, media installation and audiovisual performance. Their practice focuses on creating intimate experiences of—and with—technology, and is inspired by critical research into the ai/aes/ethics of digital cultures and non/human complexity.
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Philippe Pasquier
CA
Philippe Pasquier has been a professor at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University since January 2008. He conducts both scientific and artistic research. Pasquier’s research focuses on building deeper theories for endowing machines with autonomous behaviours, with a focus on creative and artistic applications.
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Thecla Schiphorst
CA
Thecla Schiphorst researches embodied interaction and integrates movement knowledge, tangible and wearable technologies, media and digital art, and interaction aesthetics. She is a professor at and director of the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University.
Credits
Erica Lapadat-Janzen (CA), Arshia Sobhan (IR), Matt Gingold (AU), Thecla Schiphorst (CA), Philippe Pasquier (CA/FR)
We acknowledge support from SSHRC, NSERC, and the CCA.
