Conferences / Lectures / Talks
S+T+ARTS Talk: Art & Tech for Urban Resilience
How can artists help to create new collective imaginaries and participatory systems, spaces for reflection and criticism for the future of our cities? How can urban planners and policy makers be inspired by these scenarios and reflections on urban citizenship in the light of digital innovation? Discover the full line-up of this talk.
Future Focus – Fragile Worlds II
Victoria Bradbury, Suzy O’Hara, Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Irini Papadimitriou, Paolo Cirio
This session builds on a series of provocations and discussion following from the Art Hack Practice series, exploring artistic practices and the role of art at a time of crisis, shifting spaces of production, care and labour in a precarious world.
Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies: Exhibition and Research Project
Pei-Ying Lin (TW), Giulia Tomasello (IT), Jen Keane (UK)
The exhibition presents the activities of the project, four of the eight case studies undertaken, and includes an installation of one of this years STARTS Prize 2020 Honorary Mention, Pei-Ying Lin’s Virophilia (2018-2020), an installation of Future Flora by designer Giulia Tomasello and winner of the STARTS Prize 2018 for Artistic Experimentation, alongside work from designer Jen Keane’s This is Grown project who received an Honorary Mention in 2019.
Expanded Animation Symposium at UCA
The symposium Synaesthetic Syntax examines the interactions between animation and audio from a scientific perspective. Researchers and artists were asked to submit contributions on the subject of Synaesthetic Syntax: Sounding Animation/Visualising Audio. This scientific/artistic survey is kicked off by the media artist Rose Bond, who offers insights into her artistic work in public spaces, followed by panel discussions on the topics of "Hearing Color Seeing Sound", "In Front of Your Eyes and Ears", and "The Kinaesthetics of Music and Vision".
S+T+ARTS at UCA: Understanding complex data in COVID times + Fashion: Materialising Numbers
As a specialist arts institution, UCA is 100% creative. UCA students develop their skills and thinking in environments that replicate the studios found within the creative industries, alongside peers on courses spanning arts, business and technology.Oscar-winning film makers and animators, world-renowned fashion designers, television presenters and Turner-Prize nominees are just some of UCA's high-profile graduates who have enriched the world with their creative talents. Taught and guided by experienced, industry-connected academic staff, students reap the benefits of studying at the highest-ranked creative specialist in the UK.
Leonardo S+T+ARTS: A conversation on "What's next? Art-Science ideas emerging from lockdown."
Camille Baker (CA/UK), Danielle Siembieda (US), Aurelie Delater (FR) and Marie Albert (FR)
During lockdown, Leonardo and STARTS collaborated to exchange and reflect, together with their wider communities, on how COVID-19 is impacting Art-Science/Art-Technology innovation and co-creation.
Expanded Animation
In collaboration with the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences’ Hagenberg Campus, the 8th Expanded Animation symposium carries on a process launched in 2013: to map the wide-ranging domain of animated worlds of imagery beyond well-trodden paths. The symposium stays the course originally set at its inception, and presents theoretical positions and perspectives from the art world, the R&D field and the industrial sector.
Prix Forum Computer Animation
These interviews will discuss the work of the artists throughout their MindSpaces residency. They will present their work so far and their collaboration with the technical partners of the MindSpaces consortium.
Dresden’s Future Food. Zero Waste Edition – To the Last Crumb
No idea what to do with old bread or the leaves of radish? In three short tutorials, learn how to prepare a delicious starter, main course and dessert by using seasonal and regional ingredients. Part of the Deutsche Hygiene-Museum’s digital “Future Food. What will we eat tomorrow?” program. In cooperation with Commerzbank Foundation.
Expanded Animation: Artist Position
These interviews will discuss the work of the artists throughout their MindSpaces residency. They will present their work so far and their collaboration with the technical partners of the MindSpaces consortium.
How do regional food systems work?
In times of multiple crises, the issue of food security is vividly debated. The panel discussion addresses opportunities and challenges of regional food production and supply with a focus on Dresden, Saxony.
Expanded Animation: Real Time
These interviews will discuss the work of the artists throughout their MindSpaces residency. They will present their work so far and their collaboration with the technical partners of the MindSpaces consortium.
The Crying Book with Heather Christle and Performance by Gary Motley
Heather Christle, Gary Motley
The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy. Why do we cry? How do we cry? Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it. She researches tear-collecting devices and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Motley performs Someday Sunday as Christle reads from her first book of nonfiction, The Crying Book.
Expanded Animation: Art & Industry
These interviews will discuss the work of the artists throughout their MindSpaces residency. They will present their work so far and their collaboration with the technical partners of the MindSpaces consortium.
Serpentine Galleries
Championing new ideas in contemporary art since 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions for half a century from a wide range of emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists of our time. Across two sites only 5 minutes apart, in London’s Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine Galleries present a year-round, free programme of exhibitions, education, live events and technological innovation, in the park and beyond.
Decoding New Technologies in Art and Design
Varvara Guljajeva (EE)
The conference discusses the role of technology in creative practices. We aim to underline what kinds of changes, ideas, trends, and methodologies technology has introduced into art and design. We would like to take a closer look at topics like AI and machine learning. What can AI offer to creative communities? And what kind of impact will these computationally expensive processes have on our environment, design and art?
Keynote: Exploring Potentials and Risks of AI Technology from a Perspective of Creatives
Varvara Guljajeva (EE)
In the beginning of AI technology development in the late 50s, the field did not reach set goals because the machines were not smart and fast enough. Today, when it is spoken about the third wave of AI and quantum computing, the dream is very close to come true – reaching the human-level of intelligence. However, what kind of consequences could bring these technological achievements?
Expanded Animation: Synaesthetic Syntax
These interviews will discuss the work of the artists throughout their MindSpaces residency. They will present their work so far and their collaboration with the technical partners of the MindSpaces consortium.
Expanded Animation: A new media manifesto
These interviews will discuss the work of the artists throughout their MindSpaces residency. They will present their work so far and their collaboration with the technical partners of the MindSpaces consortium.
Music as Experience in an age of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Creativity
Kingston University and Durham University (UK), New York University (US), Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart (DE), University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna (AT), KTH Stockholm (SE)
This discussion will focus on aspects of working with AI as artists, and also wider aspects about implications of the technology.
