Technology
Tree of/and Life
Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (UA)
The film tells the story of a craftsman's creativity and his connection to a tree that extracts an invisible form from a material substance. The act of creating by a human being is subject to the power of the substance that governs the carver independently determining the result. The subjectivity of nature is also manifested in the film through chemical damage - images and memory are absorbed and disappear behind the veil.
Workshop: Psychobiotonic: Microbiome Anthropothagy
Clarissa Ribeiro
Imagine a fictional scenario in which you can choose one personality to ‘embody’ a time having access to encapsulated microbiome samples (mixed cultures i.e. microbial associations or communities) of donors that have specific personality types. “Transplanting the Self: microbiome anthropophagy” (2018-present) is a reflection on the limits of microbiome manipulation inviting the online audience to become ‘personality donors’ in a collaborative performance.
Workshop: Sidewalk Herbarium
Alvaro Azcarraga with Terry Huang
We will be reconnecting with our local environments by collecting and identifying plant specimens from your neighborhood/sidewalk.
Performance and Workshop: Calming the Sea - Sketch 2b
Christoph Killian, UCLA ArtSci Center Artist in Residence
We will play with multichannel near-simultaneity, exploiting transmission latencies and temporal offsets, experiencing destructive and constructive interferences, – overlapping, amplification and extinction of waves in a global disconcert.
Tour: If You Hold the Stone Hold it in Your Hand - COVID19 Data Sculptures
Clarissa Ribeiro
LIVE: Data-Driven Algorithmic Design and 4-axes CNC Carving After a short talk sharing a few aspects of the poetics focusing on algorithmic design, we invite the online audience for a lab visit and we will set up a 4-axis CNC to carve one of the data-sculptures live.
Workshop: Data Garden
Eli Joteva and Zeynep Abes
In this workshop you will learn the art of photogrammetry, volumetric collage and shared virtual spaces.
Workshop: Diffraction and Wave-Particle Duality and Imaging Techniques
Sam Lilak
This workshop invites you to understand the duality of nature and utilize its interactions to achieve atomic resolution. You will be introduced to scale, waves and wave-particle duality, optical microscopes and UV-Vis spectroscopy, electron microscopy and diffraction, atomic imaging and scanning probe microscopy.
Workshop: Microbial Theater
Mick Lorusso and Joel Ong
In this workshop participants will learn about the microbiome to develop their own stories about microbes, collect and observe samples using microscopy, and create short performances based on their stories and findings.
Workshop: Field Recording: Listening to Electromagnetic Radiation
John Brumley, artist, member of ArtSci Collective
We will build a small loop antenna and listen to artificial and natural sources of electromagnetic radiation. John will briefly cover aspects of Natural and Artificial EM radiation, mention artists that have explored electromagnetism in their practice, and then build rudimentary loop antennas to record and explore our EM environments.
Workshop: Houdini Software Intro
Debra Isaac
In this workshop, we will create a rocky 3D object, fracture and shatter it, and then emit particles with forces. Learn the power and flexibility of Houdini’s Procedural and non destructive node based 3d software that excels in using both raw data and generative art.
Workshop: Remote Sensing the Red Planet
Shane Houchin
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object, area, or phenomenon without making physical contact. Typically performed by satellite or aircraft that measure the reflected or emitted electromagnetic radiation from a surface. Applications of remote sensing include, Geology, Hydrology, Agriculture, Conservation, Urban Planning, Transportation, Glaciology, Forestry, Ecology, to mention a few.
Timbres of Summer
Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine (UA)
The team of curators from the Center will visit Orest Bachmaha at his house on the outskirts of Lviv to conduct an interview. In the 1970s and 1980s this person was part of a huge army of amateurs, shaped in the former USSR. But he belonged to a special circle of amateurs, such as media amateurs, who produced radios and recording machines, and worked on the margin between amateur film and video art.
Garage Digital: Worlds beyond Worlds
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / Nikita Nechaev, Moscow (RU)
Works and practices of several artists and collectives, that participate in Garage Digital program, reflect on the different types of networks, infrastructures, ecologies and algorithms, and pose questions of the possible tactics and strategies to reassemble these systems with new types of communities, modes of rationality and production in mind —cunning, poetic, speculative and emergent.
Lecture on Performance and Interaction
Ruairi Glynn
Dr Ruairi Glynn, Director of the Interactive Architecture Lab, will give a talk on notions of Antidisciplinarity in Design for Performance and Interaction and emerging new types of practice.
Bartlett artists’ videos
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)
A 1-hour collection of student project films from the Bartlett School of Architecture’s Interactive Architecture Lab, Automated Architecture Ltd/Automated Architecture Labs, BioID, Unit 24, Unit 9, Unit 14, RC14.
COVID-19 Crisis: How could/can society change?
Walter Ötsch, Renata Schmidtkunz, Antonia Birnbaum, Evelyn Bodenmeier, Leonhard Dobusch, Sighard Neckel
Walter Ötsch develops two scenarios for the future of society: a positive and a negative one. He will give an overview of the possible ideas for the future, both positive and negative, that were considered in the workshop. Together, obstacles and options for the future are discussed.
Transformation & Transmission – panel discussion, presentations
A live-streamed presentation of a new selection of works from the exhibition, with live Q&A and panel discussion with the artists. These works range from films, to AR experiences, to hybrid objects, each united by the themes of anxiety, uncertainty, and distance that run through these works. During the festival, we will conduct streamed online tours of the works, show examples, and interview the authors in a live stream hosted every day (times TBC).
Alexander Whitley Dance Company
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)
Initiated in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, Digital Body uses motion capture technology to digitise sequences of choreography and makes them freely available online. CHAOTIC BODY brings together three composers and digital artists to collaborate with AWDC company on the creation of three short films and AR projects taking inspiration from chaos theory and the associated geometric patterns in nature.
ScanLAB Projects HUB
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)
ScanLAB’s primary medium is 3D scanning, a form of machine vision that they argue is the future of photography and spatial representation. By critically observing places and events through the eyes of these machines ScanLAB’s work hopes to glance at the future we will all inhabit.
Jason Bruges Studio (UK)
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK)
A curated selection of talks and 360 films that provide insight into the Studio’s process and practice. Normally inhabiting physical spaces, a number of the Studio’s installations are transformed and brought to a virtual audience for the first time.
