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Psychological Impacts of Surveillance: within the context of Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine
B. D. Owens, David Harper, Darren Ellis (UK)
Multi-disciplinary artist, B. D. Owens, has a conversation with Professor David Harper & Dr Darren Ellis (University of East London) about the psychological impacts of surveillance, within the context of Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine.
Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine - Live
B.D. Owens, Donna Holford-Lovell
Two new films by B.D. Owens followed by a live Q&A with the artist and NEoN Director, Donna Holford-Lovell.
The Welcome Chorus
Yuri Suzuki (JP)
A work composed of 12 interactive horns, placed at Turner Contemporary, a contemporary art gallery in Kent, UK. It uses two methods – one is to feed lyrics and melodies by musicians into the AI and the other is to produce a short melody created by the AI recognizing vocal tone, tempo and specific words spoken into the sculptures by gallery visitors. Every few minutes, the work produces a unique chorus.
Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine
B.D. Owens, Donna Holford-Lovell
B. D. Owens takes the viewer on an interactive wander through the landscape, artistic process and historical context of his ongoing, multifaceted project Gare Loch Duality and the #UndesiredLine.
What is Sound – Alpha blending
Luana Lojić (HR)
What is Sound: Alpha blending is an audio-visual performative search for available information on the smallest things and units ever recorded or seen based on internet stored data (ex. bits, nanobes, phonemes, photons, atoms, etc.). Its constant is made of endless improvised medial translations formed from free online available generative tools and starts with a question posed into a search engine, building informational layers of text, sound, pictures and moving images.
Electronic Theatre @ KUNSTKINO
Since 1987, the Electronic Theatre has compiled a large number of submissions from all over the world, providing an up-to-the-minute survey of animation art in the context of technology and society.
Pianographique
Maki Namekawa (JP/AT), Dennis Russell Davies (US), Cori OʼLan (AT)
Pianographique is an ongoing artistic collaboration of the two pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies with the digital-media artist Cori O‘Lan.
THE BAD WEEDS TRIPS
Rocio Berenguer (ES/FR)
In 2030, a human-plant hybrid guides us on a trip through the past, unveiling the origins of G5, the first inter-species political summit. The event was initiated by IOFLE, the Inter-species Organisation for The Future of Life on Earth. Its founders are thought to be the artist Rocío Berenguer and IA collaborator, IAGOTCHI.
EMAP group exhibition: Quarantine
Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR), Anna Dumitriu, Alex May (UK), Tiziano Derme, Daniela Mitterberger (AT), Taavi Suisalu (EE), Quimera Rosa (FR/AR/ES), Kat Austen (UK/DE)
Over the last few years, the EMAP/EMARE network of media arts organizations have produced a multitude of works dealing with life-science and cybernetics that examine the fragile ecological equilibrium of life on Earth. A few of these artists find inspiration from scientific discoveries like archaea, a group of unicellular micro-organisms believed to be the oldest form of life on Earth. Other sources of inspiration include the impact of pharmaceuticals on life in the water and the sonic vision of bats. These artistic explorations envision future evolution in magical and often transgressive ways.
Opera @ Deep Space 8K
Erick Oh (KR/US)
Opera is a cycle of a five-minute animation created by the prize-winning filmmaker and artist Erick Oh.
What Matters Now?
Sarah Petkus (US)
In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, daily life has been disrupted and given room to change; from the comfort of routine to the energy that fuels the creation of electronic and robotic work.
From Glass to Glass to Glass
Nye Thompson (UK)
For my new work /artefact, I took possession of a large area of Mars, using Google Earth and satellite survey data to build a supertall border wall around my claim.
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".
Artificial Intelligence and its False Lies
Mika Satomi (JP/AT)
In this tour, Mika walks you through her process of making Artificial Intelligence and its False Lies, from the first questions she had and how one led to the next, to interviewing scientists and finally teaching herself how to make an artificial neural network. She also attempts to explain how neural networks work, because she was shocked to learn there is no actual intelligence inside the black box!
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.
Acts of Substitution without Bodily Contact: Making Music in the Age of Quarantine
The Telharmonic Orchestra (AT) feat. Richard Garet (US) & Daniel Neumann (US/DE)
The Telharmonic Orchestra was founded in 2020 by ten composers/musicians during the COVID lockdown in 2020 at Anton Bruckner University Linz.
Solar Walk @ Deep Space 8K
Réka Bucsi
Solar Walk, by the Hungarian animation artist Réka Bucsi, is a symphony between humans, animals, creatures, and inanimate and unknown objects.
Neltokoni in cuícatl
hexorcismos AKA Moisés Horta Valenzuela (MX)
Neltokoni in cuícatl (Talismans in Poetry) is a multichannel audio/visual poetry performance driven by a disembodied AI system consisting of three generative deep learning models trained on precolumbian sonic forms, poetry and imagery.
Running Off the Senses
Yishu Jiang (AT), Ali Nikrang (AT), Daniela Mülleder (AT)
This performance with Yishu Jiang (violoncello), Daniela Mülleder (violin) and Ali Nikrang (piano) focuses on AI-composed music, with human-composed music as counterpoint.
