Ars Electronica Garden London

The Garden of Forking Paths – London (UK)

Media and Arts Technology Centre for Doctoral Training at Queen Mary University of London (UK)

The Garden of Forking Paths showcases seven interactive artworks, demos and performances, all the product of current PhD research into Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University of London. Utilizing sound, image, text, materials, and structure, each artwork explores aspects of how we think, sense and act when physical and digital worlds collide. We invite you to follow the forking paths and explore our digital garden.

The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths showcases seven interactive artworks, demos and performances, all the product of current PhD research into Media and Arts Technology. Working with sound, image, text, materials, and structure, each artist explores aspects of how we think, sense and act when physical and digital worlds collide. Encounter an oversized musical instrument, converse with a chatbot about the future of interactive art, draw with sound, and see life through the eyes of an Alzheimer’s patient.

The online exhibition takes its name from a short story written by Jorges Luis Borges in 1941 that is often cited as inspiration for hypertext documents such as web pages that are interconnected and instantly accessed by hyperlinks. The Garden of Forking Paths represents the process of research: following the threads of existing thought, forking from existing lines of development and creating new pathways between disciplines. We invite you to follow these paths and explore our digital garden.

The exhibiting artists are part of the EPSRC+AHRC Media and Arts Technology Centre for Doctoral Training at Queen Mary University of London, UK, which provides a bridge between academic research, digital technologies, and creative industries.

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Program

Project Credits / Acknowledgements

Artists
Betül Aksu
Teodoro Dannemann Andrea Guidi
Shivani Hassard Giacomo Lepri Sebastian Löbbers Angela McArthur
Lia Mice
Vanessa Pope
Mei Zhang

Organisation Team
Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns, Professor of Interaction Design
Jonathan Winfield, Manager for Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology
Louise Bryce, PhD student
Sebastian Löbbers, PhD student
Nicole Robson, PhD student
Francesco Soave, PhD student
Jianing Zheng, PhD student

Supported by the EPSRC and AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology (EP/L01632X/1)

Collaborators
Imperial College London, UK
The RCA Textiles Futures Project 2020, the Royal College of Art, UK:
Jiaxi Li, MA Textiles Student (Knit), Royal College of Art
Loy Chan, MA Fashion Menswear Student, Royal College of Art
Siying Chen, MA Textiles Student (Knit), Royal College of Art
Fang-Yi Chu (Janie), MA Textiles Student (Print), Royal College of Art
Feiyang Zhang MA Textiles Student (Mixed Media), Royal College of Art

Biography

The ​EPSRC+AHRC ​Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology (MAT) is aninterdisciplinary PhD programme at Queen Mary University of London. MAT provides abridge between academic research, digital technologies, and creative industries withinnovative programmes in the sciences and technologies focusing on sound, music, media,and interaction. Established in 2009, MAT has exhibited artworks internationally fromLondon to Beijing and has graduated more than 50 PhD students.

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Media and Arts Technology Centre for Doctoral Training at Queen Mary University of London