3.4 Mixed
Tracks
Track 4
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Plaza P8 |
Speaker
Mr Youngjun Choi
Phd Student
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST
FP: Monochromatic Urban Patchwork: Map of Averaged Urban Ambience
3:30 PM - 3:55 PMAbstract
Monochromatic Urban Patchwork (MUP) (2023) presents a novel fusion of cartography and multimedia, transforming street view videos into a map of urban ambience. We analyze diverse temporal moments across the city through video, distilling audiovisual elements into representative colors. The root mean square (RMS) values from audio tracks guide the extraction of significant chromatic instances creating a palette that reflects the city's rhythm. These average RGB values, corresponding to times with peak RMS values, are geospatially mapped, representing the city in harmony with transient sound events and urban ambience. MUP embodies the real-time urban ambience, manifesting it in the mediums of imagery and video, encouraging the map reader to imagine urban narratives through the colored map. This practice of merging map-making with environmental sound analysis underscores the integration of multimedia into cartography. It effectively captures the identity of urban environments, arousing further curiosity about different districts by imagining the ambience through colors. MUP translates the nuances of the city, offering a condensed representation of spaces through the practice of cartography.
Biography
Youngjun Choi is a second-year PhD student at TX Creative Media Lab, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, advised by Dr. Jinjoon Lee FRSA. His research focuses on the intersection of new media art and digital technology, particularly landscape aesthetics and their translation into multisensory experiences.
Drawing from media aesthetics, neural networks, and human-computer interaction (HCI), I aim to manifest the evolving notion of 'nature' in our digital age. My research interprets the artificiality of nature, offering experiences that resonate with the artificial sublime. Affiliated with TX Lab, I'm currently working on supporting technical developments for artistic data physicalization.
His journey is driven by curiosity and a desire to harmonize the digital and natural worlds. Through this, I hope to offer valuable perspectives on our digitally entwined existence. He is also an alumni and creator of ZER01NE (KR) and a student of FOUNDING LAB 2023 (AT, Ars Electronica x IDSA).
Dr Hiroki Nishino
Associate Professor
Kochi University of Technology
FP: Q's Views #1 - #3: Hybrid-Image Portraits for the Post-Truth Era
3:55 PM - 4:20 PMAbstract
A hybrid image is an image synthesized from two source images in such a way that viewers perceive one of the source images when viewed up close but perceive the other source image when viewed from a distance. An on-going visual sarcasm series, Q's Views #1-#3, utilizes this perceptual illusion with the aim of letting the audience visually experience the estrangement between believers and non-believers of conspiracy theories in the post-truth era.
The current series consists of three portraits of Hillary Clinton, each of which is synthesized as a hybrid image from two ``fake'' portraits. One is AI-generated and the other is transformed from the first. The resulting image is perceived as a regular portrait of Hillary Clinton when viewed at a distance. Yet, as the viewer approaches closer, the portrait transforms, revealing a grotesque depiction of Hillary Clinton as portrayed by conspiracy theorists.
Thus, as viewers approach near to the portrait beyond the threshold of visual perception of the hybrid image, the artwork triggers a sudden realization that conspiracy the-orists perceive Hillary Clinton as an entirely different person. Such a transformation of an image highlights the insurmountable divergence in perceived realities between believers and non-believers of conspiracy theories. How-ever, even the “regular” portraits are AI-generated fabrica-tions, rendering them as fake images devoid of authentici-ty. Hence, as works of visual sarcasm, Q's Views #1-#3 refer to this post-truth era, where AIs are used to produce high-fidelity images for fake news and propaganda, sig-nificantly increasing the alienation and division of per-ceived realities in the same world we share.
The current series consists of three portraits of Hillary Clinton, each of which is synthesized as a hybrid image from two ``fake'' portraits. One is AI-generated and the other is transformed from the first. The resulting image is perceived as a regular portrait of Hillary Clinton when viewed at a distance. Yet, as the viewer approaches closer, the portrait transforms, revealing a grotesque depiction of Hillary Clinton as portrayed by conspiracy theorists.
Thus, as viewers approach near to the portrait beyond the threshold of visual perception of the hybrid image, the artwork triggers a sudden realization that conspiracy the-orists perceive Hillary Clinton as an entirely different person. Such a transformation of an image highlights the insurmountable divergence in perceived realities between believers and non-believers of conspiracy theories. How-ever, even the “regular” portraits are AI-generated fabrica-tions, rendering them as fake images devoid of authentici-ty. Hence, as works of visual sarcasm, Q's Views #1-#3 refer to this post-truth era, where AIs are used to produce high-fidelity images for fake news and propaganda, sig-nificantly increasing the alienation and division of per-ceived realities in the same world we share.
Biography
Hiroki Nishino, Ph.D. (he/him) is a computer scientist with an interdisciplinary background in creative technologies. He received his doctoral degree for the design and development of real-time computer music programming languages from Na-tional University of Singapore in 2014. While his primary expertise is in the design and development of programming languages for creative coding, his past research encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, including computer music, augment-ed reality, tangible interaction, interaction design, Generative AIs, serious games, etc. His works in digital media, both in research and creative practices, have received various prizes and awards.
Mr Bradly Couch
Artist
Independent Research
AT: Heaven on Earth Map
4:20 PM - 4:35 PMAbstract
Eureka! Eureka! –Buckle your seatbelts and leave all preconceived notions behind, because this starving space artist is about to send you into low Earth orbit in search of ancient myths. No shovels required, the only tool needed is a heavenly perspective of Earth. Remote sensing technology, satellite imagery and digital maps allow us to raise the valleys and make every mountain low; therefore, leveling the rough ground and turning rugged places into a plain. All one needs is an Internet connection, a laptop and mapping software to experience this phenomenon for themselves. Using ancient texts as our guide, we'll search out the origins of fanciful stories that have been passed down orally for generations. The focus of my presentation aims to leave viewers with the understanding that mythical origins have been hiding on planet Earth the entire time. In reality, humanity hasn’t been advanced enough to discover them until this century. My presentation is unorthodox, but isn't new doctrine because ancient stories and religious texts (old doctrine) are the cornerstone of my research.
Biography
Starving Space Artist and Storyteller
Professor Tiago Franklin Rodrigues Lucena
State University of Maringa
AT: “Pagan Baby”: A Mobile/Interactive Art App Unveiling Infant Mortality in Early 20th Century Brazilian Northwest
4:35 PM - 4:50 PMAbstract
Infant mortality remains a pressing concern in low- and mid-dle-income countries, with a unique historical narrative in the Brazilian northeast. In the early 20th century, families hurried to baptize infants within minutes of birth due to deep-rooted religious beliefs. The "pagan children" could not be buried in cemeteries believed to wander in purgatory until their souls received a blessing. This narrative, blending history, folklore, and religious practices, has remained largely unexplored in visual and interactive art. Our interdisciplinary project, bridg-ing art, science, and technology, aims to change that. We are developing a mobile app that guides users through this capti-vating story, covering the journey from birth to burial. After that, app operates in the background, notifying users when they are near significant locations through a locative interface. Users can actively participate by recording a blessing message and making the sign of the cross using smartphone accel-erometers. Voice data is securely stored in the "blessuarium" database. The app transforms the infant into an angel, offering users a collection of these "angels." Influenced by folklore and medical anthropology, our project preserves this cultural narrative, shedding light on the history, social disparities, and regional traditions of the Brazilian northeast.
Biography
Media Art Bachelor.
Master on Arts (Art and Technology) at UnB - Brasilia
PhD on Arts (Art and Technology) at UnB - Brasilia - also PhD visiting student at MediaLab-MIT
Professor at UEM - Maringa State University / Communication and Multimedia
Ms Kimberley Bianca
University of Colorado Boulder
PIC: Ecomedia Colorado
4:50 PM - 5:05 PMAbstract
Ecomedia Colorado engages interdisciplinary and intergenerational groups in Colorado, USA to generate cooperative dialogue on local environmental issues and create spaces where meaning-making and creative representation of scientific data becomes possible. This project involves a web-based application powered by CitSci.org to collect observations and media from contributors about water and ecology, hosting workshops to curate this media and make collages, and an interactive projection showcase where visitors can use gestures to explore the digitised collages. Through workshops and interactive installations, the project elicits community and individual narrative expressions regarding the places and issues they care about that can be implemented through an app on CitSci.org or ideation prompts. As a first step, the approach provides opportunities for citizens to offer narrative expressions of their choice (e.g., photos, art, written text) in many different forms. The locations included are Las Animas County, Grand Lake County, and Boulder County, with workshops and installations in Trinidad, Colorado (2022) and Lafayette, Colorado (2023).
Biography
Kimberley Bianca is an Australian media artist and community events organiser based in the United States. Her PhD research activities at The University of Colorado Boulder include workshops, site-specific electronic arts, networked performance forms, and platform design. In 2019, Bianca completed her master's thesis Electrofringe: A Distributed Curatorial Platform for Electronic Art, at UNSW in Australia while directing the arts organisation and festival, Electrofringe. Bianca has been a practising freelance artist, facilitator, media designer, VJ, and audiovisual technician since 2010. She specialises in developing participatory, mixed reality projects that bring socially engaged practice to performance and multimedia.
Session chair
Dusan Bojic
Inceptalab
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