7.7 Institutional presentations
Tracks
Track 7
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Plaza P11 |
Speaker
Mr Terry C. W. Wong
Simon Fraser University
IP: ISEA Symposium Archives
10:30 AM - 10:45 AMAbstract
The ISEA Archives are digital repositories containing almost four decades of records for the nomadic ISEA symposium series. The ISEA symposium focuses on the intersection of arts, humanities, sciences, and technologies, fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals. Archival materials related to academic papers, exhibitions, performances, and many other collective memories of the symposium series are stored digitally in the ISEA Archives. Managing such a vast number of records is a tremendous job; the upkeeping of the archives relies on the continuous contribution of volunteer time and effort.
Biography
Terry C. W. Wong is an archivist and co-organizer for the ISEA Archives. He holds a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MA in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is conducting graduate research on connecting new media art archiving worldwide at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Terry has been actively involved with the New Media Art Archiving Summit and is currently a member of the organizing committee and the International Programme Committee (IPC). Before his archiving work, Terry gained years of experience in project management as a professional engineer, while also being a practicing artist and designer. Additionally, Terry has extensive experience in arts administration and has been involved in international projects, including the ISEA Symposium, SIGGRAPH, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and the Venice Biennale
Ms Bonnie Mitchell
Director
ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive
Co-presenter
Biography
Bonnie Mitchell is a digital artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of the SIGGRAPH archives and coordination of the SPARKS lecture series. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural, and psychological environment through interaction. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically interactive immersive environments. Her interactive digital work dates back to the late 1980s and in 1995 she won an Honorable Mention from Ars Electronica for one of her net art projects.
Dr Wim van der Plas
ISEA Symposium Archives
Co-presenter
Biography
Wim van der Plas is co-founder of ISEA and organiser of the three ISEA symposia held in the Netherlands. He led ISEA HQ in the first 8 years of its existence and was a board member of the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and ISEA International (both of which he also was co-founder) until 2017. Since then, he is Honorary Chair of the ISEA International Advisory Committee nd ISEA Symposium archivist. He received a Leonardo Pioneer Award in 2018.
Ms Elena Golub
Educational program coordinator, Head of Art Department Assistant
CIFRA
IP: CIFRA Platform for New Media Art
10:45 AM - 11:00 AMAbstract
The CIFRA Platform for New Media Art emerges as an innovative ecosystem and anarchive, orchestrating the distribution and storage of contemporary media art. CIFRA is a community-driven online and offline project with a sustainable economic model.
The presentation also delves into the exploration of existing platforms, dissecting the strengths and criticisms of streaming services and marketplaces and the place of CIFRA in this environment.
The presentation also delves into the exploration of existing platforms, dissecting the strengths and criticisms of streaming services and marketplaces and the place of CIFRA in this environment.
Biography
Elena Golub is a film and video researcher, cultural worker, and emerging artist interested in media theory, politics of the self in film and video, and accented cinema. She holds an MA in Art Criticism and a BA in Philosophy. She worked as a coordinator at the New Holland Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, 2021; coordinator of the Main Project at 5th Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, 2019–2020. She curated the screening program Evasive Statements at VIDEOFORMA VIII International video-art festival, Saint Petersburg, 2020. She publishes an independent film magazine. Elena is the educational projects coordinator on the CIFRA platform for media art. She currently resides and works in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Ms Bonnie Mitchell
Director
ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive
IP: ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives: Reclaiming the Past
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMAbstract
The ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives is an online repository and physical collection of artifacts and documents from the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. SIGGRAPH is an international organization that promotes, produces and disseminates research and creative work in the field of new media art, animation and computer graphics techniques. The SIGGRAPH History archive is in its development phase and was used for a major exhibition in Los Angeles in August 2023. This presentation focuses on the current status of the archive, and also the challenges and goals.
Biography
Bonnie Mitchell is a new media artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Digital Arts, in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ISEA International Advisory Committee and ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of their online archives. She is currently the SIGGRAPH 2023 conference History Chair in charge of the immersive Time Tunnel, history displays and retrospective talks. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically immersive data visualization environments that showcase climate change over time. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural and psychological environment through interaction, abstraction and audio. She has created numerous abstract visual music installations and animations that have been shown in hundreds of venues world-wide.
Prof Jan Searleman
Adjunct Research Professor
Clarkson University
Co-presenter
Biography
Jan Searleman taught Computer Science at Clarkson University for 37 years, retired in 2015, and since retirement has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Clarkson. Her research areas are Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. A senior member of the ACM, Jan is also on two ACM SIGGRAPH Committees: Digital Art (DAC) and History. Jan and Bonnie Mitchell coordinated a DAC Online Exhibition “The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology and Critical Action”. She is co-director of the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive with Bonnie Mitchell. Jan also co-directs the ISEA Symposium Archives with Bonnie Mitchell, Wim van der Plas, and Terry C.W. Wong. In 2022/2023, she was a member of the SIGGRAPH 50th Anniversary team. She also served on the organizing team for the Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving at ISEA2023 in Barcelona.
Dr Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo
Associate professor
Texas A&M University
IP: Interdisciplinary Institute for Applied Creativity
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMAbstract
The Institute for Applied Creativity (IAC) at Texas A&M University serves as a dynamic hub for interdisciplinary collaboration. At its core, the IAC embraces a fusion of experimental, rational, intuitive, and analytical approaches to achieve concrete results. It tackles critical issues that resonate with communities worldwide, initiating solutions at a local level and scaling them for global impact. This institutional presentation showcases the IAC's key activities, spotlighting notable projects that span research, teaching, and outreach efforts.
Biography
Dr. Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo is an interactive artist and researcher, acclaimed for her interdisciplinary approach that integrates technology, education, and health within the artistic sphere. She is an associate professor in the School of Performance, Visualization, & Fine Arts and the director of the Institute for Applied Creativity at Texas A&M University. Dr. Seo holds a PhD in Interactive Art and Technology from Simon Fraser University in Canada and an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her works explore tangible and embodied/immersive interaction, medical/nursing education, interactive performance, creative aging, and creative AI.
Ms Bonnie Mitchell
Director
ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive
IP: Introducing the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMAbstract
The mission of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee is to foster year-round engagement and dialogue within the digital, electronic, computational, and media arts. Our goal is to promote collaboration between artists and the larger computer graphics and interactive techniques community within ACM SIGGRAPH and beyond.
Biography
Bonnie Mitchell is a digital artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of the SIGGRAPH archives and coordination of the SPARKS lecture series. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural, and psychological environment through interaction. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically interactive immersive environments. Her interactive digital work dates back to the late 1980s and in 1995 she won an Honorable Mention from Ars Electronica for one of her net art projects.
Associate Professor Ricarda Bigolin
Associate Dean Fashion and Textiles Design
RMIT University
PIC: Digital Materialities: A Pilot Project Exploring Transdisciplinary Collaboration Across Fashion, Photography and Digital Design in a Higher Education Context
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMAbstract
This practice research explores a transdisciplinary collaboration between fashion, photography and digital design disciplines, challenging the perception of both the 'digital' and 'material'. In a collaborative studio, high-end 3D scanning was used to pilot pedagogies and curriculum to explore the shifts between. This engages with the 'everywhen', the disciplines co-mingling between the encounters of body, material, space, time and pixel, suggesting both difference and mutual concerns. Technology becomes the tool that interfaces between the disciplines and the everywhen.
The data generated from 3D scans becomes complex representations of unfixed time, an emerging past, present and future of images, bodies and spaces. Process, data, workflow and outcomes speak to a decentering of these within our disciplines. The scanned 'fashion body', comprised of material arrangements and compositions from fashion students was informed by direction from photography and animation students. The layering and assembling of individual images to create a moving tableau of frames and revolutions, were configured post scan. As data the past moment, aligned by machines creates a realistic depiction of the present moment, and through the use of this data, they become rendered, cleaned, and representative of a multiplicities of future images.
The data generated from 3D scans becomes complex representations of unfixed time, an emerging past, present and future of images, bodies and spaces. Process, data, workflow and outcomes speak to a decentering of these within our disciplines. The scanned 'fashion body', comprised of material arrangements and compositions from fashion students was informed by direction from photography and animation students. The layering and assembling of individual images to create a moving tableau of frames and revolutions, were configured post scan. As data the past moment, aligned by machines creates a realistic depiction of the present moment, and through the use of this data, they become rendered, cleaned, and representative of a multiplicities of future images.
Biography
Associate Professor Ricarda Bigolin is a practice-based researcher and educator and the Associate Dean of Fashion and Textiles Design at RMIT University. Her research explores critical tactics and interventions to challenge how fashion is produced, used and consumed. This extends to practice, arts-based and material methods, critical tactics of wearing and performing to reveal relationships between fashion, value and use. Current research investigates alternate historical clothing practices in Australia offering insight into material circularity, product use and performance as part of the project Wear out Fashion. Her research and practice work as part of D&K, has won international awards and acquisitive prizes and Ricarda maintains ongoing teaching and research collaborations with education and industry partners worldwide.
Dr Stephanie Andrews
Program Manager, Master of Animation, Games & Interactivity
RMIT University
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Stephanie Andrews is an artist, lecturer, and creative technologist with more than 30 years’ experience in digital art, 3D graphics, interactive media, virtual reality, and site-specific installations. Originally hailing from the United States, she began her career as a Technical Director at Pixar. She is currently the Program Manager for the Master of Animation, Games, and Interactivity (MAGI) at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Alison Bennett
Associate Dean, Photography
RMIT School of Art
Co-presenter
Biography
Alison Bennett works in ‘expanded photography’ where the boundaries have shifted in the transition to digital media and become diffused into ubiquitous computing. Creative projects have tested the discursive potentials of augmented reality, virtual reality and webXR as encompassed by the practice of photography. Their work has been shown at international venues such as Musée du Louvre and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and featured on ABC TV Australian Story, the New York Times, Mashable, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, The Creators Project, ABC TV News, Artlink Magazine and The Guardian. Dr Bennett is Associate Dean Photography at RMIT School of Art and leads the Imaging Futures Lab at RMIT.
Dr Rewa Wright
Senior Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology
IP: Speculative Futures Student Contest: A new partnership between ISEA2024 and DAC ACM SIGGRAPH
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMAbstract
This talk examines a first time collaboration between two key organizations: Digital Arts Committee ACM SIGGRAPH and ISEA, via a co-sponsored student exhi-bition. The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2024) and the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee are sponsoring the Speculative Fu-tures International Student Competition. Connecting with this year’s ISEA theme, EveryWhen, the Specula-tive Futures Exhibition seeks to challenge and expand our understanding of the creative and research process-es of knowing about ourselves and the world around us.
Biography
Ms Bonnie Mitchell
Director
ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive
Co-presenter
Biography
Bonnie Mitchell is a new media artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Digital Arts, in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ISEA International Advisory Committee and ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of their online archives. She is currently the SIGGRAPH 2023 conference History Chair in charge of the immersive Time Tunnel, history displays and retrospective talks. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically immersive data visualization environments that showcase climate change over time. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural and psychological environment through interaction, abstraction and audio. She has created numerous abstract visual music installations and animations that have been shown in hundreds of venues world-wide.
Dr Claire Tracey
Artist
Constellations Curatorial Team
Co-presenter
Biography
Claire Tracey is an artist and environmental researcher dedicated to creating impactful public art and promoting eco-centric design. With a Doctorate in Public Art from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, focusing on how public art can impact plastic waste in urban environments, and a Master of Arts in Public Space from RMIT University, Claire’s practice blends creativity with sustainability.
For ISEA 2024, Claire curated the video art program and introduces "Strange Bloom," a kinetic installation made from upcycled materials. This work explores the catastrophic effects of plastic on global ecosystems, using dynamic sculptures to provoke reflection on consumption, design, and ecological responsibility. Her work, recognised with awards like the Museums and Galleries National Award for Sustainability, has been featured in exhibitions worldwide.
Claire’s practice blends creativity with sustainability by transforming discarded materials into thought-provoking art, aiming to redefine and revalue waste. She is passionate about fostering a deeper connection between people and the environment, encouraging communities to engage with ecological issues through interactive and participatory public artworks.
Claire also teaches at the University of the Sunshine Coast, where she shares her passion for environmental art with her students, encouraging them to think creatively about sustainability.
Session chair
Janina Hoth
City University of Hong Kong
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