Ⓥ V.20 Virtual Discussion - Institutional Presentations
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM |
Virtual |
Overview
Group discussion giving virtual presenters the opportunity to discuss their work with colleagues and delegates
Details
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This virtual discussion session will give virtual presenters the opportunity to participate in a live interactive virtual panel discussion facilitated by an academic chair. Virtual delegates will be encouraged to pre-watch the presentation videos (available via the OnAIR conference platform) and then join this discussion session, which will run through a provided Zoom link. The Aim of this session is to provide an opportunity for presenters to share and discuss their work with colleagues and for delegates to engage in Q&A. Each discussion will run for 30-50 minutes depending on how many virtual presenters and delegates are participating.
This virtual discussion session will give virtual presenters the opportunity to participate in a live interactive virtual panel discussion facilitated by an academic chair. Virtual delegates will be encouraged to pre-watch the presentation videos (available via the OnAIR conference platform) and then join this discussion session, which will run through a provided Zoom link. The Aim of this session is to provide an opportunity for presenters to share and discuss their work with colleagues and for delegates to engage in Q&A. Each discussion will run for 30-50 minutes depending on how many virtual presenters and delegates are participating.
Speaker
Mrs Aurélie Besson
General And Artistic Director
Molior
IP: Molior Exhibition Producer in Arts Sciences and Technologies
2:10 PM - 3:00 PMAbstract
Molior is an organization specialized in the production of exhibitions and artistic projects which make use of technolo-gies as a creation, expression and action tool.
Since its foundation in 2001, Molior has presented numerous innovative projects in Canada as well as on the international scene in collaboration with multiple dissemination partners.
Molior also carries out various activities outside of estab-lished networks in order to stimulate audience development and foster access to high quality productions.
Since its foundation in 2001, Molior has presented numerous innovative projects in Canada as well as on the international scene in collaboration with multiple dissemination partners.
Molior also carries out various activities outside of estab-lished networks in order to stimulate audience development and foster access to high quality productions.
Biography
Since 2016, Aurélie Besson has been the Executive and Artistic Director of Molior. She has developed collaborative projects in China, Brazil, Mexico, France, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland and Canada. For more than 15 years, she has directed interdisciplinary projects in art, science and technology, alternately as a researcher, curator, artistic director or manager.
In 2023, she obtained a PhD in Study and practice of the arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal, co-supervised by Louise Poissant and Victor Frak. Her research has been developed according to a transdisciplinary approach in which she explores the concepts of enaction and the kinaesthetic senses in the experience of practicable works. She has organized a dozen conferences and has been involved in several research groups with Montreal universities. She also coordinated the production of the book Lumières de la ville (PUQ), edited by Louise Poissant, and has published several articles on the digital arts in books, blogs and magazines. Aurélie is regularly invited to conferences and sits on numerous committees and juries that recognize her expertise.
Between 2007 and 2010, she directed European collaborative art and technology projects and events in Prague. She holds a MA degree in communication (Université de Lyon 2; Universiteit Utrecht) and a MA degree in cultural development and project management (Université de Lyon 2). She teaches a course on Arts and technologies: foundations and challenges at Université de Sherbrooke.
Dr Maggie Buxton
Director/founder
AwhiWorld
IP: Place, Portals and Alternative Realities in Te Tai Tokerau
Abstract
Place, portals and alternative realities are themes within the Awhi Incubator Project, a region-wide capacity-building project developing resilience in science-art-technology and transdisciplinary practice in Te Tai Tokerau | Northland (NZ). AwhiWorld (the creative innovation lab leading the project) will reflect on how these themes have played out in the course of the overarching project – including two specific outcomes: BIOS, a creative innovation lab focussing on portal generation and place-practice, and Alternative Reality Gardening, an international publication and symposium.
Biography
Dr Maggie Buxton is a transdisciplinary practitioner and place innovator. She has over thirty years of experience in facilitation, strategic development and cross-boundary collaboration and learning. The last fifteen years of her career have focussed on curating community-led creative innovation labs, interactive installations, capacity-building programmes and events. Key themes in her work are portals, alternative realities and parallel worlds, and she has expertise in using creative technologies such as augmented reality and locative mobile applications within her practice. Her projects have involved collaboration with indigenous organisations (iwi/tribal groups), senior/elder institutions, migrant groups, maker groups, activists, entrepreneurs and experimental artists. See http://maggiebuxton.com/ and http://www.awhiworld.com/
Shamsher Virk
Senior Director of Programs & Operations
Leonardo Isast
IP: Creativity Infrastructure for Indigenous-led Hemispheric Exchange
Abstract
Leonardo — The International Society for Arts + Sciences + Technology — presents our approach to transdisciplinary art through network and field building with a vision for an inclusive and representative global creative community. We will share two indigenous-led projects from our fellowship and exchange programs that connect to the ISEA 2024 theme, Everywhen, and will serve as lenses through which to interpret the sub-themes of resilient stories, speculative practices, and ecologies of place. By sharing concrete examples of Leonardo’s programmatic work, we wish to exchange knowledge, build community, and explore partnership with the ISEA 2024 community.
Biography
Shamsher Virk, Senior Director of Programs & Operations
Shamsher Virk amplifies the impact of mission-driven organizations with strategic leadership, community engagement, communications, program development, and design. He has worked internationally on four continents in as many languages, entering new communities with a sustained commitment to inclusive process, responsive adaptation, and shared leadership.
Vanessa Chang
Director of Programs
Leonardo ISAST
Co-presenter
Biography
Vanessa Chang, Director of Programs
Vanessa Chang is a curator, writer and educator who builds communities and conversations about art, technology and human bodies. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She curated E.A.A.T. Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, Recoding CripTech at SOMArts Cultural Center, Intersections at the Leonardo Convening at Fort Mason Center for the Arts, and Artobots. Her writing has been published in Wired, Slate, Noema, Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of Visual Culture, among other venues.
CEO Diana Ayton-Shenker
Leonardo ISAST
Co-presenter
Biography
Diana Ayton-Shenker, CEO
Diana Ayton-Shenker is CEO of Leonardo/ISAST; Executive Director, ASU-Leonardo Initiative; and ASU Professor of Practice jointly appointed at The School for the Future of Innovation in Society; and at The School of Arts, Media, & Engineering. Diana has published four books, including, A New Global Agenda, and Tumbalalaika: A Collection of Poems; and produced New Babel, a 10-story tall A.R. public art installation (Union Square Park, NYC) in collaboration with artist William T. Ayton, her partner and husband of 30 years. Diana speaks four languages and holds an LLM (International Human Rights Law, University of Essex Law School), and a BA with Honors (International Relations, University of Pennsylvania). She has held senior positions with Human Rights Watch, P.E.N., Mercy Corps, and the United Nations. Diana has taught at The New School, Bard College, the American University of Paris, and Hunter College of the CUNY.
Dr Ricardo Dal Farra
ISEA International / Concordia University / BunB / UVM
IP: Shifting Time, Space, and Consciousness: The Collective Mixed Reality UVM Experience
Abstract
The artistic interrelation between sound and image has a long and rich history, expanded recently through new multimodal possibilities such as immersive collective experiences.
The international project Understanding Visual Music, or UVM, mainly focuses on exploring fulldome and immersive environments and has organized symposia, festivals and workshops, and inspiring events in several countries, disseminating and promoting experiences and research-creation projects in the Americas, Asia, and Europe for over a decade. Understanding Visual Music has also helped to create a worldwide network of artists and scholars interested in visual music and associated mixed-reality actions.
Understanding Visual Music proposes that participants live an aesthetic experience different from those usually presented in planetariums and similar environments. A symbiosis between art, science, and technologies that converge in the possibility of offering an audiovisual narrative that does not follow the usual moulds but explores the limits of human perception in an attractive "traditional" context (e.g., planetariums and fulldome theatres), with an innovative artistic proposal such as visual music.
Understanding Visual Music proposes an encounter in collective immersive spaces as a way of weaving networks that connect artists, scientists and technology experts but also open the possibilities of exploring and enjoying visual music, fulldome experiences, and mixed-reality electronic art to everyone.
The international project Understanding Visual Music, or UVM, mainly focuses on exploring fulldome and immersive environments and has organized symposia, festivals and workshops, and inspiring events in several countries, disseminating and promoting experiences and research-creation projects in the Americas, Asia, and Europe for over a decade. Understanding Visual Music has also helped to create a worldwide network of artists and scholars interested in visual music and associated mixed-reality actions.
Understanding Visual Music proposes that participants live an aesthetic experience different from those usually presented in planetariums and similar environments. A symbiosis between art, science, and technologies that converge in the possibility of offering an audiovisual narrative that does not follow the usual moulds but explores the limits of human perception in an attractive "traditional" context (e.g., planetariums and fulldome theatres), with an innovative artistic proposal such as visual music.
Understanding Visual Music proposes an encounter in collective immersive spaces as a way of weaving networks that connect artists, scientists and technology experts but also open the possibilities of exploring and enjoying visual music, fulldome experiences, and mixed-reality electronic art to everyone.
Biography
Professor of music and electronic arts at Concordia University, Canada. Founder-director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIARTE) at UNTREF, Argentina. Director of the international symposia Balance-Unbalance (BunB - https://www.facebook.com/balanceunbalance) on art-science and the environmental crisis; and Understanding Visual Music (UVM - https://www.facebook.com/UVMvisualmusic).
Dal Farra has been director of the Hexagram Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Canada; coordinator of the Multimedia Communication Area of the Ministry of Education, Argentina; researcher at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre of De Montfort University, UK; coordinator of the international alliance DOCAM - Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage; senior consultant of the Amauta New Media Art Centre of Cusco, Peru; and researcher of UNESCO, France, for its project Digi-Arts.
He co-designed the Electronic Arts university program at UNTREF, and the Music Production program at the ORT Technical School, in Argentina. Creator of the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection hosted by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Canada (http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=556). Dal Farra has presented his sound and visual art in more than 40 countries, and recordings of his pieces have been published in 23 international editions (including CDs by Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal). Among others, he received awards and commissions from the Sao Paulo International Arts Biennale, Brazil; the National Endowment for the Arts, Argentina, the Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France; the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, Italy; and the International Computer Music Association.
He is a member of the editorial board of Leonardo (MIT Press), Organised Sound (Cambridge Press), and Artnodes (UOC), and the board of directors of ISEA International (International Symposium on Electronic Arts).
Dal Farra holds a Ph.D. in Study and Practice of the Arts, and a Post-doctorate in Art-Science - Applied Transdiscipline and Innovation.
https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/ricardo-dal-farra.html
Dr Ricardo Dal Farra
ISEA International / Concordia University / BunB / UVM
IP: Timescales Ecologies. Balance-Unbalance and How to Help Change the Cultural Behaviour Facing the Environmental Crisis Through Art-science
Abstract
It can be difficult to acknowledge our own fragility. The equilibrium between a healthy environment, the energy our society needs to maintain or improve its usual lifestyle, and the world’s interconnected economies can pass more quickly than expected from a delicate balance to an entirely new reality where human beings would need to be more creative than ever before to survive. The frequency and severity of certain weather and climate-related events around us are increasing, and the ability of human beings to modify our adjacent surroundings has turned into a power capable of altering the planet. Do the electronic arts have a role in all this?
Traditional disaster management approaches are not enough to deal with the current problems and rising risks. New forms of collaboration are needed to inspire people and organizations to link knowledge with action.
Artists could inspire new explorations and contribute with innovative perspectives and critical thinking to actively participate in solving some of our major challenges, such as the spiraling environmental crisis. We need to develop creative ways to facilitate a paradigm shift toward a sustainable tomorrow. Creative thinking, innovative tools, and transdisciplinary actions could produce perceptual, intellectual, and pragmatic changes.
One of the initiatives that aim to use the media arts as a catalyst to generate a deeper awareness and create lasting intellectual working partnerships to face the many facets of the environmental crisis is: The Balance-Unbalance international project.
The international conference series Balance-Unbalance explores the intersections between nature and society, and the symbiosis needed to research, understand, and act in the light of ecological threats.
In this context of global menaces, the [media] arts and artists can help. Everyone has a role in the construction of the future, and artists, too. We must search, investigate, reflect, and act. We can create and invite others to analyze, engage, envision, and produce changes. It is not possible to wait longer or to delegate personal responsibilities.
By bringing people from very different sectors of our society to think together and facilitate multi, inter, and transdisciplinary collaborative project developments, Balance-Unbalance and its associated initiatives (‘art ⋈ climate’ and EChO) are turning feasible to connect artistic creation and tangible tools for change. Balance-Unbalance has been contributing to making social transformation happen.
Traditional disaster management approaches are not enough to deal with the current problems and rising risks. New forms of collaboration are needed to inspire people and organizations to link knowledge with action.
Artists could inspire new explorations and contribute with innovative perspectives and critical thinking to actively participate in solving some of our major challenges, such as the spiraling environmental crisis. We need to develop creative ways to facilitate a paradigm shift toward a sustainable tomorrow. Creative thinking, innovative tools, and transdisciplinary actions could produce perceptual, intellectual, and pragmatic changes.
One of the initiatives that aim to use the media arts as a catalyst to generate a deeper awareness and create lasting intellectual working partnerships to face the many facets of the environmental crisis is: The Balance-Unbalance international project.
The international conference series Balance-Unbalance explores the intersections between nature and society, and the symbiosis needed to research, understand, and act in the light of ecological threats.
In this context of global menaces, the [media] arts and artists can help. Everyone has a role in the construction of the future, and artists, too. We must search, investigate, reflect, and act. We can create and invite others to analyze, engage, envision, and produce changes. It is not possible to wait longer or to delegate personal responsibilities.
By bringing people from very different sectors of our society to think together and facilitate multi, inter, and transdisciplinary collaborative project developments, Balance-Unbalance and its associated initiatives (‘art ⋈ climate’ and EChO) are turning feasible to connect artistic creation and tangible tools for change. Balance-Unbalance has been contributing to making social transformation happen.
Biography
Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra is a new media/sound artist, educator, composer, curator, and historian. He is a music and media arts professor at Concordia University, Canada, and director of the CEIARTE-UNTREF Electronic Arts Research Centre, Argentina.
His creative work has been presented in about 40 countries. He is the founder of the Balance-Unbalance and Under-standing Visual Music conference series and has been a researcher and consultant for UNESCO in France, De Montfort University in the UK, Amauta in Peru, and the National Ministry of Education in Argentina.
Dal Farra was the coordinator of DOCAM, the Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage international research alliance. He created the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection. Dal Farra is a member of the Board of ISEA International.
http://www.concordia.ca/faculty/ricardo-dal-farra.html
Session chair
Shamsher Virk
Senior Director of Programs & Operations
Leonardo Isast
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