4.5 Art Activism and Digital Media

Tracks
Track 5
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Plaza P9

Speaker

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Professor Yu-Chuan Tseng
Graduate Institute of Art and Technology, National Tsing Hua University

FP: Always On: Exploring Socially Engaged Internet Art in Taiwan

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Abstract

People use mobile smart devices as gateways to enter the online world. We are not only "Being online" but in “Always On” life. Taiwanese artists recognized the issues and has led to a greater concern on the digital lifestyle and its impacts, resulting in the initiation of creative pro-jects and exhibitions. The involvement of the internet society in internet art is a proven method for artists. This approach aligns with the concept of Socially Engaged In-ternet Art. It emphasizes artists actively engaging in so-cial issues within the online environment to prompt au-dience awareness and reflection on topics related to the online society, politics, culture, and more. This article aims to gain insight into the critical awareness and prac-tices by examining the artworks in the "Always On: Net Art Exhibition" in Taiwan. This exhibition features 10 artists and 2 artist groups, showcasing a total of 15 art-works organized into four themes: "Digital Manipula-tion," "Information Ghost," "Simulated Existence," and "Return to Reality." The author will explore how artists express their concerns regarding the implications of be-havioral technology, strive to regain their rationality, and acknowledge the existence of concealed online manipula-tion.

Final Paper

Biography

A digital artist, curator and scholar, Tseng Yu-Chuan obtained her PhD from the Graduate Institute of Applied Art, National Chiao Tung University. She is currently the professor at the Graduate Institute of Art and Technology, National Tsing Hua University. Her research interest lies in digital art and net art. The articles were published in domestic and international journals and conferences, such as Leonardo, ACM Multimedia, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), etc. In 2012, she participated in the Leonardo Digital Art Initiative. In 2003, she held a solo exhibition “Let’s Make Art” at the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts. This was the first ever exhibition in Taiwan to employ instantaneous web-based interaction. The recent group exhibitions are: “My name is Jane” (2021) in Good underground art space, Hualien City; “Here, Not Here” (2020) in Waley art, Taipei. Her curation themes focus on gender and digital art. The selected curatorial projects in Taiwan include "Lost in the Net Dream" (2018), "Immortal on Screen" (2019), "The Play and Playing- Light and Shadow", "Mediating Asia" (2022, with professor Gunalan Nadarajan) at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Cyberhug (2018) and "Autumn Glitter, Pond Water, Dancing down memory lane” (2021) theTaoyuan Art x Technology Art Festival. "Should We Play? "(2018), “It is SHOW Time”(2019), "Light ON/OFF"(2020) in Taipei Art District Festival. The elected international curatorial projects include "Being here as ME -New Media Art Exhibition of Women Artists From Taiwan" (2019) in American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Washington, DC., "Chimera-group exhibition of Taiwanese new media art" (2019) in off-spaces of DOX, Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, "Chimera-group exhibition of Taiwanese new media art" (2020) at Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Czech Republic, "She Says, Her Story "(2021) IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC.
Professor Adnan Hadzi
University of Malta

FP: Open Justice Transformations Impacting Extended Reality (XR) Environments

10:55 AM - 11:20 AM

Abstract

This paper continues the discussion on advanced jurisprudence, outlined in Algorithms, Ethics and Justice, where restorative justice was proposed for the mitigation of artificial intelligence (AI) crimes. Algorithms, Ethics and Justice proposed an alternative approach to the current legal system by looking into restorative justice for AI crimes, and how the ethics of care could be applied to AI technologies. This paper will expand the notion of cyber crimes from AI crimes to extended reality (XR) crimes, given the rise of the metaverse, and the future scenario of bio-metrical data of EEG capable headsets being misused by rogue companies and/or criminals. The paper will do so first by discussing Mill’s text On Liberty, as a context to explore open justice in extended realities (XR), and then by continuing the discussion around the right to be forgotten and the freedom of the press versus privacy, through a comparative analysis between the legal situation in the EU and that of the USA. The paper concludes by reviewing possible international open justice scenarios for XR criminals.

Final Paper

Biography

Prof. Adnan Hadziselimovic (also known as Prof. Adnan Hadzi) is currently resident academic at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta. Prof. Hadzi’s latest research project involves the use of immersive technologies for the Immersion Lab University of Malta (ILUM) project, for which he has recently been awarded a Research Excellence Award. The ILUM consortium consists of the Immersion Lab of the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences [MAKS], University of Malta, the Visual Narratives Laboratory [VNLAB] of Lodz Filmschool, Poland, the Immersive Lab [IL] at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, the Department of Architecture, Design and Planning [DADU] at University of Sassari, Italy, and the Spatial Media Research Group [SMRG] at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Prof. Hadzi has been a regular at Deckspace Media Lab, London, UK, for the last decade, a period over which he has developed his research at Goldsmiths, University of London, based on his work with Deptford.TV. It was a collaborative video editing service hosted in Deckspace's racks, based on free and open source software, compiled into a unique suite of blog, content management system, film database and compositing tools. Prof. Hadzi’s research interest demonstrates his commitment to equal opportunities not only in principle but also in practice. Thus artistic practice as research becomes important in order to discuss 'Access to Technology', a key point for digital/social media. It is through Free and Open Source Software and technologies his research has a social impact. Prof. Hadzi is co-editing and producing the after.video computer book series, exploring video as theory, reflecting upon networked video, as it profoundly re-shapes medial patterns.
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Professor Marilene Oliver
University of Alberta

FP: Your Data Body

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Abstract

This paper delves into the aesthetics and ethics surround-ing the collaborative virtual reality artwork, Your Data Body. Made using medical scan data as a metaphor for our ever-expanding bodies of intimate personal data, Your Data Body seeks to challenge how we interact with the data of others, questioning the etymology of the word data, meaning “given” and questioning whether in many cases, data is rather “taken”. Using the gaming device of moving through progressive scenes, users first encounter open-access anonymized scan data and later donated data given with active and ongoing consent of the subject. Each scene situates the medical scan data within LiDAR scans, is accompanied by poetic elements, and has a com-plex sonic composition that combines field recordings, choral composition and data sonification as a way to sit-uate the data geographically, temporally and emotionally.

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Biography

Marilène Oliver is an associate professor in Printmaking and Media Arts at the University of Alberta where she leads the research creation projects Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality and Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology. Oliver’s creative research focuses on the aesthetics and ethics of personal data, how it is used, processed and mirrored back to us by intelligent systems. Oliver has curated and produced several large art & science exhibitions and is the host of LASERAlberta, a series of public talks affiliated with Leonardo ISAST. Oliver has exhibited extensively internationally at the Science Museum, Victoria & Alberta Museum and Royal Academy in the UK, at the International Museum of Surgical Science and MassMoCA in the US, and the Copernicus Museum in Poland. Oliver has been a long-term collaborator with the contemporary dance company Van Grimde Corps Secrets with recent presentations at Agora de la Danse, Canada and at ZKM Europe.

Session chair

Michelle Brown
Artist

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