2.6 Mixed
Tracks
Track 6
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Plaza P10 |
Speaker
Professor Paul Sermon
School of Art and Media, University of Brighton
FP: The Dreaming in Telematic Dreaming and Other Stories
1:30 PM - 1:55 PMAbstract
The practice of telematic arts is not immortalised in artefacts and collections but has and continues to be accessed, participated in, contributed to, and experienced Everywhen. This article positions the co-creative principles of telematic arts from the 1980s and my subsequent telepresence practice since the early 1990s as a lived experience in the context of The Dreaming, as understood by anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner. My installation Telematic Dreaming (1992) is discussed as a prime example of extending bodily ‘oneness’ in the specular image, within a patchwork of telematic artworks that expound the coexistent states of intimacy, touch, and empathy. These stories identify characteristic phenomenological findings that are analogous to Stanner’s account of The Dreaming. By reflecting on line-out video recordings from these telepresence installations, as well as early films, we experience the Everywhen. Like a ‘totem’ it teleports us into a collective narrative of those who participated in it. A story told in and between geographically dispersed encounters and events that unfolded in a collective state of flux.
Biography
Paul Sermon is a Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton, UK. He has worked for over thirty years as an active academic researcher and creative practitioner and has developed a series of celebrated interactive telematic art installations. Having worked under the visionary cybernetic artist Professor Roy Ascott as an undergraduate Fine Art student in the mid-1980s, Paul Sermon went on to establish himself as a leading pioneer of interactive media art, winning the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in Linz, Austria, in 1991. It was an accolade that then took Paul to Finland to develop one of the most ground breaking telepresent video installations of his career Telematic Dreaming in 1992.
Ms Catty Dan Zhang
Associate Professor of Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
FP: Interior Cities: Inhabiting Interactive Cityscapes through the Webcam and the Shared Screen
1:55 PM - 2:20 PMAbstract
This paper documents a multimedia interactive installation which explores the networked camera spaces as tools for placemaking, situating an experimental practice within contemporary digital sphere where physical bodies occupying one actual space at a time but simultaneously existing in–and being connected to–many others through cameras, networks, and screens has become the most iconic reality of the modern city. During recent years, such multiplicity of presence has spurred a cultural shift much more drastically than any has come before. The pivots from situated towards remoteness in social and professional lives urge new definitions of architectural boundary, techno-aesthetics, domesticity, and public space. Designing with webcams, inhabitable screens, domestic archetypes, and daily life activities, the installation reimagines cityscapes as interactive fictions of its citizens from within their personal proximities in the gallery. It invites public engagements when examining the world around publics and individuals through an immersive environment. The project questions what existing architecture and digital media could offer in their radically transformed relationships with social mechanism, humanity, and wellbeing. The paper outlines the conceptual approach, the technical framework, and the spatial strate-gies of the installation.
Biography
Catty Dan Zhang is an associate professor of architecture, and the founder of Temporary Office– award-winning design practice exploring architecture and digital technology through the production of exhibitions, objects, drawings, animations, installations, and writings. Her work experiments with the multiplicity of techniques and mediums, translating ordinary objects into performative and synergistic systems to visualize and to modulate ephemeral forms. Her projects have received recognitions internationally in competitions and design awards and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at ‘T’ Space, London Design Festival, Carnegie Museum of Arts, A+D Museum, Harvard GSD, among other institutions. Zhang was a finalist of the Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize in 2018 and 2021. She was awarded the first prize in the Pamphlet Architecture 37 competition and is the author of the most recent volume in the Pamphlet Architecture series titled Active Atmospheres: On Instruments and Protocols for Medium Hybrids and Architectural Voids.
Dr Harpreet Sareen
The University of Tokyo
SP: I’boundary: Entangled Aesthetics of Plant Transpiration with Human Attention
2:20 PM - 2:35 PMAbstract
l’boundary is an installation that intertwines public participation with the subtle transpiration processes of hydroponic plants. Comprising of a schlieren photography setup and a heat lamp responsive to human presence, the installation offers two interactive modes where either human proximity or online attention influences plant transpiration. Participants engage in a nuanced dialogue between humans, nature, and machines, interacting with the device to actively modulate the brightness of the heat lamp. Serving as a sensory bridge between the visible and invisible, l'boundary encourages visitors to immerse themselves in an experience where they can actively shape the environment while also observing how the device responds to online attention.
Biography
Harpreet is an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design at Parsons School of Design. His research is situated at the intersection of Material Science, Biology, and Electronics, drawing on the complementary abilities of the biological and artificial worlds. He terms this as 'Convergent Design' and creates cutting-edge bionic materials and hybrid substrates that lend themselves to future ecological machinery, sensing systems, and interaction design. Harpreet earned a graduate degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and has previously lived and worked in Austria, India, Japan, Paris, Singapore, and the USA. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at the Berggruen Institute (Los Angeles) and an INK Fellow (India), collaborating with intellectuals across cultural and political boundaries.
Harpreet's experience spans corporate research wings, studios, museums, and academic centers. He has previously worked at Google Creative Lab, Microsoft Research, MIT Media Lab, Ars Electronica Museum, National University of Singapore, Keio University, Telecom Paris, The University of Tokyo, and more. He has previously been named an MIT Technology Review Under 35 Innovator and has received awards including CHI Golden Mouse, Edison Gold, SXSW Interactive Innovation, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, among other accolades. His academic work has been published in peer-reviewed conferences like CHI, DIS, TEI, IEEE VR, and other human-computer interaction venues. Harpreet's artwork has been showcased at Ars Electronica Festival, Somerset House, CID Grand Hornu, Garden Museum (Somerset, UK), Tower Hill Botanic Gardens, MIT Museum, among several other venues. He serves as an advisor to venture-backed start-ups developing technologies for plant science and has also been solicited for advice by government offices, including the Abu Dhabi Executive Office. He has been invited to TEDx venues, INK Talks, and regularly lectures internationally at universities and innovation centers.
Ms YuFan Li
phd student
The Hong Kong University of Science And Technology (Guanghzou)
FP: Staying Vigilant in the Age of AI: From Content Generation to Content Authentication
2:35 PM - 3:00 PMAbstract
This paper presents the Yangtze Sea project, an initiative in the battle against Generative AI (GAI)-generated fake con-tent. Addressing a pressing issue in the digital age, we investigate public reactions to AI-created fabrications through a structured experiment on a simulated academic conference platform. Our findings indicate a profound pub-lic challenge in discerning such content, highlighted by GAI's capacity for realistic fabrications. To counter this, we introduce an innovative approach employing large language models like ChatGPT for truthfulness assessment. We detail a specific workflow for scrutinizing the authenticity of everyday digital content, aimed at boosting public awareness and capability in identifying fake materials. Our project encapsulates a two-pronged strategy: generating fake content to understand its dynamics and developing assess-ment techniques to mitigate its impact. As part of that effort we propose the creation of speculative fact-checking wearables in the shape of reading glasses and a clip-on. As a computational media art initiative, this project under-scores the delicate interplay between technological progress, ethical considerations, and societal consciousness.
Biography
YuFan Li is an interdisciplinary researcher with backgrounds in engineering, design, data and art. She is a PhD student of Computational Media Art, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). Her current research interest lies in exploring color-related cross-modal phenomena with a focus on emotional mediation. Her research findings have been published in conferences and journals about AI art or data visualization, such as VISAP'23, VINCI'22; while her artworks have been presented in several exhibitions such as the Shanghai Biennale and Deviant Colors in Beijing.
Session chair
Aven Le Zhou
PhD Researcher
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
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