Ⓥ 2.2 Art Science
Tracks
Track 2
Monday, June 24, 2024 |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Plaza P6 |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Dr Clarissa Ribeiro
Program Director
Roy Ascott Studio
FP: Talking Through Tubes: Molecular Ecologies of Place
1:30 PM - 1:55 PMAbstract
This paper dialogues with the sub-theme Ecologies of Place considering exploring the interplay of physical, digital, and ecological elements from cross-scale perspectives that have the potential to shape our understanding and experience of place. Presenting and discussing aspects of the interactive installation ‘Talking Through Tubes” (2023-2024) the artist explores and interprets these layered ecologies, considering the interactions of human, non-human, and technological actors in shaping sustainable and interconnected places in the digital age. Foregrounding the ‘semantic aspect of shamanism’ in the technoetic context, the work revisits the term ‘shamantic’ introduced by Roy Ascott in 1996, related to all that transcends macroscale. Placed on city trees in gardens, squares, and sidewalks, the ‘relational system’ (more than a relational object) that belongs to the series "Inhaling Consciousness" — a tree branch (tree) to which is attached a flexible tube hose/prosthesis, flexible PVC pipe, Arduino, dust sensor, LCD — is a cross-scale creative and critical exploration of manifestations of ‘tube’ as both object and concept, relating these to the body. The audience/pedestrians are invited to play with the tube, holding and moving freely, blowing air through the tube (an extension from the tree’s body) or inhaling from its interior, promoting microbial exchange between humans and the microbiota of the tree—-helping heal broken biotic conversations in anthropogenic contexts.
Biography
As the Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio Advance Program in Technoetic Arts, the recipient of the Pete Townshend Endowed Lectureship in Performative Technoetics, and as a member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective, my didactic and research incursions entangled with my exploration as a multimedia artist comprises bioarte strategies, from microbiome anthropophagy and personality transplants to quantum biology and cheminformatics, and experiments combining subversive data-visualization with algorithmic modeling and digital fabrication, including explorations involving creative coding and physical computing in the design of ‘relational systems’, or event exploring the concept of ‘performative data visualization’ in the design of workshops, courses, lectures, talks, physical objects, and visuals and interactive installations. Through these explorations I highlight socio-political issues as invitations for cross-scale incursions, touching on the core nature of cross-scale informational transit and its transformative power — invitations to understand life’s complex organization and how distributed power can free our minds and lead us to a future where all are represented.
M.Sc. Rute Anacé
Ph.D. candidate
Co-presenter
Biography
Professor Ivan Chen-Hsiu Liu
Assistant Professor
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
SP: Narrating Global Emerging Issues with Complexity-Inspired Installations
1:55 PM - 2:20 PMAbstract
The global emerging issues including those targeted by the United Nation in the 2030 Agenda has a pervasive impact on the whole humanity and the ecosystem. These issues share common features inherent in complex systems. In this paper, we describe an innovative approach to raise the public awareness of the global emerging issues with complexity-inspired new media installations. These installations are derived from scientific models in the domain of complex science, manifesting self-organized criticality. We demonstrate how they can be used to narrate issues related to food-insecurity caused by climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and human-induced seismicity. Furthermore, a brief discussion is provided regarding the merits associated with employing such systems for storytelling.
Biography
Ivan is an artist and a researcher. He studied physics at Imperial College London, and subsequently obtained his PhD from Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Germany. He worked as an independent artist for 10 years before becoming a full-time faculty member at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, where he founded the Future Narratives Lab. His current works explore new ways to narrate contemporary issues with science-inspired artistic representations. He enjoys engaging the public and make them wonder about the internal mechanism of our world and how all things are connected by simple and elegant ideas.
Professor Jill Scott
Zurich University of the Arts
SP: Worried Wings: Eco-media-in-progress
2:10 PM - 2:25 PMAbstract
Water is considered by Indigenous peoples of Australia and Switzerland to be a sacred gift that is critical to their identity and existence, as well as being economically important (2). Worried Wings is a project in progress to create a working prototype for an Alpine freshwater biodiversity experiment. This experiment is an art and science collaboration based on Environmental DNA or eDNA workshops for citizen scientists in Switzerland and Australia and a Virtual Reality installation that serves as a collection point for public engagement. Here the effects of climate change through eDNA display and transmedia stroytelling are exchanged (1). Waste and pond water quality testing is a long, manual process so the workshops will help scientists gather environmental DNAdata (Fig 1). They are also asked to document their experiences. The aims is to raise awareness about biodiversity and how indigenous futures are at stake in each country.
Biography
Prof. Dr Jill Scott is a media artist, a writer and art and science researcher. She is professor emerita at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and founded their Artists-in-Labs Program in 2000. Her own artwork spans 44 years of production about the human body and body politics. In the last 20 years she has focused human health based on research into molecular biology, neuroscience, and ecology. She has had many international exhibitions in both art and science venues. www.jillscott.org
Dr Toni Fröhlich
Independent Researcher
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr. Toni Fröhlich has a doctorate in experimental physics. He graduated from the University of Basel in the field of nanoscience, molecular electronics and plasmonics. He is an expert in fabrication methods for nanostructures and carbon nanotubes. He has worked with various media artists and specialises in the design for structural colours for various designs. He collaborates on nano structures with Dr. Veronica Savu (Morphononix) www.morphotonix.com and Prof. Jürgen Brugger (EPF Lausanne) https://people.epl.ch/juergen.brugger.
Dr Steven Durbach
Independent Artist
FP: Preliminary Investigations on How to Love a Machine: Apprehending Art Through a Science Aesthetic
2:25 PM - 2:50 PMAbstract
The purpose of science is to interpret phenomena through measurement and analysis to understand why it is the way it is in the world. The art humans are compelled to make is a phenomenon and we reasoned that in many cases, presents measurable attributes. This author – a former scientist – subjected his art process and the resulting works to scientific modelling and scrutiny to see what valid scientific narrative could emerge. The system measured was a machine (termed a stochastic apparatus) with irregular behaviour placed in different environmental contexts. Measurable attributes regarding the machine’s behavior as well as its interactions with its environment were analysed. The stochastic apparatus was shown to have regular behaviour at the core and untune-able and chaotic behaviour at its periphery. The untune-able behaviour nucleated behaviours in people interacting with it which could be modelled using a system’s theory lens while considering the participant as a component of the system – a peculiarity resulting from the behaviour and particularities of the machine. We concluded that although preliminary, this artistic approach may provide a framework to interact with complex systems that have more degrees of freedom such as emerging generative Artificial Intelligence.
Biography
I started my professional life in South Africa as a scientist studying the evolution of the tuberculosis bacterium. Since 2008 I have worked as an artist. My work is underpinned by my formative years growing up in Apartheid South Africa and the theories surrounding genetics and evolution. Where possible, I work with science institutions, notably as a resident artist at CSIRO where I evolved eccentric science machines and in the past with CQC2T (Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technologies) at UNSW. I have held art-science workshops including at Melbourne’s Science Gallery and recently held a CSIRO-supported online event hosting encounters between artists and scientists as well as more recent panel discussions. I have also just completed residence as part of the Bondi Housewarming programme, where I developed performance-based work for art-science explorations.
Session chair
Jill Scott
Zurich University of the Arts
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