Ⓥ V.22 Virtual Discussion - Papers

Wednesday, June 26, 2024
4:10 PM - 5:00 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.


Speaker

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Dr Charu Maithani
University of New South Wales

SP: Framing Temporalities in Natalie Bookchin’s Now he’s Out in Public and Everyone Can See (2012)

Abstract

Multiscreen media art installations create immersive experiences for audiences by relying on opposing techniques of rupture, dissonance as well as convergence of space and time. Artists use various techniques in the production and display where screens become the fields of overlapping spatial and temporal differences. This article analyses Natalie Bookchin’s multiscreen installation Now he’s out in public and everyone can see (2012) to explicate the multiple temporal ranges and durations at work in the installation. Diverse spatio-temporal experiences in the installation are facilitated by the physical arrangement of multiple screens and through the rhythmic editing of the work.

Final Paper

Biography

Charu Maithani is a Lecturer at the School of Arts and Media in UNSW, Sydney.
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Dr Esa Pekka Isomursu
Researcher
University of Lapland

FP: Visual Haiku: Haiku in the Age of Global Visual Media

Abstract

While deeply rooted in Japanese culture, haiku poetry also deals with themes of universal appeal and can thus resonate with people all around the world and through the ages. In this article, I reinterpret the tradition of written haiku poetry into today’s ever-expanding realm of globalisation and visual media. The outcome of this reinterpretation is a photographic concept that I call Visual Haiku. Visual Haiku transfer the essence of traditional written haiku into a new medium, breathing new life into the timeless concepts of haiku, ensuring they resonate powerfully in today's interconnected and visually driven world. I also discuss how Visual Haiku function across two very different cultures and ages.

Final Paper

Biography

Esa Pekka Isomursu is a photographer-researcher, working on his doctoral thesis in arts at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. His research interest is the boundaries of authenticity in landscape photography and how a photograph can convey an expanded nature experience. He has a diverse educational background in media, software and electrical engineering, and business administration. He works as Principal Lecturer at Oulu University of Applied Sciences, teaching e.g. art and media-related courses. Email: pekka.isomursu@gmail.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4789-1088
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Everywhen-to-Nature Daniel Coombes
PhD Candidate / Tutor In Landscape Architecture
Victoria University Of Wellington

PIC: Everywhen-to-Nature

4:10 PM - 5:00 PM

Abstract

Truth-to-nature, the eighteenth-century forerunner to scientific objectivity, employed nonlinear approaches to time and place to visualise an observed ‘truth.’ From flora and fauna to the depictions of landscape, truth-to-nature combined science, art, technology, and colonisation to visualise not what is seen but what is seen to be true. While nonlinear chronologies, such as the Everywhen, are deeply connected with Indigeneity, this paper explores the less common instances of the Everywhen in Western image-making practices, particularly the spatiotemporal strategies deployed in truth-to-nature representations. This paper will introduce examples of the Everywhen co-opted in colonial representations of Aotearoa New Zealand. By way of creative practice, I propose a provisional methodology that re-enacts the spatiotemporal tactics operating within truth-to-nature representations. This pictorial paper will critique the exploitation of settler-colonial practices through co-opting the Everywhen worlding potential within truth-to-nature images to explore more just and ethical ways of seeing and relating to land.

Final Paper

Biography

Daniel Coombes is a creative practice PhD student and landscape tutor at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Previously, he taught landscape architecture at universities in Korea and China. Daniel has presented his research relating to fieldwork, the more-than-human, and landscape (non)representation at interdisciplinary conferences and symposia. Daniel has two forthcoming chapters in the publications ‘Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture’ (2024) and ‘Collective Landscape Futures’ (2025).
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Assistant Professor Byeongwon Ha
School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina

SP: Make America Great Again and Again: Voices from a Virtual World

Abstract

Make America Great Again and Again (MAGAA) appropriates the exclusive political slogan “Make America Great Again” to create an inclusive phenomenon through participatory/interactive storytelling art. MAGAA invites visitors beyond the U.S. border to an exhibition space, transforming it into a public sphere where they can manipulate or maintain a large American flag displayed on a white wall, accompanied by the Star-Spangled Banner song. Following the exhibition outside of the United States, the project will return to the United States to showcase external voices and then travel to other countries. Upon its return to the United States, the project will incorporate a broader range of voices from its previous journeys. MAGAA is an ever-evolving open work, as it circulates at different exhibition events. Rather than providing a definitive answer to the questionable slogan “Make American Great Again,” this project provides a public platform for participants to dis-cuss diverse perspectives on the concept of "make America great again." This process naturally visualizes a temporal collage, transitioning from the American flag image to a multi-screen representation created by participants via YouTube.

Final Paper

Biography

Byeongwon Ha is an assistant professor in Media Arts at the University of South Carolina, specializing in new media art. He has exhibited interactive installations in multiple countries, including Singapore, South Korea, Colombia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. In 2018, he completed an artist-in-residence program in Gwangju, South Korea, where he showcased his participatory video project, Ordinary People. In 2019, Dr. Ha authored articles in Leonardo Music Journal and coauthored one in Leonardo. Dr. Ha is a frequent participant in international conferences and festivals, such as the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2023), the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016), SIGGRAPH Asia 2012, the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023), and ARTECH 2019 and 2021.
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Dr Pia Van Gelder
Australian National University

SP: Aeolian Noises: Reconciling Wind Turbines in the Australian Landscape

Abstract

Tilting Winds is a practice led research project that investigates aesthetic understandings of Wind Turbines. This project asks: can making music or media from and with wind turbines be a way of repositioning and reconciling these objects in a land-scape increasingly marred by climate catastrophe. This paper introduces outcomes of the work which were developed in collaboration with Cementa Inc. in Kandos, a small town in the Central Tablelands of NSW, 40 kilometres from the new Crudine Ridge Wind Farm.

Final Paper

Biography

Pia van Gelder is an electronic artist, researcher and historian. Their research investigates historical and contemporary conceptions of energy and how these shape our relationship with technology, bodies and our environments. Their scholarship has concentrated on the influence of esotericism on electronic instruments of the 20th century and their studio practice produces instruments for performance and installation contexts. A lecturer at the School of Art and Design at Australian National University, they are a part of the Computational Culures Lab. Their current project The Energies Artists Say with co-editor Douglas Kahn, presents a methodology for understanding the polyvalence of energies in practices across the arts.

Session chair

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Pia Van Gelder
Australian National University

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