Art Talks & Sketches (sorted by Author)
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Title: Dream Clanger
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Dream Clanger is a hybrid art/computer science project that re-imagines AFL Player GPS data and match video. Building on Baden Pailthorpe’s 2017 major exhibition ‘Clanger’, this work pushes the envelope further by integrating machine learning.
Title: (A)I Feel
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Is it possible for machines to feel emotions? As we know for now, machines have no emotion. But if we humans teach them, will they be able to learn? (A)I FEEL is a project dedicated to find answers to our questions by creating a teaching & learning process between humans and a machine. To teach the machine, it asks each user to draw a picture which represents a specific emotion. Then, to demonstrate what the machine has learned, users can draw pictures to portray his/her emotion at the moment. Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), the machine will interpret user’s emotion into joy, sadness, anger, fear or disgust and colors the picture according to the emotion. The whole process will be visualized as an interactive installation which encourages people to participate in the project.
Title: Multi-Media Metamorphosis (or making the medium shoe fit)
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
A large portion of my work has entailed taking a theme or story and giving it life in a variety of media. The Mutant Gene & Tainted KoolAid Sideshow CD-ROM (completed October 1995) is a navigable interpretation of a series of performances I staged in 1994, by the same name. The performances incorporated live and pre-recorded, multiple-monitor and projected video; animation; text; both sequenced and live instrumental music; and dramatic artifacts and performance elements such as masks and dance.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Political Crystals: Algorithmic Strategies for Data Visualization
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Combining algorithmic modeling strategies for data visualization with digital fabrication, the work includes the generative design of a series of geometrically intricate crystals-like 3D models using as raw data Twitter APIs having as the search phrase hashtags related to Brazilian 2018 presidential elections twitted from defined geolocations.
Title: LightWing II
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
LightWing II creates a mysterious sensation of tactile data. In this interactive installation, a kinetic construction is augmented with stereoscopic 3D projections and spatial sound. A light touch sets the delicate wing-like structure into a rotational oscillation and enables the visitor to navigate through holographic spaces and responsive narratives.
Title: Algorithmic Analysis and Visualization of Motion in Cinema
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
This talk explores some of the possible applications of unsupervised machine learning methods in found footage cinema, a tradition of experimental art that re-edits excerpts from existing films. This artistic practice sometimes aims to reconfigure our experience of the moving image heritage. In this context, machine learning algorithms has the potential to capture aspects of the cinematic experience for which we lack critical concepts, and which are for this reason difficult to describe. One important example concerns cinematic motion. Established critical discourse often speaks of motion in film by reference to the movement of objects or the camera. Film scholars might describe a scene by noting, for instance, that a person is walking fast or that the camera is tilting upwards. What is missing in this kind of description is the visual texture of cinematic movement. The two-channel algorithmic installation Errant: The Kinetic Propensity of Images applies matrix factorization techniques to the analysis of optical flow in cinema, focusing on the work of Chinese director King Hu. This method produces a visual dictionary of basic motion patterns the represent what could be described as the “kinetic overtones” of image sequences. The results are then visualized using streaklines, a technique from fluid dynamics. This presentation will discuss the motivation and methodology used in the production of this work, in relation to other work by the speaker. Implications for cinema theory will also be briefly discussed.
Title: From This Side of Space to the Other Side of the Signal
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
“from this side of space to the other side of the signal” utilizes footage produced on unique analog equipment from the early history of
video during a residency at Signal Culture (a contemporary version of the original Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY), and emerges from a nod to Michael Snow’s iconic structural film La Région Centrale. Virtual landscapes pumped through the analog system become caught amidst sets of “meaningless” signs/barriers and violent signals. Computer generated bodies and body parts glistening with video material generated via this system perform actions that queer the line between digital, physical and analog, homoeroticism and violence––entangled in a fragmented high-modernist grid. A voice from the other side of the signal attempts to lure the viewer into some act of connection, of crossing over, only to be perpetually interrupted by barriers of interference. “from this side of space to the other side of the signal” is a two-channel piece that engages both the history of early video tools and contemporary forms of 2D and 3D animation. Using these analog tools as a way of addressing the historicity of the body, and as a way of defining the space of bodies (via their moving textures) in novel as a way of engaging our contemporary hybrid experience. Queering the distinctions between subject, object, transmission, physicality and the ephemeral larger questions about the nature of our technocultural existence rise to the surface.
Title: CyberHuman Dances Series: An Articulation of Body, Space, and Motion in Performance
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
The CyberHuman Dance Series is an experimental dance work exploring simulations of physical and virtual phenomena in the context of performance. By integrating innovative digital technology with the choreographic and design process, this work investigates all aspects of design and performance in cyberspace, with particular emphasis on issues of real and perceived boundaries between virtual space and real space, and the possibility of a blurred distinction between two intersecting worlds.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Hand Held Tools for Navigating Information
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
If computers are tools for manipulating information, they have been notoriously poor at using the hands of the people who use them. By engaging the hands of the user, it is possible to get a literal handle on complex visualizations of information. In this project, the goal is to design a more practical, productive, and fluid kind of interface.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: RealSnailMail [RSM]
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: ParkBench Public-Access Web Kiosks
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1996: The Bridge
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
ParkBench kiosks address the problem of elitism in cyberspace. The Internet’s information and connectivity resources seem to promise universal access. Our aim is to reach out to those who lack the prerequisites for getting online.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Medallions
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Mediated Aesthetics
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
This work is a series of 3D-printed wall plaques featuring ornate shapes generated procedurally. The main purpose of this project is to sublimate a traditional beauty found in decorative ornaments into a modern algorithmic art by using a combination of procedural approach in Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) and 3D-printing technology which has been growing rapidly. Each medallion was generated by using metaballs which are a kind of modeling method in CGI. A drawing algorithm for metaballs was modified and optimized for generating ornate relief-like objects in this project. Also, regular-polygonal shapes were used for the process of density
calculation in drawing metaballs. Generated patterns were converted into 3D models, and the models were 3D-printed finally
Title: The Life and Death of Energy-Autonomous Objects
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: I Touch You And You Touch Me
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
We interact with our computers constantly, touching them more than we touch any person in our lives, and grooming them inside and out. For a month, I recorded all interactions with my phone and fed them into a machine learning system, which then output new, learned gestures. These “hallucinated” movements are awkward yet eerily accurate swipes, taps, and typing based on what my computer has learned from my interactions with it. Presented as an interactive sculpture, the gestures are enacted by a small robotic arm on the visitor’s palm as they sit at a low, altar-like table. Notions of “you,” “me,” and “I” are doubled, enacting the understanding of the machine and at the same time a self-portrait of my interaction.
Title: Water Planet
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: The Virtual Harvester Project
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
The Virtual Harvester Project is an effort to address the need For global commitment and action to fight one of human society’s most basic problems: food insecurity. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) created the Poverty Clock to illustrate how quickly poverty grows. Each successive digit on the clock indicates another person living on less than $1.00 (U.S.) per day. Synchronized to the Poverty Clock’s ticking, one new plant sprouts on the virtual corn field; yielding approximately 47 plants each minute.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Homes
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Mediated Aesthetics
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Homes presents the interior spaces where people from the fishing village of Tai O live. The installation includes the everyday objects with which they surround themselves. Two LCD monitors show virtual interiors of two village houses. Visitors to the installation can wander these virtual interior spaces by using trackballs attached to each screen. A large photo showing the street where the houses are located is on a facing wall.
Title: Mind-Body Dualism
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Mind-Body Dualism examines the topic of existence as a physical being and digital being simultaneously, adding nuance to the Cartesian idea of separation of mind and body and proposing yet a 3rd separation: The virtual body.
Title: Record One Message to The Person You Love!
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
The title, “Record One Message to The Person You Love!”, invite the audience to stand in front of the voice reception installation and say a few words to their loved ones. These messages will be processed by the processing computer program in real-time and converted into dynamic data images according to audience’s volume and frequencies of voices. The messages can also be immediately converted into 3D printing model files, which can then be printed into unique white vinyl disc-shaped objects engraved with each person’s own identity markings. In the end, each of the 3D printed objects will be displayed on the wall. Audience will be able to use the AR interface on the mobile device to replay the messages and videos corresponding to each of the 3D prints. Also expresses the feelings one has towards a lover through just a few words during interaction with the work.
Through this work, we discuss how in the digital age, all of our messages may someday become souvenirs to be stored, printed, and replayed records. Through exhibition in different countries and locations, and the collection of messages to their loved ones by a large number of people, this installation has the potential to become a big database. Gradually, with an ever increasing number of messages recorded, it might even become a museum for sound and memory. Also expresses the feelings one has towards a lover through just a few words during interaction with the work.
Title: A Zooming Sketchpad, a Multiscale Narrative: Pad++, PadDraw, Gray Matters
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Pad++, a general-purpose zoomable substrate For creating and interacting with structured information, is under development by researchers at the University of New Mexico and New York University. All Pad++ objects support zooming, and there ore mechanisms for navigating through a multiscale space using panning, zooming, and hyperlinks. Pad++ includes a number of efficiency mechanisms that help maintain interactive framerates with large and complicated graphical scenes.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Wandering World
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Mind-Body Dualism
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
We imagine to use technology and reach from our senses and immediate surroundings. Wandering World represents an accumulation of attempts at connecting through physical and virtual activities. Over a one-year period and situated in different geographic (and predominantly political) locations (California and Indiana, USA), the artists simultaneously walked, connected to each other and world events through mobile technologies and using 360-degree, omnidirectional cameras to record images from their respective environments. Along with sounds, and extracted, amassed and whirling within concentric, virtual spheres, flowers compete for attention as subject matter – disorientating place, time, ideology, and thought process.
Title: Contact/Sense
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
When we feel and sense through machines, are we still ourselves? In a mixed reality where embodied actions and blinding visions are part woman/part machine, the tactile surface of plants is a portal that conjures augmented materialities into existence.
Title: Agitato
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Mediated Aesthetics
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Project Agitato attempts to represent the evolving music information within a single image frame, in the hope to capture the subjective and perceptual qualities of time expressed in music. The title of the project, named from the music term agitato, depicts the restless agitated style of the music. Each image in this series is generated based on a musical passage from Nicolas Scherzinger’s ‘inter-sax-tive’. For a given moment in time, its spectrum of frequencies is analyzed and used as the input to construct visual elements with various characteristics. As the music progress, the visual elements accumulate and are composed into a single image that reflects the music material within a defined duration of time, allowing viewers to perceive music passage from a single viewpoint, rather than as a linear experience of time
Title: Criss~Crossing The Divine/Interactive Spiral Vortex Paint Game
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Mediated Aesthetics
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Criss~Crossing The Divine/Spiral Vortex Paint Game is an interactive game installation conceived to address the ever-expanding religious intolerance fueling global wars. Attendees use interactive wands to curate topic-words and assign more or less importance to each topic they select. The player receives color coded scripture perspectives parsed from the individual’s search. No search results are the same. Directed to a website, the player learns from which 46,000 scriptures within The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Hindu Rig Vedas, The Quran, and Buddhist Texts, their color-coded text results originated.
Title: Metascape: Villers Bretonneux
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Metascape: Villers Bretonneux is an immersive, interactive memoryscape experienced in first-person perspective, that simulates 72 hours in real time of the 1918 First World War Second Battle of Villers Bretonneux. The work relies on multiple forms of spatial and memory reconstruction, both driven by algorithmic processes.
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