SIGGRAPH 2019: Proliferating Possibilities: Speculative Futures in Art and Design

• Joel Yuzhi Ong

Aeolian Traces is a multimedia artwork that collects human migration data to generate gusts of wind around the gallery space, closely synced to oral narratives triggered from a database of recordings. A work of data sonification and visualization, this project explores the aesthetics and socio-cultural possibilities in environmental data.

• Rachel Dickey

The Air Hugs project is a large-scale interactive installation that transforms the space around the passerby using actuated inflatables and computer vision. The title of the installation draws from the hug as a discursive tool for describing variable space which is modified by the circulation of the public.

• Paul Heinicker
• Lukáš Likavčan
• Qiao Lin

Alt’ai is a simulation inspired by the rich aesthetics, landscapes, and cultural practices of a remote mountain region. As a self-generating repository of unique snapshots capturing instances of interaction among the simulation agents, it provides an instrumental reference for the development of future machine-to-machine authentication protocols.

• Nicolas Henchoz
• Pierre-Xavier Puissant
• Ana Solange Leal
• Tânia Moreira
• Hugues Vinet

The STARTS Residencies European program aims to involve artists in high-tech environments, establishing a global framework for residencies and 45 projects. We look at its impact, providing the first study on this large-scale action. The initiative’s methodology and tools will be released for companies and institutions in 2019.

• Rachel Dickey

Awakened Silence is a projected performance that memorializes lives lost in recent mass shootings. It draws from the experience of first responders hearing the incessant sounds of phones after appearing on the scene.

• Kris Layng
• Ken Perlin
• Corrine Brenner
• Sebastian Herscher
• Thomas Meduri

CAVE is a shared narrative virtual reality experience. Thirty participants at a time each saw and heard the same narrative from their own unique location in the room, as they would when attending live theater. CAVE set out to disruptively change how audiences collectively experience immersive art and entertainment.

• Rosalie Yu
• Charles Berret

This project tested a novel approach to photogrammetry where a group of participants collectively gather images for 3D models. We tested this method in a workshop setting, with the resulting models yielding a set of seven resin 3D-printed sculptures suspended in acrylic domes, preserving visual artifacts of the creation process.

Don’t Miss: Knowing Together, a set of seven resin 3D-printed sculptures suspended in acrylic domes showing in the Art Gallery, South Hall K.

• Memo Akten
• Rebecca Fiebrink
• Mick Grierson

The work utilizes a novel method in “performing” visual, animated content — with an almost photographic visual style — using deep learning. It demonstrates both the collaborative potential of AI, as well as the inherent biases reflected and amplified in artificial neural networks, and perhaps even our own neural networks.

• George Legrady
• Rama Hoetzlein

Making Visible the Invisible is a six-screen, dynamic data visualization artwork at the Seattle Public Library. It visualizes patrons’ library checkouts received by the hour through four different animations to give a sense of community interests. The artwork was activated in September 2005 for a 10-year operation and was extended.

• Simon Boas

No in Disguise is a multimedia installation that explores how a popular dating app pre-structures sexual relationships through interviews with men algorithmically targeted by their views on sexual consent. This paper describes the collaborative artwork and discusses how digital expression of the self has direct consequences for offline experiences.

• Evanthia Samaras
• Andrew Johnston

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study into the archiving practices employed by professional VFX studios. The current practices are contrasted with best practices from the field of archiving, and suggestions for improvement are made.

• Jin Wan Park

In this paper, various paintings are analyzed using the subset barycenter pattern implemented by the author. An image’s or an image group’s subset may reveal genre and artist characteristics. The suggested barycenter pattern analysis can enrich the methods of art history and criticism.

• Shi Weili

Terra Mars presents Mars in the visual style of Earth. An ANN was trained to learn the relation between topographical data and satellite imagery of Earth and was applied to topographical data of Mars to generate imaginary satellite images. This project suggests a new approach to creative applications of AI

• Patxi Araujo

This paper identifies the nature of the circus as an ideal place to host a possible scientific-artistic-speculative symbiosis. In it, reality and fiction are found precariously, almost outsider, hardly exportable, halfway between the credible and the fake, amazement and extravagance, science and simulation.

• Claire Harvey
• Emily Holtzman
• David Kessler
• Joy Ko
• Brooks Hagan
• Rundong Wu
• Steve Marschner

Our interdisciplinary design research group demonstrates a novel methodology and new computational tools to access 3D weaving as a spatial and material design platform for innovative softgoods and accessory products. We develop a fully formed 3D woven shoe and document volumetric textile behavior and simulation technology for creative design.