Panel Statement n.a.

Panel: Transdisciplinary Transreal: Mixed and Augmented Reality Arts (MARart) Research Scoping Forum

• Dr Troy Innocent is a world builder, iconographer and reality newbie. His artificial worlds – Iconica (SIGGRAPH 98, USA), and Semiomorph (ISEA02, Japan) – explore the dynamic between the iconic ideal and the personal specific, the real and the simulated, and also the way in which our identity is shaped by language and communication. He has received numerous awards, including Honorary Mention, LIFE 2.0: Artificial Life, Spain (1999); Foreign Title Award, MMCA Multimedia Grand Prix, Japan (1998); First Prize, National Digital Art Awards, Australia (1995); and Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica (1992). Innocent co-founded the digital arts collective cyber dada and through pioneering works such as Idea-ON>! contributed to the Australian new media arts practice during the 90s. His most recent works are urban art environments: an interactive sculpture garden entitled Colony in the Melbourne Docklands and Urban Codemakers, an Alternate Reality Game that reinvents the history of Melbourne. Innocent is currently Senior Lecturer in Games and Interactivity, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne. He is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery. troyinnocent.frb.io
• Andrew Burrell is a Sydney-based artist working in real-time 3d and interactive installation. He is currently interested in the construction of self with regard to the interrelationship of personal identity with memory and imagination, and the way in which networked virtual spaces influence the interactions that take place as part of this construction. Recent projects include Making the Green One Red (Virtual Macbeth), a mixed reality project with Kereen Ely-Harper ,and The Institute of Augmentiform Development and Release, a hybrid virtual/augmented reality project exploring the possibilities of Platonic Cosmology emerging from a data driven system, a collaboration with Warren Armstrong. His project IUXTA is being presented by dLux Media Arts and ISEA2013, and he is presenting a collaboration with Chris Rodley as part of ISEA2013’s The Portals project. On this panel he will explore the notion of ‘the real’ as something that is often mistakenly taken to be the counter point of ‘the virtual’ or ‘the augmented’. He will explore the tripartite relationship of narrative, memory and imagination within this context, investigating both contemporary and speculative examples, with the aim of demonstrating that the membranes that are seen to exist between these different realities are not only flexible, but very much permeable.
• Kuai Shen is an insect media artist born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He holds a BA in digital arts from University San Francisco de Quito, an MA in media arts from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and he recently completed another MA in interdisciplinary research in Game Design and Development at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. He has exhibited internationally at media art festivals, galleries and biennials in Germany, Belgium, England, Slovenia, Italy and Canada, and has participated in important European symposia. Kuai Shen has published his research with ants in a book entitled Biologically-Inspired Computing for the Arts from the University of Colorado and in the Leonardo MIT Journal for the Siggraph. His artistic approach to self-organisation and emergence is envisioned in audiovisual installations that reflect on interspecies artistic collaboration with ants and the metaphor of a post-human ecology, the future of which lies in communication between species and mutualism between technological media (human artifacts) and insect media (biological organisms). His current research focuses on ant mimicry in the post-biologic technology of humans based on phenomenology, resilient networks and mimicry.
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