[ISEA2019] Panel: Paul Boyé, Dejan Grba, Melentie Pandilovski, Kristy H.A. Kang & Vladimir Todorovic — Machine Flaws in Generative Art

Panel Statement

Keywords: Generative art, virtual reality, machine learning, AI, cognitive mapping, error, generative visualization, inaccuracy, urban media art, media city, software city, hardware city.

Abstract

This panel focuses on opening up a discussion on the role of art in the times when AI systems are becoming ubiquitous. It embraces the machine flaws, irregularities and errors that artists explore to push the boundaries of their art practice and find new thematic, technological and conceptual grounds for experimentation. The panel explores and compares multiple views, case studies and projects produced in various disciplines including data driven city portraits, generative media facades, urban media art, spatio-temporal visualizations, machine learning narrative experiments in VR, neural networks and art; and discrepancies or interrelatedness between human creativity and the future of Artificial general intelligence (AGI).

  • Paul Boyé is a writer and artist based in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). His research investigates the interface between media and intelligence, functionalist accounts of semantic content, new materialist philosophy and future-oriented political constructivism. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Western Australia, writing on the contemporary artistic responses to the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux.
  • Dr. Kristy H.A. Kang is a practice-based researcher whose work explores narratives of place and geographies of cultural memory. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests combine urban and ethnic studies, mapping, animation and emerging media arts to visualize cultural histories of cities and communities. She is currently developing a project with the Urban Redevelopment Authority mapping the spatial narratives of Singapore’s ethnic communities. Her works have been exhibited internationally and received awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Film Festival. She was co-organizer of an international symposium on mediated public space “Emergent Visions: Adjacency and Urban Screens” (http://www.emergentvisions.org) and her article “Interfaces and Intentionalities: Adjacent Practices of Urban Media Art in Singapore” will be published in a forthcoming special issue on Urban Interfaces in Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
  • Dr. Dejan Grba is a media artist, author and educator. He has exhibited, curated and/or lectured at venues including ISEA2017 Manizales and ISEA2016 Hong Kong, SIVA Shanghai, SU Syracuse, SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, ZKM Karlsruhe, IFA Berlin, GfZK Leipzig, Montevideo Amsterdam, MiP Vienna, <rotor> Graz, MoCA Novi Sad and Belgrade. He has published papers in new media art journals worldwide. He is currently a visiting associate professor at the School of Art Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a founding chair of the international interdisciplinary MA program The Art of Digital Media at University of the Arts in Belgrade, and a founding chair of New Media department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade where he teaches Transmedia Research. He teaches Poetics of Digital Art at Digital Art doctoral program at University of the Arts in Belgrade.
  • Dr. Vladimir Todorovic (B) is a filmmaker, new media artist and educator. He works with new technologies for immersive and generative storytelling. His projects have won several awards and have been shown at various festivals, exhibitions, museums and galleries including: HANIFF, Cottbus (28th), Visions du Reel (49th, 46th, 44th) Cinema du Reel (37th), IFFR (42nd, 40th and 39th), Festival du Nouveau Cinema (42nd), BIFF, SGIFF, L’Alternativa, YIDFF, Siggraph, ISEA (2008,2006), Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Centre Pompidou, The Reina Sofia Museum(Madrid), and Japan Media Art Festival.
  • Dr Melentie Pandilovski is an art theorist/historian/curator. He deals with examining the links between art-culture, sciencetechnology. He is Director of Riddoch Art Gallery, Australia. He has curated more than 200 projects in Europe, Australia, and Canada: Stelarc’s Contestable Bodies – Alternate Anatomical Architectures; Inaugural International Limestone Coast Video Art Festival; The Rise of Bio-Society; Age of Catastrophe; Toxicity, Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser Communication&Aesthetics Theories Revisited; Biotech Art-Revisited; Skopje Electronic Art Fair (SEAFair). He is author of The Rise of Bio-Society (2019) Palgrave MacMillan; Arts & Science – the Intersection (re)engineered in: “A Companion to Curation”, Wiley Blackwell (2019); The Phenomenology of (Non) Habitual Spaces for the Bioarts in: “Naturally Postnatural—Catalyst: Jennifer Willet”, with Catalyst Book Series (2017). He has edited Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited”(2015); Energy, Biopolitics, Resistance Strategies and Cultural Subversion (2012), The Apparatus of Life and Death (2011), Art in the Biotech Era (2008).

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