[Overview] [Presentations] [Workshops] [Art Events]
Keynotes
- Karim Jerbi — Proustian Memory and Dreams in Brains and Machines
- Kim Tallbear — A Sharpening of the Already Present: Five Analytical Vignettes on Apocalypse, Hope, Death, and Life
- Jennifer Gabrys — From Planetary Sensing to Becoming Planetary
- Dylan Robinson — shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts’etáwtxw / The Incarceration of Indigenous Life by Museums
- Oliver Grau & Wendy Coones — Museum-Network Digital Arts: For a concerted Collection, Documentation and Conservation Strategy
Other Plenary Sessions
- ISEA International — Annual General Meeting
Papers
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Code, AI & Performance
- Serena Desaulniers — Cyborg Encounters: The Abilizing Capabilities of Embodying Disabling Avatars
- Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramirez — Sentience and The Virtual Body, From Dual Subjectivity to the Eros Effect
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Cyborgs and Virtual Bodies
- Joseph Thibodeau & Ceyda Yolgörmez — Open-source Sentience: the Proof is in the Performance
- Kevin Day — The Mattering of Algorithms: Reading the Media Performance of Erica Scourti through Originary Technicity
- Renne Carmichael — Dance and Code with Empathy: A Reading of Joana Chicau and Merce Cunningham
Politics of Sentience: Devices for Social Justice
- César Escudero Andaluz & Christa Sommerer — Data Pollution Devices: Artistic Strategies Against Behavior Capture
- Adnan Hadzi — Social Justice and AI in Virtual Worlds
- Rilla Khaled & Samuelle Bourgault — NEO//QAB: Creating a World Through Speculative Play
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Dispositifs of Sensory Augmentation
- Chih-Yung Aaron Chiu — Archive or Alive: The Experimental VR Digital Collection of Shou-You LIU’s Shapde 5.5
- Michael Palumbo & Doug Van Nort — git show: Musical Creativity, Ideation, and GitHub
- Emmanuelle Forgues & Samuelle Bourgault — Experimenting with Robotic Softness
Politics of Sentience: Activism and Labor
- Jacob Cram — UNMASK: Digital Thinking with Brutalism
- Alessandro Ludovico — Fake publishing as art and activism
- Pedro Costa & & Luísa Ribas — “I try to stay neutral”: digital assistants and their stance towards gender
- Jocelyn Ho, Margaret Schedel & Matthew Blessing — Revaluing Women’s Labor through Material Engagement with Musical Instruments built from Domestic Tools
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Sensing Spaces and Places
- Jill Scott — AURALROOTS: learning about sentience through embodiment and simulation in three sonic environments
- Adriana Knouf — Constructing Xenological Encounters
- Claudia Costa Pederson — Sensing Contemporary Mexican Art: Ariel Guzik’s Sonic Machines
- Sandra Volny & Ruth Schmidt — Aural Soilscapes: sensory challenges in a subterranean world
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Machine Aesthetic Agency
- Katia Vega & Tomas Laurenzo — Exploring AI Ethics Through Intelligent Everyday Objects
- Ronald Boersen, Aaron Liu-Rosenbaum & Philippe Pasquier — Chatterbox: an interactive system of gibberish agents
- Nicole De Brabandere — Machine Generated ‘Portraits’ as Impersonal Gestures
- Sang-won Leigh, Harshit Agrawal & Abhinandan Jain — Machine-enacted Modes of Creative Exploration
Matters Mattering: Visualization and Materialization
- Scott Hessels — The Art of Trajectory: Celestial Mechanics V
- Jesse Jackson — Pixels in the Material World: Making Marching Cubes
- Paul Dunham & Mo Zareei — TwttrGraph: I Wish to Speak with You. A Telegraphic Sound Installation
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Dispositifs of Sensory Augmentation II
- Martin Fröhlich et.al — Blimpy: an artistic framework for creating a spatial augmented reality experience with helium blimps
- Miles Thorogood & Aleksandra Dulic — Aeon Performance System for Visual Music
- Bridget Johnson — Physicality and Spatialization in Sound Art
Matters Mattering: (Public) Place Making
- Adeilson William da Silva, Pablo Gobira & Antônio Mozelli — Sensing the reality: reflections on artistic actions to defocus the real
- Oliver Bown, Anthony Rowe & Liam Birtles — Creative audio design for a massively multipoint sound and light system
- Douglas Brock & Stanislav Roudavski — Sentience and Place: Towards Local, More-than-Human Cultures
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Immediations
- Christoph Brunner & Jonas Fritsch — Shifting Immediations: Fields of Experience across Media Art and Design
- Nancy Mauro-Flude & Kate Geck — A Taxonomy for the Contiguous Spectrum: Corporeal Computing futures and the Performance of Signal Transmission
- Liron Efrat & Brittany Myburgh — Seeing is Sensing: Three Strategies for Multisensory Experience in Mixed Reality Art
Sentience Difference: Human Body Sensory Modalities
- Tanya Ravn Ag — Art and the Broken Mirror: A technogenetic perspective on digitally expanded realities
- M. Lucilia Borges — Schizomachine: a wearable schizo-interface for a schizo-body
- Ksenia Fedorova & Elena Demidova — Qualia Formation through Sensory Substitution in Artistic Laboratories in Russia
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Spatial, Interactive, Sensory Media
- Maurice Benayoun & Tanya Ravn Ag — After The Tunnel: on shifting ontology and ethology of the emerging art-subject
- Elizabeth Lessner — Sensory and Spatial Koans
- Claudia Núñez Pacheco & Lian Loke — Aesthetic Qualities of Thermal and Vibrotactile Materials for Somatic Contemplation
The Ecosophic World: Inhaling Consciousness
- Géraldine Piguet & Aleksandra Kaminska — Odorama V2: Prototyping Touch-Smell Synesthesia to Promote Neurocognitive Empathy
- Jo Burzynska — Risonanze di Vino: Tuning Wine with Sound through the Senses and Culture
- Clarissa Ribeiro — Inhaling Consciousness: Ecological Sentience at Molecular Level
Matters Mattering: Collective Interactions and Play
- Sojung Bahng & Sungeun Lee et al — Sleeping Eyes: VR narcolepsy storytelling through the duality of presence
- Cindy Poremba & Jane Tingley — Any One, anyWare: Perceiving Sentience and Embodiment in a Distributed Sculpture
- Rewa Wright & Simon Howden — Tactile Potentials: A mixed reality project for live performance
- Joan Soler-Adillon — In Pieces VR: Design and conceptualization of a VR-based experimental documentary
The Ecosphic World: Expanded Encounters
- Hanif Janmohamed, Maria Lantin, Alexandra Hass & Renrong Guo — Stonemaps: A Slow Intentional Network for Collective Sentience
- Jo Law & Agnieszka Golda — Enchanting Materialities: e-textiles installations for an ecosophic world
- Reynaldo Thompson & Tirtha Mukhopadhyay — Indigenous Sentience: Fernando Palma’s electronic divinities
Matters Mattering: Collective Interactions and Play [cont.]
- Samuel Thulin — Data, Sense, Resonance: An Art of Diabetic Self-Tracking
- Erin Gee, Alex Lee & Sofian Audry — Playing with Emotions: Biosignal-based Control in Virtual Reality Game Project H.E.A.R.T.
- Renata Azevedo Moreira — Beyond the turn and towards the event: analyzing the curatorial as a material-discursive practice
- Aisling Kelliher — Reclaiming and Commemorating Difficult Felt Experiences
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Embodied Cognition
- Ana Rodrigues, Penousal Machado & Amílcar Cardoso — Glowing Lichen: Visually sensing social spaces –
- Simon Penny — Embodied cognition, digital cultures and sensorimotor debility
- David Howes — The Barbican Totem
The Ecosophic World: Explorations of Natural Sentient Environments
- Matthew Halpenny — Designing Technology for a Symbiosis Between Natural Systems and Information Infrastructure
- Johanne Birringer — Underground sensings
- Alexandra Bal — Sentience as The Antidote to Our Frenzied Mediated Selves
The Ecosophic World: Plants and Microbial Agencies
- Carlos Castellanos — PlantConnect and Microbial Sonorities: Exploring the Intersection of Plant, Microbial and Machine Agencies
- Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau — Seeing Plants Through Botanical Illustration
- Lisa Moren & Tsvetan Bachvaroff — What is the Shape of Water? The Dinoflagellate (Pyrocystis) bioluminesce according to their own DNA
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Expressive AI
- Ellen Pearlman — AIBO: An Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligent Brainwave Opera: Part 2, Or The Making Of A “Sicko” AI
- Mahsoo Salimi, Nouf Abukhodair, Steve DiPaola, Carlos Castellanos & Philippe Pasquier — Liminal Scape, an interactive visual installation with expressive AI
- Bill Seaman — Neosentience
The Ecosophic World: Plants and Biophilic Architectures
- Andrea Wollensak, Brett Terry, Judith Goldman & Bridget Baird — Open Waters
- Eleanor Dare & Elena Papadaki — Mycorrhizal Curation: minimal cognition for maximal cooperation
- Desiree Förster — Expanding Sensitivity in Immersive Media Environments
- John Power — Using Biophilic Design and the Orienting Reflex to Develop Generative Ambient Public Displays
Interdisciplinary Collaborations for Better Understandings of Sentience
- Manuelle Freire — On places, spaces and objects of interdisciplinary scholarship: The case of Useful Fictions
- Mauricio Mejía, Roger F. Malina, Yumeng Xie & Alex García Topete — Translating disciplinary practices for trans-sentient collaboration
- Loren P.Bergantini — Can art contribute to the research on multisensory processes?
The Planetary: Water Ways
- Chanelle Lalonde — Beneath the Surface and into the Planetary: Listening to/for Coexistence in Contemporary Sound Installations
- Ana Rewakowicz — Art and Science Intra-action of Collecting Water from Fog
- Aleksandra Dulic & Miles Thorogood — Water Ways Visualization Computational Reflexivity for Sustainability Action
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Interaction and Embodiment
- Doug Van Nort — Gestural Metaphor and Emergent Human/Machine Agency in Two Contrasting Interactive Dance/Music Pieces
- Byeongwon Ha — The Revisit of Sentience: Nam June Paik’s Big Sleep in Interactive Art
- Minke Nouwens, Nud Heerkens & Michel van Dartel — An Invitation to DANCE: Making Sense of Viewer Interaction in Installation Art
- Jim Murphy — Physical Grainclouds: Granular Sound Art in the Physical World
Machinic Sense & Sensibility: The Problem with Immersion
- Vince Dziekan — Expanded Notes on the Exhibitionary Conditions of Virtual Reality
- Budhaditya Chattopadhyay — Post-immersion: Towards a Discursive Situation in Media Art
- Nick Alexander — The Problem With Immersion
- Peiheng Zhao & Alexis Morris — Intercultural Dialogue in Museums through Mixed Reality
Other Presentations
- Yan-xuan Miguel Xiao — Cyborg and Prosthesis: The Body of Subjective Motivation Extension
- Rodrigo Azaola — A Little Better: Emotions in the age of cryptocurrency
- Michel Paquette & Robin Tremblay — Sentience and high fidelity haptics: the new frontier in content creation
SUMMIT ON NEW MEDIA ART ARCHIVING
SUMMIT Keynote
- Oliver Grau — Museum-Network Digital Arts: For a concerted Collection, Documentation and Conservation Strategy
SUMMIT Papers
- Melanie Swalwell — Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and a national collection
- Rodrigo Guzman Serrano — A History of the Internet through MoMA’s Exhibition Sites. Web-Archiving Art Content at NYARC
- Hava Aldouby — Archiving and Researching Media Art in Israel: Challenges, Innovative Solutions, and Potential International Collaborations
- Vladlena Gromova — A Database of Interdisciplinary Art in Russia
- Scott Rettberg — ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base
- Camille Baker — Brief history of STARTS and STARTS related EU policy overview
- Adam Lockhart — VR as a Preservation and Simulation Tool for Media Artwork Installations
- Tadeus Mucelli — Digital Art Festival, Biennial Of Digital Art and Labcult (UFMG/PPGCI).
- Elisa Arca Jarque — ePPA: Space/ Platform for Audiovisual preservation
- Bertrand Gervais — Carving out a Path: Building Research and Knowledge environments (RKE) in a Digital Culture
- Devon Mordell — Preservation Begins at Creation: An Embedded Digital Archivist Within the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts
- Byeongwon Ha — Archiving Interactive Art for Art Practitioners and Theorists
SHORT SUMMIT PRESENTATIONS
- Christina Radner — The Ars Electronica Archives
- Bonnie Mitchell & Janice Searleman — The SIGGRAPH Digital Art Show Archives
- Wim van der Plas & Bonnie Mitchell — The ISEA Symposium Archives
POSTERS
- Harald Peter Kraemer — The Primary Experience of Sentience
- Yanjun Lyu — Exploring Social Coordination through Computationnally Augmented Artifacts using Auditory Feedback
- Alex MacLean & David Ogborn — Immersive Dreams: An Interactive VR Sound Installation
- Janna Ahrndt — Make Floors Great Again
- Bonnie Mitchell, Janice Searleman & Wim van der Plas — SIGGRAPH and ISEA Archives: Research and Development
- Kristine Diekman — When We Touch
- Cindy Poremba — VVV: Volumetric Video in Videogames
- Roopesh Sitharan — Towards a Postcolonial Ontology of Sentience
PANELS
- Claudia Jacques, Liz Lessner & Clarissa Ribeiro — Mental Ecologies: Consciousness as an Emergent Phenomena
- Lina Dib, Nina Czegledy, Navid Navab, Suzanne Kite & Jonathan Sterne — Sensory Cosmologies Group
- Frédérick Garcia, Armand Edwige, Sofian Audry & Maurizio Martinucci — Who is Speaking? Art-science Stagings of Nonhuman Sentience
- Felipe Leonardo Santos Shibuya, Dalila Honorato, Roberta Buiani, Adam Zaretsky, Charlotte Jarvis & Jaden Hastings — Breeding Sentience: Queering Lineage and Voguing Enhancement
- Su Hyun Nam, Stanzi Vaubel, Garrett Johnson & Sanglim Han — Beyond Anthropocentrism: Art Practices to expand human experience, understanding, and creativity
- Carlos Castellanos, Elizabeth Demaray, Ken Rinaldo & Amy Youngs — Sentience and Trans-Species Collaboration: Considering the Aims, Desires and Perceptual Landscapes of the Non-Human
- Patricia Olynyk, Bob Gluck, Meredith Tromble & Joel Ong — Some Provocations from Skeptical Inquirers About Animal Sentience
- Joel Ong, Melanie Wilmink & Janine Marchessault — Life a Sensorium: Perspectives from the Sensorium Exhibition at ISEA2020
- David Howes, Jennifer Biddle, Rea Noir, Christopher Salter, David Garneau & Suzanne Kite — Sensory Entanglements: Decolonizing the Senses
- Joel Ong, Roberta Buiani, Stephanie Rothenberg & Jennifer Willet — Boundary Crossing(s): Multi-scalar Entanglements in Art, Science and Technology
- Joel Ong, Antonia Hernandez, Kathryn High & Stephanie Rothenberg — Queering Infrastructure: The System Through the Erotic
- Ian Clothier, Roberta Buiani, Pier Luigi Capucci & Nina Czegledy — The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene
- Johnny DiBlasi, Carlos Castellanos, Eunsu Kang, Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri & Leigh Smith — Agency & Autonomy: Intersections of Artificial Intelligence and Creative Practice
- Alexandre Castonguay, Guillaume Pascale, Jean Dubois, Jarry Alice & Nans Bortuzzo — Sentience in the Context of Operative Images
- Stephen Kelly, Sofian Audry, Ben Bogart, Stephanie Dinkins & Suzanne Kite —Machine Learning As Material: Research-creation Approaches to Behavior and Imagination
- Alexandra Bal, Steve Daniels, Lila Pine & Kathleen Pirrie Adams — Kinship and Disembodiment in Mediated Cloud Spaces
- Andrea Rassell, Paul Thomas & Chris Henschke — Microscopic otherness and signs of sub-molecular sentience
- Kathryn High, Marie-Pier Boucher & Kira O’Reilly — Scaling Sentience: The Earth, the Sky, and Outer Space
- Roderick Coover, Nick Montfort & Scott Rettberg — Human Collaboration and Machine Generation Across Media
- Raivo Kelomees, Guljajeva Varvara, Oliver Laas & Sean Montgomery — Aesthetic and User Experience in Biofeedback Art
Round Tables
- Ernest Edmonds, Jane Grant, Laura Beloff, Paul Thomas& Mike Phillips — The practice of New Media Art: sentience, perception, cognition, and consciousness?
- Yan Breuleux — Mimesis: A New Laboratory for Immersion, Interaction and Previsualisation
- Bonnie Mitchell & Jan Searleman (Moderators) — Summit On New Media Art Archiving – Breakout Session 1: Connecting New Media Art Archives
- Wendy Coones & Samantha Mealing (Moderators) — Summit On New Media Art Archiving – Breakout Session 2: Creating Ties to Museums
- Wim van der Plas & Christina Radner (Moderators) — Summit On New Media Art Archiving – Breakout Session 3: Funding for New Media Art Archives
Artist Talks
- Jane Tingley — Foresta Inclusive: work-in-progress
- Rasmus Vuori — Computational Serendipity in Generative Art
- Anni Garza Lau — Digital Hybrid
- Natalie Doonan — Intimate encounters with ducks
- Diego Diaz & Clara Boj — Machine Biography
- Arne Eigenfeldt — Unauthorized: Live Generative Dance Theatre with Musebots
- Linda Kronman — Training machines to detect suspicious behaviour
- Simon Penny & Alex Lough — Sensiqwerty work in progress
- Jill Didur & Tony Higuchi — Sensing across Entities: Global Urban Wilds and Environmental Storytelling
- Jessica Parris Westbrook & Paige Treebridge — Divergent Design Lab: Towards Invisibility and Social Engineering
- Jeff Morris — Native Composition: Metaprocess as a Unifying Factor in a Diverse Body of Artwork
- Ulises Unda — Pasochoa
- Abbey Hepner — Digital Anatomical Theater
- Alexa Bonomo — Using Metaphor and Naturalistic Geometry to Visualize Quantified Self Data
- Gregory Garvey — Blasey Ford V Kavanaugh and The split brain interface
- Scott Kildall & Michael Ang — Unnatural Language
- Elizabeth Littlejohn — The city island
- Clea T. Waite — Immersive Cine-installation and Embodied Perception
- Maartje Dijkstra — Braindrain, TransSwarm Entities, Surface Distortion, Optic Traces
Institutional Presentations
- Vicky Sowry — ANAT on Country
- Aurelie Besson — Molior: An international exhibition producer
- Nick Bryan-Kinns — Centres for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology & AI and Music at Queen Mary University of London
- Jonathan Parsons, Susan Kukucka & Nicky Pastore — Experimenta Life Form
- Fred Paulino — Gambiologia
- Jorge Ramirez — Cyberdelia Mexicana x
- Filipe Londono — Image Fest 2020
- Martin Froehlich — Immersive Arts Space
- Viola van Alphen & Nikol Vetronova — Manifestations: Art & Technology
- Jean-Ambroise Vesac — UQAT research & creation in new media
- Victoria Szabo — ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community
- Bonnie Mitchell & Janice Searleman — SIGGRAPH Archive Research and Development: A Creative and Innovative Approach to Historical Digital Art Documentation
- Bonnie Mitchell, Janice Searleman & Wim van der Plas — ISEA Symposium Archives: Innovative Archive Development And Content Acquisition
- Paula Perissinotto — FILE festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica
- Ricardo Dal Farra — Transforming Paradigms (Art-Environment)
- Megan MacLaurin — Interaccess
- Everardo Reyes — EUR ArTeC: Networking for Art, Science, Technology, and Humanities through Hydrology of Media