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Preliminary Program

June 13th

Nonhuman Creativity and Agency

• The Cabinet of Wolfgang von Kempelen: AI Art and Creative Agency
  Dejan Grba
• AI Creativity: AI.R Taletorium, New Storytelling Realm
  Predrag Nikolic, Ruiyang Liu, Giacomo Bertin
• Machine Learning-based Approaches in Biometric Data Art
  Yoon Chung Han

Sonic and Audiovisual Interfaces

Rituals, Consciousness and Technology

• Posthuman Rituals
  Nina Rajcic, Jon McCormack
• Rituals of art and science to decompart-mentalize knowledge
  Luca Forcucci, Bruno Herbelin
• Inhaling Quantum Consciousness: Ecological Vibrational Possibles
  Clarissa Ribeiro

Ecologies and biotechnical relationships

• Ecopornography in Digital Arts
  Stahl Stenslie, Zane Cerpina
• Living Biotechnical Lives: Noise, Parasites, and Relational Practices
  Morten Søndergaard, Laura Beloff
• Sonus Maris
  Nigel Helyer

Possible listenings and recordings

• In pursuit of the Schizomachine: for a(n) (in)possible listening
  Maria Lucilia Borges
• Écosystème(s) : a self-interactive sound installation
  Estelle Schorpp
• Unrecording Nature
  Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Immersive environments

• A Networked Multi-channel Audio and Video Authoring and Display System for Immersive Recombinatory Media Installations
  Miles Thorogood, Maria Correia, Aleksandra Dulic
• Star-Stuff: A Shared Immersive Experience in Space
  John Desnoyers-Stewart
• Summoning the nereid nerds: invisibility and visions within network architectures
  Ella Barclay

Critical robotics

• View from Above: Drone art and hacktivism for landscape transformation awareness
  Joana Resende, Pedro Ângelo, Mónica Mendes
• Probing Food and Power with Robotized Spoonfuls of Edible Paste
  Simon Laroche, David Szanto
• Robophilia and device art in Japan
  Ricardo Iglesias

Algorithms, machine learning and audiovisual heritage

• Digital Anarchival Poetics: Algorithms looking into Audiovisual Heritage
  Vanina Hofman, Valentina Montero
• Towards a Theory of Machine Learning and the Cinematic Image
  Owen Lyons
• Decolonizing the imaginary through the tactical use of machinimas
  Isabelle Arvers

Sonic experimentations

• Tuning in: Reflections in the Wake of Blackness through a Knitted Textile Antenna
  Erin Lewis
• A Sonic Exploration of Spanish Flamenco and the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey with Wearable Technology
  Hedy Hurban

Virtual Reality

• Reflexive-vr.com: Reconfiguring a physical VR exhibition into an online virtual exhibition due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  Sojung Bahng, Vincent Dziekan, Jon McCormack
• Evoking Empathy Through Immersive Experiences in A Walk Alone
  Eman Al-Zubeidi, Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Mixed media and heritage digitizing

• The Last Play: A transmedia installation
  Doros Polydorou
• Ethics of Digitizing Public Heritage
  Najam-ul Assar

Complexity Research and Practice

• autonomX—Real Time Creation/Composition with Complex Systems 
  Alexandre Saunier, Chris Salter, Julien Vermette, Alexandre Quessy, Simon Demeule, Ursula J’vlyn d’Ark, Puneet Jain, Sofian Audry
• Splitting Defense: A Methodological Journey into the Material Basis of Practice-Based Research
  Michael Heidt, Eli Kuruş
• 3D Printing backwards 
  Theo Harper

June 14th

Generative, Locative and Environments

• Humans and Machines: A Study of the Impacts of the Technological Advances in the Light of Generative Art Theory
  Huoston Rodrigues, Juergen Hagler
• Postlocative Art for a Non-Anthropocentric World 
  Santiago Morilla Chinchilla
• Rebalancing media in environments: analysing flows of action
  Rocio von Jungenfeld

Mental, Hallucinatory and Predictions

• From hallucinatory Art to hallucination in the Virtuality. Devices for Alternative Realities. 
  Sandra Cuevas, Reynaldo Thompson, Tirtha Mukhopadhyay
• Possibilising performance through interactive telematic technology: Mental Dance
  Carol Brown, Monica Lim
• Can machines predict our future?
  Diego Diaz, Clara Boj

Technical and Haptics Realities

• kin_ – An AR Dance Performance With Believable Avatars
  Chris Geiger, Charlotte Triebus, Ivana Druzetic-Vogel
• Weaving Augmented Reality into the Fabric of Everyday Life
  Anton Nijholt

Beyond Black Box Machines

• Forging emotions. A deep learning experiment on emotions and art
  Amalia Foka
• Black Box versus Black Bloc
  Renée Ridgway
• The Bartleby Machine
  Bruno Caldas Vianna

Metainterfaces and mediaspaces

• Protest and Aesthetics in The Metainterface Spectacle
  Christian Ulrik Andersen, Søren Pold
• Dynamic paintings: real-time interactive artworks in web
  Ergun Akleman, Anusha Shanker, Yinan Xiong, Motahareh Shafiei Fard
• Possible City: legacies of trauma in media space
  Lawrence Bird

Histories and collections

• Spectrograms of the environment: entangled human and nonhuman histories
  Michał Krawczak, Agnieszka Jelewska
• Museum Practices and Posthumanist Assemblages: Activating the Possibilities of Technology Collections
  Deborah Lawler-Dormer, Chris Muller
• The Tapestry: Past and Possibility in the History of Magic
  Peter Anders

New media art archives

• Making a Manual: The Manual for the Curation and Display of Interactive New Media Art
  Rene Alberto Garcia Cepeda
• Connecting new media art archives worldwide
  Bonnie Mitchell, Janice T. Searleman, Wim van der Plas, Terry C. W. Wong
• Knowledge cultures in new media art
  Rama Hoetzlein

Electronic art in higer education and artistic residencies

• One + one = three: the added value of dual degrees in higher education 
  Andre Czegledy, Nina Czegledy
• Sparking Emotion in Mexican Electronic Art
  Cynthia Villagomez
• Artistic residencies in digital companies
  Sylvain Martet

Virtual and mixed reality

• The Fun Palace: Designing Human Experiences at Mixed Reality Events to Increase Engagement
  Patrick Pennefather, John Desnoyers-Stewart
• Knowing VR through practice
  Vince Dziekan, Sojung Bahng, Oscar Raby, Lucija Ivsic, Jon McCormack
• A Case for Play: Immersive Storytelling of Rohingya Refugee Experience
  Ray Lc, Fabeha Monir

Multisensory installation and inmersive storytelling

• The expanded world of invisible images – BLIND REVIEW’s and BLIND REVIEW’s artworks
  Patrícia Gouveia, Luciana Lima, Anna Unterholzner, Diana Carvalho
• The multicultural and transdisciplinary construction of anti-consumerist critical thoughts – the multisensory diversity of the artistic installation series “The wishing Tree” (2012 – 2019)
  Paulo Cesar TELES
• Emergent. A post-pandemic mobile gallery 
  Roberta Buiani, Ilze Briede (kavi), Lorella Di Cintio, Aadita Chaudhuri, Allan Gomes

Practice-based research STEAM and Media art

• STEAM research in Higher Education, an exploratory project
  Maria Manuela Lopes, Julio Borlido-Santos, Maria Rui Vilar-Correia, Anabela Nunes
• A comparative study of practice-based research and research-creation in media art: Comparing two doctoral studies in Australia and Canada
  Sojung Bahng, Stefy McKnight
• Cultivating the possible: using design methodologies for artistic research
  Carly Whitaker

June 15th

Human Nonhuman Encounters and Distractions

• Queer Communication: Human-Nonhuman Encounters
  Natacha Lamounier
• Made you look: crossing visual attention with computational design to create motion-based visual distractions
  Bruna Sousa, Ana Rodrigues, Nuno Coelho, Penousal Machado
• Artificial Life within a frame of metacreation on stage
  Isadora Teles de Castro e Costa, Chu-Yin Chen, Silvia Circu

Vernacular creativity and reflective practices

• Internet vernacular creativity. Vaporwave, counterculture and copyright 
  Ezequiel Soriano Gómez
• The Process of Word Automation: From the Spoken Word to the Algorithm
  Marta Pérez-Campos
• A Mixed Reality Installation to Elicit Reflexivity on Adverse Childhood Experiences 
  Chang Liu, Álvaro Cassinelli, Christian Sandor

Ecology fo Natural and Technical Systems

• Pulcher Aureus Filum. Biological Substrate Computers and the Ecological Paradigm Shift
  Jaime Lobato
• Merging Art, Media, and Ecology: Diego Rivera and Ariel Guzik at the Cárcamo de Dolores
  Claudia Pederson
• QATIPANA: Individuation processes on the relationship between art, machines and natural systems
  Renzo Filinich

June 16th – Online presentations

*These presentations will not be streamed on-site

• Spatial Photograms: Experimental Cyanotype Photography using 3D Scanning and Printing Technologies
  Hin Nam Fong, Tobias Klein
• Supra-dimensional Cinema: VR Case Study ‘TesserIce’
  Clea T. Waite
• Transforming Practices: a practice-based research approach to teaching emerging media at undergraduate level
  Christopher Fry, Julie Marsh
• Arts, Science and Technology in the ISSM Project and Exhibition
  Denise Doyle
• Towards the Sonic Laboratory: Laboratories’ creative potential
  Laura Plana Gracia
• The Medium is the Environment: Digital Materialism, Digital Art, and the Climate Crisis
  Kevin Day
• Nam June Paik’s Bibimbap Aesthetics as a Korean Reinterpretation of the Gesamtkunstwerk
  Byeongwon Ha
• Nonhuman Creativity in Generative Art: Assemblage, Agency, Autonomy
  Stella Sofokleous
• Buildings as Audio Visual Synthesisers: Experiments Performing Live Music on Wirelessly Networked Multi-Speaker Media Architectures
  Ollie Bown, Kurt Mikolajzcyk, Sam Ferguson, Benedict Carey