ACM 2006 Interactive Arts Exhibit

A Panel Discussion with Arts-Engineering Researchers

Date: Friday, October 27, 2006
Place: Buchanan 1930
Time: 1:30 pm — 3:30 pm


The 2006 ACM Multimedia Arts Exhibition, entitled "Networked Realities and Prospective Locative Hacks," focuses on the role of multimedia and technology in exploring the human and social aspects of technology and science and how they re-define relationships and understanding between cultures and established disciplines. Of the 90+ submission to the exhibition, only 12 were selected. A panel of the featured arts-engineering researchers will present their work at a special Digital Multimedia Seminar this Friday. The seminar is open to the public, and the artists will be available for demonstrations following the event.

Featured exhibits:

Autonomous Light Air Vessels, by Nikhil Mitter and Jed Berk of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, features a set of specially designed floating objects that exist in a networked environment and communicate through assigned behaviors.

Defendex, by MarkDavid Hosale and John Thompson, from UCSB, simulates the sensation of 1950s technology. Nostalgic references suggest comparisons between the fearful culture of the Cold War and the culture of fear associated with the current War on Terror.

Tabletop Community: Visualization of Real World Oriented Social Network, by Noriyuki Fujimura; Satoshi Fujiyoshi; Tom Hope; and Takuichi Nishimura, from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tokyo, is an interactive piece in which a table representing community acts as an interface between human and computer.

Tre Marie, by Annie Wan; Hiroki Nishino; and Pamela Pietro, from the University of Washington, is an interactive audio-visual dance performance that uses radio-frequency identification (RF-ID) technology to encode the spatial aesthetics of the interaction between humans, theatrical space and cinematic space.

GORI.Node Garden, by Jee H Oh; Allan Au; and Erik Kearney, from the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London, presents physical and ambient data as a network garden in which plants are nourished by communication data. GORI means "an open hook" in Korean and is often used to represent human relationships.

SLIDERS, by Jean-Marie Dallet, from Ecole Europeenne Superieure de l'Image, blends film/video, sound, hardware, software, and concepts in real time to create what the artists call "the movie to come."

Drafting Poems: Inverted Potentialities, by Eitan Mendelowitz, from UCLA, challenges preconceived notions of intelligence, creativity, and authorship and builds on the tradition of algorithmic poetry. As viewers sketch on the glass surface of a drafting table, the computer system gathers statistics on how they do so. In turn, these statistics inform a probabilistic text generation system that creates original poetry.

Host/Moderator: Professor George Legrady, Media Arts and Technology & Art Studio