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Sunday, August 16
 

11:30am PDT

[Session 1] Climate Change
Susan Elizabeth Ryan. Hyperdressing: Wearable Technology in the Time of Global Warming [View Long Paper]

Peter D'Agostino and David Tafler. World-Wide-Walks: Glaciers in the age of global warming [View Long Paper]

Angus Forbes. Turbulent World: An Artwork Indicating the Impact of Climate Change [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Aleksandra Kaminska

Aleksandra Kaminska

Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University

Presenters
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avatar for Angus Forbes

Angus Forbes

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directs the Creative Coding Research Group within the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. His research investigates novel techniques for representing and... Read More →
avatar for Susan Elizabeth Ryan

Susan Elizabeth Ryan

Professor, Louisiana State University
Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University and Affiliate of the LSU Center for Computational Technology (CCT). She teaches contemporary and new media art history and co-founded an interdisciplinary Art/Engineering curriculum at LSU. She has... Read More →
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Sunday August 16, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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11:30am PDT

[Session 24] Virtual Reality
Karin Guminski, Christoph Anthes and Marlene Brandstätter. Sen-se-paration [View Short Paper]

Yun Tae Nam. Unified Physical and Digital Experiences: Exploring Art and Digital Media in a Mixed Reality Canvas [View Short Paper]

Seth Thompson. VR Panoramic Photography and Hypermedia: Drawing from the Panorama’s Past [View Long Paper]

Daria Tsoupikova, Scott Rettberg and Roderick Coover.Hearts and Minds: The Residue of War [View Short Paper]

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avatar for Yun Tae Nam

Yun Tae Nam

PhD Candidate, Part-Time Lecturer, Monash University, sensiLab
His interest lies primarily in multimedia design dealing with nature, human experience and technology for interactive installations. His several works had received awards in the Korea Design Exhibition in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He is also a nominated designer by Korea Institution of... Read More →
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Scott Rettberg

Professor, University of Bergen
Scott Rettberg is professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg is the Conference Chair of the 2015 Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Festival, The End(s) of Electronic Literature... Read More →
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Seth Thompson

Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah
Seth Thompson is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the American University of Sharjah, as well as a media artist and writer involved in documenting and interpreting art, design and culture through print and online presentations. His research interests and... Read More →
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Daria Tsoupikova

Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sunday August 16, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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11:30am PDT

[Session 32] Brains in Electronic Arts
Kellyann Geurts and Mark Guglielmetti. Imagining Thought in Digital Space  [View Short Paper]

Jill Scott. ESKIN : Disruptive potentials for Transdisplinary Teams  [View Short Paper]

Mirjana Prpa, Bernhard E. Riecke and Svetozar Miucin.State.scape: a brain as an experience generator  [View Short Paper]

Ellen Pearlman. The Brain as an Open Source Hackable Driver [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes

Instructor I, University of British Columbia

Presenters
avatar for Kellyann Geurts

Kellyann Geurts

PhD candidate, Monash University
BIO Am a PhD candidate at Monash University and employed at RMIT University, Australia. Through digital imaging, I explore ways to represent thought patterns and mental spaces into two and three-dimensional forms. The project was recently presented at the Digital Subject III... Read More →
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avatar for Ellen Pearlman

Ellen Pearlman

School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
PERSONAL WEBSITE http://epmexico.wix.com/ellen_pearlman DIRECTOR AND CURATOR Volumetric Society of New York http://nyc.volumetric.org 2000 member organization that connects the body, brain & the physical world of natural user interface in our volumetric age > PRESIDENT ART-A-HACK(TM) http://artahack.io/ To... Read More →
avatar for Mirjana Prpa

Mirjana Prpa

Project Assistant, SFU Innovates
Mirjana Prpa is an archi­tect, a vir­tual real­ity utopian and a grad­u­ate stu­dent ­ researcher at iSpace lab for Virtual Reality at School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Vancouver, Canada. She received a Master Degree in archi­tec­ture from the University of Novi... Read More →
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Bernhard Riecke

Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, SIAT, iSpaceLab
I am a psycho-physicist and Cognitive Scientist who’s excited about study­ing how humans orient in vir­tual and real envi­ron­ments. I received my PhD in Physics from the Tübingen University in Germany and researched for a decade in the Virtual Reality group of the Max Planck... Read More →
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Sunday August 16, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Room 4945 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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11:30am PDT

[Session 35] Evaluation and Valuation
David R. Burns. The Economic Valuation of Digital Media Art  [View Short Paper]

Russell Richards. Responsive Environments and Protagonism: The Sustenance Principle  [View Short Paper]

Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer. “The Value of Art” – Transforming User Attention into Monetary Value in a Series of Interactive Artworks  [View Short Paper]

Gerald Nestler. Enhancing/ Embracing Resolution. A few thoughts on a techno-imaginative toolbox and its potential for art as — and beyond — critique  [View Short Paper]

Andrew Newman and Matthias Tarasiewicz. Experiments in art and value: burning Bitcoins to buy Ai Weiwei  [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Christiane Paul

Christiane Paul

Associate Prof | Associate Dean, The New School; Whitney Museum
Christiane Paul is Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Wr... Read More →

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avatar for David R. Burns

David R. Burns

Associate Professor | Digital Media Arts + Animation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
David R. Burns is a digital media artist and publishing scholar who explores the relationships between humans, technology, and nature in his creative-research. More specifically, he focuses on the tensions between technology, culture, and nature in the public and private spheres... Read More →
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Gerald Nestler

Gerald Nestler is an artist and writer focusing on a reading of what he terms the “derivative condition” of contemporary life, in which financial(izing) strategies, methods and narratives form a world-producing apparatus that shapes the present by preconfiguring the future. At... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Newman

Andrew Newman

PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales
Andrew Newman is an artist and researcher based between Sydney and Vienna. His performative art practice poetically utilises methodologies from the communication sciences to examine value construction in contemporary culture. He has been researching cryptocurrencies at the Artistic... Read More →
avatar for Russell Richards

Russell Richards

Senior Lecturer, Southampton Solent University
I have interests across the fields of interactive audio-visuals and responsive environments. I have created net art, interactive audio-visual performances, interactive audio-visual installations, experimental linear video, and work in a variety of other formats. I am a member of KikiT... Read More →
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Christa Sommerer

Professor and Head of Interface Cultures Depatment at Art University in Linz Austria/Guest Professor at Aalborg Universi, Unversity of Art in Linz, Austria and Aalborg University, Denmark
Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist, researcher and pioneer of interactive art. Currently she is a professor and head of the department for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. She is also a Obel Guest professor at Aalborg... Read More →
avatar for Matthias Tarasiewicz

Matthias Tarasiewicz

Project Lead, University of Applied Arts
Matthias Tarasiewicz has been active as a researcher and technology theorist since the last millenium. Deeply involved in coding and decoding (both literally and figuratively) he researches in the fields of artistic technology, experimental publishing and cryptocurrencies. Tarasiewicz... Read More →

Sunday August 16, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Cinema, Room 3200 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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11:30am PDT

[Session 9] Interactive Text I
Daniel Temkin. Esolangs as Experiential Art [View Short Paper]

Maryse de La Giroday and Raewyn Turner. Steep (I): a digital poetry of gold nanoparticles [View Long Paper]


Leslie Nobler. The Scroll Unfurled - Ancient to “Vanguard” [View Short Paper]

Anastasios Maragiannis and Janis Jefferies. Tweeter: Practice in Writing A recipe for Creativity & Creative Interpretation [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Dr. Maria Lantin

Dr. Maria Lantin

Director of the Stereoscopic 3D Centre, Emily Carr University
Maria Lantin is the Director of the Stereoscopic 3D Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has a deep interest in space and movement both physical and metaphorical, and this is woven through her work in immersive media and interaction. She takes pleasure in scanning... Read More →

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avatar for Maryse de La Giroday

Maryse de La Giroday

Writer, FrogHeart Communications
I publish the largest, independent, science blog in Canada. FrogHeart (the blog) started as a research repository and outlet in 2008 for my MA project (the Nanotech Mysteries wiki) in Creative Writing and New Media (De Montfort University, UK). As an independent scholar, I have presented... Read More →
avatar for Janis Jefferies

Janis Jefferies

Associate Pro Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London
Jefferies is an artist, writer and curator and internationally recognised for her curatorial work, publishing and exhibitions of studio practice in Europe, Canada, Australia and Eastern Europe (400 research entries on the Goldsmiths Research database). Her areas of expertise lie at... Read More →
avatar for Anastasios Maragiannis

Anastasios Maragiannis

Academic Portfolio Leader Design, University of Greenwich
Anastasios is the Academic Portfolio Leader and Principal lecturer in Design Theory & Practice, in the department of Creative Professions and Digital Arts, University of Greenwich, London. Anastasios is also the Co-leader of the “Digital Grand Challenge”, a series of research... Read More →
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avatar for Daniel Temkin

Daniel Temkin

Artist, Daniel Temkin
Hi. I'm here to talk about programming languages as an art medium (esolangs and related code art). I'm interested in practices that misuse code && data, including glitch and algorithmic photography.
avatar for Raewyn Turner

Raewyn Turner

independent artist, artist
Raewyn Turner’s interdisciplinary work is concerned with cross-sensory perception and the uncharted territories of the senses. Her work has involved large scale international performance in stadiums, creating videos, films and interactive installations and performances, working... Read More →

Sunday August 16, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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2:00pm PDT

[Session 10] Interactive Text II
Alessandro Ludovico. Printed radicality [View Short Paper]

Simone Osthoff. The Suplemento Dominical do Jornal do Brasil: Art, Poetry, and Media Design in Yellowed Newspapers and Digital Archives [View Short Paper]

Álvaro Seiça. The Digital Diasthima: Time-Lapse Reading Digital Poetry [View Short Paper]

Lotte Philipsen. Aesthetic Experience by Proxy: Science Description and Science Fiction in New Art [View Long Paper]

Stephane Natkin and Cecile Le Prado. Comparing Two Writing Styles: Between Determinism Emergence and Interactivity [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Janis Jefferies

Janis Jefferies

Associate Pro Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London
Jefferies is an artist, writer and curator and internationally recognised for her curatorial work, publishing and exhibitions of studio practice in Europe, Canada, Australia and Eastern Europe (400 research entries on the Goldsmiths Research database). Her areas of expertise lie at... Read More →

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avatar for Alessandro Ludovico

Alessandro Ludovico

Associate Professor, Winchester School of Art
Alessandro Ludovico is a researcher, artist and chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Lecturer... Read More →
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avatar for Simone Osthoff

Simone Osthoff

Professor of Critical Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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Lotte Philipsen

Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
My research focuses on new media and technology in contemporary art (bio art, digital art, etc.). I am particularly interested in the relation between such new media art practices and aesthetic theory.
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avatar for Álvaro Seica

Álvaro Seica

PhD Fellow, University of Bergen
Álvaro Seiça is a writer, editor and researcher. He published four poetry books, the most recent being Ö (2014) and permafrost: 20+1 zeptopoemas sms (2012). He holds a MA in Contemporary American Literature, with the thesis 'Transduction: Transfer Processes in Digital Literature... Read More →

Sunday August 16, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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2:00pm PDT

[Session 2] Environments + Ecology
Teresa Connors. Audiovisual Installation as Ecological Performativity [View Long Paper]

Ricardo Dal Farra. Breaking Paradigms: Electronic Arts & Humanitarian Actions [View Long Paper]

Garth Paine, Leah Barclay, Sabine Feisst and Daniel Gilfillan. The Listen(n) project: acoustic ecology as a tool for remediating environmental awareness [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Paul Catanese

Paul Catanese

Columbia College Chicago

Presenters
avatar for Leah Barclay

Leah Barclay

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith University
Co-Chair, Sonic Environments (www.sonicenvironments.org)
avatar for Ricardo Dal Farra / Canadá

Ricardo Dal Farra / Canadá

Professor, Music and Media Arts, Concordia University
Professor of music and electronic arts at Concordia University, Canada.Founder-director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIARTE) at UNTREF, Argentina.Director of the international symposia Balance-Unbalance (BunB - https://www.facebook.com/balanceunbal... Read More →
avatar for Teresa Connors

Teresa Connors

Waikato University
Teresa Connors is active as an acoustic/electroacoustic composer, opera singer, film scorer, and multimedia installation artist. She is currently completing a practice- based PhD at Waikato University that includes developing new techniques and methodologies for multimedia collaborations... Read More →
avatar for Sabine Feisst

Sabine Feisst

Professor of Music, Arizona State University
Dr Sabine Feisst is Professor of Musicology and Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University’s School of Music and Global Institute of Sustainability. Focusing on twentieth and twenty-first century music studies, she published the monographs Der Begriff ‘Improvisation... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Gilfillan

Daniel Gilfillan

Associate Professor, German Studies, Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University Gilfillan’s research engages the relationships between sound, media, and the perception of experience. He has published widely on German and Austrian radio and sound art, and on the history of... Read More →
avatar for Garth Paine

Garth Paine

Associate Professor in Digital Sound and Interactive Media, Arizona State University|Tempe|Arizona|USA
Garth is particularly fascinated with sound as an experiential medium, both in musical performance and as an exhibitable object. This passion has led to several interactive responsive environments where the inhabitant generates the sonic landscape through their presence and behav... Read More →

Sunday August 16, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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2:00pm PDT

[Session 33] Smart Materials
Jessica Berry and Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo. Incorporation of Shape Memory Polymers in Interactive Design  [View Short Paper]

Neil Glen. Frozen: Exploring creativity and the process of making using photogrammetry  [View Short Paper]

Aleksandra Kaminska. Designing Nano-Media Across Disciplines: Circular Genealogies and Collaborative Methodologies at the Optical Frontier  [View Long Paper]

Shih-Yuan Wang, Yu-Ting Sheng, Alex Barchiesi and Jeffrey Huang. Transient Materialization: Ephemeral Material-oriented Digital Fabrication  [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Dr. Sara Diamond

Dr. Sara Diamond

President & Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University
Insight: Successful future cities will combine a profound commitment to design and values driven solutions. These must combine qualitative tools that engage and mobilize residents and the many other stakeholders in our urban world, and quantitative methods. Data is a critical resource... Read More →

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Jessica Berry

PhD Student Interdisciplinary Engineering, Texas A&M University
I am currently looking at production and artistic applications for shape memory polymers.
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Neil Glen

Senior Lecturer: Design, Bath Spa University
Neil is a Design Practitioner and Learning Technologist for Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University. He is interested in the relationship between ubiquitous technologies and the process of design and learning; questioning and re-defining how such technologies can... Read More →
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avatar for Aleksandra Kaminska

Aleksandra Kaminska

Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University
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Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Interactive Artist/Designer/Researcher
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Sunday August 16, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4945 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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2:00pm PDT

[Session 36] Subversion Conceptions
Lizzie Muller, Jill Bennett, Lynn Froggett and Vanessa Bartlett. Understanding Third Space: Evaluating Art-Science Collaboration  [View Long Paper]

Julian Stadon. Hybrid Ontologies: An Attempt to Define Networked Mixed Reality Art  [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Bill Hill

Bill Hill

Professor of Intermedia, Jacksonville University
Bill Hill is a tenured Associate Professor of Intermedia. He served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University for 8 years and as Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and has 20 years of teaching experience. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic... Read More →

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avatar for Lizzie Muller

Lizzie Muller

Associate Professor, University of New South Wales
Lizzie Muller researches the future of museums as sites of participatory knowledge creation. Her recent book Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines (with Caroline Seck Langill) was published by Routledge in Sep 2021. She teaches in the Master of Curating and Cultural... Read More →
avatar for Julian Stadon

Julian Stadon

Senior Lecturer, TeleAgriCulture & University of Brighton

Sunday August 16, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4525 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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2:00pm PDT

[Session 37] Curation
Deborah Turnbull Tillman and Mari Velonaki. Curating: a disruptive technique for disruptive technologies  [View Long Paper]

Suzy O'Hara. Crumb Doctoral Research: An investigation into the impact of collaborations between the commercial digital and artistic sectors on the curatorial realm  [View Long Paper]

Daragh Byrne and Aisling Kelliher. Identifying community resources using data mining, crowdsourcing, and networked co-curation  [View Short Paper]


Moderators
avatar for Kevin Badni

Kevin Badni

Head of Art and Design, American University of Sharjah
Eye tracking Sculpture Data visualisation in 3D Virtual and augmented reality

Presenters
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Aisling Kelliher

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Aisling is an associate professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech University within the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. She also holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at VT. Aisling creates and studies interactive media systems... Read More →
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avatar for Deb Turnbull Tillman

Deb Turnbull Tillman

Curator, Director, New Media Curation
Deborah Turnbull Tillman is a curator specialising in design, technology and new media. Her first curatorial project was Beta_space, an experimental gallery at the Powerhouse Museum focused on the audience’s role in interactive art. This fueled her interest in how technology augments... Read More →
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Sunday August 16, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Cinema, Room 3200 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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Monday, August 17
 

9:30am PDT

[Session 14] Disruptive Methodology
Donna Szoke. Researchify: Artists’ Research as Disruption [View Short Paper]

Aisling Kelliher and Daragh Byrne. Research through Design, Documentation, Annotation, and Curation [View Long Paper]

Je-Ho Oh and Chung-Kon Shi. Disruptive Aesthetics for Interactive Artwork [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Claude Fortin

Claude Fortin

Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology
social smart cities; public interaction with and through technology; immersive installations; digital displays and media façades.

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avatar for Aisling Kelliher

Aisling Kelliher

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Aisling is an associate professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech University within the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. She also holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at VT. Aisling creates and studies interactive media systems... Read More →
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avatar for Donna Szoke

Donna Szoke

Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Brock University
Donna Szoke is a Canadian artist whose practice includes video, animation, media art, installation, drawing, writing and collaboration. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, USA, France, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Croatia, Cuba, and Dubai, UAE. Recent notable international exhibitions... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 4525 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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9:30am PDT

[Session 19] Immersion
Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo and Greg Corness. Aesthetics of Immersion in Interactive Immersive Installation: Phenomenological Case Study [View Long Paper]

Katerina Kontini, Dimitris Charitos, Iouliani Theona and Mike Philips. Investigating the artistic potential of the fulldome as a creative medium: the case of the E/M/D/L project  [View Long Paper]

Valerie Lamontagne, Ian Hattwick, Ivan Franco, Marcello Giordano, Deborah Egloff, Maurizio Martinucci, Chris Salter, and Marcelo M. Wanderley.The Ilinx Garments: Whole-body tactile experience in a multisensorial art installation [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Lorna Boschman

Lorna Boschman

Post-doctoral researcher and Project Co-Ordinator, University of British Columbia Cancer's Margins
Lorna Boschman is a leading Canadian new media/video artist whose work has helped to define community engagement within the field of social practice. She has achieved artistic accreditation and has been honoured with many awards (From the Inside/OUT!; (2000) NFB Kathleen Shannon Award... Read More →

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Greg Corness

Assistant Professor, Columbia College Chicago
Greg Corness is an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago working with embodied interaction in media environments. His background in music, theatre and dance provides the basis for his research which focus on interdisciplinary improvisation, distributed cognition in performance... Read More →
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Ivan Franco

PhD Candidate, McGill University
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Ian Hattwick

Ph.D. Researcher, McGill University
I create hardware systems for professional artistic productions which allow for an exploration of the role of interfaces in social interactions.
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avatar for Mike Phillips

Mike Phillips

Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, i-DAT
Mike Phillips is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University ( School of Arts & Media, Faculty of Arts), the Director of Research at i-DAT.org and a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium. His R&D orbits a portfolio of projects that explore the ubiquity... Read More →
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Chris Salter

Milieux Institute, Concordia University
Chris Salter is an artist, University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses at Concordia University and Co-Director of the Hexagram network for Research-Creation in Media Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture, in Montreal. Salter’s performances, installations... Read More →
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Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Interactive Artist/Designer/Researcher
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Marcelo Wanderley

Professor, McGill University

Monday August 17, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

9:30am PDT

[Session 25] Sculpture
Kevin Badni. Creating Observational 3D Sculptures [View Long Paper]

Mo H. Zareei, Dale A. Carnegie and Ajay Kapur. Noise Square: Physical Sonification of Cellular Automata through Mechatronic Sound-sculpture [View Short Paper]

Michael Blow. Disrupting Perceptions: Reimagining Architecture through Sound [View Short Paper]

Mark-David Hosale. homunuculus.agora (h.a), an architectonic art installation [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Christiane Paul

Christiane Paul

Associate Prof | Associate Dean, The New School; Whitney Museum
Christiane Paul is Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Wr... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Kevin Badni

Kevin Badni

Head of Art and Design, American University of Sharjah
Eye tracking Sculpture Data visualisation in 3D Virtual and augmented reality
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Mark-David Hosale

Associate Professor, York University
Mark-David Hosale is a media artist and composer who holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara an MM in Music-Composition and Theory from UIUC, and a BA in Music Composition from the College of Creative Studies, at U.C. Santa Barbara... Read More →
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avatar for Mo H. Zareei

Mo H. Zareei

PhD Candidate, Victoria University of Wellington
Mo H. Zareei is a sound artist and music technology researcher. Using custom-built software and hardware, his experiments with sound covers a wide range from electronic compositions to mechatronic sound-sculptures and installations. Striving to turn the harsh, unwanted, and unnoticeable... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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9:30am PDT

[Session 29] Generative Visuals
Daniel Hawkins and Philippe Pasquier. Comedy53: A system’s design for generating image and text to create humorous comics [View Long Paper]

Francois Lemarchand. Visual Arts Creation Assisted by BICASSO: Brain-Inspired Computationally Aesthetic Selective Savant & Observer [View Short Paper]

Aleksandra Dulic, David Kadish, Homayoun Najjaran and Kenneth Newby. The Order of Passions — A Portrait of Polyphonic Canada [View Long Paper]

Moderators
avatar for Oliver Bown

Oliver Bown

Senior Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Art & Design, Interactive Media Lab
I am a researcher and maker working with creative technologies. I come from a highly diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning... Read More →

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Aleksandra Dulic

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
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avatar for David Kadish

David Kadish

MFA Student, University of British Columbia
I am an artist, a designer, and an engineer. I work on projects that expose the complexity of the world and try to get people (myself included) to embrace that complexity as an interesting and positive aspect of life.
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avatar for Philippe Pasquier

Philippe Pasquier

ISEA2015 Symposium Director, Associate Professor, Scool of Interactive Arts + Technology
Dr. Philippe Pasquier is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. He is both a recognized scientist and a multi-disciplinary artist. His contributions range from theoretical research in artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 4945 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

9:30am PDT

[Session 38] DIY Instruments and Sound
Diana Cardoso and Paulo Ferreira-Lopes. DMIs Among the Others - Live at the concert hall  [View Short Paper]

Byeongwon Ha. A Pioneer of Interactive Art: Nam June Paik as Musique Concrète Composing Researcher  [View Long Paper]

Patrick Saint-Denis. The Lungta Projet: Physical Visual Music  [View Long Paper]

David Strang and Vincent Van Uffelen. transmission+interference: noise, resonance and territory  [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Ben Houge

Ben Houge

Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music
Recent work involves Web Audio API and live performance with audience mobile devices. Working on a series of "food operas," applying real-time, generative music to the unpredictable events of a restaurant in a 30-channel sound system. Active in the Chinese experimental sound scene... Read More →

Presenters
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Diana Cardoso

PhD Candidate, School of the Arts - Portuguese Catholic University
PhD candidate at the School of the Arts - Portuguese Catholic University (Oporto, Portugal) having Professor Paulo Ferreira-Lopes as supervisor, and Doctoral Researcher of CITAR (Research Center for Science and Technology in Art) granted with a PhD Scholarship from FCT (Foundation... Read More →
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Paulo Ferreira-Lopes

Assistant Professor, School of Arts
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Byeongwon Ha

PhD Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University
Byeongwon Ha is pursuing his PhD degree in Virginia Commonwealth University. As an artist who creates interactive art, he studies interactive art in both a practical way and a theoretical way. The topic of his dissertation is about Nam June Paik's early interactive art. He is simultaneously... Read More →
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Patrick Saint-Denis

lecturer, University of Montreal
Patrick Saint-Denis holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Montreal. His works combine music, live audiovisuals and robotics. He conceives interactive installations designed primarily for concert settings. His audio-sensitive inventions take on various forms, ranging... Read More →
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David Strang

Lecturer, Plymouth University
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Monday August 17, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Cinema, Room 3200 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

9:30am PDT

[Session 3] Art, Wellbeing and Society
Gail Kenning. Art, affect and ageing: creativity against deficit. [View Long Paper]

David Dowhaniuk. [Personal Nature]: An Artist’s Approach to Assistive Technology [View Short Paper]

Bec Dean. The Artist is Patient: Collaborative Biomedical Art and Curatorial Care [View Short Paper]

Emily Ip, Wynnie Wing Yi Chung, Sunmin Lee and Thecla Schiphorst. A Wearable Experiment to Radiate Prosocial Wellbeing Through Psychophysiological Mirroring of Laughter [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Presenters
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Wynnie Wing Yi Chung

Graduate Researcher, Simon Fraser University
Wynnie Chung is pursuing her Master of Arts at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University. Her research interest surrounds the application of somatic based reflections towards designing quality in wearable embodied interaction. Her current research explores... Read More →
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David Dowhaniuk

User Experience: Art, Design, Research and Theory, Artist
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Emily Ip

Graduate Student / Researcher, Simon Fraser University
Emily is currently a MA candidate at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in the application of practical somaesthetic within bio-responsive wearable interface for awareness and reflection upon self’s state. Her current research... Read More →
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Thecla Schiphorst

Professor, SFU
Dr. Thecla Schiphorst is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her background in dance and computing form the basis for her research in embodied interaction, focusing on movement... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

11:30am PDT

[Session 15] Bodies and Presence
Bill Hill. Augmented Simulacra: conditioning the post-digital body [View Short Paper]

Carolina Bergonzoni. Homo Ludens – Dance of Presence [View Short Paper]

Louise Boisclair. Chair de lumière by Marjolaine Béland: how disruptive conditions and mimicry capture attention and favor empathetic resonances [View Short Paper]


Moderators
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Greg Corness

Assistant Professor, Columbia College Chicago
Greg Corness is an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago working with embodied interaction in media environments. His background in music, theatre and dance provides the basis for his research which focus on interdisciplinary improvisation, distributed cognition in performance... Read More →

Presenters
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Louise Boisclair

Author, Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, UdeMontréal
Hi! Ph.D. in semiotics from UQAM (MAGG). Currently doing a postdoctoral research (FRQSC 2014-2016), at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Brian Massumi. My work is about affect in immersive and interactive art. I am working on a new book untitled " Affect... Read More →
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Bill Hill

Professor of Intermedia, Jacksonville University
Bill Hill is a tenured Associate Professor of Intermedia. He served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University for 8 years and as Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and has 20 years of teaching experience. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Room 4525 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

11:30am PDT

[Session 20] Bio-Art I
Session 20 on Bio-Art Research
 
Patricia Badani. Radical Reordering: bit-size chunks in the AL GRANO project [View Long Paper]

Mahsoo Salimi, Diane Gromala and Xin Tong. Grene Epiphytes, an Immersive Bio Artificial-Life Artwork  [View Long Paper]

Marta Heberle. Living media: Transgressing bios, transgressing techne and paving the way to further transgressions  [View Long Paper]
Moderators
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Diego S. Maranan

PhD student / Lecturer, CogNovo, Plymouth University / University of the Philippines
www.diegomaranan.com

Presenters
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Patricia Badani

Board of Directors, ISEA
Pat Badani (MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) is an arts practitioner, critical thinker, educator, editor, and curator. Born in Argentina, she has lived and worked out of Mexico, France, Canada, and the USA. Badani is currently on the Board of Directors of ISEA International... Read More →
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Diane Gromala

Prof. & Canada Research Chair, Simon Fraser University
Diane Gromala is the Canada Research Chair in Computational Technologies for Transforming Pain and a Professor in SFU's (Simon Fraser University's) School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Her research works at the confluence of computer science, media art and design, and is focused... Read More →
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Mahsoo Salimi

PhD student, Scool of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University
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Monday August 17, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

11:30am PDT

[Session 26] Robots
Jason Long. Augmenting Virtual Worlds with Musical Robotics [View Long Paper]

Shannon Mcmullen and Fabian Winkler. The Algorithmic Gardener – Tales of Nature and Code [View Short Paper]

Elizabeth Demaray. The IndaPlant Project: An Act of Trans-Species Giving [View Short Paper]

Gregory Garvey. Disruptive Behaviors: AI, Robots and the Autism Spectrum Disorder [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Presenters
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Elizabeth Demaray

Associate Professor, Rutgers University
I am a sculptor whose area of enquiry is the interface between the built and the natural environment. In this vein, I build listening stations for birds that play human music, culture lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City and design alternative forms of housing for land... Read More →
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Gregory Garvey

Chair, Visual & Performing Arts, Director Game Design & Development, Quinnipiac University
Interests include interactive installations, new interfaces, hacking devices, games 2D & 3D.
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Jason Long

Victoria University of Wellington|Wellington|Wellington|New Zealand
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Shannon McMullen

Assoc. Professor, Purdue University
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Monday August 17, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

11:30am PDT

[Session 34] Interacting with Visual Art and Graphic Design
Bill Manaris, Mallory Rourk and David Johnson. Diving into Infinity: A Motion-Based, Immersive Interface for M.C. Escher’s Works  [View Long Paper]

Kristine Diekman and Tony Allard.Drawing_in_the_Media_Stream [View Short Paper] 

Tara Elizabeth Cook. The Image Compressed  [View Short Paper]

Jonathan Hanahan and Jonathan Hanahan. From A-ha to Oh Shit: From Graphic Design to Glitch Design  [View Long Paper]
Moderators
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Presenters
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Tony Allard

FOSSIL MEDIA
Tony Allard works from a trans-media perspective, which encompasses the hybridization of traditional and new mediums incorporated into static and time-based art works. Allard has presented his work internationally and it addresses such issues as the replacement of human vision with... Read More →
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Kristine Diekman

Director, Video in the Community
Kristine Diekman is an internationally known media artist committed to making socially integrated work. Her experimental films and new media installations are interview based, and strive to give voice to the populations and individuals whose life experiences might not otherwise be... Read More →
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David Johnson

PhD Student, University of Victoria
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Bill Manaris

Professor, Computer Science & Director, Computing in the Arts, College of Charleston
Bill Manaris is a computer science researcher, educator, and musician. He is Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Computing in the Arts program, at the College of Charleston, USA. His interests include computer music, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence... Read More →
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Monday August 17, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Room 4945 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

11:30am PDT

[Session 39] DIY Processes
Abigail Susik. Mimesis and Code: The Aesthetics of the Microcontroller in New Media Art [View Long Paper]

Miguel Valenzuela. Redundant Technology: Disrupting Lineal Narratives  [View Short Paper]

Alessandro Ludovico. Process VS. Product, resisting the self-gratifying loop, regaining a DIY perspective [View Short Paper]

Tim Shaw and John Bowers. Public Making: Artistic Strategies for Working with Collections, Technologies and Publics  [View Long Paper]
Moderators
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Andres Wanner

Interactive artist&designer, researcher and instructor., FHNW and HSLU universities, Switzerland
Interactive artist&designer, researcher and instructor, currently at FHNW and HSLU Switzerland. Andres is premiering his latest piece "Signature Strokes" - drone painting interventions during the Opening Reception at Vancouver Art Gallery.

Presenters
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Alessandro Ludovico

Associate Professor, Winchester School of Art
Alessandro Ludovico is a researcher, artist and chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Lecturer... Read More →
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Abigail Susik

Associate Professor of Art History, Willamette University
Abigail Susik received her doctorate with distinction in twentieth-century Art History and Theory from Columbia University in 2009, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art History at Willamette University in Oregon. She is the author of many articles on dada and Surrealism... Read More →
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Miguel Valenzuela

PhD candidate, UNSW
Technology and art - waste cycles - remediated hybridised forms... website... http://finetonepictures.com/MFV/index.html

Monday August 17, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Cinema, Room 3200 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

11:30am PDT

[Session 4] Communities: Culture and Art in the Field
Shelly Farnham. Fostering A Community of Innovation at the Intersection of Art and Technology in the Pacific Northwest [View Long Paper]

Jiayue Cecilia Wu and Francois Conti. The Virtual Mandala [View Short Paper]

Anja Venter. Smash the Black Box – designing for creative mobile machinery [View Long Paper]


Moderators
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Paul Catanese

Columbia College Chicago

Presenters
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Shelly Farnham

Executive Director, Third Place Technologies
Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D. is the founder and Executive Director of Third Place Technologies. She is a leading expert in community technology R&D, with over fifteen years of experience as a research scientist in world class industry research organizations including Microsoft Research... Read More →
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Anja Venter

Dr Anja “Nanna” Venter-Rausch is a self-proclaimed “Art-stronaut”. She is a visual designer who completed her Master’s degree in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town with a focus on video game culture in marginal settings. In 2018 she was awarded her Ph.D. which... Read More →
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Jiaue Wu

Researcher, UC Santa Barbara|Santa Barbara |California|United States
Originally from Beijing, Jiayue Cecilia Wu is a studio engineer, multimedia artist, vocalist, composer, music technologist and media arts scholar. Cecilia obtained her Master’s degree in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University, where she focused on computer-assisted... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 16] Embodied Interaction and Dance
Greg Corness, Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo and Kristin Carlson.Perceiving Physical Media Agents: Exploring Intention in a Robot Dance Partner [View Long Paper]

Megan Beckwith and Kim Vincs. Parallax: Dancing the Digital Space [View Long Paper]
Moderators
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John Toenjes

Associate Professor, Music Director, Department of Dance, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dance and Computer Technology, Music for Concert Dance

Presenters
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Megan Beckwith

PhD Student/Research Assistant, Deakin University
Megan combines live performance & multi-media to develop works that explore the relationship between the physical & virtual. She investigates this relationship by combining contemporary dance and 3D animation in a choreographic process that layers one over the other, re-working the... Read More →
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Kristin Carlson

Assistant Professor, Illinois State University
Kristin Carlson is an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University's Arts Technology Program. She is also a PhD Candidate in the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University studying with Dr. Thecla Schiphorst and Dr. Philippe Pasquier. Kristin is interested... Read More →
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Greg Corness

Assistant Professor, Columbia College Chicago
Greg Corness is an Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago working with embodied interaction in media environments. His background in music, theatre and dance provides the basis for his research which focus on interdisciplinary improvisation, distributed cognition in performance... Read More →
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Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Interactive Artist/Designer/Researcher
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Kim Vincs

Director, Deakin Motion.Lab
I direct the Deakin Motion.Lab, in Melbourne, Australia. Motion.Lab is a movement, art and technology research centre working across the intersections between movement practice and technologies such as motion capture, AR, VR, haptics and robotics. I am a choreographer and interactive... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4525 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 21] Bio-Art II
Diego S. Maranan and Angelo Vermeulen. When Ideas Migrate: A Postcolonial Perspective on Biomodd [LBA2] [View Long Paper]

Clarissa Ribeiro. Owner of a Lonely Heart: (Danio rerio) Embryonic Heartbeats [View Short Paper]

Melentie Pandilovski. Toxicity at the Equidistance of Biotechnology and Biopolitics [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Tyler Fox

Studio Director, IMD, University of Washington | Bothell
Tyler Fox is an artist, researcher and educator interested in posthumanism, relational ontology, process philosophy, assemblage, nonhumans, emergence, technology…and more. His work focuses on creating shared experiences between humans and nonhumans. He received his PhD from the... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Diego S. Maranan

Diego S. Maranan

PhD student / Lecturer, CogNovo, Plymouth University / University of the Philippines
www.diegomaranan.com
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Melentie Pandilovski

Director, Video Pool Media Art Centre
I am a media art theorist/historian, curator, and critic. I work as Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Canada. I have curated more than 150 exhibitions and organized numerous symposia, conferences, and workshops, in Europe, Australia, and Canada, such as: “SEAFair... Read More →
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Clarissa Ribeiro

Associate Professor, Roy Ascott Studio
Clarissa Ribeiro is a Brazilian multimedia artist and researcher based in Shanghai, with an interest in cross-scale information and communication dynamics that impact and shape macro-scale emergent phenomena. In her more recent projects, she explores the metaphysics of information-visualization... Read More →
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Monday August 17, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 27] MetaCreators: The Generative Artists
Arne Eigenfeldt. A Composer’s Search for Creativity Within Computational Style Modeling [View Long Paper]

Francesca Franco. Disruptive Systems and Organizing Principles in Generative Art: Two cases (1980-ongoing) by British artist Ernest Edmonds. [View Long Paper]

Jessica Rodríguez and Rolando Rodríguez. LiveCode Readings: Algorithms viewed as text. [View Short Paper]

Christiane Paul. From Immateriality to Neomateriality: Art and the Conditions of Digital Materiality [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Philippe Pasquier

ISEA2015 Symposium Director, Associate Professor, Scool of Interactive Arts + Technology
Dr. Philippe Pasquier is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. He is both a recognized scientist and a multi-disciplinary artist. His contributions range from theoretical research in artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Arne Eigenfeldt

Arne Eigenfeldt

Professor, Music and Technology, Simon Fraser University|Vancouver|BC|Canada
Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, and is an active software designer. His music has been performed throughout the world, and his research in intelligent music systems has been published and presented in international conferences. He teaches music... Read More →
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Francesca Franco

University of Exeter
Francesca Franco is a Venetian-born art historian based in the UK. She is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where she is researching the history of media art and the Venice Biennale. She is CI on the AHRC-funded project "Documenting digital art: re-thinking histories... Read More →
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Christiane Paul

Associate Prof | Associate Dean, The New School; Whitney Museum
Christiane Paul is Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Wr... Read More →
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Jessica Rodriguez

Co-founder, Andamio
Master in Arts -Line in Music. I like to mix sound an visual concepts to work with video in real time. Me and my dad founded Andamio (that is a collaboration platform) in 2012 and, since then, We have worked with others producers creating workshops, videos, performances, all of then... Read More →
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Rolando Guitar Rodriguez

Co.founder, Andamio
I do really love to write and generate projects as well as teaching. Rigth now I am studing my Master in Contemporary Art and working in different projects about the intrinsic connection between image and body.

Monday August 17, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 40] Theory and Critique
Kevin Hamilton and Katja Kwastek. Slow Media Art - Seeing Through Speed in Critiques of Modernity [View Long Paper]

Ko-Chiu Wu, Saiau-Yue Tsau and Yu-Chun Lin. Floating Identities：Me, Her and Us – An Interactive Site-Specific Art Installation Based on Adler’s Inferiority Complex to Conclude the De-tachment and Reform of Modern Females  [View Long Paper]

Eileen Skyers. On Internet Art: A Critique of the Imperceptible Interface  [View Short Paper]

Sophie-Carolin Wagner. Change: The aporia of conservation and subversion  [View Short Paper] 
Moderators
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Sarah Fdili Alaoui

University, SIAT
http://saralaoui.com/

Presenters
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Kevin Hamilton

Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Here at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, we are leaning into two cross-college strategic initiatives that connect very much to concerns I've experienced at A2RU - one in the arts of African-American and Afro-diasporic cultures and places, and the other in Arts Impact... Read More →
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Sophie-Carolin Wagner

Board of Directors, RIAT - Research Institute for Arts and Technology
Sophie-Carolin investigates elaborately, works passionately, quotes vigorously, writes peripatetically, communicates epistemologically, but not exclusively insightfully, holds as many degrees as names and never signed up to Facebook.She lives and works as in Vienna, currently as researcher... Read More →
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Monday August 17, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4945 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 41] Navigating Communities and Data
Claire Hentschker and Ali Momeni. Statuevision: A participatory, collaborative, cross-generational, urban intervention with public monuments as primary content [View Long Paper]

Giselle Beiguelman. Corrupted Memories: Aesthetics of Digital Ruins And The New Art Museums [View Long Paper]
Moderators
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Dr. Maria Lantin

Director of the Stereoscopic 3D Centre, Emily Carr University
Maria Lantin is the Director of the Stereoscopic 3D Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has a deep interest in space and movement both physical and metaphorical, and this is woven through her work in immersive media and interaction. She takes pleasure in scanning... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Giselle Beiguelman

Giselle Beiguelman

Professor, University of São Paulo
Giselle Beiguelman investigates the aesthetics of memory and develops projects of artistic interventions in the public space and with digital media. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture History and Aesthetics of the Project at the Faculty of Architecture and... Read More →
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Ali Momeni

Co-founder, IRL Labs

Monday August 17, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4320 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 5] Intangible Heritage
Jacek Smolicki. De-totalizing capture: on personal recording and archiving practices [View Long Paper]

Jonathan Amakawa. Historical Residue, an Augmented Reality App and the Exploration of the Lost Town of New Philadelphia, Illinois [View Short Paper]

Kate Hennessy, Claude Fortin, Aynur Kadir, Reese Muntean and Rachel Ward. Producing New Media Ethnographies with a Multi-Sited Approach [View Long Paper]

Annie On Ni Wan. Can Art Save Hong Kong? - A Case Study of Preserving Hong Kong Cinema as an Intangible Cultural Heritage [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Aisling Kelliher

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Aisling is an associate professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech University within the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. She also holds a joint appointment at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at VT. Aisling creates and studies interactive media systems... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Jonathan Amakawa

Jonathan Amakawa

Assistant Professor, Fitchburg State University
I am a 3D artist who specializes in creating interactive museum exhibits and educational media. My work integrates sculpture, drawing, architecture and animation in a virtual environment. I have developed virtual reality-based history exhibits on Negro League baseball and the Underground... Read More →
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Claude Fortin

Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology
social smart cities; public interaction with and through technology; immersive installations; digital displays and media façades.
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Kate Hennessy

Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Kate Hennessy is an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). She is a co-curator of the 2018 MWX. As the director of the Making Culture Lab at SIAT, her research explores the role of digital technology... Read More →
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Aynur Kadir

Simon Fraser University
Aynur Kadir is an interdisciplinary scholar, media anthropologist, a doctoral researcher at the Making Culture Lab, Simon Fraser University, who works with Uyghur community in northwest China. She is working on her doctorate with Kate Hennessy on the safeguarding of Uyghur cultural... Read More →
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Jacek Smolicki

PhD researcher, Malmö University
Jacek Smolicki is an artist, designer and researcher currently undertaking PhD studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University in Sweden. In his research Smolicki explores recording practices conducted by individuals who creatively, subversively and reflectively... Read More →
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Rachel Ward

Ph.D. Student, Simon Fraser University
Rachel is completing her Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology with a focus on digital anthropology, intangible cultural heritage and experimental ethnography. She strives to convey culture using interactive, visual, digital and sensory-based mediums... Read More →

Monday August 17, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers
 
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9:30am PDT

[Session 12] GeoPolitics and Activism
Tomas Laurenzo. Geopolitical Subjectivity [View Long Paper]

Andreas Zingerle. Scambaiters, Human Flesh Search Engine, Perverted justice, and Internet Haganah: Villains, Avengers, or Saviors on the Internet? [View Long Paper]

Tugce Oklay. An Aesthetic Reading of Online Artivist Projects [View Short Paper]

Vicki Moulder, Michael Heidt and Lorna Boschman.Transcoding the Aesthetics of Activism [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Alice Ming Wai Jim

Associate Professor, Concordia University
Alice Ming Wai Jim is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is co-editor of the scholarly journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill Publishers, Leiden, NL). She is the 2015 recipient... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Lorna Boschman

Lorna Boschman

Post-doctoral researcher and Project Co-Ordinator, University of British Columbia Cancer's Margins
Lorna Boschman is a leading Canadian new media/video artist whose work has helped to define community engagement within the field of social practice. She has achieved artistic accreditation and has been honoured with many awards (From the Inside/OUT!; (2000) NFB Kathleen Shannon Award... Read More →
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Tomas Laurenzo

Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media
Tomás Laurenzo, PhD, is an artist and academic who works with both physical and digital media exploring the artistic construction of meaning and its relation with power and politics.With a background in both computer science and art, Laurenzo's work spans across different practices... Read More →
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Vicki Moulder

Artist, PhD Candidate, ISEA2015 Performance Chair, Simon Fraser University
Vicki Moulder is an artist and PhD candidate studying at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She holds a Master of Arts from SIAT and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University in visual communications. Molder is a pioneer... Read More →
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Tugce Oklay

PhD Candidate, University of Paris 8
After finishing BA in International Relations at Galatasaray University; and MA at EHESS in Theories and Practices of Language and Arts; I continued my studies at the University of Paris 8 in Contemporary Art and New Media department. I am currently a PhD student at the Graduate School... Read More →
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Andreas Zingerle

Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Art and Design Linz
Andreas Zingerle is a media artist from Innsbruck, Austria. He is a PhD candidate at the Timebased and Interactive Media Department in Linz (Austria). He is researching scambaiting strategies and implements their mechanics in interactive narratives and media competence trainings... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
World Art, Room 2515 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

9:30am PDT

[Session 17] Expanding Performance
Christopher Bishop. Mashup Realities: Exploring Experience in Networked Interactive Environments for Dance [View Long Paper]

John Toenjes and M. Anthony Reimer. LAIT – The Laboratory for Audience Interactive Technologies: Don’t “Turn it Off” — “Turn it On!” [View Short Paper]

Jordan Vincent, Kim Vincs and John McCormick. ‘Splitting Centre’: directing attention in trans-media dance performance [View Short Paper]

Shannon Cuykendall, Michael Junokas, Mohammad Amanzadeh, David Kim Tcheng, Kyungho Lee, Yawen Wang and Guy Garnett. Translating Expression: Multimodal Analysis of Taiko Technique [View Short Paper]
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avatar for Sarah Fdili Alaoui

Sarah Fdili Alaoui

University, SIAT
http://saralaoui.com/

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Mohammad Amanzadeh

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Christopher Bishop

PhD student & Digital Designer/Developer, Monash University
Christopher Bishop is a digital designer. He is currently a PhD student at Monash University, Australia, researching UX design and movement-based interaction design in networked spaces. The PhD research investigates UX, including studying user behaviour, user flow, and prototyping... Read More →
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Shannon Cuykendall

PhD Student, Simon Fraser University
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Michael J Junokas

Research Assistant, Illinois Informatics Institute
Michael J Junokas develops innovative, multi-platform systems that have the ability to gather, interpret, process, and control signals in live artistic performance. Through the exploration of these systems, he hopes to create immersive technological environments artists can use for... Read More →
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John McCormick

Deputy Director, Deakin Motion.Lab
John McCormick is an artist whose interests include electronic performance, interactive installation, machine learning for interaction and robot performance. John is deputy director of the Deakin Motion.Lab and also works with the Centre for Intelligent Systems Research at Deakin... Read More →
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John Toenjes

Associate Professor, Music Director, Department of Dance, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dance and Computer Technology, Music for Concert Dance
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Dr Jordan Beth Vincent

Research Fellow, Deakin Motion.Lab
Dr Jordan Beth Vincent is a Melbourne-based dance historian and dance critic for Fairfax Media, and a researcher in the areas of live performance and new technology. Jordan is a Research Fellow in Deakin’s School of Communication and Creative Arts, based in the Deakin Motion.Lab... Read More →
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Kim Vincs

Director, Deakin Motion.Lab
I direct the Deakin Motion.Lab, in Melbourne, Australia. Motion.Lab is a movement, art and technology research centre working across the intersections between movement practice and technologies such as motion capture, AR, VR, haptics and robotics. I am a choreographer and interactive... Read More →
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Yawen Wang

Composer, Music Director, Interdisciplinary Artist, Asian Rain Werk inter/arts
Described by Colin Thomas of Vancouver's Georgia Straight as "a dancer at the keyboard", Yawen Wang is an all-terrain interdisciplinary performance artist crossing over music, dance and theatre. A genre-defying artist, Yawen has created a body of work in the realms of music composition... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 4525 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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9:30am PDT

[Session 22] Liquid Transformations
Jean Brundrit. At sea with the past: reflections on an artwork [View Short Paper]

Zelf Koelman, Mark J. de Graaf and Hans J. Leeuw. From meaning to liquid matters. [View Long Paper]

Christoph Theiler and Renate Pittroff. Fluid Control - Media Evolution in Water. [View Short Paper]

Karen Anne Cochrane, Prophecy Sun, Kristin Carlson, Maria Lantin and Thecla Schiphorst. Mother, Body, and Weather: An Artistic Exploration of Transcending the Physical Experience of Motherhood [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Aleksandra Kaminska

Aleksandra Kaminska

Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University

Presenters
avatar for Jean Brundrit

Jean Brundrit

Senior lecturer, University of Cape Town
Jean Brundrit is a visual artist who works with photographic media. She has exhibited extensively in South Africa and contributed to a number of international exhibitions. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town where she teaches photography... Read More →
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Kristin Carlson

Assistant Professor, Illinois State University
Kristin Carlson is an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University's Arts Technology Program. She is also a PhD Candidate in the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University studying with Dr. Thecla Schiphorst and Dr. Philippe Pasquier. Kristin is interested... Read More →
avatar for Karen Anne Cochrane

Karen Anne Cochrane

Graduate Student, Simon Fraser University
Karen Cochrane is a MSc student studying with Dr. Thecla Schiphorst at Simon Fraser University with the MovingStories research project. With an interest in art, wearable technology and health, her thesis revolves around designing wearable technology to assist the therapist-client... Read More →
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Zelf Koelman

Graduate Student / Entrepreneur, Eindhoven University of Technology
Innovation from an integral perspective of Art, Design and Technology for new Social and Commercial value. I have a strong interest in emerging technologies and universal aspects of aesthetic perception and human needs that are embedded in different theories which, in their turn... Read More →
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Dr. Maria Lantin

Director of the Stereoscopic 3D Centre, Emily Carr University
Maria Lantin is the Director of the Stereoscopic 3D Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has a deep interest in space and movement both physical and metaphorical, and this is woven through her work in immersive media and interaction. She takes pleasure in scanning... Read More →
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Renate Pittroff

artist, wechselstrom
“wechselstrom” is a label owned by Renate Pittroff and Christoph Theiler. Based in Vienna, “wechselstrom” runs a socalled “offspace”, which offers room for exhibitions, media activism and all art forms on the fringe of culture. For support we thank the austrian cultural... Read More →
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Thecla Schiphorst

Professor, SFU
Dr. Thecla Schiphorst is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her background in dance and computing form the basis for her research in embodied interaction, focusing on movement... Read More →
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Prophecy Sun

prOphecy sun’s interdisciplinary performance practice treads together both conscious and unconscious choreographies, sound, and environment, to create exploratory works that invoke deep body memory and draw from an interior landscape of dreams. She is a recent graduate from the... Read More →
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Christoph Theiler

artist, wechselstrom
“wechselstrom” is a label owned by Renate Pittroff and Christoph Theiler. Based in Vienna, “wechselstrom” runs a socalled “offspace”, which offers room for exhibitions, media activism and all art forms on the fringe of culture. For support we thank the austrian... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

9:30am PDT

[Session 31] Generative Sound
Sarah Opolka, Torsten Schaub and Philipp Obermeier. Automatic Genre-Dependent Composition using Answer Set Programming  [View Long Paper]

Evan Merz. Musical Structure Imitation using Segmentation, and k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN)  [View Short Paper]

Arne Eigenfeldt, Oliver Bown and Benjamin Carey. Manifesto for a Musebot Ensemble: A platform for live interactive performance between multiple autonomous musical agents  [View Long Paper]

Eric Heep and Ajay Kapur. Extracting Visual Information to Generate Sonic Art Installation and Performance  [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Philippe Pasquier

Philippe Pasquier

ISEA2015 Symposium Director, Associate Professor, Scool of Interactive Arts + Technology
Dr. Philippe Pasquier is Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. He is both a recognized scientist and a multi-disciplinary artist. His contributions range from theoretical research in artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Oliver Bown

Oliver Bown

Senior Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Art & Design, Interactive Media Lab
I am a researcher and maker working with creative technologies. I come from a highly diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning... Read More →
avatar for Benjamin Carey

Benjamin Carey

University of Technology Sydney
Ben Carey is a Sydney-based saxophonist, composer and technologist with interests in contemporary classical, interactive, improvised and electro-acoustic music. His recent research and practice incorporates equal parts improvisation, composition and the development of musical software... Read More →
avatar for Arne Eigenfeldt

Arne Eigenfeldt

Professor, Music and Technology, Simon Fraser University|Vancouver|BC|Canada
Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, and is an active software designer. His music has been performed throughout the world, and his research in intelligent music systems has been published and presented in international conferences. He teaches music... Read More →
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Tuesday August 18, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

9:30am PDT

[Session 6] Cities and Urbanism
Edward Johnston, Michael Richison and Marina Vujnovic.Augmented Asbury Park: Disrupting the Present with Remnants of History in Augmented Reality [View Short Paper]

Laura Lee Coles. Disrupting Conventional Boundaries of Public Art In Urban Space [View Short Paper]

Michael Hornblow. O’megaVille: Excursions in Planetary Urbanism [View Short Paper]

Sandra Álvaro Sánchez. Disruptive strategies on the Postdigital city [View Short Paper]

Jenny Filipetti. Cart(ont)ology [View Short Paper]

Yun Tae Nam. Case Study: White Night Melbourne in 2013 and 2014 Disruption or Contribution Toward the Socially Engaged Public (Art)? [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Tyler Fox

Tyler Fox

Studio Director, IMD, University of Washington | Bothell
Tyler Fox is an artist, researcher and educator interested in posthumanism, relational ontology, process philosophy, assemblage, nonhumans, emergence, technology…and more. His work focuses on creating shared experiences between humans and nonhumans. He received his PhD from the... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Laura Lee Coles

Laura Lee Coles

Founder/Artistic Director, LocoMotoArt
Laura Lee Coles is an arts-based researcher and exhibiting multi-disciplinary artist. She holds a Master of Arts from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests are: Human, Technology and Nature Interaction and Re-visioning Public... Read More →
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Ed Johnston

Assistant Professor, Kean University, RBSD, Michael Graves College
For my presentation, please download the free Junaio app for your mobile device. Junaio - Apple Store Apple Store: https://goo.gl/9ReSrr Junaio - Android Apps on Google Play Google Play Store: https://goo.gl/oXbMA0... Read More →
avatar for Yun Tae Nam

Yun Tae Nam

PhD Candidate, Part-Time Lecturer, Monash University, sensiLab
His interest lies primarily in multimedia design dealing with nature, human experience and technology for interactive installations. His several works had received awards in the Korea Design Exhibition in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He is also a nominated designer by Korea Institution of... Read More →
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Sandra Alvaro Sanchez

PhD candidate, UAB
Sandra Álvaro is New Media Artist and PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy of the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). Her thesis investigates the artistic appropriation of the “space of the embodied virtuality”, concept proposed to denominate the technical assemblage... Read More →
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Tuesday August 18, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Cinema, Room 3200 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 11] Survellience
Annina Rüst. Participatory (Counter-) Surveillance and the Internet [View Long Paper]

Tom Kohut. Towards an Autopoiesis of Surveillance [View Short Paper]

Leo Selvaggio. URME Surveillance: Analyzing Viral Face-crime [View Short Paper]

Margaret Seymour. Remote and Embodied Sensing: observations on interactive art and politically engaged practice [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Tomas Laurenzo

Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media
Tomás Laurenzo, PhD, is an artist and academic who works with both physical and digital media exploring the artistic construction of meaning and its relation with power and politics.With a background in both computer science and art, Laurenzo's work spans across different practices... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Tom Kohut

Tom Kohut

Independent critic and curator
Tom Kohut is an author, critic and curator living in Winnipeg, Canada. He holds an M.A. in English from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) where he specialized in cultural theory and the twentieth-century avant garde. He has written on film, video, new media theory, sound art... Read More →
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Annina Rüst

Assistant Professor, Syracuse University / Department of Transmedia
Annina Rüst produces electronic objects and software art. She creates technologies that are artistically and socially motivated. Her projects happen at the intersection of activism, algorithm, data, electricity, humor, politics, and pop culture. Her work has been reviewed in such... Read More →
avatar for Leo Selvaggio

Leo Selvaggio

Independent Artist
As an artist, I investigate the entanglements of identity with technology. I treat identity as data that can be manipulated, hacked, or even corrupted in our increasingly digital and networked society. Within the larger context of surveillance, my work examines how this data is subject... Read More →
avatar for Margaret Seymour

Margaret Seymour

Lecturer, University of Sydney
Margaret Seymour is interested in the dynamic interplay of vision and spectatorship and how this interaction manifests in visual culture and in contemporary society. She often incorporates lens-based media in her artworks but doesn’t necessarily make work for the screen. Instead... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
World Art, Room 2515 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 23] Interacting with the Virtual
Priyanka Borar. Puppetree: a remediation of theatre, from spectatorship to co-authoring [View Short Paper]

Saeedeh Bayatpour, Ulysses Bernardet, Steve Dipaola, Alexandra Kitson and Bernhard Riecke. Exploring Facial Expressions for Human-Computer Interaction: Combining Visual Face Tracking and EMG Data to Control a Flight Simulation Game [View Long Paper]


Timothy Barraclough, Dale Carnegie and Ajay Kapur. Pyxis Minor: App Design for Novel Social Music Experiences [View Short Paper]

Rewa Wright. Mobile Augmented Reality Art and the Politics of Re-assembly [View Short Paper]

Tara Elizabeth Cook  "Contemporary Legacies: The lossful image under the conditions of compression" [View Short Paxis]
 
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avatar for Priyanka Borar

Priyanka Borar

New media designer
Priyanka is a New media designer and researcher based out of Bangalore, India. She enjoys playing with technology and bending it to discover new forms of expression. Her research interests lie in discovering how performing arts can inform the changing aesthetics of human-computer... Read More →
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Steve DiPaola

Prof, Dir of Cog Sci, Simon Fraser University
Steve DiPaola, active as an artist and a scientist is director of the Cognitive Science Program at Simon Fraser University, and leads the iVizLab (ivizlab.sfu.ca), a research lab that strives to make computational systems bend more to the human experience by incorporating biological... Read More →
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Bernhard Riecke

Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, SIAT, iSpaceLab
I am a psycho-physicist and Cognitive Scientist who’s excited about study­ing how humans orient in vir­tual and real envi­ron­ments. I received my PhD in Physics from the Tübingen University in Germany and researched for a decade in the Virtual Reality group of the Max Planck... Read More →
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Rewa Wright

PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales
Rewa Wright is fascinated by shifts in dynamic systems and emergent computational assemblages. She works across the territories of generative art, mixed reality, experimental documentary, and live audio-visual performance. She spends most of her time generating unholy conjunctions... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Studio D, Room 2270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 30] Networked and Mobile Sound
Ben Houge and Javier Sanchez. The Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias: Real-Time Performance and Crowd-Distributed Music Diffusion with Networked Mobile Devices  [View Long Paper]

Rocio von Jungenfeld. The Audiovisual Ghetto Blaster Effect  [View Long Paper]

Oliver Bown, Lian Loke, Sam Ferguson and Dagmar Reinhardt. Distributed Interactive Audio Devices: Creative strategies and audience responses to novel musical interaction scenarios  [View Short Paper]

Jeffrey Morris. Weblogmusic: Taking the Mediatized Stage  [View Short Paper]
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Presenters
avatar for Oliver Bown

Oliver Bown

Senior Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Art & Design, Interactive Media Lab
I am a researcher and maker working with creative technologies. I come from a highly diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning... Read More →
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avatar for Ben Houge

Ben Houge

Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music
Recent work involves Web Audio API and live performance with audience mobile devices. Working on a series of "food operas," applying real-time, generative music to the unpredictable events of a restaurant in a 30-channel sound system. Active in the Chinese experimental sound scene... Read More →
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avatar for Lian Loke

Lian Loke

Lian Loke pursues an interdisciplinary creative practice across performance, installation and technology, with the body as a constant theme. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, and co-founder of the Pork Collective... Read More →
avatar for Jeffrey Morris

Jeffrey Morris

Studio Director, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assoc. Prof., Texas A&M University / PerfTech
I identify as a composer. Sometimes I end up also being a performer, instrument designer, or curator, as my projects lead me to compose more than notes: images, motions, the environment (or predicament) from which art will emerge, or the sense of trust, confusion, or liveness. Ask... Read More →
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Dagmar Reinhardt

Dagmar Reinhardt leads the Master of Digital Architecture Research at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney. She is also an architect and practice director of reinhardtjung (www.reinhardtjung.de), a research-led, international design and architecture... Read More →
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Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 42] Expanding Performance 2
Claudia Núñez-Pacheco and Lian Loke. Focusing and the Felt Sense: Towards A Methodological Framework For Body-Centric Artifact Design [View Long Paper]

Carla Capeto. Dramaturgy as an enquiry on how interweave space, body and technology in performative interactive installations [View Short Paper]

Ksenia Fedorova. Augmented Reality and Proprioception: towards a Theoretical Framework [View Short Paper]
Moderators
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Kim Vincs

Director, Deakin Motion.Lab
I direct the Deakin Motion.Lab, in Melbourne, Australia. Motion.Lab is a movement, art and technology research centre working across the intersections between movement practice and technologies such as motion capture, AR, VR, haptics and robotics. I am a choreographer and interactive... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Carla Capeto

Carla Capeto

PhD candidate, Central Saint Martins
Carla is a Portuguese artist and research currently based in London where she is completing her PhD at Central Saint Martins. She holds a degree in Theatre Studies and Master in Art and New Technology by the European University. After her master she remain in Madrid for six years... Read More →
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Ksenia Fedorova

University of California, Davis
Media art researcher and curator, PhD in philosophy/aesthetics (Russia), PhD candidate in Cultural Studies, University of California at Davis, co-editor of "Media: Between Magic and Technology" (2014, in Russian), initiator and curator of the "Art. Science. Technology" program at... Read More →
avatar for Lian Loke

Lian Loke

Lian Loke pursues an interdisciplinary creative practice across performance, installation and technology, with the body as a constant theme. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, and co-founder of the Pork Collective... Read More →
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Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 4945 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

2:00pm PDT

[Session 7] Communities: Public Art
Paul Sermon, Claire McAndrew and Swati Janu. 3x4: Exploring metaspace platforms for inclusive future cities [View Short Paper]

Claude Fortin and Kate Hennessy. Designing Interfaces to Experience Interactive Installations Together [View Long Paper]

Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon. Occupy the Screen: A cultural and contextual study of urban screens [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Bonnie Mitchell

Bonnie Mitchell

Secretary, ISEA International

Presenters
avatar for Claude Fortin

Claude Fortin

Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology
social smart cities; public interaction with and through technology; immersive installations; digital displays and media façades.
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Kate Hennessy

Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Kate Hennessy is an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). She is a co-curator of the 2018 MWX. As the director of the Making Culture Lab at SIAT, her research explores the role of digital technology... Read More →
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Paul Sermon

Professor of Visual Communication, University of Brighton
Paul Sermon is Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton, UK. He has developed a series of celebrated interactive telematic art installations that have received international acclaim. Paul was previously Professor of Creative Technology at the University of Salford... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 2:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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4:00pm PDT

[Session 18] Movement and Bodies
Lise Hansen. From scripts to scores – Movement as an embodied material for digital interaction [View Long Paper]

Alice Ming Wai Jim. Technologies of Self-Fashioning: Virtual Ethnicities in New Media Art [View Long Paper]

Michael Junokas, Kyungho Lee, Mohammad Amazadeh, Yishuo Liu and Guy Garnett. Capturing and Recognizing Expressive Performance Gesture [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Diego S. Maranan

Diego S. Maranan

PhD student / Lecturer, CogNovo, Plymouth University / University of the Philippines
www.diegomaranan.com

Presenters
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Mohammad Amanzadeh

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Alice Ming Wai Jim

Associate Professor, Concordia University
Alice Ming Wai Jim is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is co-editor of the scholarly journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill Publishers, Leiden, NL). She is the 2015 recipient... Read More →
avatar for Michael J Junokas

Michael J Junokas

Research Assistant, Illinois Informatics Institute
Michael J Junokas develops innovative, multi-platform systems that have the ability to gather, interpret, process, and control signals in live artistic performance. Through the exploration of these systems, he hopes to create immersive technological environments artists can use for... Read More →
avatar for Kyungho Lee

Tuesday August 18, 2015 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 4525 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
  Papers

4:00pm PDT

[Session 28] Generation and Human Factors
David Cotterrell and Jordan Kaplan. Ostrich Effects [View Short Paper]

Simon Laroche and Etienne Grenier. Projet EVA - Subservient Techno for Subservient Minds [View Short Paper]

Carl Diehl and Lindsey French. Antonymic Exchange [View Short Paper]

John McCormick, Steph Hutchison and Kim Vincs.Emergent behaviour: learning from an artificially intelligent performing software agent [View Short Paper]

Steph Hutchison, John McCormick and Kim Vincs. Meta: Notes from a Dancer From Inside a Duet with an AI Agent. [View Long Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Arne Eigenfeldt

Arne Eigenfeldt

Professor, Music and Technology, Simon Fraser University|Vancouver|BC|Canada
Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music, and is an active software designer. His music has been performed throughout the world, and his research in intelligent music systems has been published and presented in international conferences. He teaches music... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for David Cotterrell

David Cotterrell

Professor of Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University
David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across media and technologies to explore the social and political tendencies of a world at once shared and divided. The practice is typified by an interest in intersection: whether fleeting encounter or heavily orchestrated event... Read More →
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Carl Diehl

Extending the function of metaphors, puns, neologism and other linguistic devices into new contexts, Carl Diehl moves between genres and across media, pursuing new paths of inquiry into the history and social practice of technology. Together with Lindsey French he is developing... Read More →
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Lindsey French

Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lindsey French is a Chicago-based artist and educator. Engaging in gestures of communication with landscapes and the nonhuman, her work spans a variety of media including video, performance, audio sculpture, and generative literature. French has exhibited and presented work at the... Read More →
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Etienne Grenier

Co-Director / Artist, Projet EVA
Etienne Grenier stems from the realm of digital art and culture. His activities as a multimedia designer lead him to collaborate with multiple partners in the fields of architecture, theatre, dance, lighting and video. As a co-founder of the Projet EVA collective, he explores the... Read More →
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Steph Hutchison

PhD Candidate & Artist-Researcher, Deakin Motion.Lab
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Simon Laroche

Co-Founder, Projet EVA
Artist & teacher. I make robotics, video and audio work. I like to include humans in artworks too. laroche.projet-eva.org
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John McCormick

Deputy Director, Deakin Motion.Lab
John McCormick is an artist whose interests include electronic performance, interactive installation, machine learning for interaction and robot performance. John is deputy director of the Deakin Motion.Lab and also works with the Centre for Intelligent Systems Research at Deakin... Read More →
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Kim Vincs

Director, Deakin Motion.Lab
I direct the Deakin Motion.Lab, in Melbourne, Australia. Motion.Lab is a movement, art and technology research centre working across the intersections between movement practice and technologies such as motion capture, AR, VR, haptics and robotics. I am a choreographer and interactive... Read More →

Tuesday August 18, 2015 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 4270 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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4:00pm PDT

[Session 8] Exploring Culture through Visualization and Interaction
Geoff Hinchcliffe. DaDa Visualisation [View Short Paper]

Jing Zhou. Living Mandala: The Cosmic of Being [View Short Paper]

Scott Hessels. Too Big To See: The Need for Design Strategies to Visualize Multiple Spatiotemporal Datasets [View Short Paper]

Paula Levine and William Hsu. City to City [View Long Paper]

Yara Guasque. Reopening the inscription Rodrigo Arteaga, from the inscription to the phenomenon [View Short Paper]
Moderators
avatar for Bonnie Mitchell

Bonnie Mitchell

Secretary, ISEA International

Presenters
avatar for Yara Guasque

Yara Guasque

Retired Associate Professor, Udesc
Non affiliated artist and independent researcher
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Scott Hessels

Associate Professor, School of Creative Media
Scott Hessels (b. 1958) is an American filmmaker, sculptor and media artist based in Hong Kong. His artworks span different media including film, video, online, music, broadcast, print, kinetic sculpture, and performance. His films have shown internationally and his new media installations... Read More →
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Geoff Hinchcliffe

Head of Creative Production, University of Canberra
I'm at the University of Canberra where I head up a department broadly concerned with digital design and media production - Media Arts, Graphic Design, Front-End Web, Film Production. With colleagues @mtchl and @wragge I contribute to the Digital Treasures research program where... Read More →
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William Hsu

Associate Professor, San Francisco State University
I work with electronics and real-time animation systems. I am interested in real-time performance systems that have some of the live, tactile qualities of good human musicians playing acoustic instruments, and the non-linear behavior of natural systems. My work mostly involves using... Read More →
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Paula Levine

Artist/Professor, San Francisco State University
Paula Levine is an artist working with locative technologies, cartography and digital media. Current work explores spaces between information and experience using networks, public spaces and mobile tools. Her work has shown nationally and internationally, most recently at San Jose’s... Read More →
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Jing Zhou

Associate Professor, Monmouth University
http://www.jingzhoustudio.net

Tuesday August 18, 2015 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Studio T, Room 2240 Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)
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