Working with Motion Capture and AI as tools for Live Animation
I want to talk about my own way of using (and mis-using) technology in my work and why I employ it as a tool that represents the topic I want to talk about. Spawning from that, I want to touch on topics of newer technology like MotionCapture and AI, and the (ethical, political and anthropological) questions that come up when using them in combination with more traditional animation techniques.
Symposium: Sa, 22 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
24 Hour Clocks, Metamorphosing the Proletariat into the Precariat
This proposal focuses on a 24 hour surveillance time-lapse of the iconic Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne. This work is related to a 16mm documentary on the station, On Time, made by the Commonwealth Film Unit in 1953, 70 years earlier.
Symposium: Sa, 22 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
Embodied Ice:
Beyond the digital call and response
Animation is finding a comfortable home in interactive works in which a viewer’s input via digital sensors triggers an output of audio-visual content. But beyond a simple call and response, how can the viewer be coaxed into a more complicated relationship with the artwork?
Symposium: Fr, 21 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
Surprisingly or not, animating directly under the camera has not lost in popularity with the rise of digital animation techniques. Could it be, that the need for tactility in the animation process is the reason for this? In this presentation, I explore my artistic work in relation to the role the body plays in the creative process.
Symposium: Fr, 21 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
This twenty-minute presentation covers the dregs, so to speak, giving an insight "behind the scenes" and about my thoughts that underpin and motivate my always analogue 16mm Expanded Cinema performances.
Symposium: Fr, 21 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
From the "Erased de Kooning Drawing" (1953) by Robert Rauschenberg to being erased by the technology
Robert Rauschenberg was fascinated by technology and created his artworks, that were often hybrids of various media, along with engineering. One important element of his artistic strategy was the use of the 'erasure' technique.
Symposium: Fr, 21 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
We now mostly create our digital images through interacting with interfaces without really knowing or questioning what lies beneath the screen. We are encouraged to be thankful for a simplified creative experience, but does this serve our imagination, our uniqueness and specificity as artists?
Symposium: Th, 20 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
Thought experiments often go back to a shift in known parameters: imagine to stop time! Imagine that the speed of light was only 30 km/h! But what happens if you make these shifted parameters the basis of your technical developments and implement them as functions in machines?
Symposium: SA, 22 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
An ephemeral, “fugitive” art form, the Light Show does not exist as an object, but as shared experiences. How does the contemporary artist-researcher re-animate the archive of knowledge, techniques, and materials of this elusive art form as new live practice?
Symposium: Th, 20 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
Sensing the Synthetic:
Exploring the Role of Affect and Human Embodiment in AI-Media Synthesis
This presentation focuses on the importance of incorporating the human body into the co-creative process of AI-media synthesis. Among artists working with AI, the term “co-creation” has been established to describe the collaborative nature of AI-driven media synthesis and human-AI interaction.
Symposium: Th, 20 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna
