Presenters

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

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

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

Non-Standard use of Film affects our Senses

An overview of my practice in film recording and projecting analogue still and moving images.

Symposium: Sa, 22 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna

The Machine Zone: A Practical Examination of Accepting Artificial Intelligence

This presentation will outline a speculative reframing of the current views held towards creating artwork with tools that are artificially intelligent (AI). This reframing will be referred to as ‘The Machine Zone’, a conceptual place where these tools of creation are not viewed as tools, but as collaborators.

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

Re-scratching The Frame: Keeping The Archive Live

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

Tinkering fundamentals

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

Embodied Practice in the Digital Age

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

Technological craftsmanship, changing lenses

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

Storycase Telling stories with objects and augmented reality

Storycase is an AR-research-project by the artist group gold extra that artistically explores the narrative possibilities of AR with real objects: it tells stories of 5 objects found in the urban realm dealing with themes such as finding, losing, throwing away and reusing.

Symposium: Fr, 21 April, 14:45 @ 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

Work in Progress - a project about the European Witch Trials

 

Symposium: Th, 20 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna

New Media Improvisations in Space

The presentation is explaining how I use new media tools in an improvisational way at a spatial and time-based level to overcome the issue of limited real-time expressiveness of certain tools. New media arts with digital technologies differ from other art forms in the creation process.

Symposium: Sa, 22 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna

FILM POEM TOUR (CONDENSED)

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

Wobbulator - Early Media Instruments Today (W–EMIT)

The talk/presentation focuses on the use and rolling of such early media instruments today as Raster Manipulation Unit (Wobbulator) and Jones Colorizer/Mixer. Such extracts from artworks of contemporary artists will 'color' the presentation like Kalpana Subramanian, Walter Wright, Sara Bonaventura, Scott Kildal, and the author.

Symposium: Fr, 21 April @ University of Applied Arts Vienna