DAC09: Events
Emergence: Art and Artificial Life — Dec 12
Utilising Artificial Intelligence and genetic programming techniques, custom electronics, robotic and sculptural aspects, the featured works by international artists represent the current state of work in the interdisciplinary field of Artificial Life Art.
Since the early 1990's, Artificial Life theory and technology has been a constant interest in the media art community. Works concerned with these ideas are common in the media art landscape, yet they are seldom identified as such. The VIDA prize for artificial life art, sponsored by Telefonica for the last decade, is a rare exception. The three artists in Emergence have been represented in VIDA, two of the works in Emergence were prizewinners. Each of these works offers an insight into a different dimension if Artificial Life Art.
- Propagaciones by Leo Nuñez (Argentina) is a sculptural realisation of one of the icons of artificial life, the cellular automaton. In Propagaciones, separate electro-mechanical sculptural 'cells' stimulate each other into mutual action, creating propagating patterns across the field.
- The Universal Whistling Machine, by Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker deploys AI techniques to present an amusing take on machine intelligence. Whistle to it and it will whistle back a tune in response, composed on the spot. It has been known to have extended exchanges with a canary.
- Performative Ecologies, by Ruairi Glynn consists of a trio of 'dancing fools' - devices that seek to demonstrate the most pleasing dance they can devise. The devices use gaze tracking with infra-red camera to determine how attenttive their audience is while performing each dance. In downtime, they breed new dances using genetic algorithms on dances determine to be most attractive, producing new dances to be tried out on the audience and shared with their fellows.
- Sniff, by Karolina Sobeck and Jim George is a virtual puppy which interacts with viewers via machine vision. Sniff has sophisticated animation (using Unity game engine) and persuasive behavior modelling, identifying both 'primary' and 'secondary' interactants.
Concert: Latent Potentials — Dec 13
Featuring UC faculty and guest artists. Concert begins at 8pm in Winifred Smith Hall.
This concert premieres new works that explore the artistic potentials of networking technologies, with performers in San Diego and Irvine, CA linked through low-latency, CD-quality audio and high definition video. Each work on this evening's program takes a different approach to the telematic stage and the questions it raises: aesthetic, philosophical and technical. The concert will feature compositions by Christopher Dobrian, Michael Dessen (trombone), and Shahrokh Yadegari (Lila), in collaboration with media artist John Crawford, bassist Mark Dresser, trumpeter Edwin Harkins, and other special guests.
This concert is a presentation of the 2009 Digital Art and Culture conference at UC Irvine, in collaboration with the Gassmann Electronic Music Series, and presents research that is funded in part by a grant from the Intel/UCI People and Practices Research initiative.
For more information, please visit the events calendar for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UCI.
DAC Literary Arts Extravaganza — Dec 14
After listening to the panels, come experience the DAC Literary Arts Extravaganza featuring exciting and dramatic works from the world of electronic literature. Come see, hear, and engage in the performances of attest in digital-born literary art works that embody the innovative ideas in this year’s panels and that will no doubt be the source of panels in future DAC conferences. Genres include: live video sculpture, locative media narratives, networked fiction, Flash poetry, and works that words only cannot yet describe!
Special guest and opening act Perry Hoberman sings his soon to be smash-hit, "Motion Capture."
DAC09: Digital Arts and Culture 2009 // University of California Irvine
DEC 12(ev.) - 15, 2009 // Staff & Committees • Sponsors • About DAC
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