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AI will eventually surpass the human brain but getting jokes ... that could take time. (Geoffrey Hinton)
Exploring A/I Artistic Intelligence
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method,
one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism. (Donna Haraway)
Project development workshop Aug.26, 2024. Demo Jacob Loat
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Poster: Larry Ng
Screenshot augmented: Antje Budde
Healing Interaction. - body.mind.machine.
A workshop, demonstration, idea exchange, community discussion and Sunday PIZZA brunch.
Oct.6, 2024 2-6pm Luella Massey Studio Theatre
PROGRAM Download Pdf
Still. Going.
Introduction and Land acknowledgment
Antje Budde
Part I: Sensor-based and VR Performative Interactions
Demonstrations and workshop, followed by discussion
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Demo 1: Noah Zijie Qu
Interactive VR for Live Performance: Three Demos Using Leap Motion, Arduino, and Smartphone
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Demo 2: Kwame Kyei-Boateng
Bytes and Being: The Body as Input in Computational Art and Performance
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Demo 3: You Zhi Hu with Audrey Tian and Jinfeng Wu
Virtual Forest for Social Anxiety Therapy
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Demo 4: Jacob Loat
Theatre of Forms: Exploring Altered-Body Avatars Within Social MUDs
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Demo 5: Mark Chignell
HALO (Healthy Aging Life Ownership (HALO) Spaces for Increasing Well-being in Older Adults
INTERLUDE. Taking time.
PIZZA, beverages, and making friends
Part II: The Uncanny and the Mundane – Human-Machine Interaction in the Performing Arts, Planetary Simulations, and Eldercare
Mini symposium, followed by discussion
Concept: Ilja Mirsky. Evan Moritz, Noah Zijie Qu
Symposium Description:
The symposium focuses on human–machine interfaces which sit between the uncanny or novel presentation of new media in performance and the mundane integration of technology into our quotidian lives. The three presentations explore the intersection of innovative technological applications (e.g., virtual reality) in performance and the use of voice assistant (VA) technology in eldercare activities. We explore how digital technology shapes the behavior and perception of performers and audiences in performance settings, as well as how it impacts older adults’ task performance and psychological factors, such as product assembly tasks and self-efficacy. Collectively, these presentations offer a critical reflection on the evolving role of digital technology in both creative and practical contexts.
Presentations:
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Noah Zijie Qu.
Voice-Powered Assembly: Boosting Self-Efficacy in Older Adults with “Build2Race”
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Evan Moritz
Simulating Mars: Analogue Research as a Performance of Extraterrestrial Habitation
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Ilja Mirsky
Rethinking Dramaturgy: Digital Dramaturgy as a Field Embracing New Encounters in Performing Arts