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ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art: Monika FleischmannSue Gollifer
Art Papers
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Art Papers Jury
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Introducing the SIGGRAPH 2018 Art PapersAngus G. Forbes
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Augmented Fauna and Glass Mutations: A Dialogue Between Material and Technique in Glassblowing and 3D printingTobias Klein
3D Printing allows unprecedented freedom in the design and manufacturing of even the most geometric complex forms—seemingly through the simple click of a button. In comparison, the making of glass is an analogue craftsmanship coordinating an intricate interplay of individual tools and personal skills, giving shape to a material during the short time of its temperature-based plasticity. The two artworks discussed in this article, Augmented Fauna and Glass Mutations, were created during the artist’s residence at the Pilchuck Glass School and articulate a synthesis between digital workflows and traditional craft processes to establish a digital craftsmanship.
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Inhabitat: An imaginary Ecosystem in a Children's Science MuseumHaru Hyungkyung Ji, Graham Wakefield
Inhabitat is a mixed-reality artwork in which participants become part of an imaginary ecology through three simultaneous perspectives of scale and agency; three distinct ways to see with other eyes. This imaginary world was exhibited at a children’s science museum for five months, using an interactive projection-augmented sculpture, a large screen and speaker array, and a virtual reality head-mounted display. This paper documents the work’s motivations and design contributions, along with accounts of visitors’ playful engagements and reflections within the complex interconnectivity of an artificial nature.
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Cop to Conductor: Negotiating and Remapping Meaning in Existing Public ArtTodd Bereth
There is a crisis in our communities about the tributes to a shared civic life represented in existing public artwork and monuments. Culture wars are being waged herein and appear increasingly irreconcilable. This paper discusses this moment and describes the range of strategies artists and designers have used to remediate these works. It presents a project description of an interactive artwork that suggests innovative approaches in this realm. The author introduces a conceptual model which served as inspiration for the piece that may be useful when discussing and designing such interventions.
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Diastrophisms: Visual and Sound Assembly in Remembrance of an EarthquakeNicole L'Huillier, Valentina Montero Peña
Diastrophisms is a sound installation with a modular system that sends images through rhythmic patterns. It is build on a set of debris from the Alto Rio building that was destroyed by the 27F earthquake in 2010 in Chile. Diastrophisms explores poetical, critical and political crossings between technology and matter in order to raise questions about the relationship between human beings and nature, to consider the construction of memory in a community by questioning the notion of monument, and to imagine new forms of communication in times of crisis.
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Holojam in Wonderland: Immersive Mixed Reality TheaterDavid Gochfeld, Corinne Brenner, Kris Layng, Sebastian Herscher, Connor DeFanti, Marta Olko, David Shinn, Stephanie Riggs, Clara Fernández-Vara, Ken Perlin
Holojam in Wonderland is a prototype of a new type of performance activity, “Immersive Mixed Reality Theater” (IMRT). With unique and novel properties possessed by neither cinema nor traditional theater, IMRT promises exciting new expressive possibilities for multi-user, participatory, immersive digital narratives. The authors describe the piece, the technology used to create it and some of the key aesthetic choices and takeaways.
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Alienating the Familiar with CGI: A Recipe for Making a Full CGI Art House Animated FeaturePaul Charisse, Ethan Chrimes
This paper is an exploration of the processes used and ideas behind an animated full CGI feature film project that attempts to reach blockbuster production values, while retaining Art House sensibilities. It examines methods used to achieve these production values in an academic production environment and ways costs can be minimized while high quality levels are retained. It also examines the film’s status as an Art House project, by comparing its narrative design and use of symbolism to existing works of Art House cinema.
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Digital Heritage: Bringing New Life to the Montreux Jazz Festival's Audio-Visual Archives with Immersive InstallationsNicholas Henchoz, Allison Crank
To revive the Montreux Jazz Festival’s archival live-concert footage, three immersive installations were designed using three different principles of augmentation, physicality and interaction. The primary aim was to engage the user in a new relationship with digitized heritage. Audience observations indicated a strong emotional connection to the content, the artist and the crowd, as well as the development of new social interactions. Experimentation showed close interaction between the three principles, while the three installations suggested methodologies for reviving audio-visual archives.
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Data Materialization: A Hybrid Process of Crafting a TeapotCourtney Starrett, Susan Reiser, Tom Pacio, Jasmina Stevanov, Johannes M. Zanker
Data materialization is a workflow developed to create 3D objects from data-informed designs. Building upon traditional metalwork and craft, and new technology’s data visualization with generative art, this workflow expresses conceptually relevant data through 3D forms which are fabricated in traditional media. The process allows for the subtle application of data in visual art, allowing the aesthetic allure of the art object or installation to inspire intellectual intrigue. This paper describes the technical and creative processes of Modern Dowry, a silver-plated 3D teapot on view at the Museum of the City of New York, June 2017–June 2018.
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Robotype: Studies of Kinetic Typography by Robot Display for Expressing Letters, Time and MovementYuichiro Katsumoto
Humans use letters, which are two-dimensional static symbols, for communication. Writing these letters requires body movement as well as spending a certain amount of time; therefore, it can be demonstrated that a letter is a trajectory of movement and time. Based on this notion, the author conducted studies regarding multidimensional kinetic typography, primarily using robots to display a letter and visualize its time and movement simultaneously. This paper describes the project background and design of the three types of robotic displays that were developed and discusses possible expressions using robotic displays.
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Here and Now: Indigenous Canadian Perspectives and New Media in Works bu Ruben Komangpik, Kent Monkman and Adrian DukeBrittany Myburgh
Examining the use of new media in works by Ruben Komangapik, Kent Monkman and the Wikiup Indigenous Knowledge Network reveals the diverse ways in which technologies are used to disrupt linear time and Western visions of history. New media works challenge those misleading stories that have been told about Canada’s indigenous peoples and assert indigenous presence in both the digital and physical landscape. These artists employ QR codes, video and augmented reality to push artistic boundaries and create representations of the past and present.
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CASTING: Site-Specific Projective Mapping InstallationsYiyun Kang
This paper investigates CASTING, Yiyung Kang’s site-specific projection mapping installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, U.K., and the acquisition of the piece by the V&A in the following year. It identifies how CASTING developed distinctive properties in the field of projected moving-image installation artworks and how these novel characteristics were reflected in the acquisition by the V&A.
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Entropy and FatFinger: Challenging the Compulsiveness of Code with Programmatic Anti-Styles
Coding, the translating of human intent into logical steps, reinforces a compulsive way of thinking, as described in Joseph Weitzenbaum’s “Science and the Compulsive Programmer” (1976). Two projects by the author, Entropy (2010) and FatFinger (2017), challenge this by encouraging gestural approaches to code. In the Entropy programming language, data becomes slightly more approximate each time it is used, drifting from its original values, forcing programmers to be less precise. FatFinger, a Javascript dialect, allows the programmer to misspell coe and interprets it as the closest runnable version, strategically guessing at the programmer’s intent.
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Advertising Positions: Data Portraiture as Aesthetic CritiqueDaniel C. Howe, Qianxun Chen, Zong Chen
Advertising Positions integrates 3D scanning, motion capture, novel image mapping algorithms and custom animation to create data portraits from the advertisements served by online trackers. Project volunteers use bespoke software to harvest the ads they receive over months of browsing. When enough ads have been collected, the volunteer is interviewed, 3D scanned and motion captured. Each ad is then mapped to a single polygon on the textured skin of their virtual avatar. Outcomes have been displayed as 2D/3D images, animations and interactive installations.
Art Gallery
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Original Narratives Art Gallery: IntroductionAndrés Burbano
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The Future Is IndigenousJason Edward Lewis,
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The Computational Imagination: Notes on the Exhibition Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignMatthew Allen
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Original Narratives Art GalleryAndrés Burbano, Ernest Edmonds, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Amy Fredeen, Dima Verykova, Andy Klein, Shawn Hunt, Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes, Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz, Lars Berg, Milton Sogabe, Fabio Oliveira Nunes, Carolina Peres, Soraya Braz, Rodrigo Dorta, Cleber Gazana, Mirian Steinberg, Melina Furquim, Daniel Malva, Fernando Luiz Fogliano, Ozge Samanci, Gabriel Caniglia, Alex Beim, Nicole L'Huillier, Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, Yasushi Sakai, , Nā ‘Anae Mahiki
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1071-4391