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Opening of 2 Exhibitions CONSTRUCTING CONTEXTS and SYSTEM DREAMS

We cordially invite you to join the Opening of two exhibitions:

CONSTRUCTING CONTEXTS is an exhibition curated by Associate Professor Dr. Tobias Klein and Ph.D. student Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano with 27 artworks and projects.

SYSTEM DREAMS is an exhibition coordinated and organized by Ph.D. students of the CityU School of Creative Media. It is intended as a space where current doctoral and MFA students can showcase their artwork, research, and other projects.

For more information about the exhibitions:
https://constructingcontexts.scm.cityu.edu.hk/
https://systemdreams.scm.cityu.edu.hk/index.html

Date: 10th June 2021
Time: 18:30
Location: 3rd floor and 9th floor, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue

Two exhibitions are open to public for free from 10th to 20th June. Opening Hours:

10-15 June 2021 12:30-22:00
16-20 June 2021 11:30-19:30

Pre-Registration for Non-CityU member visitors is required 2 days in advance at https://forms.gle/cw56NAEo6KEG6M5r7

Free access to live Keynotes and Plenary Sessions

We cordially invite you to join the Keynotes and Plenary Sessions of the Art Machines 2 Conference.

The Welcoming Remarks, 3 keynotes and 4 plenary sessions will be livestreamed via YouTube. Non-conference participants are welcomed to join the lectures and be part of the conference.

All sessions listed below are scheduled in Hong Kong Time (UTC/GMT+8). Please use the Time Zone Converter to check the local time in your area.

Date	Time	Event
10^th June 2021 (Thursday)	14:00-14:15	Welcoming Remarks Richard William Allen, Conference Director
	17:00-18:30	Introductory Keynote Lecture 1: Crisis, Critique and Technological Understanding Hector Rodrigues, School of Creative Media, CityU, Hong Kong
	22:30-00:00	Keynote Lecture 2: Space In the Mind of A Machine Refik Anadol, Media Artist, Turkey
11^th June 2021 (Friday)	13:30-15:00	Keynote Lecture 3: Ocsilloscopes, Slide Rules and Nematodes: Perceptions of the ImageNet Observer Adrian Mackenzie, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia Anna Munster, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia
	20:00-21:45	Plenary 1: The Politics of Machine Learning Archival Loops Stephanie Dinkins, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, USA New Optical Regimes Adam Harvey, Artist and Researcher, USA
	22:15-00:00	Plenary 2: Creativity and Access AI Just Wants to be Average Janelle Shane, Research Scientist and Writer, USA Machine Learning as Creative Design Tool Rebecca Fiebrink, Creative Computing Institute, University
12 June 2021 (Saturday)	21:30-23:15	Plenary 3: Biology and Algorithms Towards a Natural Intelligence Tega Brain, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA
13 June 2021 (Sunday)	16:00-18:30	Plenary 4: Science and Creativity Creativity in Machine Learning Research David Ha, Research Scientist, Google Brain, Tokyo, Japan Eavesdropping on Human Behaviors: Lessons from Engineers Rosa H. M. Chan, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU, Hong Kong Life is a Mess: Towards a Gene-eccentric and Post-teleological Discourse in Bio-art Lam Yun Wah, Department of Chemistry, CityU, Hong Kong

To hear from a wide range of industry experts and leaders in the 21 paper sessions, register now! In-person and virtual participation, both options are available!

Registration link: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/artmachines2/registration
Full symposium programme is available at https://www.cityu.edu.hk/artmachines2/symposium-programme