| 13:00-14:00 | Registration (L1 Lobby) | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Welcoming Remarks by Richard William Allen, Dean of School of Creative Media and Conference Chair (M3017 | L3) Recording:  |
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| 14:15-14:30 | Break | |
| 14:30-16:30 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 1: Digital Design Phenomenologies Session Chair: Ashley Wong Recording: |
Paper Session 2: Culture/History/Memory Session Chair: Elena Sherstoboeva Recording: |
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| Landscape Forms: Machine Learning, 3D Form and Figuration Peter Nelson, Roberto Alonso Trillo, François Mouillot, Daniel Shanken, Mathis Antony, Ryan Au, Maya Duan and Jianming Mai |
Flux Garden—a Poetic Memory of a Lost Garden in VR Benjamin Seide, Elke Reinhuber and Ross Williams |
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| Mesh2Matter, Rendering New Materialities George Simms |
Robin Hood Gardens: Rewound Eddie Wong and Nathan Bayliss |
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| Tree and Vanishing Islands: Visualizing Epochs in 3D and Interpreting Fragments in GAN Art Tengchao Zhou |
Visualising Agent-Based Canoe Journeys in a Real-time Computation Virtual Environment Andrew Burrell and Ali Chalmers Braithwaite |
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| Alien (Post)phenomenologies of Synthetic Media Jussi Holopainen and Philip Carlisle |
Working Towards a Data-Driven History of China: Three Examples from Digital Humanities Explorations Lik Hang Tsui |
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| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break (M6042, M6075, L6) | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Introductory Keynote Lecture 1: Hector Rodriguez (M3017 | L3) Session Chair: Richard William Allen Crisis, Critique and Technological Understanding Hector Rodriguez, School of Creative Media, CityU, Hong Kong Recording: |
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| 18:30-19:15 | Conference Reception (M3017 | L3) |
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| 19:15-20:00 | Dinner (M6042, M6075 | L6) | |
| 20:00-22:00 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 3: Transformative Practices Session Chair: Daniel Howe Recording: |
Paper Session 4: Engaging with Biological Systems Session Chair: Mariana Pérez Bobadilla Recording: |
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| Countering Misinformation with Neural Networks Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki |
Qatipana: Becoming and Individuation of a Meeting between Technical Apparatus and Natural Systems Renzo Filinich Orozco |
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| Decolonising AI: A Close Look at the Work of Stephanie Dinkins Proiti Seal Acharya |
Procedural Growth Kin-Ming Wong |
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| Hatred Apparatus: A Sculpture for the First Half of the 21st Century Fabrizio Augusto Poltronieri, German Alfonso Nunez and Nicolau Centola |
Mimicry Lingdong Huang and Ziwei Wu |
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| AIMADE Celyn Bricker and Arturo Muela |
Neonate (6e656f6e617465) (2019-2021) Chok Si Xuan |
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| 22:00-22:30 | Coffee Break M6042, M6075 | L6 |
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| 22:30-00:00 | Keynote Lecture 2: Refik Anadol (M3017 | L3) Session Chair: Maurice Benayoun Space In the Mind of A Machine Refik Anadol, Media Artist, Turkey Recording: |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Registration (L1 Lobby) | |
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Keynote Lecture 3: Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster (M3017 | L3)
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| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break M6042, M6075 | L6 |
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| 15:30-17:30 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 5: Selfies and Snapshots Session Chair: Elke Reinhuber Recording: |
Paper Session 6: Design Architectures Session Chair: Tobias Klein Recording: |
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| Buttonless Cameras and the Machine-made Snapshot Aesthetic Michal Šimůnek |
Control and Communication: A System Study of Platform Economics and Digital Archives in Architectural Design Provides Ng |
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| The Art of Data Portraiture: Enabling a Public Debate on Self-surveillance Ralph Kenke, Elmar Trefz, Mark Roxburgh and Mario Minichiello |
Meta-Evolver: Evolutionary Strategy for Architectural Intelligence Karolína Kotnour and Robert B. Lisek |
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| Finding the Relational Image Marty Miller |
Cognitive Assemblages: Spatial Generation Through Wave Function Collapse and Reinforcement Learning Alessandro Mintrone and Alessio Erioli |
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| An Information Theory Application to Bio-design in Architecture: UnSESUS Provides Ng, Baha Odaibat and David Doria |
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| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee Break M6042, M6075 | L6 |
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| 18:00-19:00 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 7: Back to the Future - Film and the Digital Session Chair: Louisa Wei Recording: |
Paper Session 8: Animation and CGI Session Chair: Mike Wong Recording: |
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| Exploring B-Movie Themes in Virtual Reality: The Woman Who Fell to Earth and Met the Pontianak Benjamin Seide and Benjamin Slater |
Expanded Stereoscopy: Developing New Aesthetic Forms for 3D Films Max Hattler |
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| Alphaville: Our Future City of Digital Surveillance Kenny K.K. Ng |
The Synthetic Cameraman Series: A Practice-based Research Case Study Lukasz Mirocha |
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| 19:00-20:00 | Dinner (M6042, M6075 | L6) | |
| 20:00-21:45 | Plenary 1: The Politics of Machine Learning: Stephanie Dinkins and Adam Harvey (M3017 | L3) Session Chair: Linda Lai Archival Loops Stephanie Dinkins, Department of Art, Stony Brook University, USA New Optical Regimes Adam Harvey, Artist and Researcher, USA Recording: |
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| 21:45-22:15 | Coffee Break M6042, M6075 | L6 |
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| 22:15-00:00 | Plenary 2: Creativity and Access: Janelle Shane and Rebecca Fiebrink (M3017 | L3) Session Chair: Bryan Chung 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 of the Arts London, UK Recording: |
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| 13:30-14:30 | Registration (L1 Lobby) | |
| 14:30-16:15 | Screening: CODED BIAS (M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6) |
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| 16:15-16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30-18:30 | Paper Session 9: Interspecies Research and Becoming Animal (M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3) Session Chair: Olga Timurgalieva Recording: |
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| Ghost in the Cell—Synthetic Heartbeats Georg Tremmel |
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| ISCRI: Communicating Between Two Alien Intelligences Through Art Maggie Roberts and Stephanie Moran |
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| Microbial Emancipation Maro Pebo |
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| Environmental Machine Learning in Multispecies Agency: A Case Study of Random Forests Park Ji Yun |
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| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner (M6042, M6075 | L6) | |
| 19:30-21:00 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 10: AI and Ethical Action Session Chair: Linda Lai Recording: |
Paper Session 11: Digital Game Formations Session Chair: Olli Tapio Leino Recording: |
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| How Can Artists Use AI Responsibly? Claire Leibowicz, Emily Saltz and Lia Coleman |
Becoming-animal in Everything: Posthuman Affect in Computer Gameplay Yu Hao |
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| AI Biases in the Art Sector through the Lenses of European Union Law Francesca Prandi and Harshad Pujari |
The Moving Maze—System and Units Yiou Wang and Yujie Wang |
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| Women Reclaiming AI B Aga and Coral Manton |
Pretty & Random: Anime-style Meta-narratives in the Age of Social Games Chen, Qian Jason |
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| 21:00-21:30 | Coffee Break M6042, M6075 | L6 |
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| 21:30-23:15 | Plenary 3: Biology and Algorithms: Jenna Sutela and Tega Brain (M3017 | L3) Session Chair: Lam Yun Wah Many-Headedness Jenna Sutela, Artist, Finland Towards a Natural Intelligence Tega Brain, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, USA Recording: |
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| 23:15-23:30 | Coffee Break M6042, M6075 | L6 |
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| 23:30-00:30 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper session 12: Climate Change Art Session Chair: Zheng Bo Recording: |
Paper Session 13: E-Textile Session Chair: RAY LC Recording: |
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| This Infinitesimal Moment of Now: Ice-Time Clea T. Waite |
GAN Generated Knitted Pattern Punch Card Designs Virginia Ellyn Melnyk |
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| Heat Angela Ferraiolo |
Embodiment of Environmental Legacy: Walking in E-Textiles and Thoughts from my Basement Jackie Donovan |
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| 15:00-16:00 | Registration (L1 Lobby) | |
| 16:00-18:30 | Plenary 4: Science and Creativity (M3017 | L3) Session Chair: Lam Miu Ling 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 Recording: |
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| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner (M6042, M6075 | L6) | |
| 19:30-21:30 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 14: Machine Learning Curation Session Chair: Harald Kraemer Recording: |
Paper Session 15: Practical AI Session Chair: PerMagnus Lindborg Recording: |
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| The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine—Machine Curation and Visitor Interaction Liverpool Biennial 2021 Joasia Krysa and Leonardo Impett |
Listen to Reason: In Conversation with a Computational Critic Daniel Chávez Heras and Alfonso Sánchez López |
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| MUSEUM OF SYNTHETIC HISTORY Egor Kraft |
Evaluation of AI Reverberation on Guitar Manni Chen and PerMagnus Lindborg |
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| Copies as Transitional Objects: Loss, Grief and Reckoning after the Fire of Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2018) Pedro Telles da Silveira |
Let’s Shake—Music is Fun Kelvin Lee kai-wah |
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| On Content Aware and Other Case-Studies: Historical Investigations at Blazing Ultra Resolution Egor Kraft and Ekaterina Kormilitsyna |
I Believe In AI’s Artistic Ability: Perceived Creativity of Machines and the Evaluation of Their Artistic Performance Joo-Wha Hong |
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| 21:30-21:45 | Coffee Break M6075 | L6 |
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| 21:45-23:45 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 16: Sound Art Session Chair: Ryo Ikeshiro Recording: |
Paper Session 17: Towards Creativity in AI Session Chair: Damien Charrieras Recording: |
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| Exploiting Swarm Aesthetics in Sound Art Mahsoo Salimi and Philippe Pasquier |
Inquiring the Backends of Machine Learning Artworks: Making Meaning by Calculation Mercedes Bunz and Eva Jäger |
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| An Exquisite Corpse of Musical Cryptograms via BCMI Bryan A. Crumpler |
Information Particles: Tracing the Ambiguities of the Creative AI Dejan Grba |
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| Re Sound Art Machines and Aesthetics Stefano Kalonaris |
The Interpretation of (Deep) Dreams Kwan Q Li |
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| Co-creating Musical Compositions with an Artificial Agent: Time-travel through Machine Learning Vicky Fung and Giovanni Lion |
Nishida's Logic of Creation Joy Zhu |
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| 19:00-20:00 | Registration (L1 Lobby) | |
| 20:00-22:00 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 18: Thinking about Machine Learning Session Chair: Hector Rodriguez Recording: |
Paper Session 19: Digital Performance Session Chair: Koala Ip Recording: |
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| As If They Were Thinking: New Aesthetics of “Thought” in Machine Intelligence Shuyi Cao, Remina Greenfield and Ross M. McBee |
Playing with Soma: Speculating on the Physical Body and Somatic Practice of AI Eugenia S. Kim, Jayson Haebich, Christian Sandor and Alvaro Cassinelli |
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| Ersatz Intelligence: Implications of Machine Learning for the Generation and Interpretation of Art and Artifacts Daniel Shanken, Roberto Alonso Trillo, François Mouillot, Peter Nelson, Mathis Antony, Ryan Au, Maya Duan and Jianming Mai |
Lu Yang: Delusional World—A Live Virtual Motion Capture Performance in the Global Pandemic Ashley Lee Wong |
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| Infinite Descriptor: The (Un)Predictability of Prediction Monica Monin |
Re:Melt: A Dance Film about a Human-Algorithm Interaction Eugenia S. Kim and Sojung Bahng |
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| Machine Learning Writing Tools as Oracle and Glitch Carolyn Lau |
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| 22:00-22:15 | Coffee Break M6075 | L6 |
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| 22:15-23:45 | M3090 Shun Hing Lecture Theatre | L3 | M6094 Future Cinema Studio | L6 |
| Paper Session 20: Digital Experience and Affect Session Chair: Richard William Allen Recording: |
Paper Session 21: Facial Recognition and Surveillance Session Chair: Hector Rodriguez Recording: |
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| Self:Nous:Space—Visual and Textual Metaphors of Digital Experience Angeliki Malakasioti |
Platform AI Art and the Naturalization of Facial Recognition Nicola Bozzi |
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| 01_LOVE Yenyi Lee and Hsiangwen Chen |
Extralegal Portraiture and Surveillance Monica Steinberg |
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| Smile, Please Winnie Yoe |
The Zombie Formalist: An Art Generator that Learns Ben Bogart |
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