Media Arts and Technology

Quayola and Akten’s Forms takes motion-capture footage of elite athletes and turns it into these dense, abstract geometries that still somehow feel like bodies moving through space. The project is explicitly framed as a “series of studies on human motion,” drawing on early motion photography by Muyb...

"A recent history of Immersive audio experiences" - Lucian Parisi

This presentation covers a recent history of HCI, Urban Sculpture, AI/ML, and XR, through the lens of audio. I cover spatial interaction, spatial audio, and physical interaction.

What interested me most this week was how different artists use VR and AR to shape how we inhabit images, not just what we see. I kept circling back to Char Davies’s Osmose, Jeffrey Shaw’s Golden Calf, and Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s AR/VR work. Davies’s Osmose feels almost like the opposite of most c...

What stood out to me this week was how “digital object” didn’t just mean a rendered model on a screen, but a whole pipeline where software, bodies and machines are tightly entangled. I kept coming back to three projects in particular: the Kinematic Dress, SketchChair, and the aluminum work of Neal F...

This week I kept coming back to three works: Andy Lomas’s Cellular Forms, Eduardo Kac’s GFP Bunny, and Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s Stranger Visions. Together they map out a trajectory from purely computational systems to living bodies and then to biometric data, and that shift in stakes is what stayed w...

What stands out across George’s article and the works I will discuss is the concept of identity emerging through data and noise. [eCLOUD] This project integrates several relevant concepts to our field. The data is sources by realtime natural phenomenon in the world. Weather patterns are seemingly bo...

I am extremely drawn to the work of Weidi Zhang. Her pieces bring data visualization into an immersive space through the lense of many important topics. Her piece ReCollection highlights Alzheimers and Dementia by creating AI hallucinations to represent fragmented memory. [https://www.zhangweidi.com...

The FP-Tree (Frequent Pattern Tree) algorithm is a data-mining method for finding patterns that frequently appear together in large datasets. * Instead of generating and testing many possible item combinations like the older Apriori algorithm, FP-Tree builds a compact tree that stores shared pattern...

“Japanese Computer Art and the Reality of Collecting It” exposes an entire art scene scarcely discussed today. While this was technologically and artistically influential, few of the works have been preserved. Those that have are not readily available to the public eye. According to the author, this...