III. POLYLOGUE session - Visualizations in Art and
Science
24. May 2006, 18:30 CET
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Abstracts of papers (15 to 20 min) should reach us
before 20th MAY 2006 in order to facilitate
moderation. Short presentations (10 min) are also
possible. Please send us you telephone number,
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In this session we will look closer at examples of
artistic practices using databases, scientific
data analysis and visualization techniques:
projects exploring database politics, admiring the
beauty of information and data, examples of
database art and visualizations.
Questions and Topics:
Do the visualization techniques help us comprehend
the world or they make it more obscure?
How to represent complexity and emergence?
Should we use only visual means when representing
databases or should we experiment with sounds etc.?
What is the world that is revealed by such
representations and translations?
Is such view still human?
Does it marginalizes humans because of their
inability to influence or even comprehend such
scale of complexity?
Are visualizations new extensions to human senses
or they offer a critique of anthropocentrism?
How to compare the functions of visualizations in
art and science?
How to describe digital art in which the interface
serves as a place of contemplation and not
interaction?
Is it acceptable for the user to remain a viewer
in such artworks?
How to build interfaces for contemplation?
Do these artworks create a special type of
aesthetic distance?
Should we speak of digital sublime?
Can we call these type of artworks a contemplative
digital art? What is digital contemplation after
all? Is it the opposite of interactivity and
immersion? Does this prove certain “maturing” of
the digital art?
Moderators:
Kamila B. Richter
PhD. Candidate
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Research project: Sonification and Visualization
of Complex Dynamic Information
kam[at]avu.cz
http://nemec.wz.cz/thesis/
Denisa Kera
Center for Global Studies
Academy of science and Charles University in Prague
New Media Studies
denisa.kera[at]ff.cuni.cz
+420 777 817 774
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This session is a part of a series entitled
POLYLOGUES organized by the International center
for art and new technologies (CIANT) in Prague &
New media studies (Charles University) in
cooperation with Georgia Institute of Technology &
MARCEL network. It aims to stimulate
interdisciplinary exchange of ideas via sessions
moderated from Prague while having guest speakers
from all over the world. We hope to create a
bridge between countries that will facilitate
intercultural or rather intercontinental and
interdisciplinary exchanges in the fields of art
and new technologies. All sessions will be
recorded and made available to general public in
the archive.
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Best,
Denisa Kera
Pavel Sedlak / CIANT / 420 737 731 347
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