Sidney McMahon
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RMIT DSC/STEMM Creative Technologies pecha kucha
tbc: 12:00-14:00 Wednesday 5 June at RMIT Vx Lab Researchers working in creative technologies at RMIT are invited to gather at the RMIT Vx Lab to meet and share with colleagues also working in the realm of creative technologies research.
CfP: Hacking Visual Culture
Hacking Visual Culture: Intersections of art, creativepractice, copyright, storytelling and technology. Submissions are being sought for Hacking Visual Culture, a 2-day conference and exhibition hosted by the Faculty of Law and Creative Practice Research Group (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences) at
Alan Warburton
About — Alan Warburton The Wizard of AI – Data as Culture – ODI – The Open Data Institute (theodi.org)
Zylinska, Joanna. The Perception Machine : Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI. 1st ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2023.
Zylinska, Joanna. The Perception Machine : Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI. 1st ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2023. A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. “We are constantly
unthinking photography
Home | unthinking.photography Unthinking Photography is an online resource that explores photography’s increasingly automated, networked life. Unthinking Photography is a strand of The Photographers’ Gallery digital programme, an online platform for mapping and responding to photography’s role in contemporary culture.
conceptual strategies and algorithmic art
This post contains links to articles that consider algorithms as conceptual art: Are Algorithms Conceptual Art’s Next Frontier? | Artsy Augmentation of the Senses (or The Machine Becomes an Idea that Makes Art) | NGV chroma.mit.edu/p/sol-lewitt-and-his-coded-art/ (PDF) Algorithmic Art and
Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
Depth Effects by Brooke Belisle – Paperback – University of California Press (ucpress.edu)
Siobhan Angus. Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography. Duke University Press, 2024.
Siobhan Angus. Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography. Duke University Press, 2024. In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses
Researching a Posthuman World : Interviews with Digital Objects
Adams, Catherine., and Terrie Lynn. Thompson. Researching a Posthuman World : Interviews with Digital Objects. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. This book provides a practical approach for applying posthumanist insights to qualitative research inquiry. Adams and Thompson invite readers to embrace
Performance, Performativity, and Subjectivity at the Intersection of Art and Digital Cultures
Bolt, Barbara. “Performance, Performativity, and Subjectivity at the Intersection of Art and Digital Cultures.” In Choreomata, 95–121. 1st ed. CRC Press, 2024. This chapter addresses the contemporary moment in which the performative of digital cultures comes into intra-action with the performative
Lawrence Lek
Lawrence Lek 陆明龙 is an artist known for his ongoing series of films, soundtracks, and video games, often set within a Sinofuturist universe. Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) Video Essay, 60m, 2016
Mary Lou Jepson – imaging the minds eye
Uncomputable by Alexander Galloway
Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age | Verso Books
Whitney Museum ARTPORT
artport | Whitney Museum of American Art artport is the Whitney Museum’s portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art. Originally launched in 2001, artport provides access to original art
The Dumpster
The Dumpster: About the Project (whitney.org) About the Dumpster Project The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project
A Geology of Media by Jussi Parika 2015
A Geology of Media — University of Minnesota Press (umn.edu)
SORA text to video
Sora (openai.com) Prompt: A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage. She wears a black leather jacket, a long red dress, and black boots, and carries a black purse. She wears
Review by Alison Bennett of Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature at ACMI
Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of Nature – Artlink
Digital Imaging Strategies Reading List
This link to the reading list associated with a course called Digital Imaging Strategies (VART3638), an options course in RMIT School of Art masters by coursework programs. https://rmit.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/public/61RMIT_INST/lists/48394481990001341?auth=SAML
RMIT Adobe & expanded photography
image credit: photogrammetry model featuring fashion design by Yiwei Ju as part of the Digital Materialities project between the RMIT disciplines of photography, fashion and digital design. WHAT IF photography expanded beyond the isolated two-dimensional frame? With the convergence of camera in
Lure of the image
[PERMANENT BETA] THE LURE OF THE IMAGE
execute_photography
execute_photography – RMIT Gallery “As a technical medium and cultural form, photography is constantly dying and being reborn. This exhibition – presented as both an exploration and a provocation – brings together works by Australian and international artists that offer
Prompt Battle: 15 March 2024 @ ACMI
Prompt Battle | Fri 15 Mar 2024 Photo24 | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture Photo 24 , ACMI & RMIT present: Prompt Battle ‘Prompt engineer’ has been touted as a career of the future. But what does that mean, and
The future of photography under AI
The future of photography under AI – ABC listen
Critical AI in the Art Museum: Practices & Politics
http://criticalai.art/
ANU Computational Culture Lab
The Computational Culture Lab works at the intersection of theory, practice and policy to investigate the politics, aesthetics and applied potentials of post-digital culture. Located at the School of Art & Design, we work in partnership with contemporary art and cultural
Extending Heritage project
The Extending Heritage project was part of the RMIT School of Art Future Ancestors Global Art Intensive in Hanoi 27 Nov – 8 Dec 2023, funded by the New Colombo Plan and Enabling Capability Platform (Design and Creative Practice). The
Alexandra Kirwood
Info – Alexandra Kirwood Time-Images and Digital Fashion Sculpture: Investigating the In-Between Image in Fashion – RMIT University Practice Research (practice-research.com)
2024 Virtual Photography Conference at University of Westminster
VIRTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLAINED – CREAM Open Call: Photography in Virtual Culture | unthinking.photography
AI poison
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | MIT Technology Review
Indigenous Sovereignty in the Metaverse
INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY IN THE METAVERSE In the second instalment of the Serpentine Legal Lab Live series, Alana Kushnir and Australian First Nations Cultural Broker and Author Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat explore Indigenous agency and data sovereignty in the metaverse, and the
European Media Art Festival submissions due 7 Jan 2024
https://www.emaf.de/en/ Media artists from all over the world can submit their works now for the European Media Art Festival 2024. The online platform https://emaf.filmchief.com/entry-forms is now open. Works from the areas of Film, Installation and Expanded (live projects such as
Whitelaw, Mitchell 2012, ‘Transmateriality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts’,
Whitelaw, Mitchell, ‘Transmateriality: Presence Aesthetics and the Media Arts’, in Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging With Ubiquitous Computing, ed. by Ulrik Ekman (MIT Press, 2012), pp. 223–236 https://mtchl.net/transmateriality-presence-aesthetics-and-the-media-arts/
Quixel Megascans
https://quixel.com/megascans
AI statistics for 2023
‘AI Has Already Created As Many Images As Photographers Have Taken in 150 Years. Statistics for 2023.’, according to Alina Valyaeva in Everypixel Journal, August 2023 https://journal.everypixel.com/ai-image-statistics
2AND3D PHOTOGRAPHY
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/lectures-symposiums/2and3d-photography Rijksmuseum 29 – 31 May 2024 “2and3D Photography is about sharing. We are bringing photographers, restorers, conservators, studio planners, data analysts and scientists together so that they can exchange knowledge and experience enabling them to collaborate on even more
Powerhouse Museum Photofields Day
Photofields is an industry-centred program engaging with contemporary issues and ideas at the intersection of photography, architecture and design. Panellists will discuss a range of image-making practices and how they affect the way we relate to natural and built environments.
Artificial figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture – Dr Thao Phan 16 Nov
Hancock Lecture: Artificial figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture Join us on 16 November for the 2023 Hancock Lecture. Dr Thao Phan from Monash University will explore how, in the making of AI systems and technologies, gender too is being made. Digital assistants with
AI & Art with Memo Akten 21 Sep
21 Sep, 6pm Gandel Digital Future Lab 1 ACMI Join Memo Akten, Rita Arrigo and Rebecca Giblin as they discuss Akten’s work Distributed Consciousness, and the intersection between art, technology, activism and culture. Exploring how Artificial Intelligence is changing creative practices and
Ciaran Begley, ‘Rational Magic’
An astonishing deconstruction of the architecture of the screen and the image “This PhD investigates art encounters that challenge preconceptions of light phenomena. It offers an understanding of how shifting perceptions in an artwork’s presence connect visitors with artists in
Never Permanent 2023 – 24 Aug
Never Permanent 2023 | Semi Permanent Technology is evolving at a pace never seen before, but its most successful applications remain powered by human innovation. Never Permanent is a one-of-a-kind talks program that celebrates and explores the rich intersection of
Simondon, ‘On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects’
“A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. There is much we can learn from our technical objects, and while it has been said
Digital Materialities Project
The Digital Materialities Project is an transdisciplinary pilot project between students and staff from RMIT Master of Fashion Design, Master of Photography, and the Master of Animation, Games and Interactivity. Working with industry partner Splice Boys with funding from RMIT
RMIT Open Day 3D Scanning in 2.2.1
Consent forms and info 2023 RMIT Photo Open Day photographs of visitors – 3D Scans.docx INSTRUCTIONS Open: 3D models by Alison Bennett (@alisonbennett) – Sketchfab Open the model in Sketchfab Open EMBED uncheck ‘Show Caption check all options in 2nd
Karen Ann Donnachie
Dr Karen Ann Donnachie works in the expanded fields of photography, electronic and data art, and experimental art publishing. From 1990 through 2010 she was based in Milan, Italy where, among other activities, she founded the art periodical This is a
Zach Blas
https://zachblas.info/biography/ Zach Blas (b. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice spans moving image, computation, theory, performance, and science fiction. Blas engages the materiality of digital technologies while also drawing out the philosophies and
[ANTI]MATERIA
![[ANTI]MATERIA](https://sites.rmit.edu.au/if-lab/files/2023/08/portada_espaciopantalla_1-710x300.jpg "[ANTI]MATERIA")
https://anti-materia.org [ANTI]MATERIA is a self-managed project founded by Doreen A. Ríos that, since 2015, has sought to promote a new generation of digital artists through free and open access exhibitions and academic resources, written in Spanish and, mainly, from Mexico.
arebyte
arebyte advances new experimentation in digital cultures Meeting the growing demand for immersive experiences and digital content creation, arebyte pioneers new forms of engagement with creative technologies, to critically explore the impact of technology in contemporary society. From digital environments,
DIGICULT
Estabilished in 2005 Digicult is an online platform that examines the impact of digital technologies and applied sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult is an editorial project that daily publish news, informations, articles, interviews, reports and essays.
Lumen Prize for art and technology
https://www.lumenprize.com
Justin Ridler at RMIT Open Day 12:30 Sun 13 Aug
RMIT Photography are delighted to have confirmed JUSTIN RIDLER as a speaker on our Open Day alumni panel 12:30 Sunday 13 August in Building 2, Level 2, Room 8. He is an exemplary example of a commercial photographer working with
Matrix Re-loaded: On-Site 02 with Xanthe Dobbie
The future is now…but for how long? In an exploration of their expansive practice, Xanthe Dobbie re-spawns cyberfeminism to bring you On-Site: Matrix Re-loaded. As part of their ongoing research, Dobbie explores historical and contemporary cyberfeminism through intersections of art,
444.2: XR by Nirma Madhoo
Exciting behind the scenes footage provides insight into the making of Nirma Madhoo’s remarkable XR fashion film ‘444.2’ The work combines both photogrammetry and volumetric video. Find our more about this work and Nirma Madhoo’s practice here: https://anatomythestudio.com/4442-xr
NeRF
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik, Jonathan T. Barron, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Ren Ng https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.08934 2020