I have created a portable version of our Fish Phone Booth for the 17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) in Baranquilla, Colombia December 2-6, 2024. The piece is in the art exhibition STREAMS ~ CORRIENTES online and in the Museuo MAPUKA.
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For ON DISPLAY GLOBAL 2024 I collaborated with Hortense Gerardo (APT Program), Amy Eguchi, and Joe Unger and Trisha WIlliams (Maveric Studio) for a new performance with robots DANCES WITH ROBOTS: VR. (Ghost Ride the Headset)
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I was an invited participant in the 2024 World Imagination Network meetup at ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination October 23-25 2024. Over the course of three days we did intense workshopping of scholarship, development plans, and curricula and toolkits in the area of imagination studies. Guests included Robert Alexander, Stephen Asma, Bob Beard, Ron Beghetto, Fabrice Guerrier, Amy Kind, Peter Langland-Hassan, Karcher Morris, Brendan Bo O’Connor, Robert Sinclair, Laurne Keeler, Clinton Tolley, Cassi Vietan. Thank you Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie, Bob Beard, Nina Miller, and Linsey Wilt from CSI for hosting us! Nice to see our sister institution for the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.
Continue reading Invited Speaker for ASU Center for Science and the Imagination workshop
I’m thrilled to show my project with Ash Eliza Smith as part of the PST Art + Science exhibition, Embodied Pacific, at the Birch Aquarium.
Continue reading Fish Phone Booth in PST Embodied Pacific at the Birch Aquarium
Wonderful to be at SIGGRAPH 2024 as a viewer/consumer/reviewer and not a presenter. I really enjouyed it. So much food for thought, so many inspiring contributions.
We took a crew of Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts students, it was amazing! A really good mix of influences I think.
Continue reading Reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2024I had a tremendous time with small group of diverse artists, computer scientists, and educators designing standards and structures for joint Arts / CS education. This grew out of an NSF CUE proposal.
Thank you Erik Brunvand, Erin Parker, Bill Manaris, Renee McCauley and Roger Eastman for including me with the group!
Qualcomm Institute IDEAS Series 2024
A Salon and Performance / Archive Convening
Hosted by Kathelin Gray, Ash Smith, and Robert Twomey
Thursday, April 25, 5:00PM to Sunday, April 28 12:00PM MDT
Synergia Ranch Retreat Center
26 Synergia Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87508
I’m co-hosting this symposium on “Media Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” April 12, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 1300 Q St. This is a part of our UNL Grand Challenges Planning Grant award with PI Bryan Wang.
Discover how AI shapes our digital lives and connect with experts on AI’s societal impact. Attendance is free. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
We will also screen the films from our AI Filmmaking Hackathon: https://go.unl.edu/ai-film
Kjerstin Thorson (Brandt Endowed Professor of Political Communication (@msucomartsci ) explores digital media’s impact on news consumption in “Digital Platforms, Algorithms and the Future of News Consumption.”
Jevin D. West (Associate Professor and Co-Founder of the Center for an Informed Public @uwischool) uncovers AI’s role in misinformation in “Misinformation was Already Challenging — Then Came Generative AI.”
Cindy Shen (Professor and Co-Director of the Computational Communication Research Lab @ucdavis ) equips us to combat visual misinformation in “From Photoshop to Midjourney: Building Resilience Against Visual Misinformation.”
We just wrapped a weekend presenting our Fish Phonebooth at Without Walls 2024. Underwater acoustics, immersive audio, haptic feedback, interspecies communication. This phone booth sound bath has it all. It was a tremendous show: we had everyone from young kids to 80 year olds to retired polar explorers experience the piece.
This is a playtest of a project Ash Eliza Smith and I are developing in partnership with Birch Aquarium and that La Jolla Playhouse.
More info here https://lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/fish-phone-booth-playtest/
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