Tue 24 August 2010
15:00–16:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, L 102b
Moderated by Sue Gollifer

1. 15:00h | Alex Haw (gb): Auto Atmospheres & Artificial Ecologies. Natural Architecture and Artificial Environment
2. 15:15h | Anna Dumitriu (gb): Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0. The Interface of Biodigital Communication
3. 15:30h | Andrea Polli (us): Airspace
4. 15:45h | Susan Ballard (nz): Nonorganic Life. Encounters Between Frequency and Virtuality in Antarctica
5. 16:00h | Saul Albert and Mikey Weinkove from The People Speak (gb): Planetary Pledge Pyramid

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P24 Atmospheres and Ecologies (PDF, 203.03 KB)

Alex Haw (gb)

Auto Atmospheres & Artificial Ecologies. Natural Architecture and Artificial Environment

All architecture produces artificial environments, competing with the climate. Auto-Atmospheres explores the collaborative ways that humanity generates entirely artificial ecologies linking man and machine, bits and atoms, linking soft and fleshy and hard wares in a symbiotic synthetic environment. The paper gives a schematic overview of environmental transmutation and weather modification, and an in-depth insight into our work at atmos exploring energy systems, climatic interventions, feedback loops and the spatialisation of social networks.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Auto Atmospheres & Artificial Ecologies. Natural Architecture and Artificial Environment (PDF)

Alex Haw is an architect and artist operating at the intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs atmos, a collaborative experimental practice which produces a range of architecture and events including private houses, installations and larger public commissions.

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Anna Dumitriu (gb)

Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0. The Interface of Biodigital Communication

Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0 is an interactive installation which makes explicit the correlations between human digital communication and bacterial chemical communication. It combines raw network traffic taking place live around the gallery (including web traffic, mobile technology and Bluetooth), a time-lapse film of bacterial communication occurring (involving two strains of genetically modified (GM) bacteria which will indicate, by changing colour or glowing, the communication taking place) and (generated from those sources) a new Cellular Automata artificial life form.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0. The Interface of Biodigital Communication (PDF)

Anna Dumitriu is a visual artist working with digital and biological media through installation and performance. She is artist in residence in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at The University of Sussex and working on her Ph.D. at The University of Brighton.

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Andrea Polli (us)

Airspace

The proposed paper investigates how sound transmission can contribute to the public understanding of climate change in the context of the Poles. How have such transmission-based projects developed specifically in the Arctic and Antarctic, and how do these works help audiences better understand climate change? The author has created the media project Sonic Antarctica that combines soundscape recordings and sonifications with radio-style audio interview excerpts. This work will be examined in the context of the other sound transmission science and art works.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Airspace (PDF)

Andrea Polli is an artist, Associate Professor in Fine Arts and Engineering and Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media at The University of New Mexico. Polli's work has been presented widely in venues including the Whitney Museum’s Artport and The Field Museum among others.
Further Information: andreapolli

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Susan Ballard (nz)

Nonorganic Life. Encounters Between Frequency and Virtuality in Antarctica

Antarctica is a land of crystal worlds shaped through forces that seem as far from electronic media as we can get. In many imaginaries Antarctica exists as a virtualized yet real utopia. It is a place known through material productions that oscillate between the fictional and the scientific. Like the hurricane, our engagements with Antarctica last long enough for us to name yet are fleeting enough that we are unsure as to their exact molecular makeup. This paper examines the real fictions of nonorganic life found in this otherworldly place.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Nonorganic Life. Encounters Between Frequency and Virtuality in Antarctica (PDF)

Susan Ballard is a writer, curator and artist. She teaches Electronic Arts at the Dunedin School of Art, New Zealand. Her recent publications examine utopia, the antipodes, sound, noise, and the contemporary politics of art in digital times. She edited The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader in 2008.

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Saul Albert and Mikey Weinkove (gb)

Planetary Pledge Pyramid

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