Thur 26 August 2010
13:00–14:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, G 133a

Moderated by Boris Debackere (nl)

1. 13:00h | Meehae Song (ca): Better Than Opiates
2. 13:20h | Laura Maiori, Andrea Sosa (ar): The Bit Expansion. Origin of Augmentation Operations in Mixed Realities
3. 13:40h | Brass Art (Chara Lewis, Anneke Pettican, Kristin Mojseiwicz, gb): Digital Doubles
4. 14:00h | Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: From the sonArc::project to C_plexus solaris. From In-forming Plasma in vitro to Transforming the Solar Storm in 2012 in vivo

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P35 Augmenting Reality (PDF, 151.11 KB)

Meehae Song (ca)

Better Than Opiates

Although research in immersive virtual environments has waned in the realms of Computer Science and Interactive Art, a diversity of disciplines have quietly expanded its scope and everyday use. Further, ideas derived from early work in VR continue to transparently inform other practices. Building on our experience of well-known virtual environments created for artistic, cultural heritage and medical applications — funded and currently being used by patients who suffer from pain — we examine the specific affordances of immersive VR through the lens of a fundamental human experience — pain.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Better Than Opiates (PDF)

Meehae Song is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University, Song has been working with various VR applications from 2000. Her interests lie in exploring the uses of VR spaces for addressing issues of chronic pain and therapy.

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Laura Maiori, Andrea Sosa (ar)

The Bit Expansion. Origin of Augmentation Operations in Mixed Realities

In the Bit era, it is not possible to think of reality as something univocal, but as a mixed phenomenon, in which notions such as space, time and perception have changed. The present study explores the characteristics of mixed realities focusing on the analysis of augmentation operations that arise from merging the real and the virtual. The concepts of interface, metaphor and immersion are analysed, and a theory is developed regarding augmentation in mixed realities.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | The Bit Expansion. Origin of Augmentation Operations in Mixed Realities (PDF)

Laura Maiori was born in 1978. She graduated in Graphic Design and is currently a Professor and Researcher at the Multimedia Design Department, Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Her fields of work are graphic design, photography and interactive art. She lives and works in La Plata, Argentina.

Andrea Sosa was born in 1977. A graduate in Multimedia Design and Filmmaking, she is currently a Professor and Researcher at Universidad Nacional de la Plata and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte. Her fields of work are interactive art and filmmaking. She lives and works in La Plata, Argentina.

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Brass Art (Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Anneke Pettican, Kristin Mojseiwicz gb)

Digital Doubles

Digital Doubles is informed by non-invasive 3D body scanning sessions, 3D modelling and 3D rapid prototyping. In the scanning booth, the artists created poses which would fold around or into a virtual counterpart. The data was processed, repaired and manipulated and virtual 3D props were incorporated. The playful manipulation of the body’s anatomical boundaries through metamorphosis, coupled with the evolution of individual narrative tableaux, enabled the artist’s portraits to shift between the real and the virtual. It is this virtual suturing that will inform this paper.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Digital Doubles (PDF)

Brass Art solo exhibitions: The Non-existence of the Unnamed, International 3 and Skyscraping, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Group exhibitions: Inside Out Object Gallery, Sydney & RCA, The Economy of the Gift A Foundation, Tell it to the Trees, Croft Castle, ArtFutures, Bloomberg Space and Jerwood Drawing Prize.

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Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (de)

From the sonArc::project to C_plexus solaris. From In-forming Plasma in vitro to Transforming the Solar Storm in 2012 in vivo

In 2012 NASA scientists expect the next solar super storm, like in 1859 when auroras could be seen all over the world and the new technology of electric telegraphy was disturbed by natural radio – decades before our radio had been invented. In my sonArc cycle I have been exploring the question of the “domesticability of lighting” – the coding or forming of high-frequency high-voltage plasma as purely electrical / electronic interface, a direct yet bodiless connection to a purely electrical system and its medial-epistemic roots and changing formats. In 2012 we are going to transform the solar storm live into an space weather opera: C_plexus solaris.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | From the sonArc::project to C_plexus solaris. From In-forming Plasma in vitro to Transforming the Solar Storm in 2012 in vivo (PDF)

Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag is an artist focusing mainly on media art-based installations and theory. He studied fine arts, art history, music theory, composition, philosophy and cognitive science and, in 2002, founded "N-solab". He is a cofounder of "hARTware-projects", now "HMKV", "oh Ton" and "unerhört". He had several grants and participations in international exhibitions.

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