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Mission of the Digital Arts Community Committee

Our missions is to foster year-round engagement and dialogue within the digital, electronic, computational and media arts. We facilitate dynamic scholarship and creative programming within the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. We also promote collaboration between artists and the larger computer graphics and interactive techniques community.

SIGGRAPH Asia Art Papers 2024 Review: Curious Minds

Date: Feb 20 at 8pm Eastern / Feb 21 10am Japan

Weblink: https://dac.siggraph.org/.../2025-02-siggraph-asia-art.../

Description:
The conference theme, “Curious Minds,” applies to both artists exploring new technologies and critics evaluating their effectiveness and meaning. Following our curiosity, we artists have misused systems, hacked devices, devised unusual algorithms and processes, and expressed new colors and forms. What motivates our curiosity, and what are the consequences of our efforts? Why obsess over something that no one else seems to care about, or doesn’t have immediate or practical value? Why do something that someone else finds disturbing? Why here and now? Why you? What roles do artists and critics have in shaping the future of computer graphics and interactive techniques? Explore how technology can both disrupt and unify, offering new ways to understand and engage with our multifaceted existence and curiosity.

Panelists:

AI-rays: Exploring Bias in the Gaze of AI Through a Multimodal Interactive Installation
Ziyao Gao  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695433

Bug in my Software
Alina Nazmeeva  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695452

Cinema Meowdisco: Films Co-Created by Human, Large Language Models and a Cat
Xuanyang Huang & Xiaoyun Zhong - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695443

Nature: Metaphysics + Metaphor (N:M+M): Exploring Persistence, Feedback, and Visualisation in Mixed Reality Performance Arts
Tristan Braud - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695439

Pulse Memorial
Brook Vann & August Black- https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695450

Tale of Tales: Interdisciplinary Art at the Intersection of Music, History, Sugar, and Technology
Tak Cheung Hui - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695449

Understated Haptics: Physicalization of Tactile Memories through a Co-creative Practice between Human and Nonhuman
Ivana Chaloska - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695458

VR Body Calligraphy – Whole-body Performance Writing for Chinese Calligraphy
Pierre Yat Siu Shum  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3680530.3695447

Moderator(s) by: Yuichiro Katsumoto and Victoria

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Save the Date:
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS TALK:

Title: Sensing the Body to Expand Possibilities in Art and Performance

Date: January 24th, 2025 @ 1700 UTC

Link: https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2025-01-sensing-the-body-to-expand-possibilities-in-art-and-performance/

Moderated by: Elizabeth Jochum, Alan Macy, & Bonnie Mitchell

Session Description:
As early as the 1960s, artists have used sensors to detect changes in the body as a means of capturing physiological data to alter the outcome of visual and performing art forms. Today, artists and innovative technologists push creative boundaries utilizing computational tools to augment the body itself in artistically expressive ways. Through the exploration of how systems and sensors transform aesthetic experiences, artists address issues such as multimodal human-computer interaction, sensory perception, identity politics, embodied experience, and interpersonal relationships to the body itself. Artists have used body sensing to create augmented dance and music performances, wearable computing, motion capture, interactive installation artworks, robotic art, interactive screen-based works, virtual environments, and even 2D artworks. The integration of machine-learning approaches has widened the scope of possibilities in this experiential art form. This session includes artists and technologists discussing their research and creative endeavors that utilize body sensing. In the discussion, we will take a critical approach and consider the ethical issues related to data capture and utilizing the body’s inner biometrics in the name of art.

Presenters include:
Kate Sicchio
Camille Baker
Marco Donnarumma
Yiou Wang
Daiane Lopes da Silva
Thomas f. deFrantz
Mark-David Hosale
Grisha Coleman
Ellen Pearlman
Nina Sobell

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Bluesky - @danceswithrobots

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