This is a presentation of initial pairings we put together for the ICT & Art Connect project stand at the EU ICT 2013 showcase event on the new Digital Agenda. In some cases, these art-tech pairs had just met and had to only talk about their own background rather than new any new ideas for a project they had, but once paired some very good connections developed.

1. “7 on 7” Pecha Kucha for ICT & Connect

2. About ICT & Art Connect
• brings artists and technologists to work
together
• new ideas and projects
• fosters new understandings, innovations
and directions for the future
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3. What the project is about?
• consultation with artists and technologists
• networking and matchmaking events
• residencies focused on co-creation and citizen
engagement in ICT
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4. Early Pairings
Artist - Alex May
Scientist - Luis Miguel Girao
Artist - Luciana Haill
Scientist - Beatrice De Gelder
Artist - Geoff Howse
Scientist - Ulrich Atz
Artist - Yann N Guéma
Scientist - Charles Elie Goujon
Artist - Anya Yermakova
Scientists - Chino Norris
Artist - Sander Veenhof
Scientist - Philipp Slusallek
Artist - Joanna Kane
Scientist - Andrea Vitaletti
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27. de Gelder, Scientific American 2010

28. Left V1 lesion resulting in right hemianopia
Patient T.N.: bilateral lesion resulting in total cortical blindness
de Gelder et al. (2008). Current Biology

29. • Anatomical parcellation of the cortex in 75 ROIs for
each hemisphere and subject
GY freesurfer parcellated

30. ict-art-connect.eu

31. ict-art-connect.eu

32. Left Amygdala
Significantly Reduced or Absent
Significantly Increased or New
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33. Right Amygdala
Significantly Reduced or Absent
Significantly Increased or New
Significantly Reduced or Absent in TN
Significantly Increased or New

34. ARTS &
TECHNOLOGY
CONNECTED
Pixel motion project
Yann NGUEMA
Charles-élie GOUJON

35. Project configuration
prototypes
&
Arts
Sciences platform
Scientists
Artists
Out of the box objects
and creations

36. Project presentation
Project:
Pixel Motion is a dynamic,
three‐dimensional toolset of bright
spots of light playing on each and
everyone's sensitive perception of
light. It is shaped as a huge,
stage‐size "table‐cloth » made of
luminous spots, deformable in
space.

37. Project presentation
Each luminous spot can move very quickly or rather slowly within the range of a seven-meter
vertical line. Under remote and real time control, Pixel Motion is the forerunner of a new type of
this three-dimensional screen.

38. Technical aspects

39. Technical aspect
A pixel is an autonomous light sphere wirelessly controlled.
A full set of pixels can be controlled by a user interface in order
to create light effects .

40. Technical aspect

43. Software simulation

51. Other artistic developments

53. http://www.atelier-arts-sciences.eu

54. SNDRV
Philipp
Slusallek
Scientific Director, German
Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence
Reseach Director, Intel Visual
Computing Institute
Saarland University
Sander
Veenhof
Tech + art
VU university computer science
Rietveld Art Academy - instable
media
Co-founder of Manifest.AR
C

55. Some Examples of our Research
Topics
Philipp
Slusallek

56. Driving innovation at the crossroads of content, media, networks and creativity
Open ICT platforms for SMEs and developers
Social connected TV
Smart city services
Pervasive games
Multi-screen interaction
Contextualisation
Augmented reality
Personalised TV experience
Live information
Blending real & virtual worlds
User tracking and privacy
Live sharing & communication
Toys, installations & city wide games

57. XML3D: Put 3D into the
Internet

58. Sander Veenhof
WHAT? augmented reality
WHY? future-proof manifestation of ‘virtual’ material in our ‘real’
surroundings
WHERE? globally

61. joint focus & fascination:
- augmented reality
- geo-located data
- mobile on-the-go experiences
PLAC
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DATA
PEOPL
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62. AUGMENTE
D REALITY

64. issues at hand
- invisibility of AR content
- augmented reality app overload
- lack of standardization
- apps function like islands
- individualistic experiences

65. FI content: tools for AR on the web
....
http://mediafi.org/open-platforms/

66. NEM Hackathon
Tier 1
Tier 2
Consumer Products Location-Based Installations
Mathias Mouchard

68. DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE

70. http://wiki.mediafi.org/doku.php/ficontent.gaming.architecture

73. SNDRV
Philipp
Slusallek
philipp.slusallek@dfki.de
Sander
Veenhof
sander@sndrv.nl

74. SEED OF AN IDEA
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75. SEED OF AN ID
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76. CONNECTIONS ARE
THE “SUGAR” OF
LIFE
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77. Do Plants Gossip?
See architecture of wood-wide web
Do People need to be lit and
watered?
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78. WHAT IS THE
CONNECTION
BETWEEN HUMANS
AND PLANTS?

79. The Great Chain of Being, a
concept derived from Plato and
Aristotle, details the
hierarchical structure of all
matter and life
Are Plants and humans so
distant?
RISK of anthropomorphization
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81. From Sensing
People, Communities ,Networks
To Sensing
Plants, Fields and Ecosytems
(and maybe back to people?)
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83. Performance and Data Capture with Video Processing. Capturing movement traces of dancer choreographer Michael Popper, „Influx‟, Perth
Concert Hall, Eyesweb motion capture software plus webcams. Collaboration Joanna Kane and Michael Popper.
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84. TECHNOLOGY ALLOW US TO MEASURE THE CONNECTIONS
BUT AT THE SAME TIME
CONNECTIONS ARE
MODIFIED BY TECHNOLOGIES

85. WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HUMANS AND PLANTS?
WHAT WOULD ASK AN ARTIST TO A RESEARCHER ?
WHAT WOULD ASK A RESEARCHER TO AN ARTIST?

86. Laura Grace, Quotables, Twitter Network, photograph Joanna Kane, data visualisation Joanna Kane and Laura Grace using NodeXL
social network analysis software, from „Cloud People‟ , Joanna Kane
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87. Beiler KJ, Durall DM, Simard SW, Maxwell SA, Kretzer AM. Architecture of the wood-wide web: Rhizopogon spp. genets link multiple
Douglas-fir cohorts. New Phytol. 2010 Jan;185(2):543-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03069.x. Epub 2009 Oct 29.

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89. Rob Hutcheson, ICT and Design Professional, “GrassRoots” Community Network, photograph Joanna Kane, data visualisation
Joanna Kane and Rob Hutcheson, using NodeXL social network analysis software, from „Cloud People‟, Joanna Kane
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90. How can we INTERFACE from
COMPUTERS to ORGANIC ENTITIES
And COLLECTIVE entities…
Whether PLANTS or PEOPLE
…in ways which recognise their needs
as living beings?
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91. How can technology be best used
to ;
SENSE
VISUALISE
COMMUNICATE
Responses and needs of organic
entities whether PEOPLE or PLANTS
rather than disturbing them
LIGHT, NUTRITION, WATER, SLEEP,
HEAT, SHELTER
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92. COLLABORATION SEEDS
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104. Alex May
Digital Artist
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105. Alex May
• Artist working with Code (programming) and
Light (video projection), and also Robots!
• Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence at
Hertfordshire University
• Part time lecturer for Digital Media Arts MA at
Brighton University
• Sessional lecturer for Interactive Digital Media at
Ravensbourne College, London
• Head of Projective Geometry at the Institute of
Unnecessary Research
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106. Tate Modern Performance (2013)
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107. Caracas: Remixed (2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
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108. Conwy Video Sculpture (2012)
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109. Video and Carved Stone Sculpture (2012)
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110. Communicating Bacteria Dress (2011)
GM bacteria stained dress by bio-artist Anna Dumitriu augmented with video mapping
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111. Brighton: Remixed (2013)
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112. Video Street Art (2009)
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113. Statues Alive (2009)
Recyclowave (2010)
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121. How can you get involved?
• Matchmaking sessions today and tomorrow
at 4:15 at 5H8
• Networking Session – Room H1E
• Register on our website to find an artist or ICT
scientist to collaborate at ict-art-connect.eu
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