DU 16 AU 21 MAI 2023, HEXAGRAM SERA À PARIS POUR L’ÉDITION 2023 DE ISEA : SYMBIOSIS.
ISEA2023 accueillera 28 membres du Réseau à travers des panels, des présentations, des ateliers et des performances, ce qui représente de fabuleuses opportunités de réseautage international pour nos membres.
Nous vous encourageons fortement à consulter la programmation de l’événement!
Voici un aperçu des activités de nos membres
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PRÉSENTATIONS COURTES
- 16.05 | 17:30 – 17:45 – Salle 100
Mona Hedayati
Intelligent Sensibility: Human-Machine Symbiotic Agencies
Cet article se concentre sur les codes de l’interaction homme-machine comme moyen de définir les qualités de cette écologie émergente tout en reconnaissant l’importance de la responsabilité et le caractère situé de l’homme. Consécutivement, les implications d’un tel couplage pour la sensorialité de l’homme et de la machine sont prises en compte pour envisager les qualités d’un sensorium distributif que cette l’agentivité régénératrice conçoit tout en faisant allusion aux pratiques de « situated computing ».
- 17.05 | 15:25 – 15:50 – Salle 500 + En ligne
Gisèle Trudel
Ecotechnologies of practice: in-forming changing climates
How do ecotechnologies of practice actualize? This paper traces the material/theoretical operations of an ongoing long-term research-creation project concerned with changing climates. It mixes in-formation of collectivities: trees, data visualizations, media arts, forest science research (Smartforests Canada, led at UQAM by Daniel Kneeshaw) and publics. An individuation of symbiotic modulations, the paper crafts a thinking-with Balsam Fir, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, cameras, Domingo Cisneros, Dendrometer, Erin Manning, Isabelle Stengers, Gilbert Simondon, Light Emitting Diodes, Numbers, Microphones, Recorders, Scaffolding, Sapflow, Sensings, Sensors, Speakers, Sugar Maple, Temperature, Yellow Birch.
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PRÉSENTATIONS LONGUES
- 16.05 | 16:35 – 16:55 – Salle 100
Christophe Lengelé, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier
Live 4 Life: A dream for a free and open spatial performance tool towards symbiosis or death?
The paper presents the motivations, evolution, and directions behind the spatial sound performance tool named Live 4 Life. It aims to simplify the creation and control in real time of masses of spatialised sound objects on various kinds of loudspeaker configurations (stereo and particularly quadriphonic or octophonic setups, as well as domes of 16, 24 or 32 loudspeakers). This spatial research, which questions ways of associating rhythmic and spatial parameters, is based on the concept of free and open works, both from the point of view of form (improvisation) and in the diffusion of the code. The tool, which was initiated in 2011 and distributed in open source in 2022, has been conceived as a long-term dream against capitalism and loneliness. Several scenarios between (technical, social) death or symbiosis of this tool (with other programs, works and the visual representation field) are presented.
- 16.05 | 11:20 – 11:40 – Salle 300 + En ligne
Maurice Jones et al.
Curation as Research-Creation: Speculating on the Future of Art and Technology Festivals
This paper explores a renewed approach to curation as research-creation (CRC) through its practical application in the annual art and technology festival. CRC envisions a shift in curation from a care for objects to a care for the emerging social relations of the curatorial project in a shared quest of meaning making.
- 18.05 | 11:50 – 12:10 – Salle 100
Chris Salter, Timothy Thomasson et al.
Animate: A Theatrical Exploration of Climate Transformation through the Medium of Extended Reality (XR)
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- 19.05 | 10:10 – 10:30 – Salle 100
Brice Ammar-Khodja
Symphony of the Stones: activating the metallic pollutants of the urban landscape in an urban art installation practice
In the late 1980s, the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned a rail yard on the outskirts of Montreal’s Mile End district. Within a few years, the return of animal and plant species encouraged the citizen community to reinvest in this site known as Le Champ des Possibles. Despite community efforts to rehabilitate this wasteland, hydrocarbon and heavy metal pollution persists in the soil and thus needs rethinking the engagement with the imperceptible mutations of ecosystems. Symphony of the Stones was created in response to this context. This research-creation project consists of several urban art installations that activate residual metals in soils by their magnetic characteristics to make these imperceptible pollutants visible. The following paper unfolds the different processes, methodologies and strategies that led to in-site interventions blending art installation, collaboration with different communities and associations and leading to a rethinking of art practices in the urban environment.
- 20.05 | 15:35 – 15:55 – Salle 500 + En ligne
Yan Breuleux, Alain Thibault et al.
The Enigma A/V performance & the concept of Agnostic Media Environment (AME)
We present the storytelling of the Enigma project and explain how producing a matrix of 3D environments, which can be deployed on a very wide variety of media, supports the proposal of the Agnostic Media Environment (AME) concept.
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PRÉSENTATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES
- 17.05 | 9:00 – 11:00 – Salle 100
Ricardo Dal Farra
Balance-Unbalance: Ecology + ArtScience in a time of needed Symbiosis
The frequency and severity of certain weather and climate-related events around us are increasing, and the ability of human beings to modify our adjacent surroundings has turned into a power capable of altering the planet. How can the media/electronic/emergent arts play a relevant role in changing the escalating ecological crisis?
- 17.05 | 9:00 – 11:00 – Salle 100
Manuelle Freire, Sofian Audry
Hexagram Network 2020-2027
In its current programming cycle (2020-2027) Hexagram Network is invested in understanding and promoting more interdisciplinary, inclusive and diverse models of research-creation. The Network seeks to develop knowledge-sharing and mediation tools and strategies for broader reach, and more effective dissemination and valorization of the research outcomes and artistic productions that emerge from our communities of practice.
- 17.05 | 16:30 – 18:00 – Salle 100
Christopher Salter
Zurich univ. of the arts (CH) : Immersive Arts Space – Between Research, Teaching, Production in the Emerging field of “Immersive Arts”
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ARTIST TALKS
- 16.05 | 11:40 – 12:05 – Salle 100
Samuel Bianchini et al.
Present.able: An image-based public presentation with the .able journal platform
How can we account for practice-based research at the intersections of art, design, and sciences in ways other than text-based format?
The traditional methodologies and forms for journal articles are not always adapted to research that explores sensorial and singular forms. Arising from this observation, the .able journal is designed as an innovative valorization of interdisciplinary practice-based research, thanks to image-based formats.
- 16.05 | 15:10 – 15:25 – Salle 300 + En ligne
Juliette Lusven
Exploration.135 (ocean history telecom invisibility)
Inspirée par des archives bathymétriques de l’océan Atlantique Exploration.135 s’intéresse aux relations entre l’histoire des télécommunications, des géosciences marines et de l’imagerie terrestre avec les arts visuels et médiatiques. S’articulant à partir de l’infrastructure actuelle d’Internet, ce projet interroge notre relation technologique et environnementale au monde.
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ATELIERS
- 17.05 | 9:00 – 18:00 – Salle 20
Christophe Lengelé
Open source spatial sound creation and improvisation, particularly with the SuperCollider tool Live 4 Life
Participants will learn how to create and improvise with spatialized sound on multiple speakers using the open source tool Live 4 Life, which the author has been developing in SuperCollider since 2011. After a short introduction to the tool on its goals and possibilities, you will learn 1. how to install and configure the tool, 2. how to interact with the GUI and controllers, 3. how to define your own personal spatial configuration, 4. the code structure in detail, and finally 5. how to send the generated pattern data to another program like Processing via OSC to generate visuals. This workshop is very hands-on. After the presentation of each section of the tool, participants will have some time to manipulate the tool on their own computer. At the end of the workshop, a workshop survey with questions about spatial preferences can be completed on a voluntary basis. The survey takes 5-10 minutes to complete, if you wish to answer all the questions.
- 18.05 | 9:00 – 18:00 – Salle 50
Sofian Audry, Manuelle Freire, Danny Perreault
Arts-Sciences collaborative Research-Creation: Conceptual, Methodological and Organizational Strategies
The imperative for interdisciplinary research has been around and growing, promoted by major research funding bodies for a few decades. As a result, we can now begin to study how such research operates and compare case studies to study effective modes of interdisciplinary collaboration. However, in the majority of existing reports the disciplines assembled are from relatively close epistemic cultures and the effectiveness of collaborations usually correlates with applied results or scientific breakthroughs. Furthermore, in most reports, institutional and organizational considerations are set as the background conditions for the research that is conducted (Stokols, Hall, Taylor, & Moser, 2008 ; Cooke and Hilton, 2015). Fewer studies pertain to collaborations across the arts and the sciences, and rarely address how the institutional structures change or are affected by new types of research.
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FOCUS QUÉBEC – PROGRAMME SPÉCIALE
- 18.05 | 14:15-16:45 – Salle 500 + En ligne
Alain Thibault, Juliette Lusven, Jean-Philippe Côté, Victor Drouin-Trempe, Yan Breuleux, Louis-Philippe Rondeau, François-Joseph Lapointe, Timothy Tomasson et al.
FOCUS QUÉBEC ARTIST TALKS
Pour cette session, ELEKTRA propose une série de courtes présentations mettant en avant plan le travail d’une sélection d’artistes québécois d’envergure internationale présents au symposium. Couvrant un éventail de sujets d’actualité comme l’intelligence artificielle, la biologie, la robotique participative, la robotique douce, les infrastructures en haute mer, les questions de nature dans une société de plus en plus virtualisée et plus encore, l’après-midi donnera un aperçu de la création contemporaine numérique au Québec. De plus, une sélection d’œuvres d’artistes québécois sera visible à l’intérieur du Forum des Images (du 16 au 21 mai) ainsi que sous la Canopée du Forum des Halles (17 et 18 mai). Présenté avec la collaboration de Hexagram.
- 18.05 | 17:00-18:00 – Salle 500 + En ligne
Victor Drouin-Trempe, Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Alain Thibault et al.
FOCUS QUÉBEC PANEL: Intelligence / Vie artificielle – Une nouvelle espèce planétaire ?
Focus Québec se termine par un panel sur la vie artificielle / l’intelligence artificielle. Souvent cité comme centre névralgique de la production d’art numérique contemporain ainsi que de la recherche et du développement en intelligence artificielle, le Québec est devenu une plaque tournante pour les explorations des intersections possibles entre l’IA et l’art. Ce panel réunit des experts québécois et internationaux : artistes, conservateurs et critiques, pour interroger les développements récents de l’IA du point de vue de la vie artificielle. Dans quelle mesure pouvons-nous considérer l’IA non seulement comme un nouveau type d’intelligence, mais aussi comme un nouveau type d’organisme, et que peuvent nous apprendre la culture et la manipulation du vivant sur les outils contemporains de l’IA et leur avenir possible ? Considérant que l’intelligence, comme toute forme de vie, est nécessairement située dans un substrat matériel, les pratiques artistiques et critiques dans le domaine de la vie artificielle et synthétique peuvent-elles nous amener à imaginer une intelligence artificielle plus située et incarnée, une intelligence qui fonctionne peut-être moins dans les polarités du contrôle et de la domination. Le panel est organisé avec la collaboration de Hexagram.
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FORUM SUR L’ÉDUCATION
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POSTER
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TABLES RONDES
- 16.05 | 10:30 – 11:00 – Salle 500 + En ligne
François-Joseph Lapointe et al.
Introduction to the Symposium: Symbiosis by the ISEA2023 Academic Chairs
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- 18.05 | 10:30 – 11:30 – Salle 300 + En ligne
Ionat Zurr et al.
Nourishing and Nurturing: Placentas, Incubators, and the Politics of Life Ex-Vivo
This panel explores the placenta, its past and its future in human reproduction. Presentations will probe the symbiotic relationships between mother/fetus and human/non-human. The talks will include ongoing artistic research on incubators and the placenta, and prompt questions about the socio-cultural impact of ectogenesis and the body politic.
- 18.05 | 14:15 – 15:15 – Salle 300 + En ligne
Jean-Ambroise Vesac, Hélène Duval, David St-Onge, Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Chris Salter
Imaginaries and engineering through bodily and digital experience with experimental matter for artistic outcome
This panel offers a space of reflection on the art & science forms of expression to be touching, imaginative, emotional, interactive, playable, and even joyful. The panel discusses imaginary and conceptual bounding, decision-making approach, and the involvement of the public at different levels of the research in art and science project.
- 19.05 | 16:50 PM to 17:50 – Salle 500 + En ligne
Samuel Bianchini et al.
Useful Fictions: An experimental platform for creative co-production of artwork by artist-scientist teams
Useful Fictions began as a two-year collaboration between artists, designers, and scientists from the University of California, Davis, USA, and the Chaire Arts et Sciences of the École polytechnique and École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France. In 2019, gathering a coalition of artists, designers, humanists, and graduate students to work with globally acclaimed climate scientists in their labs, the project culminated as a week-long multidisciplinary symposium at École polytechnique and a temporary public art project titled The Speed of Light (SOL) Expedition, which took place in Montmartre, Paris, France. The goal of the collaboration was to design and implement an experimental platform suitable for bringing artists and scientists together to exchange shared concerns of critical ecological and societal importance. The vehicle that carried the discourse forward was the creative co-production of artwork by the artist-scientist teams. In pursuit of shared inquiries, the teams worked side-by-side with an attitude toward embracing the complexity of the problem and modeling radical openness to research in which tools, laboratories, and studio work are shared between the team members.
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Guest Keynote
- 17.05 | 9:00 – 10:00 – Salle 500 + En ligne
Ionat Zurr
Symbiosis and the fallacy of a nature-free existence
In times of ecological emergency, solutionist fantasies of nature-free human existence promise salvation and repair. The innovative paradigm offers “products” such as lab-grown (animal free) meat and artificial automated surrogates to replace reproductive biological bodies.
These so-called innovations require special artificial environments to host, nurture and culturally articulate this “new” nature-free, decontextualized and colonised life. The entanglement of life with its surrogate environment/apparatus, echoing human relationships with living and semi-living agents; when control and care is employed to counter resistance.
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