Bio Design | Online Workshop | English | Europe-Mideast-Africa
Description:
The significant boost of pandemic digitalization moved us to the mindset of the reduced physicality of space. Space became not only virtual it was diminished to a dot, a white object in the emptiness of the informational vacuum. Being overloaded by the constant digital connections we more and more started to discuss the processes of abolition - the abolition of physical or the abolition of the digital. These destructive views move us more and more away from the processes of reality hybridization where we build soft bridges between physical and virtual. Such bridges allow us to construct a new space, where the physical and digital dichotomy gravitates toward the visions of hybrid environment, where physical and digital technologies are blended into one single space of Digitocene.
During the workshop, we will be building such bridges of connectivity, translating information and aesthetics from one medium to another, transcending the boundaries of fields and disciplines.
The workshop will start from a biological experiment which data later will be used to build virtual representations or hallucinated visions of this experiment. At the last stage, such visions will be converted into virtual space which all participants of the workshop can visit and interact with.
See you on the hybrid side.
Key Words:
Patterns,VR,Living Matter,Digital
Required Skills:
general public
Required Software:
rhinoceros, chromium browser, PlantNet or LeafSnap app
Required Hardware:
laptop
Maximum number of participating students:
20
During the workshop, we will be building such bridges of connectivity, translating information and aesthetics from one medium to another, transcending the boundaries of fields and disciplines.
The workshop will start from a biological experiment which data later will be used to build virtual representations or hallucinated visions of this experiment. At the last stage, such visions will be converted into virtual space which all participants of the workshop can visit and interact with.
See you on the hybrid side.
Schedule:
Jun 26 - Jun 30
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Day 1 / Jun 26
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Day 2 / Jun 27
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Day 3 / Jun 28
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Day 4 / Jun 30
Instructors:
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Vadim Smakhtin ITMO Art&Science, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design, Synthetic Landscape Lab,Curator, PhD CandiateA creative engineer who works at the edges of the data visualization, urbanism, and virtual reality disciplines. Curator of the Arts & Science major “Digital Art: The New Spatial”, Co-Founder of Ephemera One, and co-curator of –Digitocene.Net. -
Maria Kuptsova MA,Research associate and Doctorate candidate at the University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design, Synthetic Landscape Lab; Curator of “Technological Art: Towards a New Intelligence '' Major, Art&Science, ITMO University; Head of Design Innovation, ITMOTECH; Artist and Curator –Digitocene.Net.Maria Kuptsova is a meta-artist, research practitioner and educator in the fields of transdiciplinary art and architecture. Her current research questions the role of artificial and natural intelligence within the design process, aiming to formulate bio-machinic design techniques, as well as to articulate a cyborganic aesthetical language driven by synthetic forms of cognition. Maria is a research associate at the Synthetic Landscape Lab, Institute of Urban Design, University of Innsbruck. She is a curator of “Technological Art: Towards a New Intelligence '' Major at the Art&Science at ITMO University, as well as artist and curator of art initiative –Digitocene.Net. -
Laura Rodriguez ITMO,Curator of specialization in Bioart. Artist and independent curatorLaura Elidedt Rodriguez is an artist and biotechnologist, exploring the topic of empathy towards all species, aesthetics, and systems of care of biological networks. Curator of the “Bioart: Biomedia and New Nature” Major at the Art & Science Master's program at ITMO University, independent curator of exhibitions and events promoting scientific and technological art