<p dir="ltr">Nice to see your name in -empyre Roger! Good luck!<br>
Ana</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Den 19 jan 2016 21:14 skrev "roger malina" <<a href="mailto:rmalina@alum.mit.edu">rmalina@alum.mit.edu</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
hi empyre<br>
<br>
this is roger malina lurking into the light-<br>
well lots going on in my neck of the woods which is<br>
now dallas texas- where i am a prof of 'art and technology' and a prof<br>
of physics<br>
<br>
i opened and art science lab here <a href="http://artscilab.utdallas.edu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://artscilab.utdallas.edu/</a><br>
where we are doing projects with artists and scientists on<br>
data exploration and sonification on astronomy, geology and<br>
neurosciences<br>
<br>
another project as part of Leonardo , where i still serve<br>
as executive editor of the leonardo pubs at mit pres<br>
is that this spring we are opening the ARTECA art sci<br>
tech aggregator - where as a first step hundreds of<br>
books and thousands of articles will be available from<br>
anythin mit press has ever published in art/sci./tech=<br>
the next step will be research and development in<br>
collaborative filtering of grey literature and its archiving<br>
<br>
meawhile still have the YASMIN mediterranean region<br>
lists, and also <a href="http://creativedisturbance.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">creativedisturbance.org</a> art/scit/tech<br>
podcast platform- if you would like to publish a podcast<br>
contact me<br>
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:00:49 +0000<br>
From: "Hamilton, Kevin" <<a href="mailto:kham@illinois.edu">kham@illinois.edu</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a>"<br>
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Subject: [-empyre-] Kevin Hamilton<br>
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Hello all<br>
<br>
I?m still here with an ear to the wire, and glad for the listserv form<br>
even if including it in current flows takes a little more intention.<br>
Empyre continues to usefully connect and prompt, and I?m regularly<br>
happy and surprised to see who stops in to say hello.<br>
<br>
It?s Martin Luther King Jr., weekend here in the States, when many<br>
gather to re-center on the collective through service and song. As a<br>
white American academic, I look through doubly-thick, even<br>
triply-thick glass, and like many of you perhaps struggle to maintain<br>
the humbly empathetic posture and attentive senses called for by the<br>
world's present crises, and my role within them. Certainly an<br>
international list like this has been a help to that for me,<br>
especially when we risk the time to read closely and write clearly.<br>
<br>
Here in Illinois, though some shifts in leadership on our campus left<br>
me holding a fuller plate of administrative responsibilities, I<br>
continue to proceed (slowly) with work on a few fronts:<br>
<br>
- Ned O?Gorman and I are finishing up a book on the role of film in<br>
America?s rise to nuclear hegemony, with an emphasis on the story of<br>
an Air Force film studio based in Hollywood.<br>
- I?ve been contributing to another larger collaboration that tilts<br>
more toward the social-scientific, on perception of algorithms at work<br>
in newsfeeds such as those on Facebook.<br>
- More in the realm of New Media Art, Katja Kwastek and I have been<br>
doing some thought and writing on slowness in new media aesthetics.<br>
<br>
Of interest to this list from my recent travels might be an<br>
overview<<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULTa42QCYL8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULTa42QCYL8</a>> of the Digital<br>
Humanities from a theory perspective I gave here at Illinois, or a<br>
first step<<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8KZpotc-M" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8KZpotc-M</a>> into some new<br>
work with Orit Halpern presented last Fall at MediaArtHistories in<br>
Montreal.<br>
<br>
I?ll also be taking a turn soon as Editor-in-Chief of the journal<br>
Media-N, where hopefully I?ll also be hearing from some of you through<br>
proposals for issues and articles.<br>
<br>
Wishing you all a good year, and looking forward to what empyre brings.<br>
<br>
Kevin Hamilton<br>
Professor and Associate Director, School of Art and Design<br>
Senior Associate Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts<br>
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br>
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From: "B. Bogart" <<a href="mailto:ben@ekran.org">ben@ekran.org</a>><br>
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Subject: [-empyre-] Ben Bogart<br>
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Hello all,<br>
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I continue to be following the list, but not with as much consistency as<br>
I would like. I wanted to post a little update as I'm currently at the<br>
Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada (<a href="http://www.banffcentre.ca/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.banffcentre.ca/</a>) one week into a<br>
five week self-directed residency.<br>
<br>
I am developing software and presentation strategies for Watching and<br>
Dreaming (Blade Runner) in order to contextualize the work in visual<br>
art. Watching and Dreaming is a series of generative video installations<br>
that inherit the conceptual basis of my PhD work<br>
(<a href="http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/2014/a-machine-that-dreams-an-artistic-enquiry-leading-to-an-integrative-theory-and-computational-artwork/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/2014/a-machine-that-dreams-an-artistic-enquiry-leading-to-an-integrative-theory-and-computational-artwork/</a>)<br>
where I attempted to make a Dreaming Machine.<br>
<br>
The argument presented in the PhD work is that dreaming, mind wandering<br>
and external perception are contiguous and depend on shared mechanisms<br>
of internal simulation. What we experience of the world is the result of<br>
massive amounts of implicit learning where much of what we 'perceive' is<br>
actually the result of unconscious imagination rather than the result of<br>
direct access to sensation. External perception resembles reality<br>
because of the constraints on those mechanisms of simulation imposed by<br>
sensory information. In the absence of, or shift of attention away from,<br>
sensory information (for example during sleep or mind wandering) those<br>
processes continue on. No longer constrained by embodied physical<br>
reality they are free to diverge and converge away and toward<br>
plausibility. For more information see my TEDx talk<br>
(<a href="https://youtu.be/xYtt8qSwJws" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xYtt8qSwJws</a>).<br>
<br>
Whereas the Dreaming Machines learn structure from a live camera in the<br>
installation context, Watching and Dreaming learns from the contrived<br>
worlds presented in popular cinematic depictions of AI, such as Stanley<br>
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. The<br>
system uses machine learning methods (specifically clustering and<br>
prediction) to break film frames into millions of components and<br>
producing abstractions of visual information. The system 'imagines'<br>
perceptions by reconstructing frames using these abstractions or dreams<br>
by predicting which abstractions should be present in this 'train of<br>
thought'.<br>
<br>
I'm blogging my learning and development process on my website<br>
(<a href="http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/category/production/wd/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ekran.org/ben/wp/category/production/wd/</a>), and you can use<br>
the "RSS Feed" link under "About" on the left panel if you would like to<br>
to subscribe to updates. I've also posted some early work in progress<br>
showing perceptual reconstructions on YouTube<br>
(<a href="https://youtu.be/AIUWu08qM2o" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/AIUWu08qM2o</a>). I expect to post more quite soon!<br>
<br>
Beyond this I'm waiting for word on council funding to continue<br>
supporting this project, and I should also hear soon about my research<br>
council application for a postdoc in a cognitive neuroscience lab.<br>
<br>
Thanks all for reading!<br>
Ben Bogart<br>
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