BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:19721003T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19721003T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T163813Z LOCATION:Exhibition Hall 1\, Level 2 (Exhibition Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231213T110000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231213T173000 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess114@linklings.com SUMMARY:Art Gallery DESCRIPTION:Art Gallery Theme: In Unruly Times\nAt SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, the Art Gallery will showcase works of excellence across the fields of art, s cience, and technology inclusive of data visualisation, 3D printing, XR, r obotics, AI, sonic, performative, NFT and media/interactive installation.\ nUnruly as found in wild, disorderly, experimental, uncontrollable as well as those freefalling out of control anxious moments spanning conflict, cl imate crisis, pandemics, inequality, surveillance, financial and biosystem collapse for instance.\nTimes as in deep time, digital time, analogue tim e, circular, ancestral, mechanical, felt time or as a finite resource. The se are times that call for an increasing need for practices to be sustaina ble, kinder, agile, and scalable and more inclusive of divergent voices an d bodies and experimental unexpected processes.\n\nWe cordially invite you to join us at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Art Gallery in Sydney, Australia as we question, play, and confront the unruly turbulent times in which we liv e!\n\nSuperb Lyrebird Sequences, 2023.\n\nSuperb Lyrebird Sequences, 2023. Inspired by the natural and artificial phenomenon of mimicry, this projec t explores the intricate dynamics of representation, perception, and decep tion, through documentary footage of Lyrebirds, Artificially Intelligent i nterpretations of hybrid animals, and virtual ...\n\n\nWade Marynowsky (Un iversity of Technology Sydney)\n---------------------\nAI Nüshu (Women's s cripts) - An Exploration of Language Emergence in Sisterhood\n\n"AI Nüshu" is an interactive art installation that uses artificial intelligence to s imulate the creation of a unique language system, inspired by Nüshu, a scr ipt developed by women in ancient China. This work explores the intersecti on of technology, language, cultural heritage, and feminist perspect...\n\ n\nYuqian Sun (Computer Science Research Centre, Royal College of Art); Yu ying Tang (Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University; Academy and the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano); Ze Gao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Zhijun Pan (Ubisoft); Chuyan Xu (New Drama Studio ); Zhigang Wang (Tsinghua University); Tristan Braud (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology); Chang Hee Lee (Affective Systems and Cognitio n Lab, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)); and Al i Asadipour (Computer Science Research Centre, Royal College of Art)\n---- -----------------\nTreeGAN\n\nThe TreeGAN project explores how machine lea rning and generative adversarial networks shape 3D object creation. By syn thesizing a dataset of 3D trees, it examines the intersection of machine l earning and organic forms using a combination of animation, painting and 3 D printing.\n\n\nPeter A C Nelson (Hong Kong Baptist University)\n-------- -------------\nThe Garden of Unearthly Delights\n\nThe Garden of Earthly D elights is a real-time visualisation in which user decisions within a bran ching medieval poem affect the dynamics of three biomes: Earth, Heaven and Hell. Each interaction is mapped to a set of algorithms that cause each w orld to evolve to depict the users' sentiments.\n\n\nAndrew Yip (UNSW)\n-- -------------------\nMākū, te hā o Haupapa: Moisture, the breath of Haupap a\n\nThe artists relinquish the ordering and qualities of sound and video to the weather conditions of Aoraki, recorded by NIWA instruments in place near the Haupapa glacier, which feed a generative installation.\n\n\nStef an Marks, Janine Randerson, and Rachel Shearer (Auckland University of Tec hnology); Ron Bull (Otago Polytechnic); and Heather Purdie (University of Canterbury)\n---------------------\nThrough The Eyes Of Our Ancestors\n\nA holographic experience featuring First Nations Traditional Owner, Nichola s Thompson-Wymarra, sharing stories from Gudang Yadhaykenu Country in Aust ralia’s remote far north, the northern Cape York Peninsula. Presented by A FTRS in collaboration with Mod, in collaboration with Gudang Yadhayhenu... \n\n\nMichela Ledwidge (Mod) and Nicholas Thompson-Wymarra (Gudang Yadhayh enu Tribal Governance Council)\n---------------------\nAquasia\n\nEmbark o n a mesmerising virtual reality journey to ‘Aquasia’, the world's first ed ucational\nmetaworld set in a floating city in Asia. This imaginary marine utopia hopes to spark conversations and catalyse action towards the futur e of human habitats in the face of rising sea levels.\n\n\nKay Vasey and O livier Bos (MeshMinds Pte. Ltd., The MeshMinds Foundation Ltd.); Race Kreh el (Metamo Industries); and Colin Seah (Ministry of Design)\n------------- --------\n#peaches\n\n#peaches explores AI-generated self-portraits, racia l bias inherent in this technology, and its disruption to ancestral time. Beginning with the artist's self-portrait, the resulting AI imagery of poo r, angry, black women, reproduces negative stereotypes, inscribing self as other. The title referenc...\n\n\nNooroa Tapuni (AUT University)\n------- --------------\nLightSense - Long Distance\n\n'LightSense-Long Distance' l inks an interactive installation located at EPFL Pavilions in Lausanne wit h the audience at SIGGRAPH in Sydney. It is a cyber-physical construction controlled by a cloud-based AI system, which is able to engage in verbal c onversations and to transform into immersive space...\n\n\nUwe Rieger and Yinan Liu (University of Auckland, arc/sec Lab); Tharindu Kaluarachchi (Un iversity of Auckland, Augmented Human Lab); Amit Barde, Huidong Bai, and A laeddin Nassani (University of Auckland, Empathic Computing Lab); Suranga Nanayakkara (National University of Singapore, Augmented Human Lab); and M ark Billinghurst (University of Auckland, Empathic Computing Lab)\n------- --------------\nErased Murmurs\n\nErased Murmurs is an installation that h ighlights disappearing graffiti with simple yet emotionally significant wo rds. It features a book of graffiti photos concealed with special ink. The artwork invites viewers to reveal the hidden messages using infrared refl ectography and to think critically abo...\n\n\nMiu Ling Lam (School of Cre ative Media, City University of Hong Kong)\n---------------------\nSensiti ve Floral\n\n"Sensetive Floral" is an interactive, generative artwork that ventures into the exploration of a generative system, biomimetically emul ating the reactive behaviors of the Mimosa pudica plant. By synthesizing t he complexity of fractal tree data structures with the CA mechanisms of gr id computations, ...\n\n\nScottie Chih-Chieh Huang (National Tsing Hua Uni versity)\n---------------------\nΔt-Sphere\n\nThe artwork "Δt-Sphere" expr esses the concept of "Floating Liquid Encased in a Sphere" using acrylic s heets and a piano wire. \nThrough an innovative and interactive experience , combined of the beauty of man-made objects and nature, this artwork offe rs a healing through shimmering and new persp...\n\n\nMasaki Kanayama (Na gaoka Institute of Design, University of Tokyo) and Shunji YAMANAKA (Japan /Tokyo University)\n---------------------\nCymatic Ground\n\nCymatic Groun d is an interactive sound installation doubling as a model of an old neigh borhood in Hong Kong. Its metallic body is covered by a fine layer of sand that creates shapes (or destroy them) in response to the sounds and vibra tions of the larger environment it is immersed in.\n\n\nAlvaro Cassinelli and Tobias Klein (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)\ n---------------------\nExquisite Corpus\n\nExploring the human organism i n the absence of the visual bias of the flesh, Exquisite Corpus presents a rtificial, volumetric radiological scans produced through machine learning blended medical data to present chimeric, non-mendelian avatars of the hu man interior.\n\n\nKevin Blackistone (N/A)\n---------------------\nAguaviv a\n\nA jellyfish swims around in a saltwater dome. A camera tracks its mov ement and turns it into an ever-changing string of random numbers.\n\nThe numerical string created by the jellyfish is offered up in real-time to en cryption companies to use at their discretion.\n\n\nThomas Marcusson (Arti st)\n---------------------\nPlastic Landscape - The Reversible World\n\n“P lastic Landscape - The Reversible World” is an AI-generated 3D animated vi deo design that shows the apocalyptic and surreal world surrounded by arti ficial plastic mixtures and objects in the ocean, urban city, Antarctica, and forest. This new multi-sensory artwork addresses the awarene...\n\n\nY oon Chung Han (San Jose State University), Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei Universi ty), and Hung Tsai (San Jose State University)\n---------------------\nInf inite Colours\n\n"Infinite Colours" brings 2,499 videogame titles into a s low canvas of accumulative light. Each game adds a unique shape and colour onto the canvas and plays a unique string of notes. Over 8 hours, the can vas will be filled with infinite colours to celebrate LGBTQIA+ independent videogames.\n\n\nXavier Ho and Stephen Krol (Monash University)\n-------- -------------\nFusion: Landscape and Beyond 2.0\n\n"Fusion: Landscape and Beyond 2.0" is an interactive installation that dynamically blends urban c ityscapes with traditional Chinese landscapes, influenced by AI's evolving understanding of our world. As viewers traverse the exhibit, their moveme nts trigger real-time changes in the digital landscape,...\n\n\nMingyong C heng and Xuexi Dang (University of California San Diego) and Zetao Yu (Ind ependent)\n---------------------\nSonus Maris; Strange Attractor\n\nThe wo rk employs four decades of legacy satellite images and a novel algorithm t o retro-analyse the dynamics of ICOLLs (Intermittently Closed and Open Lak es and Lagoons). The visualisation and sonification reveal the flow patter ns and frequencies of these water bodies demonstrating the cyclical inte.. .\n\n\nNigel Llwyd William Helyer (SonicObjects; SonicArchitecture, Macqua rie University)\n---------------------\nPenumbra2.0\n\nPenumbra is an AI i mmersive art installation exploring the visualisation of an unpredictable extreme wildfire scenario using a fire informed aesthetic. Recreating an a ctual wildfire in the Vosges, France, 2020, it has been collaboratively de veloped by art, AI and fire researchers at UNSW, University...\n\n\nDennis Del Favero (UNSW iCinema Centre), Yang Song (UNSW), Khalid Moinuddin (Vic toria University), Charles Green (University of Melbourne), Jason Sharples (ADFA), and alex Ong and Navin Brohier (UNSW)\n---------------------\nAI History 1890-2090\n\nLetting AI tell its own history gives the audience a sense of the fictionality and reality that AI brings to the world. This is what this art work is about.\n\n\nKaihei HASE (Kansai University) and Syu nji YAZAKI (The University of Electro-Communications)\n------------------- --\nGeomart-ut7: Encountering Geometric Patterns in Media Arts\n\nArtwork: Geomart-ut7\nTechnic: Technological Arts, Creative Coding, Randomness\nDi mensions: Various dimensions \nYear: 2022\n\n\nSelcuk Artut (Sabanci Unive rsity)\n---------------------\nVisions of Destruction\n\n"Visions of Destr uction" is an interactive AI-aided artwork that uses viewer’s gaze to depi ct humanity's environmental impact. Real-time transformations, facilitated by eye-tracking and Stable Diffusion, echo the urgency of the climate cri sis and serves as an actionable call for environmental ...\n\n\nMar Canet Sola (Tallinn university, Varvara & Mar) and Varvara Guljajeva (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\n---------------------\nBending the Light: Next ge neration anamorphic sculptures\n\nIn Bending the Light the holographic or ghost-like appearance of the reflection results from the interplay between the mirror, sculpture and the eye of the viewer (https://www.nicopietroni .com/bendingthelight)\n\n\nLouis Pratt and Nico Pietroni (University of Te chnology Sydney)\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Business & Innovat ion Symposium Access, Exhibit & Experience Access, Enhanced Access, Trade Exhibitor, Experience Hall Exhibitor END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR