SIGGRAPH 2020: Think Beyond
Art Show Overview:
In the SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery, attendees will revel in the experience of an interactive exhibition. Re-investigate this public art collection through the lens of new media that creates learning through ingenuity and exploration.
Website:
https://s2020.siggraph.org/conference/program-events/art-gallery/#program_content
Exhibition Artworks:
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Type: [Installation]
Algotecton I
Artist(s): [Llach, Liu, and Lee]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
Cacophonic Choir
Artist(s): [Wolfe, Kiratli, and Bundy]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Captured by an Algorithm
Artist(s): [Brueckner]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Disruptive Devices
Artist(s): [Mendoza]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Dog of Zone
Artist(s): [Pazera]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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![Down Stream [Appalachia]](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020_Franusich_Down_Stream_Appalachia1-150x150.jpg)
Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-BasedPerformance]
Down Stream [Appalachia]
Artist(s): [Franusich]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [3D & Sculpture]
Glass Entanglement I and II
Artist(s): [Klein]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [Animation & VideoInteractive & Monitor-Based]
Homeostasis
Artist(s): [Polyak]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [3D & SculptureInstallation]
Inside Out
Artist(s): [Katsumoto]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
Myrioi
Artist(s): [Cabrera, Morin, Kim, Wood, and Gustavo]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [Electronic/Robotic Object]
Ornamental
Artist(s): [Demarest]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Type: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
The Skin
Artist(s): [Hong, Kim, Kim, and Lee]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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![V[R]ignettes: A Microstory Series](https://history.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020_Breeze_VRignettes2-2-150x150.jpg)
Type: [Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality]
V[R]ignettes: A Microstory Series
Artist(s): [Breeze]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
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Exhibition Writings and Presentations:
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Title:
Animated Robotic Sculptures: Using SMA Motion Display to Create Lifelike Movements
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
Animated robotic sculptures are works of art that combine plant and animal motifs with robotics to give their audience a sense of the objects being alive through their lifelike movements, such as stirring leaves or squirming tentacles.
Title: Artistic License in Heritage Visualisation: VR Sydney Cove Circa 1800
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
This work provokes and broadens debate about heritage at individual, institutional, academic, and societal levels. It foregrounds the assumptions that underlie heritage visualizations, and it offers a novel interpretation model for museum settings that engages with different audiences and encourages debate as to the nature and uses of heritage.
Title: Body RemiXer: Extending Bodies to Stimulate Social Connection in an Immersive Installation
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
“Body RemiXer” is a mixed reality installation that connects immersants using a virtual reality headset, Kinect, and projections. It explores the potential of immersive technology to create co-present experiences that foster intercorporeality between immersants. Observations during public exhibitions revealed “Body RemiXer’s” capacity to disrupt social norms and stimulate new connections.
Title: Cacophonic Choir
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
“Cacophonic Choir,” an interactive art installation, addresses the ways that sexual assault survivors’ experiences are distorted by digital and mass media and its effect. The installation is composed of distributed agents in space that individually respond by becoming visually bright, semantically coherent, and sonically clear, revealing original testimonies of survivors.
Title: Cultural Viz: An Aesthetic Approach to Cultural Analytics
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
Cultural Analytics (C.A.) is an approach for analyzing media and digital culture using data methods and visual computing techniques. This paper explores the aesthetic value of C.A. by approaching cultural visualizations as digital artworks. Through a series of projects, authors discuss their experience in art exhibitions, workshops, and seminars.
Title: Enhanced Family Tree: Evolving Research and Expression
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
“Enhanced Family Tree” reimagines the possibilities of family trees with an evolving series of exhibits. Their new approach may reveal questionable relationships in genealogical records. Moreover, the authors’ use of an organic metaphor of a “tree” can be further extended, resulting in organic forms that stimulate the imagination.
Title: Hybrid Embroidery: Exploring Interactive Fabrication in Hand Crafts
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
“Hybrid Embroidery” is a framework for interactive fabrication that leverages the potential of computation to broaden the possibilities of the craft of embroidery. “Hybrid Embroidery” is set out to offer an example of how computational methods may enrich craft and refining technical interactions to support expressiveness and open-ended practice.
Title: Inverse-rendering Based Analysis of the Fine Illumination Effects in the Salvator Mundi
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
We have provided an inverse-rendering analysis that provides plausible optical explanations for the fine illumination effects in the Salvator Mundi. Our analysis supports Kemp’s main argument for authenticating the painting as Leonardo’s based on its optical accuracy and Leonardo’s study of optics.
Title: Pixel of Matter: New Ways of Seeing With an Active Volumetric Filmmaking System
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
We introduce an installation art project using the active volumetric filmmaking technology to investigate its possibilities in art practice. To do that, we developed a system to film volumetric video in real time, thereby allowing its users to capture large environments and objects without fixed placement or preinstallation of cameras.
Title: REALational Perspectives: Strategies for Expanding Beyond the Here-and-Now in Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) Art
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
This paper analyzes AR installations to demonstrate different strategies for producing a relational sense of place and time. By exposing actual environments as constructed (and, therefore, as virtual) landscapes, AR art exposes our situatedness and becomes a strong tool for activism that encourages us to think beyond familiar reality.
Title: Resonant Waves: Immersed in Geometry
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
“Resonant Waves” is a multisensory, immersive, interactive cymatic art installation/experience. This project reveals the natural phenomenon of sound and vibration as it forms intricate visual geometric patterns in water that are generated in real time through user interaction, while also exploring the effects on our physical, mental, and emotional systems.
Title: Rilievo: Artistic Scene Authoring via Interactive Height Map Extrusion in VR
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
An authoring environment for artistic creation in VR enables the effortless conversion of 2D images into 3D objects. Artistic elements are extracted and relief sculpting is performed by mixing height maps generated from the input image. The tool is showcased in an analog-virtual workflow in collaboration with a traditional painter.
Title: Stepping Inside the Classification Cube: An Intimate Interaction With an AI System
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
The “Classification Cube” art installation invites participants to become familiar with a machine learning classification system which estimates their age, gender, emotion, and actions. Rapidly changing results encourage participants to actively perform their behavior to the system and alter the way it “sees” them.
Title: The Unknown Person
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
“The Unknown Person” uses mythotechnesis as a fictioning method to re-live a brutal incident in the artist’s family history under colonial rule. Employing machine learning processes and facial recognition techniques, the artist interrogates surveillance and social control systems to explore the fiction of the self, data, and liminal spaces.
Title: Visual Indeterminacy in GAN Art
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
We describe artwork based on GANs with the concept of visual indeterminacy, connecting them to art history and to the science of perception of art. GANs seem predisposed to producing indeterminate images; we hypothesize about why this is and where to go next.
