You are warmly invited to a couple of interesting events next week at AUT's Colab.
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Simon Penny Free public presentation.
"Making CACA - Computational media and the aesthetics of behaviour"
May 15, 2017 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm | Free.
Room WG404, Level 4, Sir Paul Reeves (WG) Building, AUT City Campus
Join us for a free public presentation by renowned artist and academic Simon Penny.
Simon Penny, Professor, Electronic Art and Design, University of California, Irvine, is a media artist, teacher and theorist. He explores - in both artistic and scholarly work - embodied and situated aspects of artistic practices.
He works at the intersections of computational technologies with cultural practices. His first commitment is to the engineering of persuasive perceptual immediacy and affect. Most of his artwork has involved the development of custom sensing and robotic systems. His current scholarly research centers around theories of embodied cognition.
www.simonpenny.net<http://www.simonpenny.net>
www.colab.aut.ac.nz/events/simon-penny/<http://www.colab.aut.ac.nz/events/simon-penny/>
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Critical Conversation #3: Intimacy
Dr. Paulette Benton-Greig + Juliet Carpenter & Gregory Kan
May 17, 2017 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Free
Room WG1103, Level 11, Sir Paul Reeves (WG) Building, AUT City Campus
Critical Conversations is an event series about the assumptions embedded in informational technologies and their role in structuring everyday practices. http://criticalconversations.surge.sh/
Format: We pair academics/theorists with artists/technologists, each presents their own work before discussing it together.
How does the self shift when subjected to processes of informational mediation? Often associated with the rational and logical, data-driven processes increasingly inform spheres deemed more affective or emotive. With a proliferation of dating and hookup platforms, the rules for relating are rewritten, requiring a new set of practices which inform notions of gender, identity and sexuality. With a camera in every hand and the potential of an online audience, the self becomes versioned, an iteration in which affectual states and emotive moments are precisely tailoured towards optimal feedback. In this conversation, Dr. Paulette Benton-Greig delves into the ways in which we use online media to find and connect with others, while artists Juliet and Gregory will present recent video works which explore the presentation and curation of the self.
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Cheers,
Harry Silver
Public Liaison Co-ordinator | Colab
AUT University | 09 921 9566 | 027 246 5332
