Invitation - LASER Virtual event: Immersive Experiences: Time, Place, and Identity
by Harry Silver
Kia ora koutou,
Extending a warm invitation to attend - LASER Virtual: Immersive Experiences: Time, Place, and Identity
Friday 25 September, 3.30pm NZT
LASER Virtual via Zoom
Register here: https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=541
Maree Sheehan, Barbara Bollard, and Gregory Bennett
Chaired by Andrew Denton and Janine Randerson
This discussion is the sixth Auckland LASER talk (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), an international platform for informal conversations that bring together artists, designers, scientists, activists and communities. This presentation will focus on two narrative-based projects that engage with cultural and historical identity through immersive media.
Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic Hut: Virtual Reality Experience
Presenters: Barbara Bollard and Gregory Bennett
A virtual reality (VR) experience of Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic hut was developed by a team of Auckland University of Technology (AUT) scientists and designers led by geospatial scientist Professor Barbara Bollard, and artist and designer Gregory Bennett, in partnership with the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust. This immersive VR experience of Hillary’s Hut allows people to explore its five rooms and learn about what life was like on the ice for Hillary and his team as they furthered science and exploration in the world’s most extreme environment. AUT scientists went to Antarctica to collect high quality 3D lidar scans and photogrammetry data of the hut. This data was then transformed by the digital design team into an interactive virtual experience, preserving the hut interior as a 3D photoreal digital snapshot of a valued heritage building, making it accessible to a wider public. This collaboration between AUT scientists, artists and designers explores the possibility of creating ‘authentic’ immersive experiences based on real science and real locations, in order to communicate and preserve compelling narratives around lived historical and scientific sites.
Audio portraiture: The sound of identity created through immersive and binaural audio environments
Presenter: Maree Sheehan
This project asks how might the multi-dimensionality of wāhine Māori (Māori women) be interpreted through audio-portraiture and how does the utilisation of immersive and binaural technologies provide a sonically rich audio environment to express their identities. This artistic and technological inquiry posits an approach where one might integrate the physically accountable (identity, knowledge, recollection, opinion, and music) and the esoteric. This inquiry suggests that the immersive nature of sound has the potential to activate sensory responses for a listener that reach beyond the parameters of visual. This is because 360 immersive and binaural sound-capture technologies can be orchestrated into artistic works that convey unique experiences of space and time (Boren, 2018). Such work may be designed as a distinctive form of portraiture.
Biographies:
Maree Sheehan (Ngāti Maniapoto-Waikato, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Pākehā) is a practicing sound designer and musician. Recently completing her PhD, a world first research practice into audio portraiture, which culminated in her first solo exhibition Ōtairongo as part of the Auckland International Arts Festival 2020. Maree is a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology in soundculture and sonic practices as well as in applied media.
Gregory Bennett is currently Head of Department for Digital Design and Visual Arts in the School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Gregory is an internationally exhibiting digital artist with a background in both digital art practice and film post-production. He is also director of the AUT Motion Capture Lab where he pioneered the first courses in digital motion capture at AUT. His research ranges across a number of disciplines including 3D animation, motion capture, screendance and virtual reality. Recent work has been exhibited at SIGGRAPH Asia, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and the Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2020.
Barbara Bollard is recognised for her work in remote sensing technology, using drones to map habitats and landscapes for conservation planning and integrating social data with environmental and biological information using decision support systems, multivariate statistics and GIS. Barbara has researched alongside the Nykina people, Indigenous to the Fitzroy River Basin in Far Northwestern Australia, where her expertise continues to be a valuable contribution to the development of their case for land ownership and conservation. Over the past two years, Barbara has formed an important partnership with the School of Art and Design, initiating the Sir Edmund Hilary’s and Scott’s Hut, Antarctica, AR projects.
For more information on Sir Edmund Hillary’s Antarctic Hut VR project:
https://nzaht.org/share/virtual-reality/
For more information on Maree Sheehan's research and project: https://www.otairongo.co.nz/
https://mareesheehan.wordpress.com/
Ngā mihi
Harry Silver
Collaboration Coordinator, External Engagement Office
Te Ara Auaha | Faculty of Design + Creative Technologies
Te Wānanga Aronui O Tāmaki Makau Rau | Auckland University of Technology
P 09 921 9566 M 027 2465332 E harry.silver(a)aut.ac.nz W aut.ac.nz
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Nina: Invitation: PPP PUBLIC CONVERSATION ON LEARNING/EDUCATION SEPTEMBER 26/27, 2020
by Vicki Smith
On behalf: INVITATION. POST PANDEMIC PROVOCATEURS
PUBLIC CONVERSATION ON LEARNING/EDUCATION SEPTEMBER 26/27, 2020
On behalf of the Post Pandemic Provocateurs (PPP) initiative we
invite you to participate on September 26/27, 2020 in a special
Public Conversation on the topic of Learning/Education.
Soh Yeong Roh (South Korea)
Fred Paulino (Brazil)
Adam Somlai-Fischer (Hungary)
Marcus Neustetter (South Africa/ Austria)
Jo Wei (China)
- will tell us about the current COVID 19 learning environment
from they own local context.
They may not share disciplines, BUT they share the conviction that it
is urgent to teach learning (beyond established curricula) such as
eliminating racism and world?wide Xenophobia, but also how to
learn to forget some social customs (e.g. handshakes) that help
propagate COVID19.
PPP - Nina Czegledy, Roger Malina, Vania Negrete, Joel Slayton and
Marcus Neustetter
The public conversation will be joined by a live participatory
performance Whose Imaginary Future? by Marcus Neustetter and
collaborators in South Africa with a call and response to one
another from across space and within multiple artistic disciplines,
supported by the imaginaryfutures.org <http://imaginaryfutures.org/>
partners.
Timeline:
Saturday September 26 15:00 San Jose, US
which is the same time in:
Saturday September 26 17:00 Dallas,Texas US & Mexico City. Mexico
Saturday September 26 18:00 Toronto, Canada
Saturday September 26 19:00 Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Sunday September 27 00:00 Budapest, Hungary & Johannesburg, South
Africa
Sunday September 27 06:00 Beijing China
Sunday September 27 07:00 Seoul, South Korea
*Please note that for some in different time zones the date is
extending to September 27
RSVP please: ppp(a)imaginaryfutures.org
mailto:ppp@imaginaryfutures.org> to receive the ZOOM link.
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ADA AGM: Sunday, 1 November 2020 3PM
by Birgit Bachler
<www.ada.net.nz/agm/ada-agm-2020/>
Kia ora koutou,
The Aotearoa Digital Arts Annual General Meeting (ADAAGM) will take place on
*Sunday, 1 November 2020,* *3 pm NZDT. *(view in your timezone
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ADA+AGM+2020&iso=…>)
This is an invitation for anyone in the community to attend – we’d love
to see you you there.
Join our AGM online
A link to our online meeting will be made available here and sent out to
the list closer to the time, along with a finalised agenda and all
further details.
www.ada.net.nz/agm/ada-agm-2020/
Ngā mihi
James, Jack, Ted, Maggie and Birgit.
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