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SUMMARY:The Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
DESCRIPTION:Professor Fox Harrell’s research group — the Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression (ICE) Lab — builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts — “phantasmal media” systems. \nIn particular\, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative\, identity\, games\, and related types of expressive digital media. In this talk\, he will discuss his recent works and collaborations including the “Living Liberia Fabric\,” an AI-based interactive video documentary produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia to memorialize 14 years of civil war\, “Generative Visual Renku\,” an AI-based form of generative animation\, and several other projects. \nHarrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.” He is currently completing a book\, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression\, for the MIT Press. Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies\, Comparative Media Studies\, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/imagination-computation-expression-lab-phantasmal-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Francisco Ricardo\, "The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects"
DESCRIPTION:One theme in the contemporary use of space involves the shift from production modeled around a physical\, centralized “locus” to new virtual\, extended and multi-axial modes of “projective” organization.  We see this in new sculpture\, new architecture\, and\, in electronic art\, an expressive embrace of geographic dispersal.  Although new materials\, methods\, and media have been central to modernist optimism\, many of their resulting physical and actual constructions have been dismissed\, discredited\, misunderstood\, or attacked. Using physical and virtual examples\, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible. \nFrancisco Ricardo is media and contemporary art theorist. A Research Associate at the University Professors Program and co-director of the Digital Video Research Archive at Boston University\, he also teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. His research examines historical\, conceptual\, and computational intersections between contemporary art and architecture\, on one hand\,and new media art and literature\, on the other. Recent publications include Cyberculture and New Media (Rodopi\, 2009) and Literary Art in Digital Performance (Continuum\, 2009).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/francisco-ricardo-aesthetics-projective-spatiality-new-media-critical-objects/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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