Digital Abstraction at the Interface between Electronic Media Arts and Data Visualization

International Conference
Digital Abstraction at the Interface between Electronic Media Arts and Data Visualization
 
Date: Friday, May 8-9, 2015
Place: Jacobs University Bremen, IRC Seminar Room
Organizers: Birgit Mersmann, Isabel Wünsche
 

Conference Program
 
 
Friday, May 8, 2015
 
9:30-10:00 Opening of the Workshop. Welcome and introduction by Birgit Mersmann and Isabel Wünsche
 
10:00-12:30 Session 1: The Coming of Age of Electronic Abstraction: Visualization in Experimental Contemporary Art and Filmmaking
 
10:00-10:30
Pamela C. Scorzin, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
“Glitch Art – The New Everybody’s Dripping in Media”
 
10:30-11:00
Stefanie Bräuer, University of Basel, Schweiz
“Oscillography in Mary Ellen Bute’s Abstronic – Merging Abstraction and Electronics in Experimental Filmmaking”
 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-12:00
Nora Gortcheva, Jacobs University, Bremen
“Cinema, Abstraction, Authenticity”
 
12:00-12:30 Discussion

12.30-14:00 Lunch in College Nordmetall

14:00-17:00 Session 2: Software Abstraction and the Navigation of Complex Data
 
14:00-14:30
Claudia Reiche, University of Arts, Bremen
“Clitoral Abstraction”

14:30-15:00
Michael Schwab, London
“Proto-objects. Transpositions of Brain Activity”
 
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
 
15:30-16:00
Romi Mikulinsky, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel/Yanai Toister, University of Sydney, Australia
“Abstraction in the Age of Big Data”
 
16:00-16:30
Florian Wiencek, Jacobs University, Bremen/Amanda Starling Gould, Duke University, USA
“Traversing Networks of Complexity. From Database Artworks to Contemporary Networked Publications”
 
16:30-17:00: Discussion
 
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
 
17:30-18:00 Session 3: Artist Presentations
 
17:30-18:00 “Paul Klee and his involuntary involvement in computer art.”
Artist presentation by Frieder Nake
 
18:00-18:30 Transpositions 1. Artist presentation by Michael Schwab and David Pirrò
 
19:30 Dinner at Restaurant Kränholm
 
 
Saturday, May 9, 2015
 
11:00-12:00 Visit of the Collection of Computer Graphics in the Kunsthalle Bremen with Frieder Nake and Susan Grabowski
 
12:30 Lunch


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Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche

Professor of Art and Art History
Humanities and Social Sciences
Focus Area Diversity

Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
Campus Ring 1, Research IV
28759 Bremen
Germany

Tel. +49-421-200-3311
Fax: +49-421-200-49-3311
E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.jacobs-university.de/shss/iwuensche

Commercial registry: Amtsgericht Bremen, HRB 18117
President/Geschäftsführerin: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katja Windt
Managing Director/Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Michael Hülsmann
Chair Board of Governors: Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte



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