CHAIRED BY: Piero Scaruffi

"Online Art for the Age of Plague" (Part 3).
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To conclude our trilogy on Online Art, we talk to scholars/artists/inventors who are actually doing it.

• Alex Reben is an inventor and artist. Using "art as experiment" his work allows for the viewer to experience the future within metaphorical contexts. His artwork and research has been shown and published internationally and he consults with major companies guiding innovation for the social machine future. He has exhibited widely at venues both in the U.S. and internationally. His work has been covered by countless printed, TV and Internet media (NPR, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, New Scientist, BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel, Wired, etc). He has lectured at TED, SXSW, TTI Vanguard, Google, UC Berkeley, SMFA, CCA, MIT and other universities. Reben is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab where he studied human-robot symbiosis and art.
• Jiabao Li is a media artist who graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Design in Technology with Distinction and best thesis award, and from National University of Singapore with a Master of Electrical Engineering. She is currently a prototyping designer at Apple, inventing and exploring new products, interfaces, and technologies. Li creates new ways for humans to perceive the world. Her research-based projects range from wearables, projections, drones and installations to scientific experiments, and they explore how technology is transforming our perception, identity, emotion, and sensation. Jiabao's work has been featured in Domus, TechCrunch, Yahoo, CCTV, Yanko Design. Her work has been shown in Milan Design Week, Dubai Design Week, ISEA, CHI, Leonardo, SIGGRAPH, AR in Action, Codame, and PRIMER. She is the winner of Core77, FastCoDesign, iF Design Award, Future Cities Contest, and ISWC Design Award.
• Craig Hobbs is currently Associate Professor of Digital Media Art at San Jos‚ State University in San Jos‚, California. His video projection mapping projects involve collaboration with artists, students, and communities working across cultures and borders. Using workshops and peer-to-peer learning to develop community-based public artworks, his projects address issues of globalization, migration and technology. Hobbs' recent collaborations include Robin Lasser, Migratory Cultures, 2014-2019, 3rd Space Labs, Social Weavers, 2016-18, and Hidden Lily, 2018-19, and Yannick Jacquet of AntiVJ, VPM3D, 2015-2017. Since 2014, he has worked with artists, students, and cultural institutions to create video mapping projects in the cities of Bangalore, Panjim, Vadodara and Chennai, India, and across the wider Bay Area. Hobbs produces large-scale public art, projection mapping projects and films. His past collaborators include Natalie Jeremijenko, Usman Haque, Blast Theory, Andrea Polli, Yung-Ta Chang, AntiVJ, Robin Lasser, Thomas Dolby and fabric | ch, among others. His films include Solatrium and We Won't Bow Down. Hobbs received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts and his MFA from the Digital Arts and New Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has served as a visiting professor at Conservatoire National des Arts et M‚tiers in Paris, France and as researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz and California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

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