LASER TALKS at Roy Ascott Studio: TECHNOETIC AESTHETICS

LASER chair: Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro, Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio Bachelor of Technoetic Arts (TA) www.clarissaribeiro.com / IG @clarissa__ribeiro

EVENT INFO

When: Aug 30, 2023 11:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai

Timezones

Shanghai, China at 11:00 pm CST II New York, USA at 11:00 am EDT II Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at 6:00 pm AST II London, United Kingdom at 4:00 pm BST II Chicago, USA at 10:00 am CDT II Cambridge, USA at 11:00 am EDT

Where: Online via ZOOM, Meeting ID: 722 956 8047 & at Roy Ascott Studio at SIVA / DeTAO
Website: https://www.royascottstudio.com/

From July 2023 to February 2024, LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai, will be inviting artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal gatherings to explore Roy’s 100 Terms and Definitions for the Post-biological Era coined in his ‘Technoetic Aesthetics’ written in 1997. For the August 30, 2023 edition, online on Zoom, the invited speakers choices from the glossary include: 

• Hyperdata (Dr. Ellen Sebring) - Data converging from scattered sources, split into uncertain trajectories of meaning. This darting to and froM of data, colliding, emitting new combinations, absorbing each other is a kind of quantum behaviour. 
• Variable Reality (Dr. Julieta Aguilera) - Variable Reality -Dry Reality is found in the arid spaces of VR. Wet Reality is the nature that we nurture.Moist Reality emerges from the bio-technology of artificial life.
• Shamantic (Dr. Tegan Bristow) - Foregrounding the semantic aspect of shamanism in the technoetic context

SPEAKERS BIOS

Ellen Sebring is a media artist and theorist. As Creative Director of MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project, she is designer, collaborator, and contributing author for the project’s extensive image-based historical research on Japan, China, and the Philippines, and a spinoff MITx teaching series. A graduate of CAVS/MIT and Research Fellow, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University. Her research centers on visual narrative forms based on database aesthetics. She was Creative Consultant to the US-Japan Foundation, and is a Board Member of the Elizabeth Goldring-Otto Piene Foundation. Recent artwork includes a performance video series screened at the B3 Festival of the Moving Image, Frankfurt am Main in 2021 and 2022. https://www.ellensebring.com/

Julieta Aguilera has worked on immersive spaces including VR, planetariums and other platforms for over two decades and her ongoing research is focused on how invisible aspects of reality can be brought to the human sensory motor attention through scientific and aesthetic visualization. She has taught the full design curriculum as well as courses on immersion at universities in New Hampshire, Chicago and Hawai’i. Dr. Aguilera holds a BA from the School of Architecture of the Catholic University of Valparaíso, in Chile, and MFA in Graphic Design from the University of Notre Dame, and MFA in Electronic Visualization from the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States, and Ph.D. from the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom. She worked for a decade in Planetariums, as the Associate Director of the Space Visualization Laboratory at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, and as a Visiting Visualization faculty at the University of Hawai’i in Hilo, hosted by the ‘Imiloa Planetarium. She continues to work on topics of environmental embodiment, and as a reviewer from various conferences and publications. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of IMERSA. https://www.imersa.org/julieta-aguilera

Tegan Bristow is Co-Director (Education) of the soon to be opened Diriyah Art Futures with the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia. Senior Lecturer in Interactive Digital Media at the Wits School of the Arts – with a specialisation on Culture, Art and Technology. Bristow was Editor in Chief and Digital Editor of the Ellipses Journal for Creative Research. Bristow is a prolific curator and cultural organiser in the area of technology and culture, with a dominant focus in Africa and now exploring emergent practice in the Middle East. Bristow is co-founder and acted as Director (2016 - 2020) of the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival. In 2017 Bristow completed her PhD on Decoloniality and Actional Methodologies in Art and Cultural Practices in African Cultures of Technology, which she wrote with the Planetary Collegium at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University in the U.K. http://teganbristow.co.za