{"title":"Improvising consciousness: the Davian Turn","authors":"J. Anstey, Dave Pape, Devin Wilson","doi":"10.1145/2466627.2481217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481217","url":null,"abstract":"Improvising Consciousness: The Davian Turn is an experimental work of intermedia performance: a cognitive science fiction which addresses questions of situated consciousness, pre- & post-human identity, and creativity. The core of Improvising Consciousness: The Davian Turn project is a performative lecture by Jennifer Årnstay, Professor of Material and Analogical Eco-Cognition visiting from an unspecified time and place. The lecture purports to be a scholarly account of the history and future of the human mind. With incredible technical sophistry, Professor Årnstay and her team have fabricated a habitat for a real life extraterrestrial alien intelligence. After the lecture and questions, attendees are invited to plumb the depths of this alien mind by playing the mysterious Davian Bead Game. The creative team are members of The Intermedia Performance Studio which has a track record of producing innovative syntheses of computer-based technology and live performance.","PeriodicalId":333903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116464228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"_derivations: improvisation for tenor saxophone and interactive performance system","authors":"Benjamin Carey","doi":"10.1145/2466627.2481226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481226","url":null,"abstract":"_derivations is an interactive performance system for use by a solo instrumentalist, and is designed to derive its sonic responses to improvisational input from the instrumentalist's live performance. Conceived of as an autonomous performance partner, indirectly influenced rather than directly controlled by the performer, musical interaction with _derivations is achieved through a 'hands-free' mode of instrumental interaction with technology (i.e. human and machine communicate through sound only). A form of timbral matching is used to relate the most recent performance state of the instrumentalist to an expanding database of recorded and analysed performer phrases. The system makes direct use of these recorded phrases as sonic and gestural source material for transformation, extrapolation and recombination via its linked synthesis and processing modules. Recent advances in the system design enable the performer to merge a variety of pre-recorded and analysed 'session files' together, giving flexibility to the performer in defining aspects of the system's overall sonic vocabulary prior to performance. This aspect of the system design privileges the cumulative nature of the rehearsal/practice space, which forms an integral part of the system's interactive capabilities. This current performance is for solo tenor saxophone with _derivations diffused in 8-channel surround sound.","PeriodicalId":333903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition","volume":"22 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130465290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filtering the W*","authors":"Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, Clinton Watkins","doi":"10.1145/2466627.2481210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481210","url":null,"abstract":"Silently and without attracting much attention, the filter establishes itself at the heart of digital media: It becomes an essential tool and a limiting factor, on technical and conceptual levels, in all areas of life. In this brave new world of digital technically implemented policies, essential decisions are made for us, many of them in microseconds, of which we never know. This installation employs the tactics it criticises; it offers a limited world to explore easily while making it difficult to access anything else. The work indicates a pervasive tendency in digital, networked media to filter and therefore control. Participants are offered a direct and controversial experience, and are challenged to make up their own minds.","PeriodicalId":333903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128355813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, J. Gavin, Matthew Martin
{"title":"Makin' f*¢&|# cake: the innocent, the vulgar, and the scary","authors":"Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, J. Gavin, Matthew Martin","doi":"10.1145/2466627.2481208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481208","url":null,"abstract":"Makin' Cake is a participatory installation which demonstrates media as not transparent or neutral but as embodying and propagating values, ideas and attitudes. The installation provides participants with an immediate and provocative experience. It is played with spectators in a situation that invites critical reflection and discussion.","PeriodicalId":333903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129189633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creative search using pataphysics","authors":"Fania Raczinski, Hongji Yang, A. Hugill","doi":"10.1145/2466627.2466648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2466648","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at defining, analysing and practicing how creativity can be applied to search tools. It defines creativity with respect to search and discusses how these concepts could be applied in software engineering using principles from the pseudo-philosophy of pataphysics. The aim of the proposed tool is to generate surprising, novel, humorous and provocative search results instead of purely relevant ones, in order to inspire a more creative interaction between a user, their information need and the application. A proof-of-concept prototype is described to justify the ideas presented before implications and future work are discussed.","PeriodicalId":333903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129559778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Backgammon: process-based musical explorations using the agent designer","authors":"O. Bown, Aengus Martin","doi":"10.1145/2466627.2481236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2466627.2481236","url":null,"abstract":"The Agent Designer is software for designing virtual musical software agents that are capable of remotely controlling a musical composition, making decisions that are derived from previous human performances and additional creative input in the structuring of this example data. This composition, Backgammon, is a collaboration between the Agent Designer's creator Aengus Martin and musician Ollie Bown. In this performance, musical agents created with the Agent Designer control part of a dynamic composition in such a way that an improvising partner (Ollie Bown on live electronics) has partial control over what the system can do. In this way the boundary between the active and passive possibilities of software objects becomes the subject of a compositional process. The title refers to the game-like dynamics that arise, involving chance, choices and the ability to dramatically interrupt the other's course of action.","PeriodicalId":333903,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition","volume":"372 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116794154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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