{"title":"Captured by an algorithm","authors":"Sophia Brueckner","doi":"10.1145/3386567.3388558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3386567.3388558","url":null,"abstract":"Captured by an Algorithm is a commemorative plate series that looks at romance novels through the lens of Amazon Kindle Popular Highlights. A passage in a Kindle e-book becomes a Popular Highlight after a certain number of people independently highlight the same passage. Popular Highlights are displayed as underlined along with the number of times each has been highlighted by a reader. The highlights in romances are not the racy, salacious quotes one might expect. Instead, they reveal the readers' intense feelings of loneliness, grief, and discontent. With all the social technologies available today, it is astonishing to see that so many people feel so lonely.","PeriodicalId":446187,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128872539","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":"Dog of zone","authors":"Łukasz Pazera","doi":"10.1145/3386567.3388551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3386567.3388551","url":null,"abstract":"The Zone. Seemingly dead space. It becomes a dominating, uncontrolled, autonomous entity in the presence of a human being. It manifests its reactions by changing the state of objects that belong to it. The Dog is one such object. It's an expression of an abrupt, aggressive motion and destructive influence of the Zone. The concept of the Zone is inspired by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's novel Roadside Picnic, published in 1972, but can also be tied to the movie Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979), and to a nuclear disaster that occurred on 26 April 1986 in Chernobyl in Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":446187,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132684570","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":"Ornamental","authors":"Luke Demarest","doi":"10.1145/3386567.3388560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3386567.3388560","url":null,"abstract":"In 1948, Claude Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Information laid the groundwork for the digital age. It defined the term information, introduced the unit bit and revolutionized how we communicate. Shannon's work gives us physical parameters to define an often perceivably abstract entity: information. It's a seemingly strange and wonderful truth in the digital age that information is physical---where one is often led to believe that information lives in the ether of clouds.","PeriodicalId":446187,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116849538","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":"Glass entanglement","authors":"T. Klein","doi":"10.1145/3386567.3388557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3386567.3388557","url":null,"abstract":"In quantum physics, quantum entanglement is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles is generated in such a way that the quantum state of each individual particle cannot be described independently from the other. The work Glass Entanglement constructs a similar state in which neither its digital nor analog parts could be read individually and where each part could not be described independently from the other. This work consists of the physical separation of the parts of cellular glass volumes from one another and the 3D-printed form interacting with these single objects to form an ecosystem between the glass volumes. The elements are held together by digitally modeled, tendril-like structures, analogous to the biological cell growth when forming multicellular higher-order organisms.","PeriodicalId":446187,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125619423","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":"Down stream [appalachia]","authors":"David Franusich","doi":"10.1145/3386567.3388554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3386567.3388554","url":null,"abstract":"Down Stream [Appalachia] is an immersive, interactive art installation that addresses themes of ecological preservation, conservation and connectedness, illuminating the precarity of imperiled freshwater species in the Appalachian region. The exhibition is composed of three reflective, refractive sculptural forms; each form is made from stacked acrylic and mirrored surfaces projected on from within to create glowing objects that appear to float in the darkness. The installation is surrounded by spatialized sound consisting of music and field recorded audio. Each object contains video footage of a different imperiled animal native to southwest Virginia: the candy darter (Etheostoma osburni); the Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens) and other freshwater mussels; and the Eastern hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis).","PeriodicalId":446187,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Art Gallery","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129863182","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}