{"id":1152,"date":"2012-05-15T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=1152"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:44:10","slug":"mark-guglielmetti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-2012-2\/speakers-2012\/mark-guglielmetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Guglielmetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Art of Decoding: <em>n<\/em>-folded, <em>n-<\/em>visioned, <em>n<\/em>-cultured<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Scientific modeling requires us to suspend disbelief, nowhere is this more palpable than in artificial life, an area of computational research investigating the principles that constitute a living system \u201cwithout making reference to the <em>materials <\/em>that constitute it\u201d (Adami); in other words the emergence of life irrespective of material form: biology\/code, carbon\/silicon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This paper investigates artificial life visualisation as both a scientific concern and in relation to media arts. Of interest in this examination is the normative protocol of looking <em>at<\/em> an artificial life simulation or \u2018world\u2019. Analogous to looking through a telescope or microscope, the view into the artificial life world is monocular and often fixed; in this regime we look <em>at<\/em> \u201corganisms\u201d. This strategy of looking through the scientific lens to observe a \u2018natural world\u2019 enfolds other forms of cultural tactics that require decoding including but not exclusive to Bazin\u2019s <em>ontology of the photographic image<\/em>, Disney nature films and other \u201capparatus-based universes which robotize the human being and society\u201d (Flusser).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Subsequent to identifying these protocols in artificial life visualisation I draw on a European account of <em>media ecology<\/em> as an approach to intervene in these arbitrary standards by conjoining disparate regimes, modes of deportment and systems of transduction (in this case artificial life, \u201cVR\u201d- stereoscopic perspectival simulation, and data profiling) to bring these media(ted) systems into cultural relief. \u00a0I describe a number of work which exploit normative computational procedures to align artificial life image making into <em>optical consistency<\/em> with other forms of contemporary culture and to celebrate the <em>ocular madness<\/em> found in art forms such as neo-baroque image making and Islamic art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Art of Decoding: n-folded, n-visioned, n-cultured \u00a0 Scientific modeling requires us to suspend disbelief, nowhere is this more palpable than in artificial life, an area of computational research investigating the principles that constitute a living system \u201cwithout making reference to the materials&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":1081,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152\/revisions\/1263"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}