{"id":1180,"date":"2012-05-15T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=1180"},"modified":"2012-05-15T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:39:57","slug":"adam-nash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-2012-2\/speakers-2012\/adam-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Interference Wave: Data and Art.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the era of data visualisation and simulation, there is often a<\/p>\n<p>tendency to consider digital data as external to human life, ontologically<\/p>\n<p>endowed with its own special qualities. In fact, digital data is purely a product<\/p>\n<p>of human endeavour, and yet it exists in a plastic, formless state until it is<\/p>\n<p>interpreted. Thus, the interpretation of digital data can be seen as a formalised<\/p>\n<p>process of interference. This paper attempts to tease out some of the practical<\/p>\n<p>and theoretical considerations artists face when working in realtime 3D<\/p>\n<p>audiovisual environments composed entirely of digital data. This is done<\/p>\n<p>through an examination of the author\u02bcs collaborative, networked immersive<\/p>\n<p>audiovisual artwork <em>Reproduction<\/em>, an artificially evolving performative digital<\/p>\n<p>ecology that collaborates and improvises with humans via networks using<\/p>\n<p>various forms of motion, sound and vision capture. Attempts are made at<\/p>\n<p>identifying the qualities and practice of the symbiotic relationship that is<\/p>\n<p>established between humans and digital entities in an affective feedback loop<\/p>\n<p>between the digital and material spheres. Some recent theories in algorithmic<\/p>\n<p>information theory are compared with the empirical results of the artists and<\/p>\n<p>other users interacting and improvising with <em>Reproduction<\/em>, to test the status of<\/p>\n<p>digital data and its remediated relationship with the material world via<\/p>\n<p>audiovisual display systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interference Wave: Data and Art. \u00a0\u00a0 In the era of data visualisation and simulation, there is often a tendency to consider digital data as external to human life, ontologically endowed with its own special qualities. In fact, digital data is purely a product&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":1081,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180","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=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1180\/revisions\/1241"}],"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=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}