{"id":75243,"date":"2020-12-12T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T14:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icia.pl\/2020\/?page_id=75243"},"modified":"2021-01-18T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:47:47","slug":"artists-auden-lincoln-vogel-and-dwayne-khallique-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.icia.pl\/2020\/en\/vr-cave-intro\/artists-auden-lincoln-vogel-and-dwayne-khallique-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Auden Lincoln-Vogel"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”4″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”h1″ sub_lead=”yes” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Dwayne Khallique Jones (United States)”]Automated Association (working title)<\/em>[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ style=”dark” back_color=”color-prif” overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h5″ text_size=”h4″ text_color=”color-xsdn” sub_lead=”small” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork 2018″]The winner<\/a> in the category Intermedia Artwork Concept<\/a>
\n<\/em>[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”4″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The aim of this project is to create an augmented reality experience that replaces the user\u2019s direct visual reality with an indirect form of vision mediated by a machine vision algorithm. A live video feed from the camera on the front of the VR headset will be processed by an algorithm that replaces each frame of original video with a visually similar image. These results will be displayed on the VR headset in real time, allowing the user to \u201csee\u201d and interact with their surroundings in an indirect and spatially disorienting manner. The piece explores embodiment and perception in relation to technological mediation\u2014a realm where assumptions about technology\u2019s passive neutrality and inevitable progress often obscure intentional or unintentional means of biasing and influencing users\u2019 perceptions, thoughts, and actions.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ style=”light” back_color=”accent” overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h5″ text_size=”h4″ text_color=”color-xsdn” sub_lead=”small” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”The organisers shall work with the author to prepare the project and to fund its public presentation and promotion during the next edition of the competition.”]The winner in this category wins an opportunity to carry out the project.[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”4″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ position_horizontal=”left” position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h5″ text_size=”h5″ sub_lead=”small” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”ICIA 2018 Jury: Izabella Gustowska, Ryszard W. Kluszczy\u0144ski, Micha\u0142 Ostrowicki \/ Sidey Myoo, Miros\u0142aw Rogala, Jeffrey Shaw”]Justification of the Jury[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]The jury appreciated the novel artistic aspect of an application for mobile devices and VR headsets, as well as the possibilities offered by them in respect to the virtual reality and its relation with the real world. Automated Association Project is based on the algorithms of search engine, which allows to search the web for visually similar images. The artwork undertakes a reflection on the process of constructing reality and individual identities in digital worlds.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ style=”dark” back_color=”color-prif” overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h5″ text_size=”h5″]Artists[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Auden Lincoln-Vogel<\/strong> is an American filmmaker whose work spans from animation to expanded cinema performances. His animations, experimental films, and live action narrative films have been screened at festivals including Slamdance Film Festival, Black Nights Film Festival, Filmfest Dresden, and the European Media Arts Festival. He is the recipient of a 2016 Fulbright Scholarship in Tallinn, Estonia, where he also received an MA in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2019. He is currently an MFA candidate in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. He is available for commissions as well as collaborations with other artists, musicians and filmmakers. More of his work can be found at audenlincolnvogel.com<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Dwayne Khallique Jones <\/strong>is a Software Engineer experienced in building Machine Learning \/ Computer Vision systems, Infrastructure and growing teams. Artistically, he has recently worked on generative audio + natural language processing experiments https:\/\/freedom.radio\/demo<\/a>, https:\/\/a-counting.us<\/a> in association with the MIT Media Lab. He has also given talks at Creative Tech Week<\/a>, done experiments with geometric modeling and origami at the School for Poetic Computation<\/a>, helped Midnight Commercial on the Triangular Series<\/a> and has \u201cNever Graduated\u201d from the Recurse Center<\/a>. He is happy to present the beginnings of Automated Association, an artificial intelligence providing disruption in a VR landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]Demo work in progress 2020[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_single_image media=”75327″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”4″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h5″ text_size=”h5″ sub_lead=”small” sub_reduced=”yes”]Development[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Since its original conception, the project has expanded from a real-time reverse image lookup to exploring the possibilities of replacing multiple objects within the user\u2019s field of view using image segmentation techniques that mask and identify discrete objects. Currently the project is still in the testing stage for these more complicated algorithms, although a simpler version closer to the original conception has already been successfully developed.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”75335″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The impulse of this project has been to reject the seamless and opaque implementation customary of technological mediations (e.g. user-targeted advertising, curated social media newsfeeds, predictive text) and to instead strive for disorienting experiences that underscore the ways in which this mediation occurs. Within the profit-driven tech world, algorithms governing these technologies would never have been developed were it not for their successful ability to influence what we know, what we buy, what we see. Consequently, it is important that the piece reject an illusion of neutrality and any assumption that the algorithms shaping our technological experiences are disinterested, unbiased, or do not play an active role in shaping our perception and actions.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]This question is particularly important to the means by which images will be selected for the reverse image lookup database, as this will determine the actual \u201ccontent\u201d of the piece and circumscribe not only the freedom of interactions the user may try to exercise in the exhibition space, but also the degree to which the system itself becomes visible as an object of scrutiny. In addition to the technical expansion of the algorithm into masking and image segmentation, these decisions about image curation remain a work in progress.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_single_image media=”75364″ media_width_percent=”100″][vc_single_image media=”75365″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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