Convened by Michael Lukaszuk, UmArts Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media Arts, Department of Creative Studies & Department of Informatics.
The growing importance of technology in sound-based artistic practices has encouraged artists and audiences to cultivate new ideas about venues, musical instruments and notational practices. In this panel, we will discuss how emerging technologies for applications such as generative music and distance-based creation have contributed to our understanding of contemporary performance practices. How do our conventional ideas about collaboration, spontaneity and virtuosity change when the creative process is distributed across a network of human and non-human agents? We also aim to discuss the need for critical inquiry that involves our perspectives as artists and creative technologists. In hoping for an open discussion of rewards and possible consequences for a changing performance tradition, we can look to ideas such as media researcher Tania Bucher’s “algorithmic imaginary,” which describes “..the way in which people imagine, perceive and experience algorithms and what these imaginations make possible." As living artists, such discussions help us decide what becomes essential in future creative work.
Stefan Östersjö (Luleå University of Technology), Cat Hope (Monash University), Palle Dahlstedt (University of Gothenburg).
Michael Lukaszuk (UmArts).
The panel will include 3 researchers (two with ongoing VR-funded projects) who in different ways challenges our traditional understanding of a performance setting within Sonic Art:
Stefan Östersjö (Luleå University of Technology) explores telematic performances in his ongoing project Music of the Indeterminate Place: telematic performance and composition intersecting physical and networked spaces (VR-funded for 23-25), in which performance approaches, spaces and instruments are somewhere in between the physical and the virtual – the indeterminate place.
Cat Hope (Monash University) explores topics such as digital notation, gender representation, and practice based research. Her work often reaches across various styles of music composition and performance to bring something unique to her academic work. She is a politically engaged artist and scholar with a passion for music innovation and experimentation.
Palle Dahlstedt (University of Gothenburg) presents work that explores the concept of human and artificial agency in musical improvisation through interactions involving AI and algorithmic composition technologies. Such interests are represented in his VR-funded project for 24-26: Entangled musicianship och minimala algoritmer - En undersökning av agens i (och genom) algoritmisk interaktion.
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