November 09, 2005
OKNO brussels
Ambient Intelligence Round-Table
OKNO brussels ::: art and technology ::: round-table on the human/machine interactive experience; Monday, November 14, 2005 -- 8pm; streamed live. Participants: Pattie Maes [MIT, usa] in discussion with Maja Kuzmanovic [FoAM, be]. Disrupting accents by Daniel Franco, urban philosopher [be].
Pattie Maes will present the research projects of the Ambient Intelligence research group [MIT]. The goal of the Ambient Intelligence group is to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive they are changing the human-machine relationship and creating systems that are more responsive to people's needs and actions, and that become true "accessories" for expanding people's minds.
Pattie Maes' sparring partners around the table are Maja Kuzmanovic [FoAM], and Daniel Franco [philosopher]. Together they will moderate the Q & A by technological artists towards whom this round-table discussion is addressed.
FoAM: is a laboratory for the propagation of lived experience, whose members are looking for processes, moments and situations in which experience can be freed from cultural and historical biases. This allows the participants to absorb fresh stimuli. In order to locate these experiences in engaging cultural and ecological contexts, they often work in non-institutionalised public spaces: from roof gardens to intimate living rooms, clubs and overgrown fortresses. FoAM's collaborators dwell most of the time in the murky spaces between the physical and digital, scientific and artistic, natural and technological worlds. They inhabit these spaces to research and develop responsive environments, active materials, generative media, culinary performances and other entangled forms of contemporary creative expression.
Pattie Maes is an associate professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directs the Media Lab's Ambient Intelligence research group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Her areas of expertise are human-computer interaction, artifical life, artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, and intelligence augmentation.
Maja Kuzmanovic, has completed the BA in Design Forecasting (HKU, nl) in 1996 and MA in Interactive Multimedia (University of Portsmouth) in 1997. After graduation, she collaborated on a range of interdisciplinary projects in research institutes around Europe, as well as an independent artist-researcher. Her research spanned novel forms of performance and multi-sensory storytelling and responsive media design for virtual and mixed reality. She founded FoAM as a cultural research department in Starlab in 2000. In 2001 FoAM became an independent, distributed entity with cells in Brussels and Amsterdam.
the discussion will be live-streamed on radio OKNO [monday november 14th/from 8pm] more info.
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Posted by jo at November 9, 2005 03:50 PM
