More than 100 artists, students and technologists will collect at Connecticut College Thursday, March 26, by means of Saturday, March 28, for the 18th Ammerman Center Triennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, marking 40 years of the occasion.
This yr’s theme, “All Too Human,” explores how advances in science and know-how are reshaping concepts about what it means to be human. The program contains performances, exhibitions, panels and workshops that study matters corresponding to synthetic intelligence, human-machine collaboration and artistic apply. Admission for New London-area residents, together with Connecticut College college students, college and employees, is free.
The symposium will characteristic a keynote by documentary producer and filmmaker Katerina Cizek on Friday at 9:45 a.m. in Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center. Cizek is a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian, writer, producer and senior chief working with collective processes and emergent applied sciences. She is the co-founder, analysis scientist and creative director of the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab. She co-wrote the world’s first complete e-book on co-creating media, Collective Wisdom, printed by MIT Press in 2022. At the studio, she designs and leads modern incubators, workshops, analysis initiatives, delegations and fellowships fusing artwork, documentary and journalism with emergent tech and science.
This yr’s commissioned artists, Tansy Xiao, Mathieu Pradat and Kate Ladenheim, spent per week at Conn constructing and finalizing items to current at or replicate upon on the symposium, whereas additionally assembly with college students and communities. Xiao devised a brand new iteration of “LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor),” a reside interplay amongst musicians, dancers and digital environments exploring “diverse forms of intelligence independent of human dominance” and Pradat workshopped “Giants and Minis,” a massively multiuser cell sport staging a battle for cities between those that search to destroy and those that work collectively to protect. Ladenheim, a dance artist, will current “Gestural Publics,” a choreographic undertaking that makes use of movement seize and 3D animation applied sciences to analyze the cultural implications of digitizing human motion.
The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College is a group of scholars, college, employees, artists and students devoted to exploring the dynamic relationships between the humanities, know-how and tradition by means of experimentation, analysis and creation. Its mission is to encourage and foster the manufacturing of artistic, scholarly, collaborative and interdisciplinary work by providing modern instructional experiences corresponding to programs, workshops, symposia, colloquia, internships, mentoring and advising.