31.10 > 02.11.2024 | Transcultures @ Computer Art Congres #8 | La Plata (Ar)

31.10 > 02.11.2024 | Transcultures @ Computer Art Congres #8 | La Plata (Ar)
31.10 > 02.11.2024 | Transcultures @ Computer Art Congres #8 | La Plata (Ar)
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Computer Art and Digital Design in the Age of Generative AI

Initiated in Paris in 2002 by Khaldoun Zreik/laboratory CiTU Paragraphe-University Paris 8, the Computer Art Congress (CAC) is an interdisciplinary academic event that investigates art and science from various perspectives. CAC.8 particularly emphasizes the role of minority and underrepresented communities in shaping the arts at local and regional levels. It examines collaborative practices among a wide range of actors—artists, designers, curators, critics, engineers, and more—to understand the networks supporting creative production.

CAC also focuses on the materiality and methods in art creation, exploring how actors engage with hardware, software, and scientific tools to generate images, experiences, and datasets. This year’s theme encourages sustainable approaches and poses questions about the future of materials in art preservation. Finally, CAC considers intellectual and academic contributions to understanding contemporary issues, like the influence of AI on thought processes, the cultural shifts due to generative media, and the role of biases in creative work. CAC.8 thus invites participants to reflect on how these trends influence both culture and artistic traditions.

CAC8 also presents artistic works at the University of La Plata during the duration of the conference, including projects by Philippe Franck, Marc Veyrat and Philippe Boisnard supported by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation.

Program

31.10.2024

  • 09:00 hs. Registration / Acreditación. Hall 2nd Underground Level / Hall 2do Subsuelo
  • 10:00 hs. Opening / Acto de Apertura. Room / Sala -203
    11:00 hs. KEYNOTE SPEAKER – PAU ALSINA – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (España).
  • 12:00 hs. Coffee Break / Pausa Café
    12:30 hs Artworks tour / Recorrida de Obras. Rooms / Salas -201, -202 y -205 13:00 hs. Lunch Break / Pausa para almorzar – Room / Sala -203
  • 14:00 hs. SESSION I / SESIÓN I. Room / Sala -203
    • Ignacio Eguiguren. – Estudio DIZEN (Mendoza, Argentina) – “AI in Packaging
    • Design” / «La IA en el diseño de envases» (Demo)
    • Silvio Gadler. – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) – “Artificial
    • Intelligence and Design Learning” / “Inteligencia artificial y aprendizaje del diseño”
    • Natalia Guadalupe Ferreira Aviles Natasha. – Independent artist (CABA, Argentina) – “Technological Advances Despite Resistance: AI as a Catalyst for Creativity and Development in Human-Non-Human Collaboration” / “Avances tecnológicos a pesar de la resistencia: La IA como catalizador de la creatividad y el desarrollo en la colaboración entre humanos y no humanos”
    • Claudia Mosqueda Gómez. – Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México DF, México) – “Subverting AI from a creative perspective” / “Subvirtiendo la IA desde la mirada de la creación”
    • Sei Jung. – Northeastern University (Boston, United States) – “Detouring the Path to Perfection: Generative Images and its Social Implications” / “Desviando el camino hacia la perfección: Las imágenes generativas y sus implicaciones sociales”
    • Q & A / Ronda de preguntas y Debate
  • 16.30 hs. Coffee Break / Pausa Café
  • 17:00 hs. KEYNOTE SPEAKER – MARTIN GROISMAN (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de las Artes) “Talking to machines. Synthetic thinking and the poetics of the artificial” / “Hablando con máquinas. El pensamiento sintético y la poética de lo artificial”. Room / Sala -203
  • 18:00 hs. SESSION II / SESIÓN II. Room / Sala -203
    • Federico Del Giorgio Solfa & Jéssica Roude. – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) – “Interactive digital design: synergy between Artificial Intelligence, Art, Design and Architecture” / “Diseño digital interactivo: sinergia entre Inteligencia Artificial, Arte, Diseño y Arquitectura”
    • Marc Pereyra, Renata Di Leo & Tobías Díaz. – UBA-IAE, UNA-UNTREF, UNA (CABA, Argentina) – “Notes for a cybernetic curatorship. Curatorial dialogues with artificial intelligences” / “Apuntes para una curaduría cibernética. Diálogos curatoriales con las inteligencias artificiales”
    • Carola Dreidemie. – Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro (Río Negro, Argentina) – “Anticipation and Information Feedback: Mimicry and latency between Living Systems” / “Anticipación y retroalimentación de la información: Mimetismo y latencia entre sistemas vivos”
    • Florent Di Bartolo. – Université Gustave Eiffel (París, France) – “The Distributed Aesthetics of Blockchains” / “La estética distribuida de Blockchains”
    • Q & A / Ronda de preguntas y Debate

01.11.2024

  • 09:00 hs. Registration / Acreditación. Hall 2nd Underground Level / Hall 2do Subsuelo
  • 10:00 hs. KEYNOTE SPEAKER – PHILIPPE BOISNARD – Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis (París, France) “Empowerment of Generative AI and Human Transpassibility” / “Potenciación de la IA Generativa y Transpasabilidad Humana” – Room / Sala -203
  • 11:00 hs. Coffee Break / Pausa Café
  • 11:30 hs. Artworks Tour and Artists Talk / Recorrido de Obras y Charla con Artistas
  • 12:30 hs. PARTICIPATIVE EXPERIENCE / EXPERIENCIA PARTICIPATIVA – Joaquín Fargas – Independent artist – (CABA, Argentina) – Have you ever meditated with robots? / ¿Alguna vez meditaste con robots? / in “Speculative Futures”. Room / Sala -201
  • 13:00 hs. Lunch Break / Pausa para almorzar
  • 14:00 hs. SESSION III / SESIÓN III. Room / Sala -203
    • Esteban Calcagno & Diego Romero Mascaró. – Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (CABA, Argentina) – “The Role of Experience in the Use of AI as a Tool for Artistic Production: The case of Suno and Flux” / “El papel de la experiencia en el uso de la IA como herramienta de producción artística: El caso de Suno y Flux»
    • Nicolás Flores. – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) – “Ident.ia” / “Ident.ia”
    • Joaquín Fargas. – Independent artist (CABA, Argentina) – “Echoes of tomorrow: technologies and dystopias” / “Ecos del mañana: tecnologías y distopías”
    • Juan Carlos Guarneros. – Independent artist (Mexico DF, Mexico) – “Fractals and Artificial Intelligence” / “Fractales e Inteligencia Artificial”
    • Paul Magee. – Uniwersytet Artystyczny im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz w Poznaniu (Poznan, Poland) “Artist talk on “Hysteria Redux” /
    • Q & A / Ronda de preguntas y Debate
  • 16.30 hs Coffee Break / Pausa Café
  • 17:00 hs. KEYNOTE SPEAKER – JUAN MARTÍN PRADA – Universidad de Cádiz (España) “Máquinas del futuro para imaginar el pasado. La tematización de la memoria y de la temporalidad en el “IA art”. // Machines of the future to imagine the past. The thematization of memory and temporality in “AI art”. Room / Sala -203
  • 18:00 hs SESSION IV / SESIÓN IV. Room / Sala -203
    • David Schäfer. – Universidad Provincial de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Córdoba, Argentina) – “Memories in the Light of Missing Footprints: AI and Photography” / “Memorias a la Luz de las Huellas Desaparecidas: IA y Fotografía“
    • Marc Veyrat & Philippe Franck. – Université Paris Saclay, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis (París, France) – VOX-® e.POETICS – AI in Live & Performance / VOX-® e.POETICS – IA in Live & Performance /
    • Diego Antonio Marin Bucio. – University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway) – “Redefining Dance: Human perception and the emergence of AI-Generated Movement” / “Redefinir la danza: La percepción humana y la aparición del movimiento generado por Inteligencia Artificial”
    • Alejandra Ceriani & Lisandro Aguiar. – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) – “Biometric Artificial Intelligence: a somatic design for the epistemology of the body” / “Inteligencia Artificial biométrica: un diseño somático para la epistemología del cuerpo”
    • Q & A / Ronda de preguntas y Debate

02.11.2024

  • 09:00 hs. Registration / Acreditación. Hall 2do Subsuelo
  • 10:00 hs. KEYNOTE SPEAKER MAURICE BENAYOUN – Nanjing University (Nanjing, China) “Magic mirrors don’t always come with good news. The same goes for AI!” / “Los espejos mágicos no siempre vienen acompañados de buenas noticias. Lo mismo ocurre con la IA”. Room / Sala -203
  • 11:00 hs. Coffee Break / Pausa Café
  • 11:30 hs. WORKSHOP – EVERARDO REYES & KHALDOUN ZREIK – Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis – “Artificial Intelligence, creativity, prompt design and design explorations” / “Inteligencia artificial, creatividad, diseño rápido y exploraciones de diseño”
  • 13:00 hs. Lunch Break / Pausa para almorzar
  • 14:00 hs. MAR CANET – Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany) “Artistic Strategies to Guide Neural Networks” / “Estrategias artísticas para guiar las redes neuronales”. Room / Sala -203
  • 15:00 hs. Closing Ceremony – Acto de Cierre. Room / Sala -203 …..

31.10 > 02.11.2024 | Exposition

  • Joaquín Fargas. – Independent artist (CABA, Argentina). “Speculative Futures”
  • Tina Tallon & Ine Vanoeveren. – The Ohio State University (Columbus, United States). “LLMents I”
  • Romain Sein. – ESAPB, Ecole Supérieure d’Art Pays Basque (Bayonne, France) “Silicon Skies”
  • Komal Goswami. – University of Florida (Florida, United States). “Brain Melt”
  • Philippe Boisnard. – Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis (Paris, France) Series “The latent space of off-screen”
  • Susanna Hertrich & Selena Savic. – Independent Artist, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Germany, Netherlands) “Antennas Dreaming: Machine-Generated Post-Industrial Dystopias and Algorithmic Interpretations”
  • Mateo Amaral. – Independent artist (CABA, Argentina). “We were humanity”
Download the program (PDF)

Informations complémentaires

Comité d'organisation

Local Chair

  • Andrea Sosa, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

International Organizers

  • Khaldoun Zreik, Université Paris 8, Paragraphe Lab Chu-Yin Chen, Université Paris 8, INREV Everardo Reyes, Université Paris 8, Lab Paragraphe

Local team

  • Institutional Coordinator: Luciano Passarella, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Graphic Designer:Laura Maiori, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • Collaborators: Gabriela Alejandra García, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Martín Bollini Asís, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Sofía Lara Marozzi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

International Steering Committee

  • Miguel Almirón, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Pau Alsina, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  • Maurice Benayoun, City University Hong Kong
  • Alvaro Cassinelli, City University Hong Kong
  • Frank Dufour, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Alan Dunning, University of Calgary
  • Miguel Grassi, Universidad de Tres de Febrero
  • Martín Groisman, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Kerry Hagan, University of Limerick
  • Roger Malina, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Lev Manovich, City University of New York
  • José-Carlos Mariátegui, Università LUISS, Rome
  • Everardo Reyes, Université Paris 8, Lab Paragraphe
  • Giancarlo Ruffo, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”
  • Eduardo Russo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Warren Sack, University of California
  • Edward Shanken, University of California, Santa Cruz Jack Stenner, University of Florida
  • Marc Veyrat, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc Khaldoun Zreik, Université Paris 8, Lab Paragraphe (chairman)

With the support

  • School of Art and Heritage – National University of San Martín (UNSAM) LADYSS Laboratory
  • Institute Francais d’Argentine (IFA) of the French Embassy
  • Program for the Internationalization of Higher Education and International Cooperation (PIESCI) of the Secretariat of Education of the Ministry of Human Capital of the Nation

Informations

  • 31.10 > 02.11.2024
  • National University of La Plata
    Convention Center Sergio Karakachoff Building
  • 48th Street between 6 and 7 La Plata – Argentina
  • cac8.sciencesconf.org

Production

  • Paragraph Laboratory – Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis University
  • Facultad de Artes – Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Plan