Looking to the Future (Asynchronous Session)
Have We Lost Our Senses?: Feminism, Consumption, and the Politics of Representation View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Professor Roma Madan Soni
Through the medium of my artistic explorations inspired by my art historical research, I show how it is our sensory systems that develop through pregnancy in the world of the womb, and consequently affect the brain’s development, after our birth helps us reconnect with the world’s ecosystem - our home. It is our senses that help us build a just living world, one more closely adapted to life: to our interbeing with humans of varied genders, colors, races, and nations, with different species and features of this one priceless planet. Inspired by the 1970s ecofeminist artists, my “Trinetra” or ‘Universal/Third Eye’ series of self-portraits: Are we Listening? (2020), Are we Savoring? (2020), Are we Feeling? (2020), Are we Sniffing? (2020) and Are we Watching? (2020) help us recall our senses and emotions that connect us with the planetary sensations of earth others. Operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile, ecofeminist practice merges dissimilar disciplines and communities with shared relationships to land and sea, and to the economic and environmental disparities of the 21st century. Indigenous trans-species worldviews regarding ecojustice for the future, sourced from the ‘elders’ have been on the table for human animals to consume. Indigenous and other communities, whether segregated either ethnically, racially, or economically, have a significant contribution to make in ecological, socio-political, and economic terms towards interspecies and climate justice. Are We Listening? Are We Savoring? Are We Sniffing? Are We Feeling? and Are We Watching?
Museumpark - Curation Through Adaptive Reuse View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Danna Biello, Iain Kerrigan, Michelle Pannone
Museums often take the culture of a large, urban population and minimize it down to several floors of concentrated artifacts. This traditional idea of museum can be expanded upon when considering the complex dynamic of the evolutions of cities and its consistent population. The Museumpark is the intersection between places of cultural celebration and safe, public gathering spaces in a city. Museumparks can manifest themselves in several ways, but are most commonly seen in the forms of Sculpture Gardens, Greenhouses and Botanical Gardens, Adaptive Reuse Greenspaces, and Historic Sites. Each of these spaces distinctly celebrate a different facet of culture in a community, and help uplift through either history, art, or spectacle. Museumparks can help support struggling communities by recognizing and celebrating their forgotten culture. Rust Belt Cities were once booming cities because of their industrial empires, but in the 21st century have often fallen into disrepair due to collapsed economies and a fast drop of population. The rich history and subsequent struggle of these cities makes them ideal locations for the implementation of a Museumpark. A Museumpark applied to a Rust Belt City would take occupants through a narrative of history and ruins, exposing the abandonment of these cities through a walkthrough of building ruins, art, and adaptive reuse spaces living on the site. The city’s narrative will be further pushed through designed landscaping that segregates the different areas of the Museumpark, leading to unique journeys and experiences each visit.
OpenPipe - a Digital Tool for Exploring Online Catalogues of Digital Art in Immersive Spaces: Providing Tools to Curators to Explore Online Collections View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Steven Cutchin
In this paper we consider the work of Boise State University in deploying online tools that allow curators to explore, search, and create mixed catalogues from over thirty-five different online digital art catalogues from a global collection of online sources. The system provides web based access to curators on a variety of platforms that used cloud systems to let them search online catalogues, prepare specialty collections, label, describe, annotate and arrange material for presentation both on the web and within immersive digital theatres. The system also lets digital arts researchers and computer science researchers collaborative explore digital arts research topics and simplifies the integration of machine learning tools with online digital catalogues and lets curators integrate art annotation techniques within an exploratory space for researching novel combinations of art and computing.
