Siri responses to Loebner Prize questions

This is great: http://www.alicebot.org/. How Siri responds to the same questions given to chatbots for 2013 Loebner Prize. There is also a link for responses from the actual submissions.

And... I got the motor to spin and the light to dim in response to the amount of light falling on the sensor. Reminded me of my undergraduate days, but we used to have to solder a lot more. Nottingham Hackspace is worth a visit with open days every Wednesday. http://nottinghack.org.uk

It was fantastic to attend the Arduino workshop at Nottingham Hackspace. Fun, informative, inspiring!

What an interesting day at the Perspectives on the Material World conference. So far it looks like commercialisation of art, sex, chocolate, death and tricksters make a good mix.

Poster for the 'Perspectives on the Material World' conference

Preparing for NTU Research Conference

Preparing for the NTU research conference 'Perspectives on the Material World'. The plan was to deliver a poster presentation, conference paper, an art installation, a workshop with card sorting and chair the 'Art Practices and Engagement' slot.

NTU research conference 28th June 'Perspectives on the Material World'

Preparing now for the annual NTU research conference 'Perspectives on the Material World' on 28th of June. Preparing an installation, a presentation and maybe something a bit unusual and special. Anyone up for playing cards? http://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/academic_schools/adbe/conferences_events/index.html?campaignid=cadbeconference

Looks like a successful potential REF submission

I was glad to find out that two of my submissions for the current REF have been acknowledged as potential 3* with international significance. Here is the link to the V&A film submission: http://vimeo.com/27098546

Humans and Technology Relationship workshop publication

We are currently developing a publication which will pull the best papers from the DRS conference Bangkok 2012 conference workshop with introduction by Sylvia and I. I will update on the papers. However if you would like a copy (digital or actual) please contact me.

Workshop for the DRS 2012 Bangkok

I have been collaborating with a fantastic emotion research specialist Sylvia Tzvetanova Yung http://www.emotionresearch.com.hk/ in order to develop, organise and run a workshop (kinda mini-conference) for the Design Research Society conference 2012 in Bangkok. Here is the link to the workshop https://designcalls.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/humans-and-technology-relationship-workshop-drc-bangkok-2012/ .

The workshop is well subscribed and will culminate into a publication and a special edition journal.

Absence since Jan

I have been rather absent from this blog since January. A few things have been happening, so what will follow will be posts about various projects and activities.

Massumi The intensity of experience

‘With the body, the “walls” are the sensory surfaces. The intensity is experience. The emptiness or in-betweenness filled by experience is the incorporeal dimension of the body referred to earlier. The conversion of surface distance into intensity is also the conversion of the materiality of the body into an event. It is a relay between its corporeal and incorporeal dimensions. This is not yet a subject. But it may well be the conditions of emergence of a subject: an incipient subjectivity. Call it a “self-.”’

Massumi on Body and its indeterminacy (or openness)

‘The charge of indeterminacy carried by a body is inseparable from it. It strictly coincides with it, to the extent that the body is in passage or in process (to the extent that it is dynamic and alive). But the charge is not itself corporeal. Far from regaining a concreteness, to think the body in movement thus means accepting the paradox that there is an incorporeal dimension of the body. Of it, but not it. Real, material, but incorporeal. Inseparable, coincident, but disjunct.’

Prep for Archipelago

Prep for Archipelago

My piece for Archipelago show

My contribution to the Archipelago show has hit not one, but at least five icebergs: no studio/no dancers/no equipment/no software and no idea how the materials take on the projection. Still...the experiments look good (ish).

Archipelago show open

Archipelago show opened on Tuesday 17th of January. Lots of intriguing and beautiful work on display, supported with discussions every Wednesday when the media exhibits change over. The link for all the work and debate sessions: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/art/document_uploads/117053.pdf

Memory Tapes "Yes I Know"

A beautiful video and if it can be believed a testimony to the amazing powers of AE. http://vimeo.com/24637555

Massumi (body/object/event)

'On the list of distinctions it becomes difficult to sustain in any categorical way are those between artefact and thing, body and object-and even thought and matter. Not only do these relay in reciprocal becomings; together they ally in process. They are tinged with event.'

Massumi on Body and its indeterminacy (or openness)

‘If at any point I thought of this refreshing in terms of regaining a “concreteness” of experience, I was quickly disabused of the notion. Take movement. When a body is in motion, it does not coincide with itself. It coincides with its own transition: its own variation. The range of variations it can be implicated in is not present in any given movement, much less in any position it passes through. In motion, a body is in an immediate, unfolding relation to its own nonpresent potential to vary. That relation, to borrow a phrase from Gilles Deleuze, is real but abstract.’

‘Here, abstract means: never present in a position, only ever passing. This is an abstractness pertaining to the transitional immediacy of a real relation-that of a body to its own indeterminacy (its openness to an elsewhere and otherwise than it is, in any here and now).’ (Massumi, 2002 pp. 4-5)