Month: January 2019

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boattr.uk @IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging

Adnan presented the boattr project during the EI 2019 conference.

Founded in 1947, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (imaging.org) is a professional international organization dedicated to keeping members and others apprised of the latest scientific and technological developments in the field of imaging through conferences, educational programs, publications, and its website.

IS&T encompasses all aspects of imaging science, with particular emphasis on digital printing, electronic imaging, color science, image preservation, photofinishing, pre-press technologies, hybrid imaging systems, and silver halide research.

History

In 1947 a group of 81 researchers from the National Archives, US Navy, National Bureau of Standards, Signal Corp Engineering Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University, Bell & Howell Co., and Eastman Kodak Co.—to name a few—worked together to form the Society of Photographic Engineers. The goal was to establish a society to concentrate on publishing scientific papers in the area of photographic engineering. Before this, papers where published in a multitude of publications mixed with other papers of various non-related material. The membership more then doubled before 1950. The first issue of “Photographic Engineering” was published in January 1950.

As a result of “Photographic Engineering”, the newly formed Society was able to bring in 18 corporate members, including Bell & Howell Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical, Graflex Inc., and Kollmorgan Optical. By the end of 1950 the Society had 33 corporate and more than 270 individual members.

The Society of Photographic Engineers changed it’s name in April 1957 to the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE). Shortly thereafter the first issue of the “Journal of Photographic Scientists and Engineers” was published. On Jan. 29, 1992, the name of the Society was changed to the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T).

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Fourtoni: An AR Sculpture

Fourtoni is an Augmented Reality sculpture that makes use of audience eye tracking data in order to recreate a fourth Triton from the existing three tritons in Vincent Apap’s Triton Fountain located in Triton Square, Valletta.

The virtual sculpture was launched on an Android platform on 28 September 2018 as part of the Science in the City Festival 2018. Fourtoni is a collaboration between Matthew Attard and Matthew Galea from the Department of Digital Arts, together with Dr Vanessa Camilleri from the Department of Artificial Intelligence.

The virtual sculpture’s content was driven by research concerning the combination of the cortical homunculus representation of our body in our brain, and eye-tracking results involving free gazing. This aspect of the project was discussed with Prof. Ian Thornton from the Department of Cognitive Sciences.
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Cryptorave #8 @TM

Mediengruppe Bitnik

!Mediengruppe Bitnik

!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read: the not mediengruppe bitnik) are contemporary artists working on, and with, the Internet. Using Hacking as an artistic strategy, their works re-contextualise the familiar to allow for new readings of established structures and mechanisms. Their practice expands from the digital to physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control.

They have been known to intervene into Londons surveillance space by hijacking CCTV cameras and replacing the video images with an invitation to play chess. In 2014 Bitnik connected the darknet directly with the gallery space through a shopping bot. With a weekly budget of $100 in Bitcoins, Random Darknet Shopper went shopping on the deep web where it randomly bought items like cigarettes, keys, trousers or a scan of a Hungarian passport and had the items sent directly to exhibition spaces in Switzerland, the UK and Slovenia. In a more recent series of works !Mediengruppe Bitnik use the hacked online dating site Ashley Madison as a case study to talk about the current relationship between human and machine, Internet intimacy and the use of virtual platforms to disrupt and defraud.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik are Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo. They are currently based in Berlin. Their accomplices are the filmmaker and
researcher Adnan Hadzi and the reporter Daniel Ryser.

http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/

Algorithmic Intimacies

CryptoRave #8!Mediengruppe Bitnik during the talk Algorithmic Intimacies

Taina Bucher, Joana Moll, and !Mediengruppe Bitnik (left to right) during the talk Algorithmic Intimacies
Algorithmic Intimacies