Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 with link in Driskill Hotel

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Monday 12th March 2012

• The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices

  by Ben Terrett, Aaron Cope, James Bridle, Joanne McNeil, Russell Davies and Aaron Straup Cope

  Slowly, but increasingly definitively, our technologies and our devices are learning to see, to hear, to place themselves in the world. Phones know their location by GPS. Financial algorithms read the news and feed that knowledge back into the market. Everything has a camera in it. We are becoming acquainted with new ways of seeing: the Gods-eye view of satellites, the Kinect's inside-out sense of the living room, the elevated car-sight of Google Street View, the facial obsessions of CCTV.

  As a result, these new styles and senses recur in our art, our designs, and our products. The pixelation of low-resolution images, the rough yet distinct edges of 3D printing, the shifting layers of digital maps. In this session, the participants will give examples of these effects, products and artworks, and discuss the ways in which ways of seeing are increasingly transforming ways of making and doing.

  • GPS
  • Kinect
  • Sensors

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Monday 12th March

  In Driskill Ballroom, Driskill Hotel

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