Preface
The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2021 Conference (EVA London 2021) is co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, of which the CAS is a Specialist Group.
Of course, this is a difficult time for all conferences, with the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, the EVA London 2021 Conference is an online conference, as it was in the previous year as well. We continue with publishing the proceedings, both online, with open access via ScienceOpen, and also in our traditional printed form.
Over recent decades, the EVA London Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts has established itself as one of the United Kingdom’s most innovative and interdisciplinary conferences. It brings together a wide range of research domains to celebrate a diverse set of interests, with a specialised focus on visualisation.
The long and short papers in this volume cover varied topics concerning the arts, visualisations, and IT, including 3D graphics, animation, artificial intelligence, creativity, culture, design, digital art, ethics, heritage, literature, museums, music, philosophy, politics, publishing, social media, and virtual reality, as well as other related interdisciplinary areas.
The EVA London 2021 proceedings presents a wide spectrum of papers, demonstrations, Research Workshop contributions, other workshops, and for the sixth year, the EVA London Symposium, in the form of an evening panel session with invited contributors. The conference includes a number of other associated online evening events including ones organised by the Computer Arts Society, Art in Flux, and the Lumen Prize.
A feature of EVA London, started in 2018, has been a Research in Education Day, immediately after the main conference, bringing together students and associated staff from universities in the London area to enable presentations and networking. In the circumstances, we now aim to hold this in conjunction with EVA London 2022.
As in previous years, there are Research Workshop contributions in this proceedings, aimed at encouraging participation by postgraduate students and early-career artists, accepted either through the peer-review process or directly by the Research Workshop chair. The Research Workshop contributors are offered bursaries to aid participation. In particular, EVA London liaises with Art in Flux, a London-based group of digital artists.
The EVA London 2021 proceedings includes long papers and short “poster” papers from international researchers inside and outside academia, from graduate artists, PhD students, industry professionals, established scholars, and senior researchers, who value EVA London for its interdisciplinary community. The conference also features keynote talks.
This publication has resulted from a selective peer review process, fitting as many excellent submissions as possible into the proceedings. This year, submission numbers were lower than previous years, mostly likely due to the pandemic forcing the conference online. It is still pleasing to have so many good proposals from which to select the papers that have been included.
EVA London is part of a larger network of EVA international conferences. EVA events have been held in Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, California, Cambridge (both UK and USA), Canberra, Copenhagen, Dallas, Delhi, Edinburgh, Florence, Gifu (Japan), Glasgow, Harvard, Jerusalem, Kiev, Laval, London, Madrid, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Paris, Prague, St Petersburg, Thessaloniki, and Warsaw. Further venues for EVA conferences are very much encouraged by the EVA community.
As noted earlier, this proceedings is a record of accepted submissions to EVA London 2021. We plan for associated online presentations to be recorded and made available online after the conference.
Acknowledgements
EVA London 2021 gratefully acknowledges:
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for hosting EVA London online using Zoom, and the BCS Computer Arts Society (CAS) Specialist Group for providing bursaries. Special thanks go to Kerry Wear at the BCS, for help with budgeting, registration, and other organisational arrangements, as well as Becky Youe, Florence Leroy, and Ian Borthwick of the BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series, for support with the printed and online conference proceedings.
The Anthill Social and Tom Keene for website hosting and support.
Thank you to staff at the BCS Swindon office for help with administrative and IT support.
Thanks to all the contributors for making EVA London a continuing success.
Committee
EVA London 2021 Conference Chair: Graham Diprose
BCS CAS Chair: Nick Lambert
EVA London 2021 Programme Co-Chairs: Jon Weinel
Jonathan P. Bowen
Ann Borda
Graham Diprose
EVA London 2021 Symposium Co-Chairs: Tula Giannini
Jonathan P. Bowen
EVA London 2021 Research Workshop Chair: Graham Diprose
EVA London 2021 Workshop Co-Chairs: Nick Lambert
Carl Smith
EVA London 2021 Publicity: Sarah McDaid
EVA London 2021 Bursaries: Graham Diprose
EVA London 2021 Website: Jonathan P. Bowen
EVA London 2021 Technical Support: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
EVA International Liaison: Terry Trickett
EVA London Honorary Chair: James Hemsley
EVA London Honorary Committee Member: George Mallen
EVA London 2021 Organising/Advisory Committee Members:
Ann Borda The University of Melbourne
Jonathan P. Bowen London South Bank University
Sean Clark Interact Digital Arts
Graham Diprose Independent
Tula Giannini Pratt Institute, New York
Christina Hemsley Independent
James Hemsley Birkbeck College
Maureen Kendal Dreamstudio.io
Nick Lambert Ravensbourne University London
Sarah McDaid London South Bank University
Gareth Polmeer Royal College of Art
Aphra Shemza Art in FLUX
Carl Smith Ravensbourne University London
Terry Trickett Trickett Associates
Jon Weinel London South Bank University
List of Reviewers
The people listed below reviewed submissions for the EVA London 2021 Conference and the Organising Committee is very grateful for their voluntary help in the selection process.
EVA London 2021 Programme Committee:
Otniel Altamirano
Philip Galanter
Verda Munir
Doron Altaratz
Jānis Garančs
Rebecca Norris
Xavier Aure
Tula Giannini
Irida Ntalla
Christin Bolewski
David Gibson
Teresa Numerico
Ann Borda
Oliver Gingrich
Paul O'Dowd
Karen Bosy
Eunice Gonçalves Duarte
Jeremy Pilcher
Jonathan P. Bowen
Oana Gui
Gareth Polmeer
Beatrice Bretherton
Kelly Hamilton
Cristina Portugal
Daniel Buzzo
Susan Hazan
Sabrina Recoules Quang
Kristin Carlson
María Hidalgo Urbaneja
Luísa Ribas
Elisavet Christou
Richard Hoadley
Vasileios Routsis
Sean Clark
J. Kirk Irwin
Benjamin Seide
Richard Collmann
Yi Ji
Aphra Shemza
Ed Cookson
Maria Kallionpää
Anna Shvets
Greg Corness
Maureen Kendal
Rita Silva
Stuart Cunningham
Eugenia Kim
James Simpson
Antonio D’Amato
Jinhee Kim
Carl Smith
Laura Dekker
Nick Lambert
Lydia Smolin
Daniela de Paulis
Kyungho Lee
Agata Marta Soccini
Florent Di Bartolo
Dominik Lengyel
Terry Trickett
J C Diaz
Michael Lesk
Athanasios Velios
Graham Diprose
Susan Liggett
Jon Weinel
Alan Dunning
Ziva Ljubec
Ian Willcock
Eva Emenlauer-Bloemers
Andy Lomas
Ross Williams
Huan Fan
Lindsay MacDonald
Ron Yakir
Kenneth Feinstein
Jon Malis
Jing Zhou
Raffaella Folgieri
Sarah McDaid
Rehan Zia
Francesca Franco
Murray McKeich
Tobias Ziegler
Giuliano Gaia
Lila Moore
Papers:
Keynotes & Symposium
Jonathan P. Bowen, Camille Baker, Ghislaine Boddington, Ernest Edmonds, Merel van Helsdingen & Terrence Masson EVA London 2021: Keynote summaries http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.1
Jonathan P. Bowen, Tula Giannini, Rachel Falconer, Michael Takeo Magruder & Emanuele Marconi Beyond Human: Arts and identity between reality and virtuality in a post-Covid-19 world http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.2
Digital Culture and Museums
Jonathan P. Bowen & Tula Giannini Digitality: A reality check http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.3
Ann Borda & Jonathan P. Bowen The Rise of Digital Citizenship and the Participatory Museum http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.4
Aila Regina da Silva & Gabriele Mauany Ferreira Alencar Sharing Impressions: An investigation about participatory museums and UX design http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.5
Alexandra Orlova Digitizing Art or How to Broaden the Viewer’s Experience http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.6
Claudio Germak, Andrea Di Salvo & Lorenza Abbate Augmented Reality Experience for Inaccessible Areas in Museums http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.7
Digital Heritage
Dominik Lengyel & Catherine Toulouse Visual Mediation of Unique Construction and Access Principles of the Amphitheatre of Durrës http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.8
Kristin Carlson, Lucy Gill, Zahra Irranezhad, Amal Abdalla, Annie Sungkajun, Sam Bruner & Ella Jahraus Uncharted Territories: Developing digital experiences for anthropological and archaeological exploration http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.9
Sophie Dixon Grace: A virtual recreation of the Grace Darling story http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.10
Benjamin Seide & Benjamin Slater Performance Capture for Virtual Heritage: Virtual re-enactment for the lost film Pontianak http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.11
Amalia Foka Computer Vision Applications for Art History: Reflections and paradigms for future research http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.12
Oliver M. Gingrich, Eike Falk Anderson, Alain Renaud, Evgenia Emets, David Negrao & Deborah Tchoudjinoff New Heritage: New media art between cultural heritage experience and artefact http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.13
Adventures in Sound and Image
Jonathan Weinel Worship the Penguin: Adventures with sprites, chiptunes, and lasers http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.14
Anna Shvets & Samer Darkazanli Conditional GAN for Diatonic Harmonic Sequences Generation in a VR Context http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.15
Kyoko Hidaka Ubiquitous Lighting: The Third Color Digital Art × Lighting Symposium and Workshop http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.16
James Simpson Live and Life in Virtual Theatre: Adapting traditional theatre processes to engage creatives in digital immersive technologies http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.17
Camille Baker, Maf’j Alverez, Bushra Burge, Kat Austen & Sarah Büttner INTER/her: An immersive journey inside the female body – VR experience demo http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.18
Leslie Deere Experimental Affect: Gesture controlled audio-visual performance in VR http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.19
Annie Sungkajun & Jinsil Huaryoung Seo Though Miles Apart http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.20
Ziwei Wu, Shuai Xu & Yingyi Wang Invisible War: An audio visual installation with laser light and Twitter API data http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.21
Artistic Communities & Education
Bao Han & Jonathan P. Bowen The Weiguan Culture Phenomenon in Chinese Online Activism http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.22
Sonja Pedell & Ann Borda Social Prescribing the Smart City http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.23
Maureen Kendal, Fion Gunn, Nazia Parvez, Chen Mei-Tsen, Terri M. Broughton & Cleon Grant The Evolving Collaboration – AMazed! The A-Maze artists investigate immersive technology to create imagination and artifice http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.24
Oliver M. Gingrich GENDER*UCK: Reframing gender & media art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.25
Aphra Shemza & Stuart Faromarz Batchelor SHEMZA.DIGITAL: Participatory art as a catalyst for social change http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.26
Olaoluwa Oyedokun, Kristin Carlson & Annie Sungkajun Embraced Separation: Exploring methods of breath attunement in speculative infant swings http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.27
Cristina Portugal, Mônica Moura & Márcio Guimaraes Design in Times of Pandemics: Accessible literature to people with visual impairment http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.28
Sandra Woolley & Tim Collins Art for Computer Scientists: Processing as an open-source art medium for computer science Undergraduates http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.29
Carinna Parraman, Fabio D’Agnano & Wuon-Gean Ho The Craftsperson, Tacit Knowledge, and Digital Embodiment http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.30
Artificial Intelligence
Dongyuan Liu machinesMemory: Malleability of AI technique, the data generated by machine learning algorithms http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.31
Regula Valérie Burri, Merle Richter & Laura Sigrüner Artificial Futures: Imagining AI through art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.32
Konstantina Karterouli & Yota Batsaki AI and Cultural Heritage Image Collections: Opportunities and challenges http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.33
Graham Wakefield & Haru Hyunkyung Ji Creative Artificial Intelligence within the Artificial Life Installation “Infranet” http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.34
Ozan Yavuz Novel Paradigm of Cameraless Photography: Methodology of AI-generated photographs http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.35
Imaging and Data Visualisation
Megan L. Smith & Yujie Gao All The Stars We Cannot See: A deep look into real-time satellite traffic http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.36
Daniel Buzzo Art as Data Set, Data Set as Art: Training machine vision systems to see as artists http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.37
Ian Willcock Crowdsourcing: Using real-time social media data to repopulate the socially distanced world http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.38
Rehan Zia Documenting Digital Creative Practice http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.39
Ashley Buchanan & Ron Snyder Plant Humanities Lab: Planting the seeds for creative data visualisation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.40
Digital Consciousness & Ecology
Terry Trickett New Media Art as a Vehicle for Research and Innovation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.41
Lila Moore & Owen Fender Sentient: A social media environment as a conscious living system http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.42
Kenneth Feinstein The Uncanny As a Sense of Presence in MX http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.43
Carl Hayden Smith An Ecology for the Re-Enchantment of Life http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.44
Batuhan Bintas Imaginatrix: School of Cyber Wizardry http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.45
Research Workshop
Graham Diprose, Frances Liddell, Marco Pini, Sarah Vollmer & Racelar Ho Research Workshop Collected Paper: Explorations in concepts and the visual arts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.46
Joskaudė Pakalkaitė Development of Noise-free Digital Interfaces: Hand-drawn interfaces for consumer wellbeing http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.47
Anton Dragan Maslic & Eugenia S. Kim An Epistemological Misalignment of Cogs in the AI-Art-Making Machine http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.48
Tyler H. McIntosh Exploring the Relationship Between Music and Emotions with Machine Learning http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.49
Peirui Yang Archaeology and Contemporary Art: An experiment of virtual stratigraphy http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.50
Workshops
Carl Hayden Smith, Daniel Buzzo & Eyal Gruss EVA London 2021 Workshops http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.51
In a Space Out of Time
Sean Clark & Geoff Davis Revisiting and Re-presenting 1980s Micro Computer Art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.52
Luciana Haill & Nick Lambert Synthesis: Making magic with GenieMo http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.53
Gretchen Andrew What if We Educated AI Based on the World We Want Instead of the World We Have? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.54