Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2018) - Index

Abstract

The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2018 conference (EVA London 2018) is co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, of which CAS is a Specialist Group. Since 1990, the EVA London Conference has established itself as one of the United Kingdom’s most innovative and interdisciplinary conferences in the field of digital visualisation. The papers and abstracts in this volume cover areas such as animation, arts, cultural heritage, museums, music, performance, virtual heritage, and visualisation, as well as other interdisciplinary areas. The latest research and work by early career researchers, established scholars, practitioners, research students, and visual artists can be found here.

For more information about EVA 2018, visit www.eva-london.org or search on Twitter for EVALondonConf.

The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2018 Conference (EVA London 2018) is co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, of which the CAS is a Specialist Group. 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of CAS, which is celebrated as part of EVA London 2018.

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 papers and extended abstracts in this volume cover varied topics concerning the arts, visualisations, and IT, including 3D graphics, animation, artificial intelligence, creativity, culture, design, digital art, heritage, literature, morphogenesis, museums, music, philosophy, politics, publishing, social media, and virtual reality, as well as other related interdisciplinary areas.

The EVA London 2018 Conference presents a wide spectrum of papers, presentations, demonstrations, a Research Workshop and a special one-day event for the third year, the EVA London Symposium (entitled “States of Being: Art and Identity in Digital Space and Time”), now integrated within the conference on 9 July 2018, with six invited speakers, sponsored by the Pratt Institute, New York.

This year, V&A Digital Futures have organised two EVA London 2018 Conference exhibition evenings of 9 and 12 July 2018, together with some exhibits during the EVA London 2018 Conference itself. On 10 July 2018, the CAS 50th anniversary was celebrated with an evening event.

A new feature of EVA London 2018 is a Research in Education Day on 13 July 2018, immediately after the main conference, bringing together students and associated staff from eight universities in the London area to enable presentations and networking.

As in previous years, there is a Research Workshop running in parallel with other conference sessions, to encourage postgraduate student participation. Presenters at the Research Workshop are offered bursaries for free attendance on that day. Several other bursaries are also available to encourage attendance by those with no other source of funding (especially independent artists contributing to the conference). For example, this year EVA London is liaising with FLUX, a London-based group of artists.

EVA London 2018 presents papers and abstracts from international researchers inside and outside academia, from graduate artists, PhD students, seasoned industry professionals, established scholars, and senior researchers, who value EVA London for its interdisciplinary community. This year, the conference again features three keynote talks, one on each day of 10–12 July 2018.

This publication has resulted from a selective peer review process, fitting as many excellent submissions as possible into the limited timetable of the conference. This year, submission numbers were similar to the high number in 2017, with an excellent standard overall, so it is pleasing to have so many good proposals from which to select the programme.

EVA London is part of a larger network of EVA international conferences. In the past twenty years, EVA events have been held in Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, California, Cambridge (both UK and USA), Canberra, 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. The first EVA Copenhagen in Denmark was also held in May 2018.

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Conference Committee & Reviewers

Committee

EVA London 2018 Conference Chair: Graham Diprose

BCS CAS Chair: Nick Lambert

EVA London 2018 Programme Co-Chairs: Jonathan P. Bowen, Jon Weinel, Graham Diprose and Nick Lambert

EVA London 2018 Symposium Co-Chairs: Tula Giannini, Gareth Polmeer and Jonathan P. Bowen

EVA London 2018 Digital Futures Organiser: Irini Papadimitriou

EVA London 2018 Research Workshop Chair: Graham Diprose

EVA London 2018 Research in Education Chair: Graham Diprose

EVA London 2018 Publicity: Sarah McDaid

EVA London 2018 Bursaries: Graham Diprose

EVA London 2018 Website: Tom Ensom

EVA London 2018 Technical Support: Duncan Mackie, Tom Ensom and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

EVA London Honorary Chair: James Hemsley

EVA London Honorary Committee Member: George Mallen

EVA London 2018 Organising Committee:

Jonathan P. Bowen, London South Bank University

Graham Diprose, Independent

Tom Ensom, King’s College London

Sara Feldman, Simon Fraser University

Francesca Guerrera, Ravensbourne

Christina Hemsley, Independent

James Hemsley, Birkbeck College

Lizzie Jackson, London South Bank University

Nick Lambert, Ravensbourne

Sarah McDaid, London South Bank University

Gareth Polmeer, Royal College of Art

Irini Papadimitriou, V&A

Carl Smith, Ravensbourne

Terry Trickett, Independent

Jon Weinel, Aalborg University

Reviewers

The people listed below reviewed submissions for the EVA London 2018 Conference and the Organising Committee is very grateful for their voluntary help in the selection process.

EVA London 2018 Programme Committee:

Rachel Ara Eunice Gonçalves Duarte Kristina Pulejkova

Xavier Aure Francesca Guerrera Elke Reinhuber

Isabel Bernal Oana Gui Vasileios Routsis

Jim Bizzocchi Kelly Hamilton Chris Rowland

Christin Bolewski Susan Hazan Sara Salevati

Ann Borda Kate Hennessey David Saunders

Jonathan P. Bowen Richard Hoadley Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo

Stephen Boyd Davis J.Kirk Irwin Anna Shvets

Beatrice Bretherton Vicky Isley Rita Silva

Nick Bryan-Kinns Lizzie Jackson Carl Smith

Daniel Buzzo Liam Jefferies Derek Smith

Moshe Caine Tom Jefferies Allison Smith

Kristin Carlson Aynur Kadir Sophy Smith

Cécile Chevalier Christina Kamposiori Paul Smith

Sean Clark Jinhee Kim Genevieve Smith-Nunes

Wayne Clements Nick Lamber Agata Marta Soccini

Richard Collmann Tony Langford Marina Sparvoli

Ed Cookson Michael Lesk Julian Stadon

Stuart Cunningham Eleanor Lisney Terry Trickett

Antonio D'Amato Ziva Ljubec Anastasia Tyurina

Florent Di Bartolo Maria Luce Lupetti Francesca Uccheddu

J C Diaz Lindsay MacDonald David Upton

Graham Diprose Sarah McDaid Athanasios Velios

Alan Dunning Anna Nazarova Martin Vollenweider

Eva Emenlauer-Bloemers Rebecca Norris Jon Weinel

Tom Ensom Irida Ntalla Ian Willcock

Laura Ferrarello Teresa Numerico Katrin Wolf

Raffaella Folgieri Anna Olszewska Chris A Wright

Philip Galanter Irini Papadimitriou Özge Nilay Yalçin

Joanna Gancarczyk Monika Parrinder Frauke Zeller

Diego Garro Mike Phillips Jing Zhou

Tula Giannini Bob Pickering Brigitta Zics

David Gibson Jeremy Pilcher Tobias Ziegler

Paul Golz Gareth Polmeer

Papers:

Symposium

Jonathan P. Bowen, Tula Giannini, Gareth Polmeer, Carla Gannis, Jeremy Gardiner, Jonathan Kearney, Bruce Wands & Jon Weinel States of Being: Art and identity in digital space and time http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.1

Virtual Space & Architecture

Hanna Haaslahti & Tyler Henry Cosmetic Space http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.2

J. Kirk Irwin Geo-locating Ruskin's Mornings in Florence and Jeanneret's Sketches and Watercolours from his 1907 Voyage http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.3

Lindsay W. MacDonald, Erica Nocerino, Stuart Robson & Mona Hess 3D Reconstruction in an Illumination Dome http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.4

Robert B. Lisek AIA: Artificial intelligence for art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.5

Art, Heritage & the Internet

Han Bao Review of Chinese Social Media Platforms Focusing on WeChat and Weibo: Digital curating and cultural promotions http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.6

Rameshnath Krishnasamy, Sara Khan & Claudio Germak Mixed Reality Game Using Bluetooth Beacons for Exhibitions http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.7

Digital Futures

Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathan P. Bowen Digital Futures: Exhibits at EVA London 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.8

Digital Art & Conservation

Bruce Wands 25 Years of Curating Digital Art: 1993-2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.9

Graham Diprose, Michael George & Robin Darwall-Smith An Alternative Method of Very Long-term Conservation of Digital Images and their Historical Context for The Archive, University College, Oxford http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.10

Foteini Valeonti, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Melissa Terras & Chrysanthi Zarkali Reaping the Benefits of Digitisation: Pilot study exploring revenue generation from digitised collections through technological innovation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.11

Anna Olszewska Senster 2.0: Cultural context of media art curatorship http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.12

Keynote

Malcolm Garrett Not Merely Physical http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.13

Art & Exhibitions

Volker Kuchelmeister, Lily Hibberd & Alex Davies Affect and Place Representation in Immersive Media: The Parragirls Past, Present project http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.14

Katrin Wolf, Jens Reinhardt & Markus Funk Virtual Exhibitions: What do we win and what do we lose? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.15

Esther Rolinson & Sean Clark Digital Structures and Light Movements http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.16

Digital Emotion

Gretchen Andrew Search Engine Art: Internet Imperialism and the image in context http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.17

Laura Dekker An Architecture for an Expressive Responsive Machine http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.18

Paul O'Dowd Robot Poetics: Toward a materially sensitive drawing robot http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.19

Research Workshop

Eugenia S. Kim Constructing a Dance Pathography: Integrating the performing arts, multimedia and digital medical humanities http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.20

Jairo Zaldua & Nicola Green Imaginary Friends http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.21

Francesco Soave & Raffaella Folgieri Brainwaves and Sound Synchronisation in Dance Performance http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.22

Elisavet Christou Internet Art, Google and Artistic Practice http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.23

Liam Noah Jefferies The New Spectacle: How effective is mobile Augmented Reality as tool for the manifestation of dissent? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.24

Bushra Burge Costume Embedded Haptics with Virtual Reality for Immersive Storytelling http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.25

Otniel Altamirano, Cristina Portugal & Monica Moura Transmedia Digital Inclusion http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.26

Lydia Smolin & Katrin Wolf Who's Watching? A feminist urban video installation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.27

Heritage & Algorithms

Moshe Caine, Doron Altaratz, Lindsay MacDonald & Amit Reem The Riddle of the Crosses: The Crusaders in the Holy Sepulchre http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.28

Shing-Tai Pan, Chih-Hung Wu, Chen-Sen Ouyang & Ying-Wei Lee Emotion Recognition from Speech Signals by Using Evolutionary Algorithm and Empirical Mode Decomposition http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.29

Rehan Zia Rehan's Zone System http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.30

Jonathan P. Bowen, Terry Trickett, Jeremy B. A. Green & Andy Lomas Turing's Genius - Defining an apt microcosm http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.31

Computer Arts Society - CAS 50

Sean Clark & Nick Lambert CAS: 50 years of digital art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.32

Museums & Artists

Stefania Boiano, Ann Borda, Guiliano Gaia, Stefania Rossi & Pietro Cuomo Chatbots and New Audience Opportunities for Museums and Heritage Organisations http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.33

Tula Giannini & Jonathan P. Bowen Of Museums and Digital Culture: A landscape view http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.34

Michele Barker & Anna Munster Moving Data: Artistic tendencies in visualising human and non-human movement http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.35

Aphra Shemza It Starts with the Artist: Solutions for a sustainable media arts practice http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.36

Keynote

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm ARTificial Intelligence: From Frankenstein to FRANK http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.37

Science & Art

Maria Almena Transcendence: Can live performance art in combination with interactive technology induce altered states of consciousness? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.38

Volker Kuchelmeister The Virtual (Reality) Museum of Immersive Experiences http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.39

Aphra Shemza, Oliver Gingrich & Maria Almena FLUX Events: Current trends in contemporary media arts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.40

Algorithmic Art

Cristina Portugal Grumari: Digital storytelling http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.41

Dario Srbic (De)generative Art: Rules-transgressing algorithms http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.42

Visualisations

Rod Dickinson Fear Filter: Visualising the UK terror threat level http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.43

David Pao, John Stevens, Dan Lockton & Netta Weinstein Electronic Medical Records: Provotype visualisation maximises clinical usability http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.44

Elke Reinhuber, Ross Williams & Benjamin Seide The Scale of Immersion: Different audio-visual experiences exemplified by the 360° video Secret Detours http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.45

Demonstrations 1

Nick Lambert, Mehmet Mulla & Seungyeon Ryu HoloDash: A holographic interface for autonomous vehicles http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.46

Ian Truelove Ultra-infra: Becoming skin http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.47

Phil Shepherd 3D Visual Thinking http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.48

3D Spaces

Yi Ji & Sean Clark The Virtual Recreation of a Ming Dynasty Pailou Gate http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.49

Julian Stadon Towards a Transdisciplinary Method: Teaching and research practices in immersive spaces and mixed realities http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.50

Interdisciplinary

Teodora Kuzmanova, Nick Higgett, Mark Sims, Jim Clemmet & Eric Tatham 3D Technology as an Effective Tool for Reflection Simulation: The Beagle 2 Lander on Mars http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.51

Luca M. Damiani, Kat Braybrooke & John Philip Sage Temporary Techno-social Gatherings? A (hacked) discussion about open practices http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.52

Paris Xyntarianos-Tsiropinas, Thomas Spyrou & Konstantinos Bailas Using Design to Support the Creation of Street Art: A three-phase experiment supported by the DDArtS system http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.53

Greg Corness & Kristin Carlson Physicalizing Time Through Orientational Metaphors for Generating Rhythmic Gestures http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.54

Keynote

Kate Hennessy Collaborative Practices and Decolonial Media Production for Museums http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.55

Performance

John Hillman & Ravi Deepres Entrelacé: How technology, movement and visuals are interlaced in the film design for The Royal Ballet's Woolf Works http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.56

Ágnes Karolina Bakk Analogue and Digital Immersive Experiences: What should digital creators learn from live theatre makers? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.57

James Simpson How do you know when you have created a bad production? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.58

Demonstrations 2

Massimiliano Tonelli Movies for the Ears to Come http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.59

Derek J. Smith On Cognitive Primitives and Trick Photography http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.60

Julian Stadon Revisiting the Cloud/s: Interfacing open weather data for live audio-visual performance http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.61

Batudan Bintas Cyber Rabbit: Adventures in Cyberland http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.62

VR & AR

Tony Langford, Alistair Burleigh, Nicole Ruta & Robert Pepperell New Immersive Media to Broaden Attention and Awareness http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.63

Matthew McGinity La Dispersion du Fils: Into regions of incomprehensibility http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.64

Carl H Smith & Sarah James The Seventh Ray: A Mixed Reality initiation experience http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.65

Data & Art

Oliver Gingrich, Evgenia Emets & Alain Renaud Aura: A holographic brainwave interface http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.66

David Upton The Invisible Arp http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.67

Gareth Proskourine-Barnett Fractured Perspectives http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.68

Richard Carter Airbourne Inscription: writing with drones http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.69

Music

Julie Watkins Creating Affective Visual Music http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.70

Terry Trickett Architecture as Music, A personal journey, through time and space http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.71

Oliver Gingrich, Evgenia Emets, Alain Renaud & Stephen Stansfeld KIMA: Noise: A visual sound installation on urban noise http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.72

Research in Education

Nick Lambert & Brigitta Zics Ravensbourne University London: MA and MSc Courses http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.73

Tobias Revell University of the Arts London, London College of Communication. MA Interaction Design Communication http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.74

Theodoros Papatheodorou Goldsmiths, University of London, MA/MFA in Computational Arts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.75

Jonathan Gander, Andrew Haslam & Julian Rodriguez Kingston Schools of Art: Departments of Graphic Design, Illustration Animation, Film & Photography and Cultural Industries http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.76

Eleanor Dare & Libby Heaney Royal College of Art, MA Digital Direction, MA Information Experience Design http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.77

Ian Willcock University of Hertfordshire, Postraduate Media, School of Creative Arts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.78

Damon Daylamani-Zad & Darrenlloyd Gent University of Greenwich, BSc (Hons) Games Design and Development http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.79

Lizzie Jackson London South Bank University, School of Arts and Creative Industries http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.80