Acknowledgements
EVA London 2019 gratefully acknowledges:
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for hosting EVA London 2019 at its central London office, and BCS Computer Arts Society (CAS) Specialist Group for providing bursaries. Special thanks go to Kerry Wear and Sallyann Cossey at the BCS, for help with budgeting, registration, and venue and speaker arrangements, as well as Becky Youe and Florence Leroy 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.
Royal College of Art, for providing the venue of Event Two.
Thank you to staff at the BCS London office for help with IT and other support.
Thanks to all the speakers and participants for making the EVA London conference a continuing success.
Preface
The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2019 Conference (EVA London 2019) is co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, of which the CAS is a Specialist Group. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Event One, an early digital art exhibition held at the Royal College of Art in 1969.
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, museums, music, philosophy, politics, publishing, social media, and virtual reality, as well as other related interdisciplinary areas.
The EVA London 2019 Conference presents a wide spectrum of papers, presentations, demonstrations, a Research Workshop and a special halfday event for the fourth year, the EVA London Symposium on 8 July 2019, with three invited speakers.
This year, Event Two, an exhibition of digital art, is being held in association with the EVA London 2019 Conference at the Royal College of Art, with CAS, FLUX group, and Lumen Prize involvement, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Event One, held at the same venue in 1969. The conference also includes a launch of the book Museums and Digital Culture (partly inspired by EVA London) and a special China session with a cultural evening event, organised by Sean Clark.
A feature of EVA London 2019, started last year, is a Research in Education Day on 12 July 2019, immediately after the main conference, bringing together students and associated staff from 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, this year on the afternoon of the first day, 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 again liaising with FLUX, a London-based artists group.
EVA London 2019 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 9–11 July 2019.
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 numbers in 2017 and 2018, 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, 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. In particular, EVA Paris restarted in 2018 and continues in 2019. Further venues for EVA conferences are very much encouraged by the EVA community.
Committee
EVA London 2019 Conference Chair: Graham Diprose
BCS CAS Chair: Nick Lambert
EVA London 2019 Programme Co-Chairs: Jon Weinel
Jonathan P. Bowen
Graham Diprose
Nick Lambert
EVA London 2019 Symposium Co-Chairs: Tula Giannini
Jonathan P. Bowen
EVA London 2019 Research Workshop Chair: Graham Diprose
EVA London 2019 China Evening Chair: Sean Clark
EVA London 2019 Education Day Chair: Graham Diprose
EVA London 2019 Publicity: Sarah McDaid
EVA London 2019 Bursaries: Graham Diprose
EVA London 2019 Website: Jonathan P. Bowen
EVA London 2019 Technical Support: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Event Two Local Organiser: Gareth Polmeer
EVA London Honorary Chair: James Hemsley
EVA London Honorary Committee Member: George Mallen
EVA London 2019 Organising Committee:
Jonathan P. Bowen London South Bank University
Sean Clark Interact Digital Arts
Graham Diprose Independent
Tula Giannini Pratt Institute, New York
Francesca Guerrera Independent
Christina Hemsley Independent
James Hemsley Birkbeck College
Lizzie Jackson London South Bank University
Nick Lambert Ravensbourne University London
Sarah McDaid London South Bank University
Gareth Polmeer Royal College of Art
Aphra Shemza FLUX
Carl Smith Ravensbourne University London
Terry Trickett Trickett Associates
Jon Weinel Coventry University
List of Reviewers
The people listed below reviewed submissions for the EVA London 2019 Conference and the Organising Committee is very grateful for their voluntary help in the selection process.
EVA London 2019 Programme Committee:
Otniel Altamirano Francesca Guerrera Ross Parry
Doron Altaratz Oana Gui Mike Phillips
Guy Armitage Kelly Hamilton Jeremy Pilcher
Xavier Aure Bonnie Han Liviu Pop
Isabel Bernal Susan Hazan Cristina Portugal
Batuhan Bintas Christina Hemsley Sabrina Recoules Quang
Stefania Boiano John Hillman Elke Reinhuber
Christin Bolewski Richard Hoadley Alain Renaud
Ann Borda Beverley Hood Esther Rolinson
Jonathan P. Bowen J. Kirk Irwin Vasileios Routsis
Beatrice Bretherton Sarah Janes Chris Rowland
Bushra Burge Liam Jefferies Mechthild Schmidt Feist
Daniel Buzzo Christina Kamposiori Benjamin Seide
Moshe Caine Jonathan Kearney Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo
Kristin Carlson Maureen Kendal Aphra Shemza
Elisavet Christou Sara Khan Anna Shvets
Sean Clark Jinhee Kim Rita Silva
Richard Collmann Eugenia Kim James Simpson
Ed Cookson Rameshnath Krishnasamy Carl Smith
Greg Corness Volker Kuchelmeister Derek Smith
Stuart Cunningham Teodora Kuzmanova Lydia Smolin
Antonio D’Amato Nick Lambert Agata Marta Soccini
Laura Dekker Michael Lesk Dario Srbic
Florent Di Bartolo Robert Lisek Bertrand Triboulot
J C Diaz Ziva Ljubec Terry Trickett
Rod Dickinson Andy Lomas Francesca Uccheddu
Graham Diprose Maria Luce Lupetti David Upton
Alan Dunning Lindsay MacDonald Foteini Valeonti
Eva Emenlauer-Bloemers Jon Malis Athanasios Velios
Raffaella Folgieri Sarah McDaid Bruce Wands
Francesca Franco Matthew McGinity Jon Weinel
Giuliano Gaia Murray McKeich Ross Williams
Philip Galanter Rebecca Norris Chris A. Wright
Joanna Gancarczyk Irida Ntalla Özge Nilay Yalçın
Carla Gannis Teresa Numerico Frauke Zeller
Tula Giannini Paul O’Dowd Jing Zhou
David Gibson Anna Olszewska Rehan Zia
Oliver Gingrich Shing-Tai Pan Tobias Ziegler
Eunice Gonçalves Duarte Juhee Park
Papers:
Symposium
Jonathan P Bowen, Tula Giannini, Rachel Ara, Andy Lomas & Judith Siefring Digital Art, Culture and Heritage: New constructs and consciousness http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.1
Renato Saleri Digital Generative Tools for Restitution and Mediation for Cultural Heritage http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.2
Stefania Boiano, Ann Borda & Guiliano Gaia Participatory Innovation and Prototyping in the Cultural Sector: A case study http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.3
Tula Giannini & Jonathan P Bowen Art and Activism at Museums in a Post-digital World http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.4
Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja Narrative Interfaces: Temporality and spatiality in art museums’ online resources http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.5
Visual Patterns
Esther Rolinson & Sean Clark Sensory Drawing Data http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.6
Naomi Dines & Dom Biddulph Creative Reverse Engineering: From remote sensuality to haptic metrology http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.7
Ashley St Aubin Climate Change: Outcomes of being bystanders in a global windstorm http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.8
Research Workshop
Emma Dutton Feeling Textures http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.9
Leticia Crespillo Marí 3D Modelling and Virtual Reality as a Cataloguing Alternative of Light Environments and their Application in Museums http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.10
Kazimir Bielecki & Lennie Varvarides What is the Neurodivergent Aesthetic? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.11
Chrissy Pretious-Cooney Experimenting with the Physicality of Digital Materiality http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.12
Lydia Smolin Re-imagining the Familiar: Data visualisation in environmental art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.13
Han Bao ‘Rice Bunnies’ – #MeToo in China: A hashtag movement and women’s empowerment through social media http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.14
Blair Zaye Awe, Wonderment and the Ominous: The crossroad of art, science, technology and the spiritual http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.15
Enhancing the Past
Graham Diprose & Amalia Toyas A 21st Century ‘Victorian’ Family Album http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.16
Sean Clark The CAS50 Exhibition and Collection http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.17
Robotic Drawing
Paris Xyntarianos-Tsiropinas, Konstantinos Bailas & Thomas Spyrou Photon Painter: A robotic device that transfers drawings onto a large surface area using laser beam on photomechanical reaction materials http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.18
Paul O’Dowd A Robot That Draws and Shades with Tactile Force Feedback Sensed Through a Pencil http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.19
Verity Winslow, Paul O’Dowd, Ian Chamberlain & Carinna Parraman Robotic Etching: The creation of digital etching using robotics http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.20
Jack Tait Near Chaos in Graphic Drawings from Analogue Machines http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.21
Art and New Technology
Philip Galanter Artificial Intelligence and Problems in Generative Art Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.22
Laura Dekker Emergence in the Expressive Machine http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.23
Diverse Approaches
Chris A Wright Listening to the Urban http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.24
Zach Buckley Tackling the Issue of Student Debt Through Data Sonification and Musical Scores http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.25
Karen Bosy & Cristina Portugal Multiple Means of Expression Made Available by Digital Media http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.26
New Art Interfaces
Clare Harding, Susan Liggett, Adrian Gradinar & Mark Lochrie What Do Audiences Want from a Public Art Gallery in the Digital Age? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.27
Ian Truelove This is Not a Pixel: Building trust in digital art through the blockchain http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.28
Terence Quinn Making the Absent Object Present: Towards a holographic museum of modern art (hMoMA) http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.29
Lila Moore Tombs and Reels of Consciousness: The aesthetics that interlink ancient ritualistic artefacts and digital, augmented and virtual reality http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.30
Museums and Collections
Sarah Janes The Descent of Inanna: The technology of myth http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.31
Rameshnath Krishnasamy Towards Game-Guided Exploration Systems for Self-Facilitated Exhibitions http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.32
Event Two Preview
Aphra Shemza, Maria Almena & Oliver Gingrich Art in Flux at Event Two http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.33
Reading the Past, Present and Future
Lindsay MacDonald, Taylor Bennett, Christopher Ramsey & Charles Crowther New RTI Technology for Palæography http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.34
Oliver Mag Gingrich, Urszula Tymoszuk, Evgenia Emets, Alain Renaud & David Negrao KIMA – The Voice: Participatory art as means for social connectedness http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.35
Augmented Artworks
Chris Strasbaugh How We Harnessed the Potential of UAV Imagery in the Classroom through VR and Other Technologies http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.37
Christian Tilt, Stephanie Moran & Alexander Hogan Visual Democratisation: AR and the Underpass Festival http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.38
Joseph Robson & Felix Dodd Augmenting the Power of Artwork Through a Virtual Reality Partnered Piece http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.39
Johanna Leissner, Martin Papirowski, Ralf Schäfer, Oliver Schreer & Christian Weißig Virtual Heritage Expo: Joint presentation of research work and historic artefacts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.40
Extended Reality
Carl H Smith & Jay F Cousins XR for XR – Context Craft: An extended reality platform that transforms local environments through play http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.41
Kenneth Feinstein Being-with Media: Encountering the moving image in physical space http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.42
Verda Munir, Euan Dempster & David Lyons Innovative Strategies for 3D Visualisation Using Photogrammetry and 3D Scanning for Mobile Phones http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.43
Robert Pepperell, Alistair Burleigh, Nicole Ruta & Tony Langford FOVO: A flexible real-time computer graphics rendering process http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.44
Wearables and Interactivity
Roz McNulty Future Applications of Digital Clothing for Historical Costume: The past, present and future of fashion http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.45
Kyungho Lee Developing Empathy for People with Bipolar Disorder Through Interactive Performance http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.46
Jack Nissan, Luci Holland & Yann Seznec Room to Play: Tinderbox Collective http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.47
Chinese Connections
Eugenia S Kim Ghost in the Virtual Reality: Translating the human essence with motion captured dance http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.48
Eugenia S Kim & Feixuan Xu Bringing the Tangible into the Virtual: Preserving human-silkworm collaboration http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.49
Yisi Xue, Yarong Deng & Junming Liang A Interactive Display Form for Chinese Ink and Wash Painting Using Optical Laser Technique http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.50
Ting Liang & Xiaoying Tang YUE Virtual Park: Multi-sensory experience creative cultural products based on AR technology http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.51
Huan Fan The New “Theatricality” in Performance and Media Arts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.52
Sean Clark, Yi Ji, Xiaoying Tang & Hai Fang East Meets West: UK/China creative collaborations http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.53
Remote Access
Maureen Kendal, Mehmet Mulla & Elaine Thomazi-Freitas How Artists Can Develop Their Artwork, Its Market and Deliver Their Creative Content for Virtual Reality Environments? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.54
Luca M Damiani Hyperacusis Hacks: Media design ethnographic processing http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.55
Jeremy Pilcher Art, Law and Unstable Corporate Identities http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.56
Sound and Visualisation
Jonathan Weinel Virtual Hallucinations: Projects in VJing, virtual reality and cyberculture http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.57
Julie Watkins Interactive Visual Music http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.58
Stuart Faromarz Batchelor A Framework for Future Paintings http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.59
Anna Shvets Structural Harmony Method in the Context of Deep Learning on Example of Music by Valentyn Sylvestrov and Philipp Glass http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.60
Danae lo Can Her Voice Crack? I am not sure I understand http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.61
Rehan Zia Visualisation for Digital Multi-Shot Photography http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.62
Stuart Cunningham Communicating Auditory Impairments Using Electroacoustic Composition http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.63
Keynote
Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Sound and the Feeling of Presence http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.64
Thinking Data
James Simpson Physical to Digital to Physical: Capturing human performances for multi-disciplinary theatre visualisation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.65
Batuhan Bintaş Øresund Space Collective – Kybalion: A cyber-dimensional way to experience music http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.66
Christopher E G Moore The Use of Human Brain Activity (Electroencephalogram) in the Making of Art http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.67
Patterns in Music
David Schwarz, Stuart Cunningham & Rebecca Woodford-Smith Towards a New Paradigm for Intuitive Theatrical Lighting Control http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.68
Terry Trickett A Cybernetic Clarion Call to the Arts’ Community http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.69
The Physicality of Data
Andrei Budescu, Diana Dragan-Chirila, Oana Gui, Corneliu Dascălu, Miklos Uszkai & Mihai Simu Poetry Based 3D Printed Sculpture http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.70
Megan L Smith & John Desnoyers-Stewart Riding Through Walls: A journey of physical computing through Google Street View http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.71
Bushra Burge Creation of an Integrated Multisensory Wearable Story: Costume embedded haptics-VR using a considered eco-ethical design approach http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.72
Experiential Data Perception
Tony Langford Return to Nature: How media art heals? http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.73
Claude Heiland-Allen At the Helm of the Burning Ship http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.74
Hans-Peter Gasselseder & Maria Kallionpää Beyond the Audience Seat: The recording and production of immersive opera and interactive concerto programmes for VR experiences http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.75
Research in Education
Yi Ji Guangdong University of Technology, Graduate Education System http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.76
John Fass, Nicolas Marechal & Henrietta Ross University of the Arts London, London College of Communication http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.77