New Media Art as a Vehicle for Research and Innovation

New media artists have the capability of driving forward innovation on major issues of the day. ‘Exceedingly complex’ systems (eg. the brain) provide examples of how the inevitable pitfalls and breakthroughs that occur in processes of discovery are of direct concern to new media artists as well as to the scientists, engineers, sociologists and technologists that may be involved. This paper reveals that, in this digital age, the creative processes of art and science are similar to the point of being virtually synonymous. It’s this fact that underpins how, through the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS (Science + Technology + Arts) initiative and opportunities offered by the Commission’s programmes of research and innovation, new media artists can both generate and develop, in cooperation with their scientific and technological counterparts, transformational projects concerned in the exceedingly complex issue of climate change.

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Terry Trickett

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.41

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2021

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Conference date: 5th July – 9th July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] I. Aleksander (2000) How to Build a Mind. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London.

[2] E. Ashford-Lee (2020) The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[3] S. Beer (1959) Cybernetics and Management. English Universities Press, London.

[4] P. J. Bowen, T. Trickett, B. A. Green, and A. Lomas (2018) Turing’s Genius: Defining an apt microcosm. In: J.P. Bowen, J. Weinel, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds), EVA London 2018 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts), London, 9–13 July 2018, pp.155–162 BCS, London. [Cross Ref]

[5] European Green Deal (2019). Online: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/european-green-deal-communication_en.pdf (retrieved March 2021).

[6] Y. Frégnac (2017) Big data and the industrialization of neuroscience: A safe roadmap for understanding the brain? Science 358(6362), pp.470-477. [Cross Ref]

[7] B. Gates (2021) How To Avoid a Climate Disaster. Allen Lane, part of Penguin Random House UK.

[8] S. Kauffman (1995) At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity. Penguin Books, London.

[9] J. W. Lichtman, H. W. Pfister, and N. Shavit (2014) The big data challenges of connectomics. Nat Neurosci 2014 Nov.17(11), pp.1448-1454. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4412267/ (retrieved February 2021).

[10] V. Nabokov (2000) Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings, R. M. Pile and B. Boyd, eds. Beacon Press, Boston, MA.

[11] M. W. Reimann, M. Nolte, M. Scolamiero, K. Turner, R. Perin, G. Chindemi, P. Dłotko, R. Levi, K. Hess, and H. Markram (2017) Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 11:48. [Cross Ref]

[12] A. Sizemore, C. Giusti, A. Kahn, J. Vittel, R. Betzel, D. Bassett (2018) Cliques and cavities in the human connectome. J. Comput. Neursci. 44, pp. 115-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-017-0672-6 (retrieved March 2021)

[13] O. Sporns, (2001) Networks of the Brain. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[14] STARTS collaboration toolkit (2020). Online: https://www.starts.eu/media/uploads/starts-toolkit-13july2020.pdf (retrieved March 2021).

[15] G. Steiner (2001) Grammars of Creation. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

[16] C Tofano. (2019) Digital artist Oliver Gingrich talks to Carla Tofano in Metralla Rosa Ep 03. [Youtube video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGSepKJUbw&vl=en (retrieved February 2021).

[17] T. Trickett (1992) Design at Work. Facilities, 10(2), pp 9-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002176 (retrieved March 2021).

[18] T. Trickett (2015) The Legacy of Sci-Art. Online: https://sites.google.com/site/researchthelegacyofsciart/h ome (retrieved February 2021).

[19] T. Trickett (2016) Turingalila: Visual Music on the Theme of Morphogenesis [Youtube video]. https://youtu.be/M4kI8WMaov8 (retrieved February 2021).

[20] T. Trickett (2018) An astonishingly intricate architecture: Visual Music of the Brain and Mind. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 16(1), pp. 5-22. [Cross Ref]

[21] T. Trickett (2019) A Cybernetic Clarion Call to the Arts’ Community. In: J. Weinel, J.P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds), EVA London 2019 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts), London, UK, 9–11 July 2019, pp.368–375. BCS, London. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.69 (retrieved March 2021).

[22] T. Trickett (2021a) Brainwaves [Youtube video]. https://youtu.be/wYxzimKghko (retrieved March 2021).

[23] T. Trickett (2021b) The Making of Sci-Art. Leonardo, 54(4), June 2021.

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