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      An Ecology for the Re-Enchantment of Life

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      Proceedings of EVA London 2021 (EVA 2021)
      AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
      5th July – 9th July 2021
      Mixed reality, Visual media, Depth perception, Pattern recognition
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            60 years ago, Aldous Huxley stated that "Technology was made for men and not men for technology’ but unfortunately, the development of recent social and scientific history has created a world in which man seems to be made for technology rather than the other way around. We have to start thinking about this problem very seriously to see how we can re-establish control over our own inventions." Our current relationship with technology is destroying our cognitive sovereignty. Huxley’s Dystopian novel Brave New World seems more applicable and relevant now than ever before. Today, technology is making it possible to enslave us en masse, whilst we perceive ourselves to be free. We are now suffering from such a poverty of vision, in every sense, as we are endlessly distracted by technologies that effectively ‘turn off’ our depth perception, pattern recognition and long form, critical thinking.

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            July 2021
            July 2021
            : 261-265
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            Ravensbourne University London

            Greenwich, London, UK
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            10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.44
            000ea281-5028-4950-a83f-b5ba55cad437
            © Smith. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2021, UK

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            Proceedings of EVA London 2021
            EVA 2021
            London
            5th July – 9th July 2021
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Depth perception,Visual media,Mixed reality,Pattern recognition

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