What can we learn from non-human worlds around us?
How can these insights guide our creative practices with emerging technologies?
Join Kate Geck and Dr Alan Nguyen in an exploration of the connection between art, technology, and the natural world. This fascinating discussion will also consider generative AI’s impact across art, design, media and performance, and examine how speculative design can open conversations about our emerging futures.
Artist Kate Geck’s work explores the connections between humans and technology, exploring ways to materialise the seemingly immaterial nature of the digital. Invoking the language of the Internet, her aesthetic critiques a hyper-mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies.
Dr Alan Nguyen is an international-award-winning artist, designer and transdisciplinary researcher. He writes for TV and streaming (Disney+, Apple TV, NBCU, ABC, SBS), live performance (Melbourne Theatre Company, Arts House) and works with new and emerging technologies (Australia Council for the Arts, EyeJack).
WHEN: Wed 4 December 2024, 6.00 – 7.30pm
WHERE: ACMI, FedSquare Melbourne – The Gandel Future Lab 1. at ACMI
Presented in partnership with ACMI X.
Speakers
Kate Geck
Kate Geck is a digital artist working with textiles, animation, machine learning, augmented reality and the internet.
Kate GeckWurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Country
Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
Kate Geck is a digital artist working with textiles, animation, machine learning, augmented reality and the internet.
Her practice tends to the connections between humans and technology, exploring ways to materialise the digital. Invoking the language of the Internet, her aesthetic critiques a hyper mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies. Her recent work explores what she calls a ‘textillic’ approach to creative practice with machine learning. This uses textile language and practices to examine how interconnection, materiality and shared agency might become foregrounded in exchanges between human and machine intelligences.
She has exhibited in Australia and abroad including major commissions and funding from a range of organisations. She is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Interior Design at RMIT University, where she co-directs the Wearable + Sensing Network.
Kate lives on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land in Narrm Australia.
Dr Alan Nguyen
Dr Alan Nguyen is an international-award-winning artist, designer and transdisciplinary researcher.
Dr Alan NguyenNaarm/Melbourne, VIC
Dr Alan Nguyen is an international-award-winning filmmaker, artist and designer. He writes for TV (Disney+, Apple TV, NBCU, SBS, ABC), live performance (Melbourne Theatre Company, Arts House) and works with new and emerging technologies (EyeJack, National Museums Liverpool).
Alan is passionate about interdisciplinary projects and the use of storytelling and new technologies to promote well-being, education and social connection.
Alan is a Lecturer in Media for the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University and is a member of the Care-full Design Lab.