Program
Registration/entrance is free, and the public is invited
Program Schedule
October 15, 2019
- Maria Mannone
- Antonio Camurri
- Marc Leman
- Felipe Cucker
- Luc Steels
| 14:00-14:30 | Welcome Address Michele Bugliesi (Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Symposium Organizers |
| 14:30-15:10 | Maria Mannone (University of Palermo) Natural Roots and Mathematical Abstraction: Algorithms and Beauty in Music |
| 15:10-15:50 | Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa) Multi-Timescale Sensitive Movement Technologies |
| 15:50-16:30 | Marc Leman (Ghent University) Integrative research in art and science |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00-17:40 | Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong)& Hector Rodriguez (City University of Hong Kong) Approximation theory and visual representation |
| 17:40-18:20 | Luc Steels (ICREA, Barcelona) How can AI engage with the art of painting? |
October 16, 2019
- Catherine Hug
- Pedro Gadanho
- Philippe Van Cauteren
- Raluca Nestor
- Avital Bar-shay
- Belu-Simion Fainaru, Alex Nicolau, Alex Veidenbaum
| 09:00-09:30 | Welcoming Remarks |
| 09:30-10:00 | Catherine Hug (Art historian and curator Kunsthaus Zurich) The artist’s handwriting in the age of digital bricolage. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Pedro Gadanho Art and Technology’s Critical Views (Architect, former curator at MoMA, former director of the Museum Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, loeb Fellow at Harvard University) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:00 | Philippe Van Cauteren (Artistic director S.M.A.K, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent) From the eye to the hand and back. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Raluca Nestor Oancea (New Media Researcher, The National University of arts Bucharest) Belu-Simion Fainaru:The confines of art and technology at the Venice Biennale |
| 12:30-13:00 | Avital Bar-shay (Cultural initiator, Artist, architect and director of the Mediterranean Biennale) Art on the move-The Mediterranean Biennale as a place for change |
| 13:00-14:15 | Break – The activities in the afternoon will resume at Giardini, Venice Biennale, the Romanian Pavilion |
| 15:00-16:15 | Belu-Simion Fainaru (Participating artist at the Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale) Alex Nicolau (Chair of the Department of Computer Science, UCI) , Alex Veidenbaum (Professor of Computer Science, UCI) The art installation “Belongs nowhere and to another time” (Giardini, Venice Biennale, the Romanian Pavilion) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Exhibition visit second part of the Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale The Romanian Culture Institute, Palazzo Correr Cannaregio, 2214 The installation “Belongs nowhere and to another time”, Belu-Simion Fainaru |
| 17:30-18:00 | Eitan Machter (The NB Haifa School of Design) Global Capitalism and the commercialization of art in the digital era. The Romanian Culture Institute, Palazzo Correr Cannaregio, 2214 |
| 18:00-18:20 | Closing remarks and farewell |