Category: InvitedTalks

We live in an interesting time. Although we don’t know exactly what the future will be like, transformational change is a certainty. There are several noticeable trends: one is the change of the computing paradigm from reactive to proactive. All major companies are working on this paradigm shift, investing heavily in AI and machine learning. This will redefine the role and responsibility of our personal devices and dramatically change our lifestyles over the next few years.

The combination of art and technology may bring new breakthroughs in HCI research. Based on the research practice and creative work at Tsinghua University, the speaker will share his experience in combining art and technology for HCI. Two case studies, Mulan and Mojia, will be presented to introduce the concept of dynamic embroidery art and Chinese style robotic band.

In this talk, the speaker will reveal the secrets behind the Hollywood blockbusters movies. In the end, the speaker will demonstrate how art is heavily connected to cutting-edge technologies and how mathematical science evolves from rocket projects to our visual entertaining industry, as an “odyssey of computing science and engineering”.

In an everyday language we use several metaphors for the Internet that assume an immateriality of the technical surrounding. Clouds, flows or (cyber)space implicitly hide a physical infrastructure and shape our imagination. Over the last years the speaker developed different art projects, that address the physical side of those global electronic networks.