The London School of Film, Media and Design, University of West London
Thinking the Image Research Group presents: Dr Hector Rodriguez, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Hector Rodriguez will give a talk on Thursday May 25th at 4 pm in room BY.01.017 (see an outline of his talk and further details about the speaker below).
ALL are welcome. To reserve a place, please contact Dr. Junko Theresa Mikuriya at [log in to unmask]
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University of West London,
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Computation, concept-formation, and the cinematic
Contemporary culture is characterized by the widespread applications of methods, concepts, and theorems from mathematical research, for instance in the fields of bio-informatics, economics, and computer vision. This presentation investigates the possibilities that mathematical algorithms open up for cinema studies and experimental moving image art. It considers the cinematic phenomenon from a broad perspective that integrates scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical concepts and methods.
This approach demands wide interdisciplinarity, the radical reconfiguration of existing artistic production and research practices through the transfer of knowledge across diverse academic disciplines. More specifically, the introduction of algorithms into cinema studies, as well as experimental moving image art production, has the potential substantially to transform both of those practices.
This idea will be presented in the context of two ongoing art and research projects. The first project revolves around the concept of an “entropic envelope”, a mathematical description of the changing amount of relative visual information in cinematic sequences. This project integrates the philosophical idea of a temporal object, borrowed from the phenomenology of Husserl and Stiegler, with formal techniques derived from mathematical information theory.
The second project investigates artistic and theoretical applications of the mathematical theory of approximation. More specifically, it consists of a series of works that involve the decomposition and reconstruction of audiovisual material. The key idea in these projects is the formation, through the application of computational techniques, of visual dictionaries for the representation of image, sound, and motion in the cinema.
The common ground of these two projects consists in the following idea: that the eruption of computational technologies in cinema studies and experimental video has the potential to offer a new vehicle for the formation of new concepts and new frameworks of knowledge representation.
Dr. Hector Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Creative Media at the City University of Hong, is an award-winning media artist and theoretician. His digital animation Res Extensa received the 2003 award for best work in digital moving images at the Hong Kong Art Biennial. His video installation Gestus: Judex (2012-2013) received a Jury Selection award at the Japan Media Art Festival and an Achievement Award (highest honor) at the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards. This work has been shown in many international venues, including the 15th WRO Media Art Biennial in Wroclaw, Poland; the Friedericianum Museum (Kasseler Kunstverein) in Kassel, Germany; the Art and Science Innovation exhibition in the Tenerife Espacio Arte (TEA), Spain; the International Festival of Digital Art and New Media in Athens, Greece; the Taipei Digital Art Center, in Taiwan; the Bronx Art Space in New York city; and Siggraph Asia 2012 in Singapore, among other venues. His digital prints have been shown at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The first version of Theorem 8, the work that inspired this talk, was made while Rodriguez was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2013 and has been subsequently shown at: the 16th WRO Media Art Biennial in Poland; the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin, Germany; the Pearl Connard Gallery at Ohio State University, 2015; and the Gwacheon National Science Musem in Seoul, Korea during the 2014 Bridges Art and Mathematics Conference. He has written about ludology, game studies, art and science, experimental cinema, Hong Kong film history, and the philosophy of cinema. Rodriguez teaches courses on generative art, interdisciplinary practice, and art and science.
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