Cybiotic Art: Designing feedback between humans, computers, and other creatures
Animals have often played direct roles in artistic works. The advent of inexpensive, interactive technology, however, has opened up new ways to engage with non-human beings. This lecture will cover many ways that artists, technologists, and designers have been creating art that incorporates, or even collaborates with non-human participants.
Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer is a hacker / adventurer studying intersections between wild animals and computational devices. His academic research in “Digital Naturalism” as a professor at the National University of Singapore blends biological fieldwork and DIY digital crafting. This work has taken him through international wildernesses where he’s run workshops with diverse groups of scientists, artists, designers, and engineers. He runs “Hiking Hacks” around the world where participants build technology entirely in the wild for interacting with nature. His research also inspired a spinoff television series he hosted for Discovery Networks called “Hacking the Wild.” His latest endeavor is a two-month, free conference for “Digital Naturalists” from around the world to live and work together in nature: www.dinacon.org.