National Academies of Sciences Cultural Programs Exhibition (Washington DC)
Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared vision between art & technology
Curator
Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared vision between art & technology
Curator
Excerpt from catalogue essay: When Practices Converge and Transform
The Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared visions between art and technology exhibition presents a confluence of multidisciplinary research and creative practices that involve the visual arts, design, architecture, performance, science, technology and engineering. The exhibited works focus on computer mediated experiences, technology development, aesthetic practices and cultural criticality that celebrate imaginary scenarios and real-time phenomenon from the outer space to cyberspace, collective space to urban space, public space to embodied space, and ecological space to dialogical space. The exhibited works demonstrate innovative, novel, sometimes provocative and other times promising models for research. The exhibition is part of the program for the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference held in Washington D.C. June 13 – 15th, 2007. The conference themes cultivating creative minds, sustaining creative communities and promoting creative engagement, describe the landscape by which the creative digital media works in the exhibition have been realized. Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary presents an opportunity to re-open and continue a dialogue between “communities of practice” in fields of creative production and technology research.
The Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared visions between art and technology exhibition presents a confluence of multidisciplinary research and creative practices that involve the visual arts, design, architecture, performance, science, technology and engineering. The exhibited works focus on computer mediated experiences, technology development, aesthetic practices and cultural criticality that celebrate imaginary scenarios and real-time phenomenon from the outer space to cyberspace, collective space to urban space, public space to embodied space, and ecological space to dialogical space. The exhibited works demonstrate innovative, novel, sometimes provocative and other times promising models for research. The exhibition is part of the program for the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference held in Washington D.C. June 13 – 15th, 2007. The conference themes cultivating creative minds, sustaining creative communities and promoting creative engagement, describe the landscape by which the creative digital media works in the exhibition have been realized. Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary presents an opportunity to re-open and continue a dialogue between “communities of practice” in fields of creative production and technology research.
Exhibition Catalog