Join us on the evening of Wednesday 20th of November for this unique opportunity to hear more about An Obscure Camera and get a sneak preview and experience of the installation.
Event Details
This event will feature an Artist Talk and Audience Q&A followed by a preview of the installation. Join the artist to experience the installation and physically enact the choices made by ubiquitous AI algorithms that observe, scrutinise, and categorise our every move.
Date: Wed 20 Nov 2024
Time: 17:00 – 19:00 | Free/Ticketed
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Speaker
Nic Sandiland is a UK based artist working across installation, performance, and film. Through his work, Nic seeks to re-enliven the body, revisiting and revaluing the viewer’s actions through their innate physical presence. To do this, his work has drawn on cinematic techniques such as slow motion and moving camera mechanisms and, more recently, machine vision, LiDAR, and robotics. Nic has made work in London, Europe and Southeast Asia and has presented at theatres, art galleries, and many unusual venues. His film work has been shown worldwide and has been broadcast on UK TV (Channel 4).
Event Host
Theodore Koterwas is an artist, designer and musician seeking to draw critical attention to aspects of daily experience that go unnoticed but profoundly impact on how we understand each other, technology and the environment. His multidisciplinary practice produces art installations, performances, museum exhibitions, and software applications for public engagement, creative collaboration, and teaching and learning. Currently he is focused on physical interactions with artificial intelligence, utilising haptics, computer vision, deep reinforcement learning, and natural language processing to investigate the impact of embodied engagement on how we perceive, collaborate and empathise with ‘others’, both human and artificial.
Running Order
17.00 – Welcome by Theodore Koterwas
17.05 – Talk by Nic Sandiland
17.35 – Q&A
18.00 – End
18.00 – 19.00 – Preview + Reception
In-person: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Please note limited seats are available at Inspace for in-person audiences, so please book tickets in advance.
For inquiries about accessibility, please contact the DI team at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk or visit the Access webpage for more venue information: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/venue-access/
An Obscure Camera Exhibition Details
Date: Fri – Thurs | 20-28 Nov 2024 (closed Tues/Thurs)
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 | Free/Drop-In
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
