PhD-Colloquium, Special Focus: Tangible Music Lab

9. April 2019, ab 13.00 Uhr splace am Hauptplatz, Hauptplatz 6, 4020 Linz

We cordially invite you to the PhD-Colloquium in the summer term 2019!

The PhD-Colloquium takes place once per term and represents an angle point of the PhD-Program at the art university Linz. It allows to get to know and regularly meet the doctoral candidates and to discuss ongoing PhD projects. It is hence expected that all PhD-candidates of the art university Linz show their interest and take part in the event!

In the summer term 2019, the PhD-Colloquium has a special focus on the newly founded department Tangible Music Lab, headed by Martin Kaltenbrunner:

1.00 pm to 1.15 pm
Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenbrunner: “Introduction to the Tangible Music Lab”

The Tangible Music Lab is an artistic research group within the Institute of Media Studies at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. Led by Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenbrunner, the team experimentally explores the physical aspects of musical human machine interaction. We primarily but not exclusively develop novel musical interfaces with a focus on tangible interaction design, which are generally evaluated in direct artistic practice. Most of our instrument hardware and software components are made available as Open Source software and Open Design tools, in order to contribute to the further development in these research fields.

Following the introduction, Barbara Lüneburg and Sergi Jordà will exemplify in their talks, how artistic research can be done:

1.15 pm to 2.00 pm
Talk by Prof. Dr. Barbara Lüneburg: “TransCoding –  From ‘Highbrow Art’ to Participatory Culture“

The artistic research project “TransCoding –  From ‘Highbrow Art’ to Participatory Culture”, funded by the FWF (PEEK, 2014-17), engaged with the topic of participatory culture. My team and I encouraged participation in the making of several multimedia artworks by offering participatory culture via web 2.0 and actively involving an online audience in the creative process. In TransCoding, artistic research went beyond the investigation of the artistic process, and expanded into new contexts. By offering participatory culture via web 2.0 as part of our arts project, my team and I invited contributors to speak out, to share a discourse about and exert influence on two major arts projects. We employed principles of participatory culture in the communication and creative process, thus redefining the (commonly hierarchic) relationship between artist and community as one of permeability and mutual influence. We applied findings and theories from media sociology and cultural science to an artistic process; we investigated their applicability and meaning in the arts, and their impact on the resulting artworks itself, on the community we had gathered, and on the role of the artist. In the talk I will talk about how granting creative influence to our community altered traditional (power) models of artist-audience relation and debate whether the interaction consequently adds meaning to both.
www.transcoding.info

Biography:
Barbara Lüneburg is a performing artist of international reputation in the fields of contemporary music, violin, viola, electric violin and multimedia. Lüneburg's arts-based research focuses on instrumental performance practice and performance studies, with an emphasis on collaboration, creativity, the relationship between performer and audience, charisma, participatory and game-based audiovisual art, and artistic research. From 2014 to 2018 she was director and lead artist of the artistic research project “TransCoding – From ‘Highbrow Art’ to Participatory Culture”. Lüneburg holds a professorship for artistic research at the Anton Bruckner Private University and leads the university’s doctoral programmes. www.barbara-lueneburg.com

2.00 pm to 2.45 pm
Talk by Prof. Dr. Sergi Jordà: “Art, Science, Research, Technology, Creativity ... A Personal Slalom”

For most of my live I have tried to combine scientific-technical research with artistic-creative approaches. Art and science are indeed two conventions that have mutated much along history, but that still seem to rely on very different models. And yet, it is nowadays very trendy, so trendy that it has in fact become commonplace for many creators to state that they like to "work between them”, "crossing their boundaries”, etc... What do artists claim with this type of statements? Do they tend to mean the same? Do they only know what they mean? What is art? What is science? What is research? Do all these terms have similar meanings for everyone? I will try to debate some of these questions, based on my own practice and experience.

Biography:
Sergi Jordà holds a B.S. in Fundamental Physics and a PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communication. He is a researcher in music technology, Associate Professor and head of the Department of Communication and Information Technologies of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Throughout the 1990s, he worked as a media artist and freelance programmer, conceiving and developing award winning interactive installations and multimedia performances. His main research interests are in the confluence of HCI, tangible, musical and physiological interaction, and he is specially interested in the applications of Machine Learning for music creation. He has authored more than 100 publications and has received many international awards, including the prestigious Ars Electronica's Golden Nica (2008).  

2.45 pm to 3.00 pm: break

In the second half of the conference, the PhD-candidates of the Tangible Music Lab will talk about their respective PhD-projects, showing at the same time the array of artistic research being done within the Tangible Music Lab:

3.00 pm to 3.30 pm:
Sabina Hyoju Ahn: Multi-Sensory Transformation of Biological Signals

3.30 pm to 4.00 pm:
Jens Vetter: Tangible Signals – Physical Representation of Sound and Haptic Control Feedback

4.00 pm to 4.15 pm: coffee break

4.15 pm to 4.45 pm:
Echo Ho: QINtronix – Rethinking the Guqin for the 21st Century (video presentation)

4.45 pm to 5.15 pm:
Reinhard Gupfinger: The Design of Musical Instruments for Grey Parrots – An Artistic Contribution towards Animal-Human-Computer Interaction

After the conference, some food and drinks can be enjoyed together!

PhD-candidates of the Art University Linz can apply for funding of their travel and accommodation costs. Please contact the ÖH student body: oeh.stv-phd@ufg.at

Contact:
Art.Research
Jens Vetter MA, jens.vetter@ufg.at
Dr. Veronika Schwediauer, veronika.schwediauer@ufg.at