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The Aesthetics of Activism

Published: 22 June 2015 Publication History

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For this demonstration the authors intend to present the Aesthetics of Activism as a work-in-progress. The artwork is designed to aggregate visual material from social networks to form themed compositions that can be explored jointly within a shared interactive space. Visual elements are programmatically arranged according to formal aesthetic criteria, while motion within the exhibition space is detected via optical sensors. Artistry built into the algorithms used for creating the visual compositions and those used to present, filter and rank content within the social web are exposed for people interested in the relationships between the cultural and computer layers inherent to the system design.

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    C&C '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition
    June 2015
    420 pages
    ISBN:9781450335980
    DOI:10.1145/2757226
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    Published: 22 June 2015

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    1. activism
    2. aesthetics
    3. code literacy
    4. interactive art

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    June 22 - 25, 2015
    Glasgow, United Kingdom

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    Overall Acceptance Rate 108 of 371 submissions, 29%

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