Day 6, Crossing the Boundary Between Art and Technology

Our schedule today was already written by Morgan, so I am not going to repeat. I just share you some photos and some of my feelings…

The Ars Electronica Campus Exhibion’s Internetional Conference we went is titled Crossing the Boundary Between Art and Technology. Here is some of the talks given in the conference:

• Marika Hayashi – Flesh, skin, and tactile sense of robots
  
  She is the one working on the project on a robot, which have dynamic movements with its flexible body (You see the picture, Helen was hugging the robot, see so soft and warm it is).
• Ryuma Niiyama – Artificial Musculoskeletal System for Bio-Inspired Robot
  
  The one talk about some project like making a jumping robot or as the photo, simulating muscles (the white things).
• Tiago Martins – User Interfaces for Ubiquitous Gaming
  
  He is the speaker we are going to interview tomorrow, so we talk about his work later.
• Peter Gassner – Fingertip: Applications for Vibrotactile Touch Sreens
  
  Personally I like this project very much. It is implementing sense of vibration on touch screen. It make touch screen’s weak feed-back much better.
• Jeremy Stucki & Christoph Schmid – Retype: New Text Entry Methods for Mobile Touchscreen Devices
  
  I think this one is useful. They redesign the text input method of iPhone-like devices, so that the input penal would not get too much space on the already too small screen.
• Risa Suzuki – Proposal for Slow Interactive Media Art
  
  Her works are quite interesting that have a lot of focus on the use of bubbles in installation. The one that exhibited here in Linz is that one use bubbles and wind to make musics through electric devices. (And we have got an interview with her)

And the animations showing near OK Centre are really great stuffs. That kinds of animations or VFX can only be done by a lot of great people and with a lot of efforts. Spider Man 3 and I am Legend were also shown, so you know how high the technical standard of the overall movies shown. Moreover, not only the technical skills, there are deep meanings inside some of them. Also some of them are reflecting the dark (or bright) side of this world.

Hope there will be more exciting stuff to see tomorrow. BTW, don’t forget to have a look to our album.

Andy