Cities are becoming increasingly defined by digitalised infrastructure, prompting adaptive changes at both a design and user scale. Emerging surveillance cultures, facial recognition, autonomous vehicles, and computer-aided design are changing our urban landscapes and the way we interact with one another. Our panel comprising an artist, academic and a designer, will explore the intersections between ourselves, and our cities and their technology.
This panel discussion will be held in conjunction with the cinematic multi-channel installation of A Drone Opera – on show at the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries.
MODERATOR:
Prof. Sarah Pink
Prof. Sarah Pink (PhD. FASSA) is Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. Sarah is a Design Anthropologist and methodological innovator who brings together ethnography, documentary and design practice to create new insights into non-predictive futures. Her work seeks to change the way we think about technological futures, through concepts of uncertainty, contingency and anticipatory modes of trust, hope and anxiety. She investigates these ideas through projects focusing on future intelligence and automated technologies.
PANELISTS:
Dr. Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi
Dr. Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi is Director of the Care-full Design Lab and Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, who leads RMIT in the EU Horizon 2020 project, CreaTures: Creative Practices for Transformational Futures. Currently, she is exploring care-full design for liveable and equitable urban futures across three inter-related domains: self-care and mutual aid, creative and impactful research methods, and co-creative urban transformation.
Dr. Yazid Ninsalam
Dr. Yazid Ninsalam is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design where he is part of the ‘Climate Resilient Honiara’ project supported by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund, and administered by UN-Habitat. He has been using drones to capture human impact on Asia Pacific landscapes for nearly a decade, and uses products derived from airborne and terrestrial LiDAR data to develop adaptation strategies for human induced environmental conflicts that result from rapidly shifting urban transitions.
Matthew Sleeth
Matthew Sleeth is a Melbourne-based visual artist. His often collaborative practice incorporates photography, film, installation, sculpture and live performance with a particular focus on the aesthetic and conceptual concerns of new media. Over the past year, he has contributed to the programs of Carriageworks, Sydney Film Festival and the National Gallery of Victoria through film and installation projects.
Dr Rowan Wilken
Dr Rowan Wilken is an Associate Professor in Media & Communication at RMIT University, and Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). His current work focuses on mobile and wireless devices, location-based services, and automated vision capture technologies.
Commissioned by Experimenta
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts
Directed by Matthew Sleeth
Produced by Kate Richards
Composed by Susan Frykberg
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