ISEA2011 presents Southern Ocean Studies :: Pro­jec­tion on the Cupola: September 14 - 21, 2011; 9:00 am - 11:00 pm :: Discussion: September 16; 8:00 - 10:30 pm :: Çem­ber­l­i­tas Hamam (built by Mimar Sinan in 1584).

Lan­franco Aceti, ISEA2011 Is­tan­bul Artis­tic Di­rec­tor and Con­fer­ence Chair, in­vites you to dis­cuss is­sues of con­tem­po­rary ecol­ogy, melt­ing of the poles and the im­por­tance of water in world cul­ture while bathing in the sur­round­ings of this his­tor­i­cal build­ing adorned with the art­work of Gavin Baily, Tom Corby and Jonathan Macken­zie.

The art­work you will see here shows the South­ern Ocean cir­cu­lat­ing the Antarc­tic land mass (cen­tral). The pro­ject soft­ware runs in real-time gen­er­at­ing the ocean cur­rents on the fly, to which are mapped var­i­ous other eco­log­i­cal data sets. These geo­phys­i­cal cou­plings mesh in real time, to pro­duce flick­er­ing con­stel­la­tions of tidal flow, wind di­rec­tion and bi­otic form.

Whilst re­spect­ing the un­der­ly­ing sci­ence, the work seeks to de­velop a sen­si­bil­ity to the dy­nam­ics of eco­log­i­cal com­plex­ity as pat­tern and felt ex­pe­ri­ence rather than quan­tity and mea­sure. In doing so we hope to ar­tic­u­late an aes­thetic of sys­tem-ness – a metonym for the in­ter­con­nected forces op­er­a­tive within the ecos­phere to which lived human be­hav­ior con­tributes and is a part.

GAVIN BAILY

Gavin is a pro­ducer, de­vel­oper, and founder of Trace­Me­dia. He has worked on arts, vi­su­al­i­sa­tion and re­search pro­jects in var­i­ous com­mer­cial and aca­d­e­mic con­texts. He stud­ied Fine Art at Ox­ford Uni­ver­sity and Com­puter Sci­ence at Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Lon­don.

TOM CORBY

Tom is the deputy Di­rec­tor of the Cen­tre for Re­search in Art and Media at the Uni­ver­sity of West­min­ster. His re­search ex­plores how artists and de­sign­ers can em­ploy dig­i­tal in­for­ma­tion as an ex­pres­sive medium. He stud­ied Fine Art at Mid­dle­sex Uni­ver­sity and has a PhD from Chelsea Col­lege of Art & De­sign.

JONATHAN MACKEN­ZIE

Jonathan has worked for over twenty years on re­search pro­jects that over­lap art, sci­ence and com­put­ing. He is par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in al­go­rithms as cre­ative tools, and in com­plex­ity sci­ence. He has a PhD from King’s Col­lege Lon­don.