Programme

// Full schedule

NOTES: https://etherpad.net/p/machinefeeling

DAY 1 – MONDAY 14th JAN

9:30-10:15 // WELCOME (Anne Alexander, Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox, organisers)
10:30-11:15 // TRANSMEDIALE 2019 (Kristoffer Gansing, director of transmediale)
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AFFECT & SENSE-MAKING (moderator: Christian Ulrik Andersen)
11:30-12:15 (10 minute presentations)
Anja Breljak
Maike Klein
Iain Emsley
Irina Raskin
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12:30-13:30 – panel/plenary discussion

13:30-14:45 // LUNCH

ALIEN DESIRE (moderator: Magda Tyzlik-Carver)
14:45-15:45 (10 minute presentations)
Tiara Roxanne
Brett Zehner
Sascha Pohflepp
Rebecca Uliasz
Maria Dada
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16:00-17:00 panel/plenary discussion

PUBLIC PROGRAMME
17:30-19:00, GR06/07 Faculty of English
The Undetection of the New: An Overview of Machine Learning Limitations and Their Social Impact
Matteo Pasquinelli (Professor in Media Philosophy at the University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe)
Respondent: Alan Blackwell (Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

DAY 2 – TUESDAY 15th JAN

APPENDIX (unmoderated)
09:30-10:15 (5 minute presentations)
Magda Tyzlik-Carver
Søren Pold
Winnie Soon
Anne Alexander
Geoff Cox
Christian Ulrik Andersen
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CULTURAL PRACTICES (moderator: Søren Pold)
10:30-11:15 (10 minute presentations)
Malthe Stavning Erslev
Michela De Carlo
Tanja Wiehn
Carman Ng
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11:30-12:30 panel/plenary discussion

// LUNCH, 12:30-13:45

VISION (moderator: Geoff Cox)
13:45-14:45 (10 minute presentations)
Rosemary Lee
Mitra Azar
Daniel Chavez Heras
Carleigh Morgan
Tomasz Hollanek
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15:00-16:00 panel/plenary discussion

PUBLIC PROGRAMME
17:30-19:00, SG1, Alison Richard Building
A Feeling for Worlds: Encountering Animals as Sensors
Jennifer Gabrys (Professor, Chair in Media, Culture and Environment)
Respondent: Martin Zeilinger (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY 16th JAN

FEEDBACK SESSION (in groups)
9:30-10:30
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PRACTICAL WORKSHOP (Leonardo Impett)

11:00 Intro to machine perception affective computing, generative images
11:30 Experiment: face recognition, people tracking, audience prediction
12:00 Experiment: emotion recognition, Action Units
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/79271/1/Factorized-Variational-Autoencoders-for-Modeling-Audience-Reactions-to-Movies-Paper.pdf

// 12.30 LUNCH (while training)

13:30 Intro to generative methods
14:00 Experiment: GANs
14.30 Discussion
15:00 End

OUTRO: PUBLICATION & FESTIVAL
15:00-16:00 (Christian & Geoff)

// Following the workshop

PREPARATION OF ABSTRACTS TO BE PRINTED AT TRANSMEDIALE
Deadline is 20th Jan, for sending materials to designers

HALF DAY WORKSHOP AT TRANSMEDIALE, K2 – THURSDAY 31st JAN
15:30-18:30, Preparations for public presentation

PRESENTATION AT TRANSMEDIALE, Café Stage – FRIDAY 1st FEB
11.00-14.30, 5 min presentations + moderated conversation

DEADLINE FOR APRJA JOURNAL (4-5000 words) – see http://www.aprja.net/submission-guidelines/
5th March