Journal & Book Publications

By assessing the perceptual interaction with generative art, we will continue to question the narrative and performative qualities of this relatively new form. These two sections will introduce us to the contemporary smart cities as venues for generative practices and a notion of engaging city dwellers to participate in this complex system of networks and devices. Furthermore, we will discuss the new potential divergences of generative art practice. Biotechnology and quantum mechanics open another unimaginable field of generative activities that, equally to other venues, require critical, analytical and creative use of technology.

Citation:
Dejan Grba et al. "Divergent Generative Art Practices." ISEA 2016 Hong Kong CULTURAL R>EVOLUTION: Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2016, pp. 408-413.

Instances of space for creative interaction between the performers in these compositions have been far and few between. The work, time:space:, has unveiled new possibilities for interaction and a blurring the line between performer and composer creating an artistic interconnectivity and interdependency.

Citation:
Stromberg, Dirk Johan and Robert Casteels. "Having a Ball with the Sphere." ICMA Array: Special Issue: Proceedings of SI15: 2nd International Symposium on Sound & Interactivity 2015 Singapore, 2016, pp. 98-100.

The instrument is controlled by a bioengineered neural network or ‘brain’ derived from skin cells using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology that is housed in a custom built synthesiser ‘body’. This paper introduces the cellF project highlighting the background, biotechnology, embodiment, design and performance capabilities.

Citation:
Moore, Darren et al. "CellF: A Neuron-Driven Music Synthesiser for Real-Time Performance." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, vol. 12, no. 1, 2016, pp. 31-43, doi:10.1080/14794713.2016.1161954.

The current challenges portray the existence of a regional gap in manpower for well-trained pattern cutters to support the designers wishing to produce their collections in Southeast Asia. One such response to this demand is recognised in the current trend of universities offering courses and programmes in creative pattern cutting. Pattern cutting is traditionally seen as a secondary by-product of the fashion design discipline, rather than its own professional career pathway. Against the Asian context, pattern cutting is considered a vocational operation that requires very little formal education. However, the introduction of creative pattern cutting as a specialism within tertiary design education is beginning to challenge existing misconceptions and reshape the role of pattern cutting as an extension of fashion design. This paper aims to review the current value of highly skilled creative pattern cutters in Southeast Asia through discussions of educational support and potential production capabilities within the region.
Citation:
Tan, Jeremiah and Harah Chon. "Growing and Sustaining Creative Pattern Cutting as a Recognised Profession in Asia." International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, vol. 9, no. 2, 2016, pp. 161-167.

A series of Motion Sensing Extensions suggest different approaches of how to use a motion sensor within various physical environments to capture movement to better understand the materialization of movement and new forms of interactions through movement.    

Citation:
Schlegel, Andreas, and Cedric Honnet. “Movement of Things Exploring Inertial Motion Sensing When Autonomous, Tiny and Wireless.” MOCU16 proceding of the 3rd international symposium on Movement and computing, no. 47, 2016, doi: 10.1145/2948910.2948916.

Similar underground experimental music scenes have also emerged throughout South-East Asia, e.g., in Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Yogyakarta, Jakarta and other major centers, which has led to an increase in experimental musical activity in the region.

Citation: 
Moore, Daren. “2016 Experimental music in Singapore.” Journal of Sonic Studies, vol. 12, 2016.

Printed on high quality paper, the pages of this book can be individually removed and framed.

Citation:
Ang, Qing Sheng. Picturesque Shophouses. Singapore, Epigram, 2016. 

Forced and willing migrations, intensified ethnic distances, destroyed industries, and the combined consequences of globalisation, the economic crisis, and the process of European integration have changed not only the ingrained way(s) of life but also the appearance and perception of life in urban environments in former Yugoslav countries.

Citation:
Šešić, Milena Dragićević et al. "Mobilizing Urban Neighbourhoods: Artivism, Identity, and Cultural Sustainability." Culture and Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis, edited by Svetlana Hristova et al., Routledge, 2015, pp. 193-205.