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INVITED CONTENT

Data Materialities
We are constantly surrounded by networks, information, and data. Whether they consist of electromagnetic frequencies or physical wired connections, networks are everywhere, consuming and permeating our offices, homes, schools, and public indoor and outdoor spaces. The SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery exposes this plethora of data and transforms it to incarnations of tangibility that not only showcase their complexity, but also allow us to relate to them on a human scale. By injecting humor and kinetic energy to their exposition, the gallery makes light of these data platforms and presents them on a grand scale to reveal their ubiquity.

Artwork and artists for the SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery are selected by the Art Gallery Chair and not by a jury.

Art Gallery Chair
Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Art Gallery Subcommittee
Douglas Irving Repetto
Niklas Roy

EXPERIENCE PRESENTATIONS: Art Gallery

Reception: Leonardo, Art Papers, and Art Gallery
Mix and mingle with artists, researchers, and authors whose works were selected for SIGGRAPH 2016. Meet the Leonardo team and members of the SIGGRAPH 2016 committee who organized this year's Art Gallery.

Sponsors

Leonardo  The MIT Press

ACM Digital Library
Content from the SIGGRAPH 2016 conference is available in the ACM Digital Library free of charge via the SIGGRAPH organization web site.

Christie

Crime Scene

Exploring the clash between mass consumption of technology and personal use, Mogens Jacobsen’s work challenges the incorporeal existence of digital objects and the physical incarnations they assume. This installation portrays illegal Internet activity in physical space and examines the legal restrictions of file sharing. A copyrighted file is transferred between two computers ad infinitum, which adds yet another dimension to how mass culture is striving to amalgamate and restrict digital objects into categories that previously only existed for physical objects.
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Mogens Jacobsen

Doors

Doors is a portal that takes on the middle ground between virtual and physical space. Sensors surrounding the structure of an actual door track visitors' movements and change the portal on the screen’s perspective in an anamorphic system that adjusts to their visual angle in real time.
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David-Alexandre Chanel
THÉORIZ Studio

Romain Constant
THÉORIZ Studio

Facebook Demetricator

The Facebook interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Facebook Demetricator is a web browser add-on that hides these metrics and invites Facebook users to try the system without the numbers, to see how their experience is changed by the absence of metrics.
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Benjamin Grosser
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Flower

Inspired by “Flower”, written by one of the leading South Korean poets of the late 20th century, this work “blooms” or comes to life in a dark environment when visitors whisper into its microphone, or when it senses data streams on local networks. Flower reacts to the idea of the “gaze” in digital space, where people online are always vying for more views, likes, and mentions.
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Viktor Jan

Grafikdemo

Grafikdemo is a physical wireframe of the quintessential 3D model, the standard “teapot”, built inside the frame of a classic Commodore CBM, a computer originally produced in 1977. Rather than using a mouse, viewers use only the analog keys of the antiquated keyboard to manipulate the object inside, thus exposing the mechanical aspects of the project.
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Niklas Roy

The Kinetic Story Teller

In this playful environment for social interaction, a pair of illuminated swing sets face each other. As participants swing on the structure, they are connected to a data stream of the networked landscape around them, specifically the social media banter of Twitter.
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Tine Bech

Metaphase Sound Machine

Metaphase Sound Machine, inspired by physicist Nick Herbert’s work, exploits our increasing dependency on the information and electronic noise that permeates our everyday lives.
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Dmitry Morozov

Pixelbots

Pixelbots represent a new form of empathetic display that explores the evolution of how information will manifest itself in the near future. They show how information can be arranged dynamically and fluidly on a physical platform and take material shape in the form of clusters or designed dynamic shapes. The screen itself becomes a fluid entity that can be harnessed and remixed into any shape, color, or manifestation one desires.
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Tejaswi Digumarti
Disney Research and ETH

Javier Alonso Mora
(formerly) Disney Research and ETH

Roland Siegwart
ETH

Paul Beardsley
Disney Research Zürich

Plinko Poetry

Plinko Poetry is a networked installation that uses the Plinko Game of the American game show "The Price is Right" to create real-time poetry from constantly updated Twitter feeds. Players drop chips into the board, where they randomly hit pegs and create poems from words passing by from Twitter streams.
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Deqing Sun
New York University

Peiqi Su
New York University

Submergence

Submergence is a walkthrough environment consisting of 8,064 individually addressable LEDs suspended from a ceiling to create feelings of presence, movement, and envelopment when one is interacting with it. Without a VR headset, the physicality of the environment challenges the ways in which we experience data flows and makes us think more creatively about how information could be represented in physical spaces.
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Anthony Rowe
Squidsoup

Gaz Bushell
Squidsoup

Liam Birtles
Squidsoup

Chris Bennewith
Squidsoup

Oliver Bown
Squidsoup