Effect Defect Affect

Michał Brzeziński

EFFECT

D-EFFECT

AFFECT

BIOART NEEDS PERFORMANCE ART

The notion of affect does take many forms, and you’re right to begin by emphasiz­ing that. To get anywhere with the concept, you have to retain the manyness of its forms. It’s not something that can be reduced to one thing. Mainly, because it’s not a thing. It’s an event, or a dimension of every event. What interests me in the con­cept is that if you approach it respecting its variety, you are presented with a field of questioning, a problematic field, where the customary divisions that questions about subjectivity, becoming, or the political are usually couched in do not apply.

(Massumi, Of Microperception and Micropolitics, 2009, p. 1)

2000 Rosalind W. Picard

The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international forum for research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction and systems.

This ACII edition will emphasize the humanistic side of affective computing by promoting publications at the cross-road between engineering and human sciences (including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life).

The ACII conference will be organized by the Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences from the University of Geneva. Geneva has one of Europe’s most beautiful sceneries, situated between a lake and mountains and is a highly international city where English speaking is common. It has been a cultural center for many centuries and home to many creative spirits in the fields of science and art.

The conference will address, but is not limited to, the following topics:• Computational and psychological models of emotion;• Affect in arts entertainment and multimedia;• Bodily manifestations of affect (facial expressions, posture, behavior, physiology);• Databases for emotion processing: development and issues;• Affective interfaces and applications (games, learning, dialogue systems…);• Ecological and continuous emotion assessment;• Affect in social interactions.

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Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Backster, Jr. (February 27, 1924 - June 24, 2013) was an interrogation specialist for the Central Investigation Agency (CIA), best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph machine in the 1960s which led to his theory of "primary perception" where he claimed that plants "feel pain" and have extra sensory perception (ESP).

Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.