The Digital Naturalism Conference
Field Biology | Interaction Design | Wild Hacking
Success with water-adapted augmented reality (AR). Aquatic AR goggles, immersive AR environments … ImmerSea: Subversive Submersibles built and tested in installation experimentations creative real time overlays for experience alteration. Now tabulating off locus reactions.
Coconut Crunching
TEAM
Check yr Head!
Here at the Department of Amphibological Research, we take image recognition on new expeditions in the natural world and tease out the limits of artificial intelligence. We invite you to collaborate with our team by providing new inspiration for our amphibological experiments.
How to get involved:
Submit a specimen for analysis by photographing something in your environment and running it through an AI image recognition software (like this or this e.g.) and sending us the results. We’ll use these to create new amphibological studies for the archive.
As a token of our appreciation, you’ll receive one of our snazzy official patches (below) and a credit on the site!
Additionally, we’d love to hear from participants that have expertise in machine learning and any artists interested in creating amphibological drawings.
Yours in ambiguity,
Pamela + Matteo
Dept of Amphibological Research
Dates: June 5 – June 26
Vanessa Rosa is a Brazilian visual artist and art historian. She creates projects that mixtures public art, community activities, technological experiments and historical research, usually having painting as her main medium. Currently she has been developing a research about ethnocomputing/ethnomathematics, studying the algorithms embedded in traditional arts from worldwide cultures. Vanessa has worked as project coordinator for different organizations and is an illustrator and art director for Viajante do Tempo publishing company, being one of the company’s owners. She has done mural paintings, residencies, exhibitions and other projects in different countries across South and North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Dates: June 3rd-June 14th
Project: Rupesh will be working on a children’s’ storybook project. The storybook features true stories of local individuals in Kathmandu working in technology.
Bio: Rupesh is an educator and a writer living in Kathmandu.
A primary school classroom is one of his most favorite places to be in. Rupesh started reading child magazines in kindergarten, developed a love for writing in the second grade, an unquenchable awe and enthusiasm to learn science when he was a fourth grader.
His interests have pushed him to become an educator working to foster modern thinking skills in his students through STEAM education, with “Karkhana”.
He is a part of the “Word Warriors”, a local spoken word poetry community in Kathmandu. He performs in local poetry gigs, and experiments with different aspects of poetry with “Kavindrapur”, a little poetry collaborative that he co-founded.
Erik Zepka has a wide field of interests, with having previous experience as a lab biologist, artist, media creator, writer, and hacker. He is open to all of DINACONs themes, with a slight preference for creating an art project while being here on the island, throwing his background in the mix. With this, he will attempt to create ‘ science fictional environments’ for the viewer, that will combine critique of bureaucratized science, open research speculation and play, taking advantage of what the immediate environment best affords.
[01/7 – 07/7]
I will spin some webs and lace up some tree(s). The webs will be connected to trees with bio-sensors and emit acoustic signals mediating the plants inner state, blending with the local soundscape…well, so the theory…
Hopefully it will sing ….
Bio: Currently I am a Phd student at Aarhus University in Denmark, combining craft and digital tech to engender sympoietic experiences and new relationships between us humans and all the others with whom we share the planet. I have a M.A in Intermedia Design from Germany, a Diploma in Photography from South Africa, and a few years training in Architecture. I am also an self-taught artisan and maker.
more about me here: http://frankjaer.de
Dates: 22 June – 02 July. Research & Designer. Futures & Fiction, Collage & Camouflage. Attending Dinacon as part of the Random Forests project (http://randomforest.nl/), investigating the emerging field of environmental machine learning through fieldwork and critical reflecton.
Working on an iteration of our workshop investigating Autonomous Agents for Regenerative Ecologies, building on earlier sessions during fieldwork on the Dutch island of Terschelling, and at the Border Sessions festival in The Hague (June 13th if you’re interested!)
https://www.sjef.nu/
https://twitter.com/thesjef/
https://www.instagram.com/strctrnrrtv/
Dates: 30/6-7/7
Project: experimenting with near-field intra-plant communcation. http://ingorandolf.info/building-a-near-field-intra-body-communication-device/
Bio: tinkerer, programmer, artist. http://ingorandolf.info
Dates: Jun 10-16
Myrmecologist / Macro Photographer / Science Communicator
Postdoctoral researcher at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC, USA
Website: theantlife.com
My project: I will investigate the ant fauna on the island and photograph the most common ant species/genera. I’ll then create an intuitive visual identification key. As part of my research at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences I work with K-12 teachers to bring citizen science projects (such as my project “Ant Picnic”) into the science classroom. A lot of my work deals with making ants and ant science more accessible to a broad audience. More about this work at discoverants.com
