Datatata: International Conference Focused on Data and Fine Art

Conference Datatata aims to discuss a wide range of questions about how the artistic practise is affected by contemporary phenomena of massive data collecting and data interpretation.

Lukáš Likavčan, Paul Heinicker, Jakub Kopec, Lenka Hámošová & Pavol Rusnak, Jana Horáková, Katharina Klappheck, Vladan Joler, Wesley Goatley, Markéta Dolejšová, Tomáš Javůrek, Luba Elliott, Palo Fabuš, Robert Sakrowski, Jiří Suchánek,

accompanying program: Jiří Suchánek, AVA collective with Miri Kat UK/IR

Program:

9:20 AM welcoming

9:25 AM Datatata: introduction

9:30 AM Lukáš Likavčan, Paul Heinicker Twin Earth: Planetary Models, Operational Images and Non-Human Archeology

10:00 AM Jakub Kopec Arizona Incident – Introduction to Simple, Complicated and Complex Systems on Example of one Event

10:30 AM Lenka Hámošová & Pavol Rusnak How Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Changed the Way We Look on the World, or the Necessity of Visual Scepticism in the Post-truth Era

11:00 AM Jana Horáková Deep Learning from Vasulkas Video Archive

11:30 AM Katharina Klappheck Data and Algorithms a Queer Love Story? Queer Post Human Perspectives on Data-algorithm

12:00 AM lunch break

12:55 AM Data + 2ta: introduction

1:00 PM Vladan Joler Exploitation Forensics

1:30 PM Wesley Goatley A Promise and a Strategy: Transparency, Spectacle, and Critical Data Aesthetics

2:00 PM Markéta Dolejšová Digesting the Data: A Three-course Speculation about Possible Food-Tech Futures

2:30 PM Tomáš Javůrek The Uselessness of Big Brother

3:00 PM coffee break

3:25 PM Data.art: introduction

3:30 PM Luba Elliott Machine Learning and Data in Contemporary Art Practice

4:00 PM Palo Fabuš Artificial Affirmation: Common Sense to the ‘Nth’ Power

4:30 PM Robert Sakrowski Curating and Archiving the Digital

5:00 PM Jiří Suchánek Atomic Sonification and Aspects of ‘Data-Listening’

7:30 PM start of accompanying program and afterparty Café Atlas, Břetislav Bakala hall, Žerotínovo nám. 6, 602 00 Brno

8:30 PM Jiří Suchánek ATOMTONE concert of experimental electronic music

10:00 PM AVA collective with Miri Kat Algorave live coding club music, UK/IR