{"id":1017,"date":"2015-08-05T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2022-11-05T11:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T11:21:22","slug":"data-event-65-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/2015\/08\/05\/data-event-65-0-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATA Event 66.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body-text clearfix\">\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong>: Wednesday August 5th\u00a07.00 \u2013 9.00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0CONNECT (formerly CTVR) Dunlop Oriel House, Corner of Fenian Street &amp; Westland Row, Trinity College Dublin<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADMISSION:<\/strong>\u00a0Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Does Software Want? Recent Artistic\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Projects and Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Grosser<\/p>\n<p>School of Art +\u00a0Design<\/p>\n<p>National Center for Supercomputing Applications<\/p>\n<p>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/p>\n<p>USA<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for human creativity when a computational system can paint its own artworks? How is an interface that foregrounds our friend count changing our conceptions of friendship? Why do we become emotionally attached to software systems and what does this attachment enable for those who made them? Through his investigations of computational agency and aesthetics,\u00a0Ben Grosser will present a series of works that examine the cultural, social, and political implications of software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bengrosser.com\/\">Ben Grosser<\/a>\u00a0creates interactive experiences, machines, and systems that explore the cultural, social, and political implications of software. Recent exhibition venues and festivals include Eyebeam in New York, The White Building in London, the Media Arts Future Festival in Spain, the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, FILE in S\u00e3o Paulo, and Museum Ludwig in Cologne. His works have been featured in\u00a0<em>Wired<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Creative Applications Network, Neural, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, FastCoDesign,\u00a0<\/em><em>Gizmodo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Engadget<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Al Jazeera<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>,\u00a0<em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Der Spiegel<\/em>.\u00a0The<em>\u00a0Huffington Post<\/em>\u00a0said of his Interactive Robotic Painting Machine that \u201cGrosser may have unknowingly birthed the apocalypse.\u201d The\u00a0<em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0called him the \u201cunrivaled king of ominous gibberish.\u201d\u00a0<em>Slate\u00a0<\/em>referred to his work as \u201ccreative civil disobedience in the digital age.\u201d Grosser\u2019s recognitions include First Prize in VIDA 16, an international award recognizing works investigating art and artificial life, a Net Art Grant and Commission from Rhizome, and the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture from the Stuttgarter Filmwinter. He is an Assistant Professor\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0School of Art +\u00a0Design and a Faculty Affiliate in Critical Technology Studies at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bengrosser.com\/\">http:\/\/bengrosser.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-info-wrap clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 5, 2015 @ Dunlop Oriel House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-events","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21887,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/21887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.data.ie\/datasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}