mosAIcs & brAIns : the computational aesthetics of mosaic art
The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures at Washington University in St. Louis invites you to join an exciting lineup of leaders in the field to address the synergy between art, aesthetics, and AI when applied to contemporary mosaic art. The symposium's objective is to encourage the fusion of (i) contemporary mosaic art, (ii) established computational aesthetics paradigms, and (iii) novel opportunities arising from computational creativity. We invite participants to envision links between their present research and one or more of the three listed scholarly directions.
Symposium Schedule (please visit this link for abstracts and speakers' affiliations)
Monday, December 8th
08:30am: Coffee & light breakfast
08:50am: Opening remarks by Ralf Wessel, WashU Professor of Physics
09:00am: Sue Giannotti, Contemporary Mosaics and the Artistic Process: Does AI Have a Place?
09:30am: Kiyohito (Kyo) Iigaya, Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Subjective Aesthetic Valuation
10:00am: Sam Goree, Is There a Human-Centered Computational Aesthetics?
10:30am: Coffee & refreshments break
11:00am: Gabrielle Starr, Knowledge, Tools, and Art as Active Perception
11:30am: David Crandall, Learning to See from Biased Experience
12:00pm: Group photo & poster session set-up
12:15pm: Lunch & poster presentations
1:30pm: Karen Ami, Material Consciousness: Mosaic Art as Embodied Practice
2:00pm: Brady Roberts, Uncovering the Properties of Memorable Visual Designs
2:30pm: Ahmed Elgammal, AI Art from the Uncanny Valley to Prompting: Gains and Losses
3:00pm: Coffee & refreshments
3:30pm: Edward Vessel, Making Meaning from Art, and Getting Pleasure from Understanding
4:00 Brendan Weekes, Mosaic as Embodiment
4:30 Closing remarks
Tuesday, December 9th
10:00am: Join fellow attendees for a docent-led tour of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, which houses the largest mosaic collection in the world. Please arrive early to the cathedral (located at 4431 Lindell Blvd), as the tour will start promptly at 10am.