Entangled Agencies: Module 3: Mirroring and Mirrored - Artist Talk + Lecture
Join us for an artist sharing session with Andreas Schlegel and Aditi Neti exploring interactive applications as mirrors for understanding how we relate to technology and engaging with technological mediation.
We use Lacan's concept of the "mirror stage" as a starting point, examining examples from computer vision driven media art. How do cameras, screens, and algorithms create feedback between bodies and systems? This feedback makes interaction relational, interpretive, and co-constructed between human and machine.
We reflect on interaction as a driving design consideration, addressing how works anticipate, invite, and respond to participant actions and reactions, how systems are shaped through testing and observation, and how designers can prepare for unpredictable human behaviour within interactive, responsive environments.
We will share examples from our own practice that exemplify the use of interactive approaches, generative processes through coded systems, and the application of input sensors to engage in playful interactions together with an audience. Through this conversation we offer insight into how ideas develop through making, testing, and working with audiences, situating our practices within contemporary Arts x Tech practice.
About the Module 3 artist-fellow
Andreas Schlegel is a German-born, Singapore-based artist and educator working with code, generative systems and interactive processes. He creates installations, performances, and audio-visual works that examine human-machine interaction. His individual and collaborative works have been exhibited at venues including National Gallery Singapore, Groninger Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul among others. He teaches at LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore.
About the guest speaker
Aditi Neti is a South Asian designer and researcher exploring the interconnectedness and synergy between machine, man, and nature. In her practice, she aims to highlight how the complexities of human relationships with the natural world can manifest in alternative and absurd ways through technology. She is currently a design researcher at Design Factory @ Singapore Institute of Technology.
About the programme
Entangled Agencies explores how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another. Rather than treating machines as neutral tools or looming job-stealers, or simply as quick generators in a mechanical sense, this programme considers them as agents for creative collaborations.
Registration is from 6.30pm-7pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg This programme is supported by the National Arts Council's Arts x Tech Lab initiative @nacsingapore