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Jury Selections
BIRD SONG MIMIC
Victoria VESNA / Charles TAYLOR / IWATA Hiroo / IKEGAMI Takashi / SUZUKI Reiji
An interactive device that allows participants to practice bird songs as a new language and experience its complexity. When participants try to imitate a bird song, their accuracy is graded by a computer. The work is part of a larger installation from the research project “Mapping the Acoustic Network of Birds” directed by evolutionary biologist Charles TAYLOR. It also attempts to raise awareness of how birds and their acoustic richness have disappeared from cities.
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Profile
Victoria VESNA
Born in 1959 in Washington DC. Ph.D., UCLA Art|Sci Center. Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts.
Charles TAYLOR
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution at SUNY Stony Brook. Research Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA.
IWATA Hiroo
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba; President of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (2016, 2017).
IKEGAMI Takashi
Born in 1961 in Nagano Prefecture. Doctor of science (physics) and researcher on complex systems and artificial life. Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo.
SUZUKI Reiji
Associate Professor, Department of Complex Systems Science, Nagoya University.