Guest Open Lecture

“Sympathies of Streets” by Michael R. Doyle, Associate Professor, École d’architecture, Université Laval

We have the great pleasure of welcoming Michael to the Center for Digital Visual Studies – University of Zurich – Max Planck Society. This lecture is open to all. Please let us know that you are coming by dropping us a line at info@dvstudies.net

The lecture will be followed by a dedicated research seminar on Wednesday June 11th at DVS offices in Culmannstrasse

Abstract

Two hundred thousand streets, two hundred thousand geotagged photographs, five thousand works of art and a thousand songs are hosted by an artificial neural network. Within this computational gathering, streets from all over Quebec take on multiple personas, making friends based on the images captured by people nearby and posted on Flickr. They visit an exhibition of art works from the digital collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, discovering their preferences for similar works and divergences in aesthetic affinities. They participate in a concert in which francophone artists invite these photographic personas to accompany the lyrics of their songs. The performative aspects of this experiment will be discussed through the technics and philosophy of the Masks of the genius loci research project, now completing its second of three years of support from the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Société et culture. The talk will reflect on identity, the spirit of place and the articulation of the rare and the precious in the plentiful.

When and where

June 10th starting at 17:30

Where: University of Zurich City Campus, Rämistrasse 71, Room KOL-N-1. Find it here: https://lnkd.in/e3DFr-Uj