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Presentation: SPARKS 2025 in Review: Sensing the Body, AI and Art, Cultural Heritage and more…
Type: ACM SIGGRAPH Village Talk
Coordinated by: Bonnie Mitchell – Victoria Szabo
Event Date and Time: 12 August 2025 : 1:00pm – 2:00pm PDT
Description:

This session will be an overview of the 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts SPARKS and present the highlights from two SPARKS (Short Presentations for the Kindred Spirit) sessions. “AI and Artistic Autonomy”, moderated by Mauro Martino and Rebecca Ruige Xu investigated how the dependency on models and algorithms developed by others influences creative practice. “Artistic Interpretation of Digital Cultural Heritage” moderated by Fan Xiang and Victoria Szabo, explores how the choices visual artists make in sourcing, composing, and styling historical imagery affects our understanding of the past. Please join us.

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Schedule:

Introduction to SPARKS: Bonnie Mitchell & Victoria Szabo

AI and Artistic Autonomy Overview: Mauro Martino
Jonah Brucker-Cohen: Artificial Intelligence Meets Critical Media Art
Avital Meshi: Depending on AI in the Formation of My Self
Daniel Pillis: Real-time Stable Diffusion for Virtual Production

Artistic Interpretation of Digital Cultural Heritage Overview: Fan Xiang
Mingyong Cheng:Reimagining Cultural Memory: AI as a Conduit in Digital Chinese Landscape Painting
Chen Wang: Resonant Fragments: Reanimating Chinese Poetic Memory
Juergen Hagler: Animating an Archive: AI, Art, and the Reinterpretation of Cultural Heritage
Rochele Gloor: VR Master Dancer: The Fuller Experience
Lukasz Mirocha: Between Documentation and Creation

Location:
Vancouver Convention Center, West Building, Rooms 208-209
Speaker(s):
Bonnie Mitchell
Victoria Szabo
Rebecca Ruige Xu
Juergen Hagler
Coordinators(s):
Bonnie Mitchell

Bonnie Mitchell is a new media artist and Professor at Bowling Green State University in Digital Arts, in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Mitchell is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts Committee where she focuses on the development of the SIGGRAPH archives and coordination of the SPARKS lecture series. Mitchell’s artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural, and psychological environment through interaction, abstraction and audio. Her current creative practice focuses on development of physically immersive environments using interaction via electronics and special FX to reveal change over time. Her work has been exhibited internationally at numerous venues.

Victoria Szabo

Victoria Szabo is a Research Professor of Visual and Media Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She also directs the Information Science + Studies Program and the PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures. She has a PhD in Victorian Literature and Culture and works in digital humanities and media art, with an emphasis on location-based urban histories, multimodal cultural heritage, and digital storytelling. Before moving to Duke, she worked in Academic Technology at Stanford University. She is also part of the Psychasthenia Studio Art collaborative and the international Visualizing Cities consortium. She has been involved in a variety of SIGGRAPH Art-related roles, including SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair, Art Papers Chair, Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia, Chair of the Year-Round Digital Arts Community for the Org, and is the current Chair of the Arts Advisory Group. She is also part of the SIGGRAPH Governance Committee. Victoria is the Art Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2025.