Crawlspace Gallery (on Capitol Hill) is hosting an exhibition that includes the UW-EE Self-Organizing Systems Lab (this guy? this group, anyway.)
From
the Crawlspace description:
GROWN ACCUSTOMED,
considering the development of behavioral and psychological
familiarity through seven new works in video. Utilizing the medium as
a convention for preserving and repeating information consistently,
these video works explore behavioral and cultural adaptation and the
development of social intimacy.
Cat Clifford, Anne Mathern, and the University of Washington's
Self-Organizing Systems Lab demonstrate the learning process of
climbing a tree, the act of saying the word "no," and the
socialization of robots, respectively.
New York-based Rachel Rampleman explores desire, expectation, her
relationship to her sister, and our relationship to a "society of the
spectacle" in "Poison (My Sister Fucked Bret Michaels)." Tony
Weathers' "Dinosaur Days" plods through a backcountry motocross as
commentary on cultural leisure, repetitive non-action, and the
expectation to maintain the familiar.
Tony Weathers and Chicago-based Scott Kildall remove culturally
recognizable information from its original context, Weathers
translating his artist statement via International Aviation code and
Kildall disassociating classic film footage from plot.
Since the geeky stuff is the stuff that really grabs me, I did some more snooping: The EE SOSL describes their own work:
The demonstrations take a while and watching them is a bit like watching grass grow, but then again, grass growing is pretty cool if you think about it.
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