36. The notion of affect does take many forms, and you’re right to begin by emphasizing that. To get
anywhere with the concept, you have to retain the manyness of its forms. It’s not something that can
be reduced to one thing. Mainly, because it’s not a thing. It’s an event, or a dimension of every event.
What interests me in the concept is that if you approach it respecting its variety, you are presented
with a field of questioning, a problematic field, where the customary divisions that questions about
subjectivity, becoming, or the political are usually couched in do not apply.
(Massumi, Of Microperception and Micropolitics, 2009, p. 1)
42. The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier
international forum for research on affective and multimodal human-machine interaction
and systems.
This ACII edition will emphasize the humanistic side of affective computing by
promoting publications at the cross-road between engineering and human sciences
(including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life).
The ACII conference will be organized by the Computer Vision and Multimedia
Laboratory and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences from the University of Geneva.
Geneva has one of Europe’s most beautiful sceneries, situated between a lake and
mountains and is a highly international city where English speaking is common. It has
been a cultural center for many centuries and home to many creative spirits in the
fields of science and art.
The conference will address, but is not limited to, the following topics:
• Computational and psychological models of emotion;
• Affect in arts entertainment and multimedia;
• Bodily manifestations of affect (facial expressions, posture, behavior, physiology);
• Databases for emotion processing: development and issues;
• Affective interfaces and applications (games, learning, dialogue systems…);
• Ecological and continuous emotion assessment;
• Affect in social interactions.
43. Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Backster, Jr. (February 27,
1924 - June 24, 2013) was an interrogation specialist
for the Central Investigation Agency (CIA), best known
for his experiments with plants using a polygraph
machine in the 1960s which led to his theory of
"primary perception" where he claimed that plants "feel
pain" and have extra sensory perception (ESP).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv4ZMvUSWI
44. Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in
aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern
communications in the nineteenth century to the
global transmissions of the present day. Douglas
Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music
that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along
telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of
natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through
the first telephone; he then traces the histories of
science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s
and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks
energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer
space, through detailed discussions of musicians,
artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond
Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James
Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many
others.
