2005 Hertzblut
Hertzblut—Pixelspaces 2005
As this year’s installment of the annual Pixelspaces conference series, Hertzblut carries on the tradition of spotlighting motifs that presently occupy the focal point of attention in a number of disciplines across the technological spectrum. This approach is designed to enable participants to come to terms with issues of great current relevance through a discourse in which many different voices and a wide variety of perspectives are represented. Hertzblut is the title of Pixelspaces 2005. This symposium will scrutinize the compatibility of emotions and computer technology, and analyze the emotional rush that is the upshot of man-machine interaction.
The confrontation with this overall issue will take place via encounter with two focal-point topics: on one hand, to what extent are machines in a position to understand and depict emotions or to process forms of human emotion; on the other hand, to what extent can machines develop their own forms of emotional intelligence and involve the user in a digitally produced emotional process? This will entail addressing questions that arise in the zone of impact in which the possibilities of computer technology meet cultural and psychological patterns, and will be based on presentations of state-of-the-art approaches to research and current media art projects being pursued by staff members of leading R&D facilities and media labs around the world.