CHIME Entanglement Seminar: Christopher Frauenberger and Andrew McPherson

The CHIME network (Computer Human Interaction and Music nEtwork) is an EPSRC-funded research network in Music and Human Computer Interaction. The network aims to connect and assist researchers from diverse disciplines, whether just starting or established, whose interests span any combination of Music and Human Computer Interaction (also known as Music Interaction - MI)

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A closer examination of Entanglement perspectives on our engagements with digital technologies and musical instruments.

Zoom link to join: <a href="https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88156756096" title="https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88156756096" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88156756096</a>Passcode: 4BjCj37a Please note the 2pm start time for this event, rather than the usual 4pm time.CHIME is very pleased to present another thematic online seminar, this time with two professors connected in different ways with the notion of entanglement. Firstly, Christopher Frauenberger, who introduced the term to HCI audiences through his 2019 TOCHI article entitled ‘Entanglement HCI The Next Wave?’*. Secondly, Andrew McPherson, who has explored entanglement ideas in relation to the design and use of digital musical instruments.As usual, there will be time for more general discussion with all attendees after the two 30 minute presentations. <h4>Christopher Frauenberger</h4>Entanglement HCI – configuring human-technology relationsAs we acknowledge the profound impacts that digital technology has on the human (and non-human) condition, we come to realise that we are much more entangled with our tools than modernist thinking has led us to believe. Tools (and instruments) are not merely mute enablers of human intentionality, but they actively shape how we see and act in the world, they shape what it means to be human. Our interactions with artificial intelligence, virtual realities or pervasive, cyber-physical systems have revealed and amplified such ontological, epistemological and ethical uncertainties and require us to re-consider what we do when we design and use technological artefacts.In this talk I offer a posthuman perspective on conceptualising the human-technology/world relationships, its translation into the field of human-computer interaction and try to identify starting points for ways of thinking about the role of digital technologies in creative practices such as music making. <h4>Andrew McPherson</h4>Entanglement HCI and Digital Musical Instrument Design: Theory to PracticeMany new digital musical instruments (DMIs) are created every year, each of which encodes cultural values both obvious and subtle, reflecting the aesthetic priorities of its designer, its constituent technologies, and those technologies' domains of origin. Recent developments in high-performance, low-cost embedded computing promise new frontiers in machine intelligence to be integrated into instruments. The musical opportunities are vast, but so are the risks: who will set the agenda for deploying this technology, and whose interests and aesthetics will be represented?This talk examines resonances between DMI design and recent directions in post-humanist HCI that Christopher Frauenberger terms Entanglement HCI. From this perspective, and drawing on a suggestion by Simon Waters, perhaps musical instruments should be not be viewed as self-contained technological objects at all, but contingent and evolving webs of relationships between humans, technologies and sociocultural systems. This talk will present an early snapshot of work in progress on the RUDIMENTS project, an ERC Consolidator Grant examining how entanglement theories can inform DMI design practice and, in turn, what DMI research might suggest for broader fields of HCI, arts and design. <h4>The CHIME Network</h4>The CHIME network (Computer Human Interaction and Music nEtwork) is an EPSRC-funded research network in Music and Human Computer Interaction which launched in April 2022.<a href="https://chime.ac.uk" title="https://chime.ac.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">chime.ac.uk</a> * Frauenberger, Christopher. 2020. ‘Entanglement HCI The Next Wave?’ ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 27 (1): 1–27. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3364998" title="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3364998" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3364998</a>

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