Monday, May 20, 2024
6PM – 9PM
Open to all, regardless of experience / skill level.
Each session begins with a lightning talk or workshop and is followed by hacking, hanging, and peer-to-peer skill-sharing.
Free RSVP
Bring your computer and current works-in-progress.
Seated program
View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests.
Simulation Sessions is a free monthly event series facilitated by the World Engines Lab, incubated at Gray Area. In response to the growing prevalence and sophistication of virtual simulations and environments, these sessions seek to sustain a local community of 3D designers, artists, and technologists, facilitate peer teaching and learning, and spark dialogue about the social, cultural, and political dimensions of building digital worlds.
All, regardless of skill or experience level, are welcome to attend and bring their current projects (in any 3D platform, including Unreal, Unity, Godot, Three.js, Babylon.js, Rhino, Blender, Houdini, Spline, Womp, TouchDesigner, Custom 3DAI tools, and more).
Each session begins promptly at 6pm with a brief talk or mini-workshop led by a member of the community. At 6:30pm, participants are invited to work on projects, seek technical advice, mingle, and meet others engaged in the practice of building simulations.
Delta_Ark’s current work is a sequence of interactive virtual environments and audio-visual experiences that represent and embody different relationships between human-like entities, artificial intelligences (of various powers) and natural systems (or chimeras) in different science fiction contexts, often involving precipitous technological evolution, climate change or the far future. Many of these works explore future power-relations between AGIs, ASIs and cyberized forms of collective and individual human intelligence in order to sketch out some visions of a post-biological (and/or synthetic-biological) future. Motifs from Jewish mythology, Japanese popular media and contemporary philosophy often form the contextual backdrop of these explorations.
The World Engines Lab, led by Delta_Ark Studios and incubated at Gray Area, is focused on making a large persistent simulation with powerful agents that artists can use/collaborate with for live performance. This world can be adapted to create games, films, sculptures, agent-based scientific and interaction experiments and artificial life. Researcher-artists in the lab will use these systems to explore multi-species relations (humans, AI) and the future of evolution (on this planet, or others), articulating different narratives and ramifications of human-agent interaction.
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