Bischoff
My presentation will trace a path that outlines my own musical history and experience of experimental music, focusing particularly on electro-acoustic music. Some of the examples I will discuss originate in acoustic music traditions and I include them because they have played an important part in my approach to working with electronics. The phrase “free association” in the title refers to both the connections between ideas that I will be suggesting, and to the free association in Computer Network Music—a musical form I will be talking about—between players, between notes, and between musical parameters. Captioned images of the computer technology my colleagues and I have used, starting from about 1977, will accompany my discussion.

Rakelly
Many details about our world are not captured in written records because they are too mundane or too abstract to describe in words. Fortunately, since the invention of the camera, an ever-increasing number of photographs capture much of this otherwise lost information. This plethora of artifacts documenting our "visual culture" is a treasure trove of knowledge as yet untapped by historians. We present a dataset of 37,921 frontal-facing American high school yearbook photos that allow us to use computation to glimpse into the historical visual record too voluminous to be evaluated manually. The collected portraits provide a constant visual frame of reference with varying content. We can therefore use them to consider issues such as a decade's defining style elements, or trends in fashion and social norms over time. We demonstrate that our historical image dataset may be used together with weakly-supervised data-driven techniques to perform scalable historical analysis of large image corpora with minimal human effort, much in the same way that large text corpora together with natural language processing revolutionized historians' workflow. Furthermore, we demonstrate the use of our dataset in dating grayscale portraits using deep learning methods.

Saakyan
Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? Get ready to dive into a laconic explanation of spacetime, evolution, consciousness, machine intelligence, and simulation theory as we learn to better understand our world and our future trajectory.

Drum
Questioning the effect and affect of the use of specific forms and tools, both high and low tech, for the production of socially and ecologically engaged art projects, I will critique two of my own recent works: Fish Stories Community Cookbook and the Oyster City AR Walking Tour.