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Golan Levin
Experimentalist engineer in audiovisual performance and interactive art
Experimentalist engineer in audiovisual performance and interactive art
Golan Levin is interested in the medium of response, and in the conditions that enable people to experience 'flow,' or sustained creative feedback with reactive systems. This presentation discusses a wide range of his own works, with particular attention to how gestural interfaces, visual abstraction, and information visualization can support new modes of interaction, play, and self-discovery. Levin introduces the term 'speculative HCI (human computer interaction) design' to frame a mode of inquiry in which novel interactions are proposed, implemented and evaluated, not for their applicability to solving problems, but for their inherent potential to pose new ones.
Golan Levin's work combines the whimsical, provocative, and sublime across online, installation and performance media, applying creative twists to new technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. At the time, Levin was Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University, with Courtesy Appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of Design.
