Core Team

Prof. Oliver Deussen is with the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Konstanz University. He serves as the project director of EACVA from the German side. Deussen graduated from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and since 2003, he is a professor at the University of Konstanz, one of the Excellence Universities in Germany. 2008-2020, he was a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science in Shenzhen (SIAT).

From 2019 to 2020, he served as President of the Eurographics Association. His areas of interest are Information Visualization, non-photorealistic rendering techniques, and sampling theory. He also contributed papers to geometry processing and image-based modeling methods. He is one of the speakers of the Excellence Cluster “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” at the University of Konstanz.  In his e-David project, he has been investigating robotic painting for over ten years.

Prof. Frederic Fol Leymarie is with the computing department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the Project Director of “EACVA: Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art” for the U.K. team. He is a distinguished figure in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, and the visual arts. With expertise encompassing computer graphics, computer vision, gamification, and scientific visualization, he has made significant contributions to our understanding of the visual world.

Leymarie’s AI proficiency has been pivotal in advancing technology, particularly in shape understanding, movement analysis, and machine learning. His multidisciplinary approach involves collaborating with experts in various fields, such as the visual arts, architecture, psychology, biosciences, curating, and applied robotics.

Caterina Moruzzi (1990, Bologna, Italy) is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics in the School of Design, University of Edinburgh, working at the intersection between the philosophy of art, history, and philosophy of human and artificial creativity, and the philosophy of AI.

Her insights on art practices and the art sector come from her background as a classically trained pianist, while she deepened my expertise in the philosophy of art during her Ph.D. (University of Nottingham, 2018) and the research of the latest years.

Liat Grayver (1986, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) is a Berlin-based cross-disciplinary painter and media artist investigating methods to redefine one of the primitive forms of art— painting— within the current technology-based era.

Since January 2016, Grayver has been collaborating with the University of Konstanz on the development of the e-David painting robot, exploring various approaches to integrate robotic and computer languages in the processes of painting and creative image-making. She is an active member of SALOON — Network for Women of Berlin’s Art Scene and an associate artist-researcher at the Epistemologien ästhetischer Praktiken program at ETH Zürich.

Liat Grayver’s artwork has been exhibited in various international museums, galleries, and institutions, including the Jewish Museum Silent Green (BE) Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Natural History (TLV). work has received recognition in the art world through coverage in various media outlets and publications.

https://www.liatgrayver.com/

Daniel Berio is a lecturer at the computing department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a computational artist and does research at the intersection between computer graphics, robotics, and graffiti art. He completed his PhD in computing at Goldsmiths, where he researched methods for the computer-aided design and procedural generation of (synthetic) graffiti art and calligraphy.

Previously, Daniel specialized in multimedia software development, especially applications involving real-time hardware accelerated rendering and vector graphics techniques. Artistically, Daniel comes from a graffiti writing background and explores this same aesthetic in algorithmically generated forms.

Homepage: www.enist.org

Michael Stroh (1999, Friedrichshafen, Germany) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Konstanz after completing his master’s in computer and information science in 2023. His position is about interactive robotic painting with AI support. He has been working at the Chair of Visual Computing in Konstanz since 2021 and focuses on applying image processing methods and machine learning to computer graphics and robotic painting frameworks.

He developed systems for automatic image abstraction for digital art and physical paintings, creating a complete pipeline from an arbitrarily selected input image to a final robotic painting. He aims to re-introduce human creativity and interaction into the automated abstraction process to create an interactive framework for robotic painting.

Rebecca Chamberlain is a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on understanding how and why individuals create and respond powerfully to works of art. Rebecca began her academic journey with a foundation degree in Art and Design at the University of the Arts, London, before transitioning to cognitive science.

She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Experimental Psychology at University College London, where her research centered on the psychology and neuroscience of representational drawing ability. Following this, Rebecca worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Johan Wagemans’ Gestalt Perception lab at KU Leuven in Belgium from 2013-2017. In 2017, she joined Goldsmiths as a lecturer.

Dr. Tomoko Tamari is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is managing editor of Body & Society (SAGE).

Her recent interests focus on AI (artificial intelligence) and society, which was discussed in a series of webinar seminars (https://www.tomokotamari.com/ai-and-society-series). She is also working on contemporary digital media in a forthcoming edited collection, Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies: Animation, the Body and Affect, which will be published in 2023 by Bristol University Press https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/human-perception-and-digital-information-technologies.