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    • Living Thing (LTRL)
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SEICA History


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2019 March  SEICA's multimedia research work and artefacts published and disseminated IRL in Biodigitally curated by Zaiba Jabbar / Hervisions in Important Magazine (Issue 2).

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 Publication documentation of Biodigitally in Important Magazine (Issue 2)

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2018 November  Founding Director presents SEICA at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)'s meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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Program documentation of SEICA at SLSA


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2018 September SEICA is long-listed for the prestigious Lumen Prize - The Global Award for Art and Technology




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Digital documentation from the Lumen Prize


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2018 August Founding Director presents SEICA at the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)'s conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Photo documentation of Founding Director's presentation at ELO


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2018 May - October  Human Condition Research Lab (HCRL)'s multimedia research work New Order Of Being (N.O.O.B.) presented by organizations Streaming Museum and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center 
Digital documentation from Streaming Museum and Harvestworks


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2018 July SEICA showcasing SEICA Press Release Materials - Digital Brochure, 2XXX and a selection multimedia research works at Peripheral Forms alongside other creative projects on #cyborgs organized by artist and curator JAH Justice 


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2018 June Founding Director presents SEICA to a live virtual audience at the Scenes and Screens Festival hosted by AltspaceVR, Microsoft
Screenshot documentation of AltSpaceVR presentation


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2018 June Speculative Human Research Lab (SHRL)'s multimedia research on The Metallic Human included in the second volume of Thank You For Nothing (T.Y.F.N.) created by multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and academic R.L. Muas
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Image of "The Receiver" from SEICA Speculative Human Research Lab


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2018 May SEICA Residency Research Projects space opens and Resident Research Fellow launches survey for project on Internet Sentiment Study
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Digital documentation of SEICA News Feed


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2018 May 11 Founding Director on panel with legal professionals Dave Ratner and Justin Konrad, artist Aaron Holstein, and Meredith Badler program director of Colorado Business Committee for the Arts at Colorado Creative Industries Summit on Innovations in Art + Law + Technology
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Photo documentation of name tag from Colorado Creative Industries Summit


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2018 March 29 SEICA News Feed made available for archived BREAKING NEWS: Latest 10 (RE)discoveries​ at SEICA Human Interaction Labs
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Digital documentation of SEICA News Feed


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2018 March 26  SEICA installs new bulletin board BREAKING NEWS: Latest 10 (RE)discoveries​ at SEICA Human Interaction Labs to highlight 10 up-to-date key developments at the organization
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Digital documentation of BREAKING NEWS section


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2018 March 25 SEICA opens dedicated Conference Call space that promotes idea exchange and collaboration
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Digital documentation of new Conference Call space


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2018 March 9 SEICA presents at first IRL Creative Research Fair
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Digital documentation of Conference Starter Kit


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2018 March 8 Founding Director on panel with legal professionals Sandra Aistars, Jon Berroya, Corynne McSherry, Michael O'Leary and film maker Jane Clark at Silicon Flatirons conference on DMCA, Section 512 Safe Harbor: Challenges and Opportunities in User-Generated Content
Screenshot and photo documentation from Silicon Flatirons


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2018 March 1 Marketing publishes first press release for inaugural issue of SEICA NOW
Digital documentation of SEICA NOW


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2017 November 26 Founding Director presents SEICA to an IRL live attentive audience for the first time to a group hosted by composer, studio artist, and educator Betsey Biggs
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Photo documentation from Founding Director's first IRL live presentation


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2017 November 9 Founding Director presents SEICA at "___xVirtual"
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Video still documentation from Founding Director's presentation at "___xVirtual"


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2017 November 4 SEICA website goes through major textual and visual updates that includes a new landing page
GIF documentation of SEICA's V.2 facade and navigation

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2017 October 28 SEICA officially claims space in cyberspace www.seicalabs.org
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GIF documentation of SEICA's active URL


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2017 October 11 Founding Director delivers a conference talk at University of Colorado Boulder and formally introduces SEICA and the exploratory case study research conducted by the Living Thing Research Lab (LTRL). Attendees include artist Angie Eng, Director of Techne Lab Mark Amerika, Director of Media Archaeology Lab Lori Emerson.


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2017 September SEICA is under construction and the team continues to grow with the generous support of cloud computing systems
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GIF documentation of SEICA's V.1 facade under construction

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2017 September 1 SEICA's official groundbreaking ceremony. Founding Director delivers a speech, ending with: Together, we can help build meaningful relationships

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Photo documentaton from SEICA's Ground Breaking Ceremony



2017 August 4 First documented introduction to Synthetic Creatures and Empathetic Intelligent Artefacts
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From "Spa.Break" grant proposal, “2017_Proposal_Spa.Break_Rhizome_Microgrant”



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2017 August 4 During her SF Dinner Party Residency with artist Michelle L. Morby, Founding Director applies for Rhizome’s​ 2017 Microgrant and ends up simultaneously working on two proposals at once. One being a further development of RobotPuppy Club and the other being a new online relaxation web project, Spa.Break. Kim ends up submitting Spa.Break to Rhizome

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Music video adaptation of "SEICA" drafted for proposal, “2017_Proposal_Spa.Break_Rhizome_Microgrant”​
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Image of "Spa.Break" for grant proposal, “2017_Proposal_Spa.Break_Rhizome_Microgrant”



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2017 July 17 Founding Director travels to Geneva, Switzerland and visits CERN I Accelerating Science observing the past and present collide with the future

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2017 July 9 The conception of the RobotPuppy Club document stirs a series of questions that lead to more questions for the Founding Director

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Actual Google document excerpt, ​"2017_Project_ Empathetic Machines and Consumer Electronic Technology"






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2017 June 22 During her residency at the Internet Archive developing the Hyper Future Wave Machine, Founding Director conceptualizes a new project she titles as RobotPuppy Club
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Actual Google document excerpt, "2017_Project RobotPuppy Club_FirstConceptualization"





​2017 May 23 Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Founding Director of SEICA, visits TEPIA (Association for Technological Excellence Promoting Innovative Advances) in Tokyo, Japan to meet Paro, an advanced interactive therapeutic baby harp seal robot developed by Dr. Takanori Shibata at AIST (Association for Iron & Steel Technology)





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Founding Director of SEICA interacting with Paro for the first time

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  • Synthetic Empathic Intelligent Companion Artefacts
  • About
    • Mission + Vision
    • Organization
    • History
    • Resident Researchers
    • Affiliations
  • Research
    • Living Thing (LTRL)
    • Human Condition (HCRL)
    • Speculative Human (SHRL)
    • Intermediary Interface (IIRL)
  • Prototype
    • Playbots
    • Emobots
    • Therabots
  • Residency
    • Residency Research
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