Art–science projects exploring sensory and computational perception and conviction in robots and artificial lifeforms.
Alter versus Deep Belief

Elena Knox is a media artist and scholar. Her artworks stage enactments of persona, gender and sonzai kan in technoscience and communications media, and are presented in première venues internationally. Recent shows include: Bangkok Art Biennale; Yokohama Triennale, Japan; Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, New York; Beijing Media Art Biennale; Nine Tomorrows, PowerLong Art Center Hangzhou; Beholder, Hong Kong International Commerce Centre (ICC) 118-storey façade; Algorithmic Art, Hong Kong City Hall; International Symposium on Electronic Art; Athens Digital Arts Festival; Cairo Video Festival; Video Vortex, Kochi Biennale.

​Knox’s experimental projects are nominated for various awards, including Australian Art Music and Green Room Awards, LA Underground Film Forum, and "Present Future" Art and Technology Star Award (Shanghai). She is a researcher in Intermedia Art and Science at Waseda University, Tokyo.

Katsumi Watanabe is a scientist focusing on perception, cognition and action. His research methods encompass interdisciplinary approaches to cognitive science, and real-life applications of knowledge. Project themes include: perceptual distortion of space and time; automation processes of learned sequential actions; implicit processes for decision-making based on preference; implicit learning of visual contexts; implicit motor synchronisation; post-dictive decision making.

​Watanabe collaborates closely with AIST (Cognition and Action Research Group, HSBE, Japan), CREST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Japan), and Caltech (Shimojo Lab, USA). He has a PhD in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology, and is Professor at the Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University, Tokyo.