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Re: Subtle Technologies Opening Night: Art, Science, and the Emotional Response at OCAD May 24, Toronto

From: jim ruxton   cinetronpassport.ca
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:35:30 -0700

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Hi. Seeing as how this is the Art and Robotics Group, I just wanted to
highlight to everyone on the list Bill Vorn and Emma Howe's performance
on Friday evening as part of Subtle Technologies. The description of
Grace State Machines: Flesh Bodies is below:

This performance involves a human performer and a machine. Both are
linked via a high-end motion capture system and a set of biofeedback
sensors and interfaces. By monitoring the human body movements and
internal states and transposing this information to the robot body, a
dynamic and symbiotic relationship between the actors is established.
Both eventually blend into a single organism, where flesh, bones, wires
and tubes become a whole individual body.
This project questions the notions of physical perception, body
expression and personal identity, and address kinaesthesis not only as
an internal proprioceptive mechanism but as a potential exterior
phenomenon actualized through the robotic extension of the body. This
encounter between the living and the non-living evokes the dichotomic
correlation between the mind and the body, between the self and the
other, between the real and the imaginary.


jim

 
> Art, Science, and the Emotional Response: 
> a panel discussion on the biological as a medium in art and science
> 
> OPENING EVENT
> 10th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival
> - in situ â art body medicine
> 
> Thursday May 24 2007
> 8PM
> Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
> Auditorium
> 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
> 
> Sally McKay will moderate an evening of discussion on emotional
> responses drawn during artistic (BioArt) and scientific (Microbiology)
> practices. 
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> Panelists:
> Oron Catts (SymbioticA)
> Jennifer Willet and Sean Bailey (Bioteknica) 
> Abigail Salyers (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
> Michael Schmidt (Medical University of South Carolina) 
> 
> http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2007/?page_id=3 
> co-presented with MicrobeWorld and the Ontario College of Art &
> Design.
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> Followed by 3 full days of programming
> 
> SYMPOSIUM â 26 international presenters from poetry to fluid
> mechanics, ethics to immunotherapy
> http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2007/?page_id=5 
> 
> PERFORMANCE â dance, robotics, butoh
> http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2007/?page_id=8 
> 
> EXHIBITIONS â Whose Body is it, Anyway?, Subjects of Hybridization,
> Children and Youth Picture SickKids Hospital Photo Exhibition, The
> Anatomies
> http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2007/?page_id=6
> 
> To register: http://subtletechnologies.com
> Subsidies for students and the underemployed.
> 
> Partners: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Year Zero One,
> SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Ontario College of Art &
> Design, Ontario Science Centre, MicrobeWorld, University of Toronto
> Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Design
> Exchange, University of Toronto Health Care, Technology, and Place.
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> Supporters: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
> Arts Council, Australian Network for Art & Technology.
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