Practice-based research in art and technology at the University of Technology, Sydney

Level 6 - Room 6.430 UTS Building 10, Jones St nr Broadway - see this map for location and directions.
This is a free public event; no registration required.
www.creativityandcognition.com

Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS) is a multi-disciplinary environment for practice-based research in digital media and the arts. It provides nationally and internationally recognised artists and technologists with a space in which to collaborate, experiment and create as equal partners.

A public panel discussion from key players in the area of 'arts and technology collaborations' will be followed by a presentation from Stelarc (who is an associated member of CCS) and an informal gathering around an exhibition of CCS work and performances. This is a free public event, taking place at UTS.

Panel: New Art - New Media: research collaboration in art and technology
Ernest Edmonds, Director of CCS, Faculty of Information Technology, UTS
Gina Czarnecki, multimedia artist, UK
Linda Candy, co-author `Explorations in Art and Technology', Springer 2002
Ross Gibson, Research Professor in New Media & Digital Culture at UTS
Kevin Sumption, Associate Director Knowledge and Information Management, Powerhouse Museum
Mike Stubbs, Managing Curator ACMI, Melbourne
Daniel Woo, UNSW, Synapse project partner

Presentation: Stelarc
Prosthetic Head, Extra Ear and Muscle Machine
Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA, including new music, dance festivals and experimental theatre. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY and a STOMACH SCULPTURE. He has acoustically and visually probed the body - having amplified brainwaves, blood-flow and muscle signals and filmed the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon, approximately two metres of internal space. He has done twenty-five body SUSPENSIONS with insertions into the skin, in different positions and varying situations in remote locations. For FRACTAL FLESH, as part of Telepolis, he developed a touch-screen interfaced Muscle Stimulation System, enabling remote access, actuation and choreography of the body. Performances such as PING BODY and PARASITE probe notions of telematic scaling and the engineering of external, extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the Internet.

Performances: including Mark Fell, sound artist UK, Ernest Edmonds and Andrew Johnston of CCS - plus an exhibition of CCS digital artworks and research. A cash bar and food will be available.

For further information, please email Roman Danylak or call +61 2 9514 4628.