KINETICA ART FAIR 2011: Friday Programme

Talks & Screenings

 

Each year Kinetica curates and collaborates with numerous organisations and individuals to create a vibrant and engaging programme of talks, screenings, performances and events. The theme for the 2011 fair was 'Body, Brain and Consiousness' and featured performances, talks and panels from our exhibitors and visiting experts, academics and artists from all over the world.

 

10.00 – Musion Academy Screenings

11.00 – Stelarc – Screening of Prosthetic Head
Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head is an automated, animated and reasonably informed 3D avatar head that speaks to the person who interrogates it. It has real-time lip-synching, speech synthesis and facial expressions, and exposes notions of awareness, identity, agency and embodiment as inadequate.

12.00 – Andrew Carnie and Richard Wingate – Slices and Snapshots
Andrew Carnie’s work ‘The Magic Forest’ arose from a collaboration with Dr Richard Wingate, of the Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurology, at Kings College, London. The work tracks the development, proliferation, and organisation of neurones in the growing brain.

13.00 – Jasia Reichardt – Archive of Artists Working With Technology
Jasia presents her archive of Electronic / New Media Art dating back to the late 1970s. The archive will later be available as a resource through the Kinetica Museum website.

14.00 – Rita Carter and Garry Kennard – Art and the Brain – Picturing Perception
Rita Carter, renowned science writer and author of ‘Mapping the Mind’ and ‘Consciousness’, is a specialist on the human brain: what it does, how it does it, and why. Rita will speak alongside Garry Kennard, artist and organiser of ‘Art and Mind’, a unique festival bringing together eminent thinkers, artists and scientists.

15.00 – Robert Pepperell – Art, perception and consciousness
Artist, theorist and author of ‘Post Human Condition’ and ‘Post Human Manifesto’, Robert Pepperell explores possibilities suggested by synthetic intelligence, organic computers and genetic modification which are deeply challenging to the sense of human predominance. Excerpts of his Post Human manifesto will be revealed which describe human nature at this time in our history.

16.00 – LAb[au] – MetaDesign
LAb[au] is an artist group based in Brussels, founded in 1997, with the aim of examining the influence of advanced technologies in the forms, methods and content of art. With a background in architecture their members and projects are concerned with the construct of ‘space’ and the way it can be planned, experienced and conceptualized in an information age.

17.00 – Madi Boyd – Exploring The Point of Perception through Art and Science
Madi Boyd explores perception of movement and form in space, collaborating with neuroscientists at UCL to produce experimental arenas in order to explore the limits of human perception. She will reveal the work behind her installation at Kinetica Art Fair, ‘Point of Perception’, and how this has inspired her performance ‘Light Harp’. Music by Patricia Afari.

Performances from 18.00 to 20.00

Musion Academy performances will explore the interplay between perception and reality and its parallels with the way we construct a perceptual experience of the world. Featuring:

Madi Boyd – Light Harp
Light Harp uses imagery originating from ‘Point of Perception’ as an endlessly transforming entity.

Rachel Garrard – 7 Transmutations
A performance starting from a centre circle, Rachel Garrard’s drawings build up gradually, emanating from the still centre and expanding in 6 directions within the space.

Ryan Styles – Prolific Profiles
Ryan Styles presents theatrical, stylised performances with elaborately costumed characters. This piece expertly optimises the Musion holographic system.

Madaleine Trigg – Sutre
Trigg’s work is predominantly occupied with the image and issues of the female body, and utilises sculptural materials, movement and costumes to (re)present the body.

Di Mainstone – Serendiptihchord