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Creative
Cyborgs
Performances, presentations and exhibition at The
Dana Centre , 165
Queen's Gate, South Kensington London SW7 5HD
How have computers become an increasingly significant part
of our imaginative and physical being? The development of
increasingly sophisticated tools has been a major influence
on human evolution, but do information technologies have
the potential to transform us in a qualitatively different
way? Blip invited leading artists, musicians, technologists
and philosophers to explore how technology affects us and
our creativity. In this event the audience came face-to-face
with natural born cyborgs, through screenings, performances,
demonstrations and discussion, as we explored how computer
technology impacts on us and our creativity.
There was a disembodied attendance by philosophers Andy
Clark, author of 'Natural born cyborgs', and Mike
Wheeler. They discussed the fundamental role of tools
in human behaviour in a specially commissioned film shot
by Richard
Brown. Ron
Chrisley fielded questions after the screening.
There were 3 performances by:
Paul
Granjon, creator of the 'Cybernetic Parrot Sausage'
and 'Sexed robots', who humorously explores the darker side
of our relationship with technology;
jazz trumpeter Tom
Arthurs and Ollie
Bown (Icarus), with visuals specially developed for
this event by squint
and brittski through a commission from Lighthouse;
Paras
Kaul, aka 'That Brainwave Chick', demonstrated 'Crossings',
a 3-D gaming environment that she interacted with using
her brain waves.
There
was also be an exhibition of 12 artworks from the
Computational
Models of Creativity in the Arts workhop organized by
Goldsmiths, Birkbeck and Sussex Universities on 16 - 17
May at Goldsmiths College.
This
event was produced in association with London
Centre for Arts and Cultural Enerprise, Goldsmiths
College, Birkbeck
College, University
of Sussex, the Computer
Arts Society and Lighthouse.
You
can download the brochure from the event here
which gives details about all of the participanting artists,
performers and speakers.
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