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Moderated by: Vicki Sowry
Guests: Allard van Hoorn, Simeon Nelson, Christian Nold, Esther Polak, Urbanistan (Asta Olga & Annamaria Bogadottir) and Jeremy Wood
In the closing years of last century, the assumed objectivity of cartographic representation came under serious challenge, driven by increasingly accessible mapping tools and grounded upon revisionist approaches to history, geography and culture. Artists - as is often the case - have become the ‘research and development’ arm of these new approaches to mapping, charged with capturing and representing the exponentially increasing banks of spatial, cultural and social data held about and throughout our world.
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Moderated by: Vicki Sowry
Guests: Daniel Bisig, Gordana Dodig-Crnovic, Philippe Pasquier, Reva Stone & Tatsuo Unemi
As well as surveying contemporary projects, this month's discussion concerns itself with some of the underpinning issues raised by the research and practice of these fields; one such issue would have to be the apparent irony in bringing these two meta-disciplines together - with one, artificial intelligence (AI), on a head-long endeavour to replicate human intelligence, and the other, cognitive science, still strides
away from understanding how we think and when and why.
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Moderated by: Vicki Sowry
Guests: Lizbeth Goodman, Ju Gosling, Brad Nunn & Stelarc
The use of augmenting technologies for different types of bodies results in very different things. Issues related to functional impairment and the use of prostheses to extend ability are not the same as those raised by the use of prostheses to achieve a type of 'super-functionality' on the one hand, or to question what bodies are and could be on the other. Throughout May, the discussion will look at different types of augmentation practices and tease out the impacts of each on how we think about, inhabit and use our bodies.
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| Moderated by: Vicki Sowry |
| Guests: Kirsty Boyle, Paul Brown, Shuhei Miyashita, Leonel Moura, Douglas Repetto & Mari Velonaki |
The April discussion concerned robotics and artists' engagement with the field. As well as surveying contemporary projects, the conversation focused on the ramifications of artists working alongside scientists on robotics, now and into the future. |
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Moderated by: Vicki Sowry |
| Guests: Oron Catts, Monika Bakke, Jens Hauser, Kathy High & George Gessert |
For the first part of March, the discussion focused on the materiality of bioart and, in particular, the effect of using living materials in the production of art works. As pioneering bioartist, Oron Catts, has noted, "there is a growing discrepancy between our cultural perceptions of life and what we know about life scientifically and what we can do with life technologically". Where does such a discrepancy lead? And what are the ontological, political and ethical ramifications of this divergence between what we perceive, what we know and what we are able to do with living matter? Mid-month, the discussion expanded to include the challenges and issues relating to the exhibition and distribution of bioart works. |
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