
Artist
Talk with Guy Ben-Ary
May 5, 2017, 8PM
Guy
Ben-Ary
is
an artist and a researcher at Symbiotica (University of Western
Australia, Perth) an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research,
learning and hands-on engagement with the life sciences. Recognised
internationally as a major artist and innovator working across science
and media arts, Guy specialises in biotechnological artwork, which
aims to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive. Guy's
work focuses on tissue engineering, microscopy and biological imaging.
His research explores a number of fundamental themes that underpin
the intersection of art and science; namely life and death, cybernetics,
and artificial life. Much of Ben-Ary's work is inspired by science
and nature. His artworks utilise motion and growth and biological
data to investigate technological aspects of today's culture and
the re-use of biological materials and technologies.
In his talk Guy Ben-Ary will present some of the methodologies and
theories that underpin his artistic practice by using as examples,
four of his major projects completed over the last decade: MEART,
The
Silent Barrage,
In-Potentia,
and CellF
(see below). He will discuss issues related to terminology, ethics
and robotic embodiment as an artistic strategy and his artistic
attempt to match bio-engineered neural networks to artistic, robotic
bodies.
CellF,
a neural synthesizer,
will perform with Schneider
TM (12 May) and Stine Janvin (13 May) as part
of Technosphärenklänge
#3 at HKW
12-13 May, 2017
The
third edition of the Technosphärenklänge series,
produced by the HKW in collaboration with CTM Festival,
will present musical projects operating at the border of art and
science. Three projects the worlds first neural synthesizer
that performs with human musicians; water droplets levitated and
shaped by sound waves; and the interconnection of spatial sound
and high-energy lasers make current notions of materiality
tangible and fundamentally re-think the relationship between nature,
technology and human consciousness. All three projects require intensive
research and constant collaboration between the artists, natural
scientists and technologists. The following day, lectures and talks
hosted together with Art Laboratory Berlin will explain the
research and science behind the performances, and discuss the works
social implications.
More
information
Haus
der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557
Berlin
12.5.2017 - CONCERTS
19:00 CELLF in performance with Schneider TM
20:00 FORCE FIELD by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand
21:00 LUMIÈRE III by Robert Henke
Tickets 22/18€ reduced
13.5.2017
TALKS & CONCERTS
15:0018:00 LECTURES & DISCUSSION with Guy Ben-Ary. Nathan
Thompson, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Robert Henke. Moderated
by Christian de Lutz (Art Laboratory Berlin)
18:00 CELLF in performance with Stíne Janvin
Free entrance
A
Projekt of HKW and CTM Festival in cooperation with Art Laboratory
Berlin

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