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 world’s 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.
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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
15:00–18:00 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