| CRCA researchers Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand will be doing a performance entitled Technesexual that uses DIY biometric sensors that were made by hand to
create live audio which will be heard in real space and virtual space
at the same time. It is a Mixed Reality performance exploring
relationality between people and between people and technology.
Cardenas and Mehrmand will be performing Technesexual in Tijuana at
Entijuanarte on Oct 4th, in San Francisco at Arse Elektronika on Oct 2nd and in Montreal at
Artivistic. They will also be doing a 3 day workshop in Montreal from Oct 15-17th,
sharing the technology used for the performance with workshop
participants including DIY electronics, Second Life and Puredata.
More info and photos here: http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations
Entijuanarte 09 at CECUT -
entijuanarte es una plataforma artistica y cultural que busca alentar
la exposicion, promocion y venta de arte contemporaneo de artistas
nacionales y extranjeros, individuales y colectivos. Su convocatoria
incluye disciplinas y medios diversos como pintura, escultura,
fotografía, dibujo, grabado, medios digitales, instalación y
performance. Este ano, en su quinta edicion, entijuanarte 09, refrenda
su compromiso y expande el papel que su presencia ha ido conformando
con las pasadas ediciones dentro del escenario artístico y cultural
regional y nacional.
Arse Elektronika
- Of Intercourse and Intracourse = Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech,
Wetware, Body mods = Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious
group-civilisation called "Culture" in his eponymous narrative. The
vast majority of humanoid people in the "Culture" are born with greatly
altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete
- on command - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into
the person's bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly
altered reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves -
to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a
fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a
static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change
from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention
that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may
sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy
to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better
than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably
build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity
will be established. Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too
utopian? Too bizarre?
Artivistic 2009 - TURN*ON - The
world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an
incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference,
exchange and liberation. Our actions today are charged with an energy
that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply
irresistible. For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going
sexy. From October 15 to 17, 2009, we invite participants to
discuss, question, and imagine the proxemics of sexuality, technology
and politics. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we
want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire
in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced
differently.
URL: http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixed_Relations
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