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| Deconism Exhibit Explores Cyborg Culture |
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posted by Editor on Monday March 17, @07:09PM
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James Fung writes "On March 21-22, 2003, Deconism Gallery will be presenting a series of exhibits that explore the relationship between cyborg art, science, technology, architecture, design, and business. Each of these works explores the premise that we've already (and in some cases unwittingly) become cyborgs, but that this transformation has occurred without an understanding of the implicit opportunities and threats to our collective minds and bodies." The program will include a dialogue between Stelarc, an Australian performance artist who wires himself to the web, and Steve Mann, the inventor of the wearable computer and the world's first photographic cyborg. There will also be a Regenerative Music concert, in which 80 participants will simultaneously contribute their
brainwaves via EEG to a computer controlled music system which will
measure participants' brainwave responses to the music to "regenerate" the music on the fly.
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On March 21st,
the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto presents an evening's dialogue between Stelarc, an internationally recognized Australian performance artist and public intellectual in the area of new media and technology, and Steve Mann, the acclaimed inventor of the wearable computer and the world's first photographic cyborg. Stelarc and Mann have both probed the nature and workings of the body and mind through technological mediation. The dialogue will be a probe into a future of awareness, the nature of consciousness reacting to technological extensions, and the ensuing effects upon individuals, culture, and society
On March 22nd, there will be a Regenerative Music concert
where 80 participants will simultaneously contribute their
brainwaves (EEG) to a computer controlled music system which will
guage participants brainwave responses to the music to
``regenerate'' the music on the fly. Also, in a play on the popular
music concert phenomenon, wherein one walks away from the
performance with a t-shirt of the band, concertgoers will walk away
with a print of their own brainwave band width, in Hertz, on an "EEG
shirt".
Following the events will be two weeklong exhibits: "DECONsciousness: Building as Blog" and "The History and Future of Wearable Computing""
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