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EXHIBITIONS
CHAMELEON PROJECT, PROTOTYPE 08:
building emotionally responsive video sculptures
A two week residency at Lighthouse with Tina Gonsalves, Experientiae Electricae and the Solent University Rapid Prototyping Lab
Opening artist talk and panel discussion: 01 August 09, 3pm
CHAMELEON prototype 8 work in progress exhibition: Mon 10 - Fri 14 Aug, 3-5pm
Closing artist talk and panel discussion: 15 August, 3pm
At: Lighthouse
FREE
CHAMELEON is back for a second time at Lighthouse!
Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to interact with this innovative art installation and to get a behind the scenes look at how it works!
Why is it that one person can have the ability to ‘light up a room’? How does a previously upbeat group become miserable?
Lighthouse is very pleased to invite Tina Gonsalves back in August for another two-week residency to develop stage 8 of the Chameleon Project – an interactive art installation that responds to the emotions of the viewer.
During her first residency at Lighthouse in March 09, Tina worked with members of the public to test Chameleon’s face reading technology. This time round, she will be testing new types of screens to display Chameleon in ways that go beyond the usual television and projector screens.
Over the two-week period, Gonsalves will work with latest collaborators, French artist group Experientiae Electricae, whose PIXY screens will be built on site, using light, electroluminescent paper to create a 3 dimensional screen.
Once integrated with Chameleon’s innovative emotion sensing technology, PIXY will transform Chameleon’s video portraits into an immersive moving video sculpture.
Gonsalves will also work with the Rapid Prototyping Group (Solent Centre for Design and Innovation) to build screens of different shapes, sizes and textures. The results of both collaborations will be exhibited at Fabrica, Brighton, in October 2009.
Work in progress exhibition at Lighthouse: Monday 10th - Friday 14th August, 3-5pm
Chameleon prototype 8 will open to the public for a week-long work in progress exhibition. During this time, audiences are invited to interact with the artwork and give feedback on their experiences. Audiences will also have a chance to speak to the artist and her collaborators and get a behind the scenes look at the development / working process.
Opening artist talk and panel discussion: 01 August 09, 3pm
Tina Gonsalves will be opening her residency at Lighthouse with a talk about the various methods, experimentations and materials that will be deployed to develop a more sculptural and aesthetic iteration of the Chameleon Project. Tina will be joined by a number of her collaborators including: Gordon Brand ( Product Designer, Rapid Prototyping Lab, Solent University), Nadia Berthouze (Scientist, Interaction Centre, UCL) Hugo Critchley (Chair of Psychiatry, BSMS) and Natacha Rousell (Artist, Experientiae Electricae).
Closing artist talk and panel discussion: 15 August 09, 3pm
Tina will be joined by Experientiae Electricae’s Natacha Rousell and Michael Roy to discuss the results of the residency and their collaboration to integrate Chameleon with the sculptural PIXY screens. Michael Maydon (Project manager, Fabrica) will also join the talk to discuss the exhibition of Chameleon’s prototype 8 at Fabrica in October 2009.
What is the CHAMELEON project?
The Chameleon Project merges art, neuroscience and technology into a poetic interactive video art installation driven by the emotions of the audience. The work uses facial emotion reading technology to assess and respond to the emotional states of the audience. As members of the public enter the exhibition space, cameras will read their facial expressions and the video installations will attempt to respond empathically.
The Chameleon Project is a collaboration between Tina Gonsalves, media arts curator Helen Sloan SCAN, world leading neuroscientists and affective computer scientists. Chameleon further establishes Tina Gonsalves’ links with key research centres internationally including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Institute of Neurology (IoN).
Chameleon is funded through a large arts award Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, Australian Network for Arts and Technology, Australia Arts Council, Lighthouse, and is supported by UCL, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, SCAN, MIT Media Lab and The Banff New Media Institute, Canada.
Tina's blog: www.a-n.co.uk
For more information regarding the Chameleon Project please visit: www.tinagonsalves.com/chamselectframe02.htm
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