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DIGIVILLE
CHAMELEON: Tina Gonsalves, Hugo Critchley and Helen Sloan
Artist talk and panel discussion at Lighthouse
Wednesday 04 February 09
7pm - Artist Talk
Lighthouse commissioned Tina Gonsalves to develop and exhibit prototype 7 of her 10 stage Chameleon project in the Lighthouse space during 2009. Currently Honorary Artist in Residence at the Wellcome Department of Neuroimaging at The Institute of Neurology (IoN) in London, Gonsalves is collaborating with various eminent neuroscientists and world leading affective computer scientists, merging key research centres internationally including the Affective Computing Group at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA where she is Visiting Artist.
Why is it that one person can have the ability to ‘light up a room’? How does a previously upbeat group become miserable? The Chameleon project merges art, neuroscience and technology into a poetic interactive video art installation driven by emotions of the audience. The project investigates emotional contagion, highlighting how we innately and continuously synchronize with the facial expressions, voices, postures of others, unconsciously infecting each other with our emotions. The work uses mind reading technology, video and emotional algorithms to assess and respond to the emotional states of the audience.
Tina Gonsalves discussed the development of Chameleon with members of her collaborative team, neuroscientist Dr. Hugo Critchley and curator of the project, Helen Sloan Director of SCAN media arts agency.
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.
http://www.tinagonsalves.com/chamselect
Digiville is funded by Arts Council England, South East, Brighton & Hove City Council
and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
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Digiville is our monthly event for digital and moving image artists. Each event incorporates a diverse cross-section of the digital arts community, from installation artists to animators and VJs, and involves an initial presentation of work, either by individual artists or artist groups, followed by a Q&A/discussion session. The artists invited to present their work or perform are a careful mix of well-known names and less established artists.
  
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