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Tuesday 15th May and Tuesday 5th June - Open in Process Events

live open debate and presentation events focusing on the making processes for interactive arts

> Tuesday 15th May 2007 @ b>d>s Studios, London Bridge

Denisa Kera (Czech Republic)
Currently working as a research associate at the Center for Global studies, Charles University and Academy of Science (http://cgs.flu.cas.cz/), on issues of cultural and technological aspects of globalization. Teaching new media art and new media theory at the New Media Studies programme at Charles University and the PhD. programme at the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University in Prague.

Looking at the Czech New Media art scene and how this new generation of artists is dealing with the common issues of posthumanism and globalisation in new media art, how they explore the symbiosis of the organic and the inorganic worlds and the interconnection of globalization, evolutionary and technological processes.

Pavel Sedlak, CIANT, Prague (Czech Republic)
Pavel Sedlak is a curator, critic, deputy director of CIANT, currently a
co-chair of the MutaMorphosis conference. His interests include creative, institutional and cultural interaction of arts, sciences and new technologies. Recently he was a member of the Prague Mayor's Committee on the city cultural strategy, a jury member of the CYNETart_06 festival held in Dresden, and an invited speaker at the 40th congress of AICA - International Association of Art Critics.

The presentation of CIANT - International Centre for Art and New
Technologies in Prague will pick up selected past, present and future
projects ranging from arts and culture to education and research.

http://www.ciant.cz/

Michael Takeo Magruder (UK)
Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK deploying New and Technological Media within Contemporary Art contexts. He is a long-standing member of King's Visualisation Lab located in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. His artworks have been showcased in over 160 exhibitions and 30 countries.

His interests concern the simultaneous utilisation and dissection of new technologies as a means to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the digital realm. He seeks to create artworks in which there are no divisions between technologies, aesthetics, and concepts.

http://www.takeo.org/

Booking:
Space is limited to 40 people per night and places are reserved on a first come first served basis.
£3 on the door for refreshments, email Leanne to reserve your place.

> Tuesday 5th June 2007 @ b>d>s Studios, London Bridge

Grains and Pixels (Sweden)
Grains & Pixels is a live cinema project involving three artists –
Bertrand Gondouin, Jacob Munkberg, and Kristofer Ringnér. The project is a creative encounter between artificial intelligence, sound and image. By designing their own software, controllers and a protocol connecting the computers the artists have invented a new instrument for live improvisation. Grains & Pixels is conceived as a set of different structures that can be played and performed in many ways.

The interaction of coincidence, surprise, and attention, create the density and complexity of the image/music. The result is never what or where you expect it to be. Recently awarded at CYNETart 2006, Dresden, Germany and Pixelache 2007, Helsinki, Finland.

Grains & Pixels will also be performing a live set at the Roxy Bar and Screen on Saturday 2nd June as part of body>data>space bi-monthly VJ Night www.roxybarandscreen.com

www.bertrandgondouin.net/post/Grains-Pixels
www.myspace.com/grainsandpixels

Paul Sermon (UK)
Paul Sermon (UK) is a leading pioneer of telematic art and performance, bringing remote participants together in shared and immersive telepresent environments. His numerous awards include the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica "Golden Nica" for interactive art (for Think about the People now, 1991) and the Los Angeles Interactive Media Festival "Sparkey" Award (for Telematic Dreaming, 1994). He has been an Artist in Residence at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, a Guest Professor in Performance and Environment at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. He will discuss his role as Professor of Creative Technology at the University of Salford and examples of his leading research in immersive and expanded telematic environments

http://www.paulsermon.org/

Booking:
Space is limited to 40 people per night and places are reserved on a first come first served basis.
£3 on the door for refreshments, email Leanne to reserve your place.

For more information on b>d>s please contact interested@bodydataspace.net

body>data>space merge live audio-visual interaction with telematics and the new generation of intelligent materials and wearables computers. body>data>space takes installations and live performances into large-scale public environments and architectural builds, shifting the relationship between the artist, the media/content and the user/audience.

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