Beskrivelse
Extract from the Event Programme:
"A human being would lack nothing, if one were to admit that there are a thousand ways to live. - Canguilhem
Following through on the activities that took place within the framework of two colloquia and publications, Interfaces et Sensoralité (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2003) and Arts et Biotechnologies (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2004), and based on the work with the persons of disabilities conducted, over several years, by the group at Cyprès in Marseille, we believe it is opportune to provide a site for insightful reflections on questions relating to (dis)abilities. At the intersection of several contemporary art projects, bioscientific research activities and technological innovations, the notion ofdeficiency seems to be one of the most fertile and troubling forces. It has certainly had a pronounced affect on the experimental art scene, generating an array of creativity and producing spectacular and symbolically-rich artworks.
At the present time, it is important to evaluate the technological and biotechnological supports that affect conditions of viability, of autonomy and (dis)abilities of human beings and to observe any evolutionary signs signaling an increase in human cognitive, mental, imaginary and symbolic capabilities.
Artists, theorists, (bio)scientists, and (bio)engineers) and other specialists working in related fields are invited to present their artworks, ideas and research, as well as certain developments and applications in this domain. Some of the themes to be explored are:
Redesigning the Human
All disciplines involved in the redesigning of the human being are included within the framework of this colloquium. On the one hand, these disciplines occupy the central stage, determining and illuminating the orientation and objectives of the colloquium Mobile / Immobilized, and on the other hand, they serve as a gauge, allowing one to evaluate the techno-anthropological and political impact of such practices on humans.
The Augmented Body
Increasingly, technological developments give the impression that human beings are inadequately equipped. This section of the colloquium concentrates on artistic works whose orientation and experimental factors, open up conceptual possibilities as well as practical applications for people with certain deficiencies or constraints (Virtual reality, biofeedback, motion captures, interactivity, synthetic voices, sound, technological extensions, implants, etc.).
Certain artworks/technologies, adapted to and for particular disabilities may result, in certain cases in technical or technological solutions that offer unforeseen uses for a broad public and increased knowledge about the human body, cognition, etc.
Interfaces, the Sensorial & (Dis)abilities
A number of scientific research projects currently explore alternative modes and different avenues in view of reactivating or transmitting certain sensorial capabilities that have either deteriorated, are deficient or are simply misunderstood. Certain experiments open up a whole field of practical possibilities that, in turn, permit one to imagine different forms of life and other ways of representing the human and certain human functions. Such scientific experiments coincide with research conducted by a number of artists who have also developed interfaces permitting different kinds of connections with others and with the environment.
Art as a Life Laboratory
The question here is the study of artistic approaches that propose an important slippage towards a centre of gravity different from the site of current art practices. It is a matter of considering new artworks and artistic processes as cognitive tools, charged at one and the same time with an emotion and with indissociablecognition, artworks that permit one to conceive of strategies for inventive learning and adaptation in the attempt to find new symbolic andsensory forms. These approaches permit one to redefine artistic activity in terms of the laboratory of life by actively participating in the development of tools that work for, and in concert with, persons with disabilities. This can be done by considering specific imaginaries, unique forms of creations and creativity, and different modes of global communication.
Mobile/Immobilized: Art, Technologies & (Dis)abilities At the intersection of contemporary media art projects, current scientific research and technological innovations, we encounter astounding new ways in which the limits of the able and disabled body and mind are enhanced or expanded. How do such practices alter conceptions of the body, of the mind? What are the implications of these emerging practices? http://noemalab.eu/memo/events/mobileimmobilzed-art-technologies-disabilities/ Date: Wednesday, 31 October – Saturday, 3 November, 2007 Place: Complexe des sciences Pierre-Dansereau, UQAM 200, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, Canada Amphitheatre – SH-2800 At the intersection of contemporary media art projects, current scientific research and technological innovations, we encounter astounding new ways in which the limits of the able and disabled body and mind are enhanced or expanded. How do such practices alter conceptions of the body, of the mind? What are the implications of these emerging practices? In the colloquium, Mobile/Immobilized: Art, Technologies & (Dis)abilities, artists, architects, choreographers, curators, philosophers, theorists, scientist and other specialists, from Canada, the US, Britain, France, Denmark, Russia and Brazil, will provide unique insights into these questions. They will present their art practices, as well as their scientific and technological projects, and they will explore diverse issues relating to disabilities and to the challenges confronting the expanded body/mind. Simultaneous translation of the following presentations into English or French will be provided • Roy Ascott (University of Plymouth) - Technoetic Disability and the Syncretic Condition • Thierry Bardini (Université de Montréal) - La malédiction de la main • Louis Bec (CYPRES, Centre de recherche Art/Sciences/ Technologies, Marseille) - Des contraintes à la transférabilité • Anthony (aka Tony) Brooks (Aalborg University) - SoundScapes/ArtAbilitation – Where Expression is the Art, and Art is the Expression; • Philippe Boissière (Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse) - Les 3 visages de VITIPI • Marc Boucher (UQAM) - Kinesthésie et vision • Dmitry Bulatov (National Centre for Contemporary Art, Russia) - Evolutionary potential of technologies • Aude Crispel (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III) - Touchez, ma souris est une prothèse virtuelle ! • Marie Chouinard (Chorégraphe, Montreal) - Du tournoi international de soccer des sans-abris à l’os pénien des mammifères (dont le mâle humain est dépourvu ); • Diana Domingues (University of Caxias do Sul Brazil) - Cyber esthétique et l’ingénierie des sens en Software Art • Chloé Dreno (Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III)- Une lutte contre la fragilité • Sarah Drury (Temple University) - Iconographies of the different body • Kitsou Dubois (Choréographe, Université de Paris VII) - Incarnation/incorporation; • Robert Forget (CRIR, Université de Montréal) - Rôle des afférences sensorielles proprioceptives dans le contrôle moteur et leurs utilisations en réadaptation des déficiences physiques; • Victor Frak (CRIR, Institut de réadaptation de Montréal, UQAM) - Effet de la préhension imaginaire sur la main controlatérale; • Joyce Fung et Lucinda Hughey (CRIR, McGill University) - Eyes, Ears And Feet: Sensorimotor (Dis)Integration In Dance And Disease; • Katerie Gladys (University of Florida at Gainesville) / Deshae E. Lott (Louisiana State University in Shreveport) - Augmented Spirit: Extreme Embodiment • Norbert Hillaire (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) - Esthétique de la contrainte; • Ted Krueger (Renssealer Polytechnic Institute) - Thoughts on Design and Science; • Michaël La Chance (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) - Le cerveau prothétique : histoire de l’électrostimulation, esthétiques expérimentales • Charles Lenay (Université de Technologie de Compiègne) - Médiation technique et expérience partagée • Jean-Sébastien Lourdais (Chorégraphe, Montreal) - « Défaut de fabrication danse » : Une œuvre • Christine Palmiéri (UQAM) - Utopies concrètes, émergence d’un art empathique, d’un art prothétique • Ferdinando Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi (Northwestern University) - The Adaptive Representation of Space and Time; • Sally Jane Norman (Culture Lab, Newcastle University) - Body without Organs; • Nicolas Reeves (UQAM) - Effets de surface : lucidité létale et illusions fécondes; • Patrice Renaud (Université du Québec en Outaouais, UQAM) - La réhabilitation des processus perceptivo-cognitifs amenée en immersion virtuelle • Lucia Santaella (São Paulo Catholic University) - The Human Body Under Interrogation; • Marcin Sobieszczanski (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) - Quelle est la question philosophique soulevée par la prothétique sensorielle? • Bernard Stiegler (Institut de recherche et d’innovation du centre Pompidou, Université de Technologie de Compiègne) – Téléconférence Organologie libidinale et écologie du handicap • Carole Talon – Hugon (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) • Affectivité et sensorialité • Jutta Treviranus (University of Toronto) - What is it to hear a picture, see music, or speak a dance? • Sadie Wilcox (University of Michigan School of Art & Design) - Physical Limitation and Physical (dis)ability The colloquium, Mobile/Immobilized: Art, Technologies & (Dis)abilities was organized by Louise Poissant, Dean, Faculté des arts, l’UQAM; Louis Bec, Director and organizer of projects at CYPRES, Centre de recherche Art / Sciences / Technologies à Marseille; Ernestine Daubner, Adjunct professor, CIAM/UQAM; Norbert Hillaire, Professor, Département arts communication langages de l’Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis; and Michael La Chance, Professor, Théorie et Histoire de l’art, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. This colloquium expanded on research conducted in the framework of the colloquia and publications: Interfaces et Sensorialité (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2003), Arts et Biotechnologies (Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2004), and was inspired by the experiments and research on disabilities, conducted by the team at CYPRES à Marseille.
| Periode | 2 nov. 2007 |
|---|---|
| Begivenhedstitel | MOBILE / IMMOBILIZED: Art, biotechnologies & (Dis)abilities |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Montreal, CanadaVis på kort |