[spectre] Symposium: The Body as Interface, December 15

[Marieke Istha]

The Body as Interface

Symposium December 15, 2006
Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute
Time: 13.30 – 19.00 hours
Entrance: 10,- (students 8,-)
Reservations: 020 6237101, info at montevideo.nl
Language: English
Live Stream: www.montevideo.nl

Looking at interactive art practices artists and critics will shed light 
on one of the key concerns for many creative practitioners - engaging 
the emotions of the audience/user. They will focus on the meaning and 
wish for 'emotional engagement' and interactivity.

Artists seem compelled to expand the sensory capabilities of our bodies, 
but what do we gain through this process? How do we conceptualise 
interactivity and incorporate emotional values? Does interactivity 
offer, due to its participatory nature, a more profound experience than 
traditional forms of art? How does one engage and sustain the interest 
of the public in an interactive experience? How does one define the line 
between spectacle and works that create a chain of associations and 
provide a space for engagement, interpretation and participation?

Moderator: Ole Bouman

13.30 – 14.00 h.
Presentation: Renee van de Vall (University Maastricht, MA Media Culture)

14.30 – 16.00 h.
Discussion with:

Kristina Andersen (Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and 
Steim, Amsterdam)

Christa Sommerer (media artist and professor at University of Art and 
Design in Linz Austria) - http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/

Paul Verschure (Group Leader Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH-UZ, 
Zurich) - http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~pfmjv/
http://www.mvrdv.nl/

Opening 17.00 hours of Dune 4.0 from Daan Roosegaarde with live 
performance by Ellen Pieterse in collaboration with Melange. Dune 4.0 is 
an interactive landscape that was developed specially for the Artist in 
Residence program in order to investigate the functioning and 
presentation of interactivity. Dune 4.0 is a work-in-progress. No 
entrance fee.
www.studioroosegaarde.net

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl