[spectre] Candy + Code, ICA, London March 17 - Reminder

[Helen Sloan]

Candy + Code
17 March 2008, 6.30pm
ICA Theatre, London, UK
 
In the latest event from the Textile Futures Research Group, tonight we'll
explore the work of three artists and researchers working at the top of
their field.  
 
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer considers her Commodore 64 computer and Fisher Price
loom to be defining objects of her childhood. Using knitting and sweets she
creates physical representations of digital information and computation and
is currently researching the intersection of textiles, technology, and the
body. Egenhoefer is supported by the Textile Futures Research Group at the
University of the Arts as part of the Distributed South initiative. Her
residency will showcase the development of software that provides motion
tracking for knitting needles. Egenhoefer explains: "Visually the piece will
reflect our bodily interaction with machines, tracing the circular motion of
the needles to our body's give and take of working at a machine."
www.rachelbeth.net <http://www.rachelbeth.net/>
 
Dr Barbara Rauch, research fellow at the Chelsea College of Art, combines
consciousness studies with digital art theories and practices. She explores
evolutionary aspects of human and animal facial expression to reveal
conscious and subconscious experience. Rauch is currently the
co-investigator of a two-year AHRC project The Personalised Surface Within
Fine Art Digital Printmaking. Much of her work uses data capture
technologies, digital print technology, visualisation of digital 3D work,
animation, sound, drawings and performance.  www.sciria.org.uk
<http://www.sciria.org.uk/>
 
Nicola Naismith, lecturer at Norwich School of Art and Design, explores the
ordinary qualities in everyday items, for example the white shirt and the
sewing needle, using a combination of digital and analogue processes. Simple
objects are subject to complex questions concerning production, labour,
value and the human-machine. Naismith represents these ideas through works
that unravel operations between hand, eye, brain, body and machine.
www.nicolanaismith.co.uk <http://www.nicolanaismith.co.uk/>
 
Following presentations, Dr Jane Harris, Director of TFRG, Helen Sloan,
Director of SCAN and Jess Laccetti, Institute of Creative Technologies, will
conduct a panel discussion with the artists.
 
Egenhoefer has been brought to UK from San Francisco as part of the
Distributed South initiative, a series of residencies co-curated by Scan and
Space Media. The residency is funded by ACE, University of Wales, Lighthouse
Brighton and supported by Scan, Space Media, Furtherfield, TFRG and
University of the Arts London. Naismith is supported by Arts Council
England, Norfolk County Council and the Sir Phillip Reckitt Educational
Trust. 
www.tfrg.org.uk <http://www.tfrg.org.uk/>

£10 / £8 Concessions / £6 ICA Members.
To book tickets go to http://www.ica.org.uk/Candy%20%2B%20Code+16131.twl
<http://www.ica.org.uk/Candy%20%2B%20Code+16131.twl>  or call the ICA box
office on 020 7930 3647
 
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
tel: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk <http://www.ica.org.uk>
 
Nearest tube: Charing Cross or Piccadilly