> > COMMON SENSES
> > Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
> > Institute for Visual Media/ Institute for Music and Acoustics
> > erena i3 project #25379
> > 27-28-29 May 1999
> >
> >
> > Multimedia, interactivity, virtual realities, cyberspace, cybersex : our
> >
> > bodily senses are becoming channels for ever new, technically generated
> > impressions. Engineers are developing new interfaces, programmers are
> > creating increasingly intricate structures, neurophysiologists and
> > psychologists are probing the senses with constantly refined technical
> > devices, and artists are also seeking new ways to form sensual
> > impressions with digital technologies.
> >
> > What are these developments inducing with and within our body and our
> > senses; how are they influencing the way we perceive? Vision and
> > audition engage specific spatial and temporal conditions of perception,
> > as does the way we orientate ourselves in physical, physiological,
> > social and cultural space : which neurophysiological findings are being
> > brought into play by which artistic experiences? How are the
> > possibilities offered by computers being implemented in the forging of
> > artistic percepts? Visual and audio artists, actors and dancers,
> > physiologists and psychologists, computer and interface developers,
> > cultural theorists, social scientists and philosophers are invited to
> > this workshop, where we shall first attempt to reacquaint ourselves with
> >
> > the interconnections of our own senses, rather than beginning with the
> > simplistic assumption that the computer ensures all connections between
> > all things, like a magical multimedia black box.
> >
> > Common Senses is organised in the framework of erena, a European Union
> > esprit research project (i3 project #25379), whose partners include the
> > Institute for Visual Media at the Zentrum fuer Kunst und
> > Medientechnologie. The workshop programme has been developed in
> > collaboration with the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics. Guest
> > speakers include Lawrence Stark, Professor Emeritus of Vision Science
> > and Optometry, Engineering Science, and Neurology, University of
> > California at Berkeley; Jean-Pierre Roll, Professor at the Universite
> > d'Aix-Marseille and Director of the Laboratoire de neurobiologie humaine
> >
> > of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique; Eckart
> > Altenmueller, Director of the Institute of Music Physiology and
> > Performing Arts Medicine at the University of Music and Theatre,
> > Hannover; and Bill Gaver, Senior Research Fellow in Computer Related
> > Design at the Royal College of Art, London.
> >
> > Lectures from the fields of art and science will be accompanied by
> > demonstrations of ongoing creative projects involving the development of
> >
> > new tools. These demonstrations will also be discussion sessions,
> > notably for debate about the parallels and interactions between artistic
> >
> > and technological evolution. The workshop will begin and conclude with
> > public presentations.
> >
> > The workshop will be held in English, and is free of charge. The number
> > of participants is limited ; please contact the Institute for Visual
> > Media for programme details and registration.
> >
> > Image@zkm.de
> > Tel : (0) 49 721 8100 1500
> > Fax: (0) 49 721 8100 1509
> >