The first international conference of amberConference will be held in conjunction with the amber’09 Art and Technology Festival, on 7,8 November 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. The aims and scope of this conference are to create a platform of discussion and dissemination for the various themes and topics in which Social Science, Art and Technology converge.
The theme for this year’s event is the Cyborg, a phenomenon that has captured the attention and imagination of artistic, academic as well as scientific communities in terms of creative, theoretical, and technological output.
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The primary objective of amber’ is to promote the idea of an Art that is inseparable from technology and the human body. amber’09 seeks to attract all lovers of art and technology in Istanbul. This includes the established contemporary arts audience, technology and design professionals, students of arts, design and technology, artists and technicians from various fields and the youth. Moreover, the festival will be an opportunity for people who work in purely technical fields such as robotics to connect their fields with art.
Beyond arbitrary classifications of audiences, the festival’s combination of art, technology and the body seeks to create and attract its own public. As our lives are saturated with ever more digital technology, everyone is a potential viewer of this emerging art form.
Future Kiss – Lenka Klimesova
Future Kiss is a happening that involves interaction among participants wearing masks, equipped with a vibration chip and a kiss detector. The project represents a possible solution to the problem of human contact during a possible epidemic attack in the near future. It also warns against a loss of personal intimacy due to the spread of technology in our material world.
Arabesque – Peter William Holden
‘Arabesque’ is a mechanical installation which has its roots both in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and the alchemist’s laboratory. Life sized cast human body parts with translucent qualities bare their internal robotic mechanisms to the public. The wiring itself is an aesthetic expression deliberately integrated into the installation to bringing chaotic lines of abstract form to contrast with the organized symmetry of the body parts.
Is Uncle Adnan A Cyborg? – Selin Özçelik & Nagehan Kuralı
In current discourse, cyborgization process is not merely limited to the creation of an organism, mixing up the organic and the synthetic. It is also not about a creation of a body partially biological and partially technological but more about an organism, which embodying both aspects and pursuing its own development. “Is Uncle Adnan A Cyborg?” is a proposal for an interactive installation concerning the cyborgization process to take place in public space. The installation will be placed on a store window. As the passers-by watch their reflections on the window with the effect of their mobile phones or other digital devices they carry, the scene will change. The image will consist of pixelized movements. During this process, to emphasize the cyborgization of urban space, several text features will also appear on the display. These will consist of satirical statements on our unconsciously conducted cyborgization.
Tentative Architecture – Xarene Eskandar
Tentative Architecture is worn by coastline inhabitants of Other Earth. Galvanic skin response sensors and shape memory alloys constructed within the garment respond to the wearer’s mood and ambient temperature changes. The sweater/architecture acts as an organism assisting in ventilation and adjustments to the environment by mimicking the breathing of its host/wearer.
For details: http://www.amberconference.org
Fri, Nov 6, 2009
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