Our November 2018 event was curated by Maria Almena around the concept of “The Embodiment of technology” - with artists exploring this theme within the new media arts.
Our bodies are extending and developing, our senses are enhanced, our social and work lives are changing through the use of digital tools and social media. How our bodies and minds, affected and influenced by the various realities surrounding us, will react or will help us to move forward in this unstoppable technology evolution?
We had an evening of presentations and a panel discussion focusing on the future, challenges and meaning of this theme with the hope of bringing some light into it.
Speakers:
MARIA ALMENA | SHAMA RAHMAN | KRISTINA DIMITROVA | GRAEME HALLIDONTO
Images below by Sophie Le Roux
Our bodies are extending and developing, our senses are enhanced, our social and work lives are changing through the use of digital tools and social media. How our bodies and minds, affected and influenced by the various realities surrounding us, will react or will help us to move forward in this unstoppable technology evolution?
We had an evening of presentations and a panel discussion focusing on the future, challenges and meaning of this theme with the hope of bringing some light into it.
Speakers:
MARIA ALMENA | SHAMA RAHMAN | KRISTINA DIMITROVA | GRAEME HALLIDONTO
Images below by Sophie Le Roux
About the Speakers:
Maria Almena www.kimatica.net
Maria Almena is the creative director of the London based creative studio, Kimatica, fusing live performance, interactive technology and the human form to create avant-garde digital experiences that dissolve the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
Their artistic practice explores concepts of human consciousness and perception, making those transcendental ideas accessible to a modern audience, to inspire reconnection with magical thinking.
Shama Rahman https://shamaverse.com/
Shama Rahman is a creative scientist, artist, futurist, and inter-disciplinarian.
She has an interdisciplinary PhD researching the ‘Complex Neuroscientific Systems of Creative Cognition’, investigating emergent neural patterns and dynamics with complex systems mathematics, experimental psychophysics, design thought frameworks, cognitive neuroscience, and neurophilosophy. She is the co-author of a book chapter ‘Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking’
Listen to her Tedx talk on 'Multidisciplinary Creativity': https://youtu.be/hhKie-DgjYc
As a multisensory storytelling experience, Shama performed her second album ‘Truth BeTold’ live at The Alchemy Festival 2016 at The Southbank Centre. This stunning performance broke through the boundaries of live performance, as being the first artist-in-residence with wearable technology mi.mu gloves, she integrated them into a beautiful live performance of the album to affect sound and visuals through gestural movement. The performance delivered something completely new, using the mi.mu gloves as a centrepiece, allowing for free form improvisation and direct interaction with dancers and visual artists to create a futuristic storytelling loop.
She has since experimented with the Myo armband with creative coder Terry Clark to translate EMG (conveying muscle contractions) into sound effects.
Most recently, in Europe’s first dance hackathon in conjunction with Sadler’s Wells, she experimented with visualising a dancer’s internal mental state externally using neural wearables and an interactive digital interface. This allowed the dancer to play with and change their embodied patterns of improvisation, to find new avenues of creative flow.
Kristina Dimitrova https://www.interlaced.co/
INTERLACED is a media and events platform highlighting the most innovative developments for the future of fashion. INTERLACED is the space that brings together startups, established companies, academia and the public for discussion about the next wave of the industry. Since its beginning in 2015, INTERLACED has hosted a number of fashion tech catwalk shows in London, Austin and Bangladesh, regular meetups and educational workshops. The platform has been named by Deutsche Telekom as one of the top ten sources for news around fashion innovation.
With marketing and strategy background as well as deep understanding of digital channels, INTERLACED’s founder, Kristina Dimitrova often curates and speaks at industry events such as Wear It Berlin, European Fashion Forum, Superhuman Summit, Avantex Paris. She is also a jury and mentor for international fashion tech competitions, including Aarhus Walks on Water and The Festival of Curiosity.
Graeme Hallidonto https://hobs3d.com/primary-services/3d-visualisation/
Hallidonto an emerging Artist was recently invited as a panellist for the NEW REALITIES (When tech an creativity collide) event at HERE EAST in Located in Hackney Wick. Hallidonto was interviewed by Ben Thompson from the BBC about his Arts Residency with Hobs studio and how VR has opened up his practice especially given Hallidonto's subject matter (Cyborgs) https://hobs3d.com/ alongside Tech lead for Hobs Kadine James.
Hallidonto's work over the last few years has been the development of his ‘Cyborgia manifesto’. My manifesto presents describe my influences and my modus operandi. It unfolds my vision of humanity via philosophical context, this simulacrum of the cyborg image, now has an ontological reality.
The cyborg is very much the symbol of this generation, I have been invited to present my 'Cyborgia Manifesto' at the Royal Academy and the Post Human Forum in New York, by invitation of award-winning philosopher Francesca Ferrando in 2015. Also by Luke Robert Mason at virtual futures and recently Central Saint Martins alongside Warren Ellis and Dr Jamie Brassett.
Maria Almena www.kimatica.net
Maria Almena is the creative director of the London based creative studio, Kimatica, fusing live performance, interactive technology and the human form to create avant-garde digital experiences that dissolve the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
Their artistic practice explores concepts of human consciousness and perception, making those transcendental ideas accessible to a modern audience, to inspire reconnection with magical thinking.
Shama Rahman https://shamaverse.com/
Shama Rahman is a creative scientist, artist, futurist, and inter-disciplinarian.
She has an interdisciplinary PhD researching the ‘Complex Neuroscientific Systems of Creative Cognition’, investigating emergent neural patterns and dynamics with complex systems mathematics, experimental psychophysics, design thought frameworks, cognitive neuroscience, and neurophilosophy. She is the co-author of a book chapter ‘Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking’
Listen to her Tedx talk on 'Multidisciplinary Creativity': https://youtu.be/hhKie-DgjYc
As a multisensory storytelling experience, Shama performed her second album ‘Truth BeTold’ live at The Alchemy Festival 2016 at The Southbank Centre. This stunning performance broke through the boundaries of live performance, as being the first artist-in-residence with wearable technology mi.mu gloves, she integrated them into a beautiful live performance of the album to affect sound and visuals through gestural movement. The performance delivered something completely new, using the mi.mu gloves as a centrepiece, allowing for free form improvisation and direct interaction with dancers and visual artists to create a futuristic storytelling loop.
She has since experimented with the Myo armband with creative coder Terry Clark to translate EMG (conveying muscle contractions) into sound effects.
Most recently, in Europe’s first dance hackathon in conjunction with Sadler’s Wells, she experimented with visualising a dancer’s internal mental state externally using neural wearables and an interactive digital interface. This allowed the dancer to play with and change their embodied patterns of improvisation, to find new avenues of creative flow.
Kristina Dimitrova https://www.interlaced.co/
INTERLACED is a media and events platform highlighting the most innovative developments for the future of fashion. INTERLACED is the space that brings together startups, established companies, academia and the public for discussion about the next wave of the industry. Since its beginning in 2015, INTERLACED has hosted a number of fashion tech catwalk shows in London, Austin and Bangladesh, regular meetups and educational workshops. The platform has been named by Deutsche Telekom as one of the top ten sources for news around fashion innovation.
With marketing and strategy background as well as deep understanding of digital channels, INTERLACED’s founder, Kristina Dimitrova often curates and speaks at industry events such as Wear It Berlin, European Fashion Forum, Superhuman Summit, Avantex Paris. She is also a jury and mentor for international fashion tech competitions, including Aarhus Walks on Water and The Festival of Curiosity.
Graeme Hallidonto https://hobs3d.com/primary-services/3d-visualisation/
Hallidonto an emerging Artist was recently invited as a panellist for the NEW REALITIES (When tech an creativity collide) event at HERE EAST in Located in Hackney Wick. Hallidonto was interviewed by Ben Thompson from the BBC about his Arts Residency with Hobs studio and how VR has opened up his practice especially given Hallidonto's subject matter (Cyborgs) https://hobs3d.com/ alongside Tech lead for Hobs Kadine James.
Hallidonto's work over the last few years has been the development of his ‘Cyborgia manifesto’. My manifesto presents describe my influences and my modus operandi. It unfolds my vision of humanity via philosophical context, this simulacrum of the cyborg image, now has an ontological reality.
The cyborg is very much the symbol of this generation, I have been invited to present my 'Cyborgia Manifesto' at the Royal Academy and the Post Human Forum in New York, by invitation of award-winning philosopher Francesca Ferrando in 2015. Also by Luke Robert Mason at virtual futures and recently Central Saint Martins alongside Warren Ellis and Dr Jamie Brassett.