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| Autopoiesis by US artist Kenneth Rinaldo is a robotic series commissioned by the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki. dLux media arts will present eight of the fifteen musical and robotic sculptures that interact with the public and modify their behaviours by both the presence of participants and the communication between each separate sculpture. This series of robotic sculptures talk with each other through a hard-wired network and audible telephone tones, which is a musical language for the group. | |
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| The new work Præturnatural by Australian artist Michele Barker is a genealogical exploration of cultural, medical and scientific role exploring the role of the monster in Western culture from 17th century to the 20th century. Questioning contemporary contextualisations of the monstrous due to the developments in biomedical and genetic research - it is a critical genealogy delving into myth, perception and overall, the concerns of a given society at a given time. |
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| | Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr and Guy Ben-Ary who form The Tissue Culture + Art Project, utilise tissue culture and tissue engineering to grow sculptures. According to Guatemalan legend, children, before bedtime tell their worries to the dolls and then put them under their pillows — in the morning the dolls have taken their worries away. The Tissue Culture grow semi-living Worry Dolls as a symbolic gesture of representing a new class of being. Partly artificially constructed and partly grown, these entities blur the line between what is born/manufactured, animate/inanimate, challenging perceptions and our relation toward our bodies and constructed environment — but will they take our worries away? |
