The Electro Magnetic Bride

Electromagnetic Bodies: Aether, Desire and Resonance in Art and Technology

6 Mayıs 2006

What still kicks up dust in electromagnetism, and what was going on in the past? What did Nikola Tesla and Marcel Duchamp or Konard Zuse and Robert Barry have in common besides the times they lived in? A lecture series with Christa Sommerer, Usman Haque, Horst Zuse, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and others.

The Electro Magnetic Bride is held simultaneously with Electromagnetic Bodies: Aether, Desire and Resonance in Art and Technology, an exhibition which researches the relations between humans and the global electromagnetic environment.

The talks are titled as follows:

Horst Zuse - The Origins of the Computer
Nina Czegledy - On Tesla and Bio-Elecgtromagnetism
David Tomas - Conceptual Art and the Body's Invisible Matrix: Robert Barry's Electromagnetic and Invisible Works.
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag - sonArc::ion - project
Usman Haque - On Skyear and Haunt
Christa Sommerer - Nano-Scape: Experiencing Aspects of Nanotechnology Through Interactive Art

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