The Body as Interface

Symposium December 15, 2006

15 Ara 2006
15 Ara 2006

Looking at interactive art practices artists and critics will shed light on one of the key concerns for many creative practitioners - engaging the emotions of the audience/user. They will focus on the meaning and wish for 'emotional engagement' and interactivity.

Artists seem compelled to expand the sensory capabilities of our bodies, but what do we gain through this process? How do we conceptualise interactivity and incorporate emotional values? Does interactivity offer, due to its participatory nature, a more profound experience than
traditional forms of art? How does one engage and sustain the interest of the public in an interactive experience? How does one define the line between spectacle and works that create a chain of associations and provide a space for engagement, interpretation and participation?

*Location: Netherlands Media Art Institute*

*Time: 13.30 – 19.00 hours*

*Entrance: 10,- (students 8,-)*

*Reservations: 020 6237101,
info@montevideo.nl

*Language: English*

*Live Stream:
www.montevideo.nl

Moderator:*/ Ole Bouman/*

*13.30 – 14.00 h.*

Presentation:*/ Renee van de Vall /*(University Maastricht, MA Media
Culture)

*14.30 – 16.00 h.*
Discussion with:

*/Kristina Andersen/* (Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and
Steim, Amsterdam)

*/Christa Sommerer /*(media artist and professor at University of Art
and Design in Linz Austria) -
www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/

*/Paul Verschure/* (Group Leader Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH-UZ,
Zurich) - www.ini.unizh.ch/~pfmjv/
<www.ini.unizh.ch/%7Epfmjv/>

www.mvrdv.nl/

*Opening 17.00 hours *of /Dune 4.0/ from */Daan Roosegaarde/* with live
performance by *Ellen Pieterse* i.s.m. *Melange*. /Dune 4.0 /is an
interactive landscape that was developed specially for the Artist in
Residence program in order to investigate the functioning and
presentation of interactivity. /Dune 4.0 /is a work-in-progress. No
entrance fee.

www.studioroosegaarde.net

*Netherlands Media Art Institute*

*Montevideo/Time Based Arts*

Keizersgracht 264

1016 EV Amsterdam

The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl