Perception of space – whether it is physical, digital, topological, quantum, or hyper – requires particular kinds of interactive and cognitive processes through which we become aware of the relative positions of objects around us. Our techno-aesthetic inquiries into how we make sense of spaces focus on revealing numerous meanings of this awareness from the intersection of post-digital architecture, neuroscience, technology, and machine learning. In this lecture, I will discuss how audio-visual, immersive, and interactive media arts help us overcome the limitations of perspectival representation and play a crucial role in the symbiotic relationship between perception and imagination.

Istanbul native Refik Anadol is a media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. His body of work puts creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Using data as his primary material, he creates site-specific sculptures, live audio/visual performances and immersive installations that encourage us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions and the creative potential of machines.

Merging Minds: Exploring Collective Forms of Intelligence

Date:Monday 30 November 2020

Time:14:00 – 15:00

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The work of British artist Ed Fornieles examines the habits, rules and protocols of 21st century culture, including the internet, social media, digital economies and sitcom architecture, through which we come to define ourselves and within which our identities are made up and made real. His work comprises installation, sculpture, performance and video, and has been described as “a caricature of digital culture.” In this studio visit, Fornieles will reveal modes of his artistic practice that model our social processes, and the power structures they reproduce.

The “Virtual Artist Studio Visits” series explores the practice of four contemporary artists, using the studio visit as a starting point, and is loosely based around the concept of performing identity: how we frame and are framed by our identity. The series is organised in collaboration with StudioVisit.

Ed Fornieles (b. 1983, UK), lives and works in London. He has exhibited in a wide range of international institutions, including New Museum, New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 12th Biennale de Lyon, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Chisenhale Gallery, London, Serpentine Gallery, London, ZKM, Karlsruhe Germany, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, and Carl Kostyal, Stockholm. He gained his MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London, and his BA in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University.

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New Models is a lecture series that invites practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how their work can change the models around which society is organised. These conversations will address how we can shift power structures, socio-economic forces and structural inequalities present in society today to give us new tools to rethink the world around us.​

New Models

Date:Thursday 19 November 2020Time:18:00 – 19:30

Location: Zoom

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