Este seminário consiste numa apresentação e debate entre os media artists, Professor Paul Sermon, UK e Sonia Cillari, NL. Paul Sermon é considerado um pioneiro no seu campo de investigação. A sua pesquisa tem base na prática da media art e centra-se no uso criativo de tecnologias de comunicação.

URL: www.paulsermon.org

O trabalho de Sonia Cillari envolve a criação de mecanismos perceptivos sensoriais em ambientes imersivos e ampliados.

URL: www.soniacillari.net/home.htm

Entre o trabalho dos dois artistas, cruza-se a preocupação com a extensão do corpo humano, bem como da sua consciência e emoção num contexto de espaço digital. Nesta sessão, ambos os artistas apresentarão e discutirão o seu trabalho.

Sáb. 21 Junho - 15.30-17.30
Clube Português de Artes e Ideias
Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, 29, 2o [ao Chiado]

Bios
Paul Sermon
Born in Oxford, England, 1966. Studied BA Hon’s Fine Art degree under Professor Roy Ascott at The University of Wales, from September 1985 to June 1988. Studied a Post-graduate MFA degree at The University of Reading, England, from October 1989 to June 1991. Awarded the Prix Ars Electronica “Golden Nica”, in the category of interactive art, for the hyper media installation “Think about the People now”, in Linz, Austria, September 1991. Produced the ISDN videoconference installation “Telematic Vision” as an Artist in Residence at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, from February to November 1993. Received the “Sparkey Award” from the Interactive Media Festival in Los Angeles, for the telepresent video installation “Telematic Dreaming”, June 1994. From 1993 to 1999 employed as Dozent for Media Art at the HGB Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany. During this time continued to produced further interactive telematic installations including “Telamatic Encounter” in 1996 and “The Tables Turned” in 1997 for the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz, and the ZKM Media Museum in Karlsruhe. From 1997 to 2001 employed as Guest Professor for Performance and Environment at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. Since June 2000 based at The University of Salford working primarily within the research field of immersive and expanded telematic environments.

URL: www.paulsermon.org

Sonia Cillari
Italian media artist and architect, lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work involves the creation of sensorial and perceptual mechanisms in immersive and augmented environments. Her artistic investigation examines how patterns of consciousness, perception and identity emerge in such settings. Over the last years she has been specifically interested in a field of research concerning the ‘Body as Interface’.
She was artist in residence at V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2004), Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2004-2005), STEIM: Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music and Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Amsterdam 2006).
Her interactive installations, that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art, have been exhibited and presented internationally. She received the Excellence Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo, Japan 2007) and the Honorable Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica: Interactive Art (Linz, Austria 2007) and VIDA 9.0: Art & Artificial Life International Competition (Madrid, Spain 2006). She has been a jury member for the Prix Ars Electronica: Interactive Art 2008.

URL: www.soniacillari.net/home.htm