• Date
      May 24, 2017

      Empathy Box and Empathy Amulet

      Sophia Brueckner / USA
      University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
      www.sophiabrueckner.com
      "An empathy box is the most personal possession you have. It's an extension of your body; it's the way you touch other humans, it's the way you stop being alone" "I had hold of the handles of the box today and it overwhelmed my depression a little—just a little...I felt everyone else, all over the world, all who had fused at the same time" – Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In Dick's novel, thousands of anonymous people connect haptically and emotionally through their empathy boxes in a fragmented and isolated world. Inspired by the story, the Empathy Box and Empathy Amulet are two networked devices that connect many anonymous people through shared warmth.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Patricio Proverbio

      Argentina
      DNA LIVE is an Audio Visual performance, where sound and image are generated from DNA, mRNA and Protein sequences. By translating the DNA, mRNA and Protein sequences of different Genes into MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), I create MIDI files that are used to generate the sound and control the image variables in a real time environment. The Genes that I use for the live performance are Genes involved in the production, transport and reception of human neurotransmitters. DNA and mRNA are composed of four acids each, and their sequences are translated into four MIDI notes each, one note for each acid.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Marco Maria Gazzano

      Italy
      Cinema theorist and audiovisual languages. Professor Rome III University. Essayist and scholar of history, film critic and audiovisual languages. He collaborates with the assistance of mass media and electronic arts in Italian and European newspapers and magazines. Representative of Italy in the MEDIA 1 program for the evaluation of the film Small countries and regions of the European Community, he is the president of Kinema Cultural. He is a critic of Contemporary Art, animator of study initiatives, events and television programs on cinema, electronic arts and neo-television.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      david killeen

      Ireland
      Photographer. He is a Master of Photography from Goldsmiths University of London. His work focuses on landscapes in their physical form and patterns. His recent works focus on the border between the urban and rural landscapes of Broward Country in South Florida. As an urban space, there is a discrete physical appearance at its borders, with the ocean to the east and marshes to the west. His work points to the obvious appearance of these borders, which separates the urban and the rural.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Gonzalo Olmos 

      Peru
      His photographic work focuses on the masses, people and travel. This has definitely changed the way you see the world and the people around you. Currently, he is embarking on a special photographic project, about the loneliness of people and their strategies to face it or avoid it in their daily life; the loneliness that people experience in large and impersonal cities.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Caroline Knowles

      England
      Theoretical of the social landscape and globalization. Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Researcher of topics related to the social landscape, race, ethnic groups, globalization, urban space, the visual and the spatial, among others. Recently published: Landscapes of Belonging. Currently working with Roger Hewitt and colleagues in Hamburg and Bergen on "'The Architecture of Religious Transmission", this project, created by NORFACE, investigates the mechanisms of religious transmission among young people in the Finsbury Park area and similar sites in Hamburg. and Oslo.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      Gabrielle Bendiner

      USA
      Photographer, curator and teacher. She is a PhD in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY and works at the Goldsmiths Center for Urban and Community Research, University of London. Her work explores the experience of everyday life in public and home spaces through photographic and narrative work. He has worked on projects in London, Buenos Aires, San Francisco and New York. She is co-founder of the Urban Meetings conference on visual urbanism, which is held annually at Tate Britain.
    • Date
      May 24, 2017

      paul halliday

      England
        Photographer, filmmaker and sociologist. Director of the Master of Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Originally trained as a photographer and filmmaker at London College of Printing and Central Saint Martins, he also studied social anthropology and art history at Goldsmiths and Oxford University. He was a local government media consultant and media adviser to the British Refugee Council.
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