Open Lab Wednesdays
The FOFA Gallery presents:
Atmosphere Open Lab Wednesdays
Wednesdays, January 19 to February 9, 2011 at 7 p.m.
LabXModal, Atmosphere tests, 2010
How do light and sound combine to create situations where we hear what we see and see what we hear? How does our perception make our supposedly fixed world elastic and dynamic? Concurrently with LabXModal's new five-week sensorial exhibition Atmosphere, the FOFA Gallery will be hosting a series of experimental talks, discussions and workshops open to the larger Montreal communities and framed by questions concerning the ways in which new technologies radically alter our human perception.
Featuring internationally prominent experts in philosophy, media art and anthropology, among others, the Atmosphere Open Lab Wednesdays offers the broader public the unique opportunity to peer into a wide range of cutting edge research-creation ideas spanning the domains of sensory ethnography and the "spectral sensorium" to new responsive materials. These talks and discussions will take place each Wednesday at 7 p.m. starting January 19 and running until February 9, 2011.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 7 p.m.
David Howes, Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University; A public seminar on the Empire of the Senses
Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 7 p.m.
Concordia University Special Individualized Programs MA and PhD students/researchers Shannon Collis and Harry Smoak present ongoing work on new responsive and sensate materials.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 7 p.m.
Internationally recognized artist, composer and co-founder of the Optofonica Lab in Amsterdam, TeZ (aka Mauruzio Martenucci) discusses his work in the area of immersive audio-visual art and his upcoming projects focused on the "spectral sensorium."
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 7 p.m.
"The Thresholds of Perception," a conversation with Brian Massumi, Associate Professor of Communications Studies, University of Montreal and Chris Salter, artist, Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts and research director LabXModal
In addition to the main installation in the gallery, XModal will turn the FOFA Gallery black box space into an experimental laboratory of the senses with a research investigation into the thresholds of visual, auditory and tactile perception featuring an ever-morphing version of Chris Salter's most recent touring sensorial installation JND (Just Noticeable Difference - the full versions of which will be presented in Canada at Mois Multi in Québec City in February and Elektra festival in Montreal in May). The creators of the installation will use the multi-week exhibition and the FOFA Gallery context to tune the work with feedback from an ever-changing public.