Symposium INTERFEJS INTERFACE

BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Katowice
Thursday, May 10th, 2007. 2.00 p.m. — 6.00 p.m.

new media, net art, biotechnical and polysensory interactive device, audio-video installation, new media performance, online-performance, digital imaging, generative representation, virtual reality, broadcast and telematic communication, network and internet projects...

With the participation of:

Michel BRET - Autonomie dans le domaine des arts numériques
Rozenn CANÉVET - Interfaces de l’architecture, architectures d’interfaces
Olivier CAPPAROS - Art des nombres et du temps
Edmond COUCHOT - Nouvelles temporalités dans les arts numériques*
Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI - De l'œuvre-interface au remote control art
David PIOTROWSKI - L'hypertexte entre signe et interface
Antoni PORCZAK - Interface, intermédia, interaction, interprétation
Marcin SOBIESZCZANSKI - La sensorialité et sa simulation numérique
Cyril THOMAS - Lynn Hershman : clin d’œil à l’interface haptique. Réflexions sur les installations Lorna (1980-1984) et Deep Contact : the sexual Fantasy Videodisc (1984-1990)

Moderator : Jozef Bury
The conference languages will be Polish and French
* telematic participation



The sixth Art Meeting will deal with issues relating to Digital Art both on an artistic and a theoretical level. The polymorphous evolution of new art addresses the key issue of the interface as the place of interaction between the human senses and digital code. The interface (graphical and touch screens, graphical and textual terminals, operator panels, active matrices, head-mounted displays, multimedia helmets, sensory gloves and data suits, electronic prostheses, optical and physico-chemical sensors...) is understood here as the zone of threshold communication that links the biology of the human world with the mathematic-processual aspects of the calculator and the virtual reality it generates. This year’s Meeting attempts to compare examples from the field of art with theoretical analysis viewed from the perspective of sociology, anthropology, semiotics, and cognitive science..., in order to track the changes brought about by digital technology in the art context as well as their contribution to the creation, recording and diffusion of artistic aspects of contemporary art. It will cover such situations as the emergence and creation of the work of art, the evolving attitude of the artist, and new artistic developments engendered by the use of interfaces. [J. B.]



BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Katowice
al. Korfantego 6. 40—004 KATOWICE
tel./fax +48 32 2599040, +48 32 2599324
e-mail: promocja@bwa.katowice.pl
http://www.bwa.katowice.pl
BWA Contemporary Art Gallery Katowice is a non-profit cultural institution of the City of Katowice

Project conceived by Jozef Bury
For more information:
http://free.art.pl/international_art_meeting/6iam.html
Contact : international_art_meeting@free.art.pl