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CONTACT:paul@paul-brown.com
ORGANIZER:EVA London
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DESCRIPTION:As part of this year's EVA Conference\, Australian media artist
  Keith Armstrong is giving a talk for the Computer Arts Society at Birkbeck
 .
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\n_Ecology\, Performance and Collaboration - Embodying Intimate Transa
 ctions_
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\nIntimate Transactions is a dual site\, telematic installati
 on currently been shown in the US. It allows two people located in separate
  spaces to interact simultaneously using only their bodies (predominantly t
 heir backs and feet)\, using two identical interfaces called 'Bodyshelves'.
  During a 30-minute\, one-on-one session their physical actions allow them 
 to individually and collaboratively explore immersive environments. Each pa
 rticipant's own way of interacting results in quite different\, but interre
 lated animated and generative imagery\, real time generated audio (seven ch
 annels)\, and three channels of haptic feedback (felt in the stomach and ba
 ck). This experience allows each participant to begin to sense their place 
 in a complex web of relations that connect them and everything else within 
 the work. 
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\nIntimate Transactions is an investigation in creating embod
 ied experiences that are both performative and improvisational by harnessin
 g individual\, performative languages of 'untrained' bodies as a means to e
 ngender understandings of 'ecological' relationship. It arose from a deep c
 ollaboration between media artists\, performance practitioners\, sound arti
 sts\, hardware and software engineers\, a furniture maker and a scientific 
 ecologist. Our entire process was informed by a praxis-led approach to art 
 making that stressed embodied connectivity and inseparability. This allowed
  us to understand how participants might move within the constraints of a p
 articular interface\, allowing us to shape and form the overall phrasing an
 d sensibilities of their experiences\, whilst maintaining the unique nature
  of their collaborative experiences. In this presentation Keith will discus
 s his practice-led research approach and illustrate the presentation with v
 ideos\, images and sound. (www.intimatetransactions.com).
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\nKeith Armstr
 ong is an Australian/English interdisciplinary media artist\, Australia Cou
 ncil New Media Arts Fellow\, Queensland University of Technology Faculty of
  Creative Industries Research Fellow and has just finished a Visiting Profe
 ssorship at Calpoly State University\, California\, working in collaboratio
 n with their Liberal Arts and Architecture Faculties. 
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\nHis recent work
  Intimate Transactions\, created with the Transmute Collective\, received a
 n Honorary Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica and featured in the 200
 5 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. His latest interactive installation\
 , Shifting Intimacies\, was presented at the ICA London in March 2006.
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\
 nEmail: keith [ at ] embodiedmedia.com
\nWeb: www.embodiedmedia.com
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SUMMARY:Ecology\, Performance and Collaboration - Embodying Intimate Transa
 ctions
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LOCATION:The Screen on Gordon Square Birkbeck College 
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