Steven Pinker and other leading scientists join artists for a 24-hour Experiment Marathon featuring robots, three-way kissing booths and out-of-body experiences :: October 13 - 14, 2007 :: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA [Nearest Tube: South Kensington or Lancaster Gate].

Olafur Eliasson together with Hans Ulrich Obrist convenes the 24-Hour Experiment Marathon which blurs the boundaries of art and science and creates a laboratory of experience. A huge variety of experiments exploring perception, artificial intelligence, the body and language, takes place in and around the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen. Continue reading

RFID and the Tagged exhibition by Space Media Arts

The Spychip Under Your Skin by Armin Medosch: Commissioned by [ space.media.arts ] to accompany the Tagged exhibition, Armin Medosch writes about RFID, first introducing the technology and its context. Briefly introducing Bruce Sterling’s ideas about ’shaping things’ Medosch adds to this some of my his reflections about the contentious notion of techno-social ‘progress’. Based on this contextual analysis the text formulates some of the challenges and possibilities for artists who work with technology in general and the routes chosen by the selected artists in the Tagged exhibition. [PDF] Continue reading