Electromagnetic
Bodies is an interdisciplinary collaboration, providing
an opportunity for the participating artists to reflect
on their own practice in the light of scientific research.
With Nikola Tesla's (1856-1943) pioneering work as
a point of departure, the primary objective of the
Electromagnetic Bodies project is to consider the human
body simultaneously as a source, an echo, a transmitter
and as a point of resistance to electromagnetic waves.
Considering the long history of imaginary and concrete
automata, culminating in the present concept of the
cyborg and the post-human issues, one may consider
the need of re-interpretations of the issues of expression,
gesture and agency in the context of body immersion
in the electromagnetic realm.
Artists
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lab (Stéphane Claude and Gisèle
Trudel), Jean-Pierre Aubé, Simone Jones, Marie-Jeanne
Musiol, Paulette Phillips, Catherine Richards, Jocelyn
Robert, David Tomas and Norman White.
Curators
Nina Czegledy
Nina Czegledy, artist and independent curator, has collaborated
on international projects, produced time based and digital
works and has lead and participated in workshops, forums
and festivals worldwide. Electromagnetic Bodies, Digitized
Bodies, Virtual Spectacles and the Aurora projects reflect
her art&science&technology interest. Canada Digital
Culture map curator, exhibiting member of the Girls&Guns
Collective and ICOLS. Member of Space Art Network (Leonardo),
president of the Critical Media Knowledge Institute and
chair of the Inter Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA).
Louise
Provencher
Independent curator, art critic and professor of philosophy.
Director of Lieudit (CDD 3D). Electromagnetic Bodies
is embedded in a long-term research in media/technology
archeology, manifested in conferences and numerous texts
published in magazines and catalogues and two projects
for which she was curator : Porter le mur comme le masque
de Michel Goulet and Montreal/Telegraph : the sound iconographer.
Co-curator of the international colloquium Electre & Magnete
on electromagnetism and the arts (UQAM 2003, OBORO 2004).
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