December 05, 2005
Carnevale 3.0
A Database of Lived Experience
In Carnevale 3.0--by Reva Stone--a life-sized, double aluminum cutout surrogate of the artist as a young girl moves through the gallery space on a robotic platform. Sandwiched between two identical cutouts are a small video camera and a small video projector. As visitors enter the gallery space, the figure interacts with them by turning and moving toward them. At random intervals, their image and movement is video captured. These images are combined and overlaid with previously stored images and projected outward from its metal body through the small video projector. Carnevale 3.0 carries images from each of its venues to the next, building a database of lived experience in which the captured video images become memories of the original event. As a mediator of experience this robotic entity has the ability to manifest human behavior by generating responsive movements, processing information, and accessing long term or short term memory. Recollection, physicality and sentience become mutable entities. [via Rhizome]
Biography
Reva Stone is a Canadian artist who creates computer-assisted installations that have engaged with a variety of forms of emerging technologies—interactive installation, robotics and most recently responsive 3D environments. She explores issues surrounding technology’s augmentation and alteration of the human body by creating works that seem to mutate, evolve, and respond with a life of their own.
Stone’s work has been exhibited at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta: Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal, Québec: the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario: La Chambre Blanche, Québec City, Québec: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario: the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan: the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan and the Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec. In 2001, Stone co-edited an anthology titled The Multiple and Mutable Subject published by the St. Norbert Arts Centre, St. Norbert, Manitoba. In 2002, her robotic work, Carnevale 3.0 received an honourable mention from Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain.
Posted by jo at December 5, 2005 11:45 AM
