Bio Circuit at IF'09: Stereo
Bio Circuit will be a part of the Stereo Exhibit in the Concourse gallery of Emily Carr University this week.
Stereo Interactive Futures ‘09: Stereo (IF’09: Stereo) will be hosted by the Intersections Digital Studios at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver. IF’09: Stereo offers a broad thematic reading of “stereo” to include research and art works that use techniques and devices to lure the body into ephemeral spaces. Examples include stereographic films and animations, linked interactive performance spaces, simulated touch interfaces, binaural sound works, and mixed-reality art works. IF’09: Stereo has invited practitioners who are working with subtle uses of immersive techniques, illusionary space and objects, and telepresence that evoke unexpected responses and challenge the modes of creation used by popular entertainment media and technologies…>
IF’09: Stereo has invited media artists, designers, researchers and filmmakers experimenting with: stereographic projection; illusionary sound and vision; methods of co-location (ways of simultaneously mapping and representing more than one location).
If you’re interested in seeing Bio Circuit for yourself, you can visit Emily Carr University (1399 Johnston Street) on Granville Island in Vancouver. Stereo will be in the Concourse Gallery from Nov. 18-22nd. IF’09 is on from Nov. 19-21.
This is the anonymous hugging wall from 
I like the annonymous way of connecting with people, and I love the spin on “interaction” and the use of textiles. If walls can “come alive” and give out hugs, in what other ways can we engage with our environment? And what if all normally hard, rigid surfaces (like walls) were suddenly made of fabric and textiles? Wouldn’t that be interesting….