[spectre] Prosthetic Head: Stelarc Premiere

[Gordana]

Dear friends,

It is a shame that ICA did not announce the real new media event after such a long time finally in London - Stelarc's new work and talk. So, for all of you who are at the moment in London:


London Premiere 
Lecture: 7 Mar, 8pm 
Installation: 7-12 Mar, 12-6pm 
Stelarc: Prosthetic Head 

Stelarc has constructed an automated, animated and intelligent artificial head that speaks to you as you interrogate it. The Prosthetic Head is a 3D avatar head that has real-time lip syncing, speech synthesis and facial expressions. The Prosthetic Head will also be able to acknowledge the presence and position of the physical body that approaches it. And eventually it will be able to analyse the user's tone of voice and facial expression. 

The Prosthetic Head will have the capability of expanding its data base from the conversations it will have, becoming increasingly autonomous in its responses. The artist will then no longer be able to take full responsibility for what his head says. 

Lecture:£8, £7 Concs. 
£6 ICA Members 
Installation Free with Day Membership 

ICA 
The Mall 
London SW1Y 5AH 
Tel: 020 7766 1422 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /pipermail/attachments/20030307/bd9dab0a/attachment.xhtml