[spectre] o u t o f t h e b o d y e n c o u n t e r s

[EAF Director]

o u t  o f  t h e  b o d y  e n c o u n t e r s
Lynne Sanderson Lucid Touch
Maja Sokolova & Alexander R. Titz Das Ich Von Gestern
Dennis Del Favero Deep Sleep
6pm 14 July-13 August 2005 11-5 Tues-Fri, 2-5 Saturday

Gallery Talks
Dennis Del Favero : 4pm Friday 15 July
Lynne Sanderson : 4.30pm Weds 3 August

Lynne Sanderson Lucid Touch
Lynne Sanderson is an Adelaide-based digital artist who began her 
career in 1991 exhibiting in dance clubs. She has since exhibited 
widely nationally and internationally including at the Adelaide 
Biennial of Australian Art, Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (BEAP), 
Museum of Modern Art NYC, and T.V.E Metropolis, Spain.
The interactive experience of Lucid Touch stems from Lynne's years of 
research and collaboration with the Centre for Sleep Research, 
University of South Australia, and the allure to the sense of touch 
within physical interactivity. Over the years Lynne has become 
progressively fascinated with the mind space in the dream world and 
the scientific methods of sleep research. This has led her to conduct 
her own experiments, watching the brainwave patterns of sleeping 
subjects.
Lucid Touch is an interactive sculpture that induces emotion by 
contagion through using an affective feedback loop to control the 
flow of a dream. In dreams we are confronted with distorted entities 
from an emotional memory circuit. Fleeting experiences of a secret 
world. A flow of desire and mood that initiates emotion. In Lucid 
Touch, through the sense of touch, bio-electrical arousal levels from 
the human body are altering the stream of a dream experience. The 
participant controls the mood of a simulated dream and the digital 
dreamer controls the participant's emotional state. There is an 
electrical connection, a primal biological feedback.
Further information about the works of Lynne Sanderson at 
http://sustenance.va.com.au/cv.html
Presented in association with South Australian Living Artists Week (SALA).

Maja Sokolova & Alexander R. Titz Das Ich Von Gestern (My Yesterday's Self)
Maja Sokolova and Alexander R. Titz have dealt in their project das 
Ich von Gestern (My Yesterday's Self) with the eternal questions of 
life and death, in a time when we can easily prolong biological life, 
but not necessarily the consciousness that goes with it: Where does 
life end? Where does death begin?. Projection, movement and sound are 
the central design elements of this work by these German-based 
artists. In this installation they have used sound recordings of a 
human in a state of coma, and projected life-size human forms to 
which speakers are attached, following a set of anatomic rules.

Dennis Del Favero Deep Sleep
Deep Sleep explores the extraordinary events surrounding the 
notorious Chelmsford psychiatric hospital in Sydney during the 1970s, 
taking as its starting point a 1993 newspaper article detailing how 
at least 40 people died while undergoing Deep Sleep Therapy, at 
Chelmsford psychiatric hospital between 1962 and 1979. The therapy, 
invented by the Hospital's Director, Dr. Harry Bailey, formerly State 
Director General of Psychiatry, involved putting patients suffering 
from depression, anxiety and insomnia into a coma for six weeks. 
Though concerns were raised about practices at the hospital over many 
years, no serious investigation was undertaken until an Australian 
Royal Commission was finally appointed in 1990 which recommended that 
three of the four doctors responsible be prosecuted. The fourth, Dr. 
Bailey, committed suicide in 1985 after undergoing deep sleep therapy 
himself. Deep Sleep evokes these events by focusing on the fatal 
relationship between Dr Bailey and his lover, a former patient of 
Chelmsford.
Dennis Del Favero has presented numerous video and photographic 
exhibitions nationally and internationally. He is Co-director of the 
iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of 
NSW, Artist-in-Resident at ZKM and co-editor of the iCinema Digital 
Arts Edition series published by iCinema, ZKM and International 
University Bremen. He was recently awarded a Queen Elizabeth II 
Fellowship. Fantasmi, del Favero's exhibition at Sprengel Museum, 
Hannover, in May 2005 (which premiered Deep Sleep in Germany) was 
nominated as a European exhibition highlight by Germany's leading art 
website, Kunstaspekte. Dennis is represented by Galerie Andreas 
Binder, Munich, Kunstraum Marion Scharmann, Cologne, and Mori 
Gallery, Sydney.
Further information about the works of Dennis Del Favero at 
http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au

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