[spectre] sk-interfaces

[Oliver Grau]

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sk-interfaces exhibition and conference at FACT Liverpool


sk-interfaces exhibition
Exploding Borders - Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society
FACT, 1.2.-30.3.2008, exhibition curated by Jens Hauser
http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=128 

sk-interfaces conference
FACT, 8. & 9.2.2008
http://www.fact.co.uk/whatson/detail/?infoID=2837860386966003966 
Registration:
http://www.facttrading.co.uk/ 

sk-interfaces book
Liverpool Unversity Press
164 pages, 70 color illustrations
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3823


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EXHIBITION

sk-interfaces is a multi-disciplinary exhibition of contemporary art
works 
which reflect the progressive feeling of uncertainty and
‘inbetween-ness’ 
which we encounter in the age of technological extensions. Much like a

generalized rite of passage, the 17 international artists translate
this 
emotionally uncomfortable ‘betwixt and between’ period. They make
use of 
today’s sensation of being ‘neither here nor there’ to engage us
into 
moments of enhanced self-reflexivity. Skin represents a place where
art, 
science, biopolitics, philosophy and social culture inter-face.
Materially and 
metaphorically, artists replace borders that tend to separate by 
membranes that need to be negotiated; between spaces, species, gender,

senses, disciplines and genres. 

sk-interfaces launches FACT’s Human Futures programme in
Liverpool’s 
year as European Capital of Culture.

Works by:
Tissue Culture and Art Project - Victimless Leather
Orlan - Harlequin Coat
Wim Delvoye - Sybille II
Stelarc - Extra Ear: Ear on Arm
Art Orienté objet - Artists’ Skin Culture, Roadkill Coat,
Trans-species Aura 
Photography
Critical Art Ensemble - Immolation
Eduardo Kac - Telepresence Garment
Zbigniew Oksiuta - Biological Habitat, Spatium Gelatum, Cosmic Garden
Jun Takita  - Light only Light
Julia Reodica - hymNext Hymen Project
Maurice Benayoun with Jean-Baptiste Barrière - World Skin
The Office of Experiments - Truth Serum
Zane Berzina - Touch Me Wall 
Jill Scott -  e-skin: Somatic Interaction
Olivier Goulet - SkinFlags,  SkinBag Corps.EXT
Yann Marussich - Bleu Remix
Kira O’Reilly - Inthewrongplaceness (at the Bluecoat)

FACT - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology
88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ, UK
www.fact.co.uk 


CONFERENCE

This international conference gives insight into the aesthetic,
philosophical 
and biomedical issues raised in the exhibition. Specialists from a wide

range of disciplines and artists of international renown will discuss
past and 
future roles of skin, shifts in the concept of interfaces, the
emergence of 
‘biofacts’ in philosophy, as well as the most contemporary
practices of 
artists using new technologies, biomedia and their own bodies. 

Speakers include: Claudia Benthien, Stelarc, Orlan, Nicole Karafyllis,

Richard Cavell, Oron Catts, Stéphane Dumas, Siân Ede, Jill Scott, Jens

Hauser, Maurice Benayoun, Marion Laval-Jeantet, Kira O’Reilly, Neal
White, 
Nicolas Langlitz, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Sally Jane Norman, and
more.

Registration online or by phone:

The conference e-flyer is available to download here:
www.fact.co.uk/images/1images/conferences/sk- 
interfaces_Conference_08.pdf

For full conference programme and list of speakers please visit:  
www.fact.co.uk 


BOOK

sk-interfaces: Exploding Borders - Creating Membranes in Art,
Technology 
and Society. Edited by Jens Hauser. An art and text book published by 
Liverpool University Press.  Contributions from 25 major international

artists, scholars and critics, thermochromic cover design by Zane
Berzina.

Press Inquieries:
Simon Bell
Tel. (44) 151 794 2234
Email: sbell at liv.ac.uk