[spectre] Alan Sondheim Presentation at the London ICA, Oct. 16

[Alan Sondheim]

Alan Sondheim: Somatic Ghosting

London ICA Talk and presentation on 07:00 pm, Wed, 16 Oct 2019, 
in the Theatre at the London ICA - see URL below!

https://www.ica.art/live/alan-sondheim-somatic-ghosting

I'm thrilled to present audio/video/performative work on the
relations among virtual and real bodies, virtual and real 
ecosystems, and virtual and real being in the worlds.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

"Multidisciplinary pioneer Alan Sondheim presents a lecture 
exploring his evolving practice.

"Interweaving Sondeims practice across platforms, the lecture 
will explore the influence of the digital on the body and social 
and political spheres.

"A pioneer of the virtual, Sondheim has worked for decades 
across music, sound and the visual. Drawing on a range of 
sources from his lexicon of digital objects and artefacts, this 
presentation will tour the territories and interzones of his 
practice, staking out ideas and sharing his unique perspective 
on our twenty-first-century conditions. Alan Sondheim is a 
city-based new media artist, musician, writer, and performer 
concerned with issues of virtuality, and the stake that the real 
world has in the virtual. He has worked with his partner Azure 
Carter among others. Sondheim is concerned with the examination 
the grounds of the virtual and how the body is inhabited. He 
performs in virtual, real, and cross-over worlds; his virtual 
work is known for its highly complex and mobile architectures. 
He has used altered motion-capture technology extensively for 
examining and creating new lexicons of behaviour. His writing 
stems out of codework, a problematic style in which code 
substrates and surface content interfere with each other in 
which, in other words, the textual body and body of text are 
deeply entangled. His current music is based on the 
impossibility of time reversal, on fast improvisation, and 
anti-gestural approaches to playing."