Event overview
Art PhD Installation Series: Installation 19, Dominique Baron-Bonarjee.
"Experience (experire) implies time; it implies an awareness of the temporal limit inscribed in the organism: death. There is no self if there is no consciousness of being in the flow of time. The conscious organism, indeed, is not placed in the flow of time (as if time were an external dimension that the conscious organism was going through) but is the flow of time itself. Consciousness is the experience of time and the projection of time.” Franco Berardi Bifo
What is the shortest distance between two points?
How can progress be defined?
What is the dynamic rhythm of efficiency?
What do we know about free time?
These questions address bodies as material oscillating at the point of contact between the biological and the technological, the social and the intimate, the measurable and the unknowable.
The installation has a live element performed from 11-13.30pm. The event will be followed by a discussion from 1.30-2pm.
This project comprises an initial collaboration with Jamie Forth and Aaron Gerow from the Computer Science Department at Goldsmiths and is funded by the Invention, Creativity and Experience research theme. With the participation of Aleksandr Drozd (Ph.D.), a research sceintist at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and high performance computing
Dominique Baron-Bonarjee (IN/FR/UK) is based between London and Berlin and works internationally. Her research begins through somatic inquiry, where the body is at once material, object, consciousness, simultaneously malleable, resistant and enmeshed within vaster temporal dimensions. Through methods of listening and response, her practice maps out emergent connections, which aim at creating glitches in existing systems. Taking the body’s use-value in capitalist economies as related to notions of identity and self-worth, she looks to emerging technologies as a sounding board for expanding on questions of usefulness, productivity, measure and time. An engagement with Eastern philosophy and belief systems opens her practice to alternate modes of thought, which interrogate normativity by considering animate, inanimate, human and non-human along a line of equality.
photo credit: Chaong Wen Ting
Dates & times
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23 Mar 2018 | 11:00am - 2:00pm |
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