January 14 - April 2, 2006
About the Exhibit
Imaginal Expression is a computer-generated, viewer activated, real-time animated, 3D environment. The artwork's 3D imagery is based on protein molecules, wrapped with scanned imagery from the human body – flesh, hair, blood vessels, bruises and scars. As people are sensed in the Gallery, the molecular components begin to animate to form a molecule, to mutate, and follow the movement of the visitor. When the visitor leaves, the molecule begins to degenerate. The artwork utilizes two computers joined with a router, two ATI Radeon 9700 Pro cards, a computer visioning system, and four video projectors.
About the Artist
For more than 10 years Reva Stone has been investigating western culture's drive to model, simulate, engineer and manipulate biological life. Living matter is being revealed as increasingly mutable. She says "I have responded to the technologization of living matter by creating works that seem to mutate, evolve and respond with a life of their own. I situate my work at the increasingly blurred boundary between what is born and what is manufactured, what is animate and what is inanimate." Stone has exhibited her work internationally and is also active as a curator, a writer, an educator and a mentor to artists through MAWA, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. She is based in Winnipeg.
Artist in Residence in the TechLab
For the duration of her exhibition, Reva Stone will be using the TechLab as a studio space as she continues to develop her current project, exploring a form of artificial intelligence. Exchange combines voice and face recognition software, video capture and graphics to create a work that appears to have sentience. Visitors are invited to drop by.
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