Extended Senses & Embodying Technology Symposium and Exhibition 2022

Published

810 September 2022, University of Greenwich and University for the Creative Arts

This inter-disciplinary Symposium and Exhibition bring together practice-led research from the cultural and creative industries sectors to explore ways of extending and expanding the body through new and emerging modalities and technologies. This is a network gathering of artists, creative industry experts and academics investigating and exchanging knowledge on the current state of the intersection between our embodiment, our senses and the technologies of today.

Running alongside the Symposium in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery and Project Space we present the Extended Senses Exhibition, showcasing a range of diverse innovative creative works emerging from within this crossover, focussing primarily on our living bodies as the key site of knowledge production. Explorations within immersion, haptic engagement and body interfacing are included, showing key methodologies for our future understanding of the hybrid blending of the virtual and the physical. Artworks include interactive installations, VR and AR experiences, digital video, animation, films and an online performance, together creating innovative interactions of the body with sound, light and image.

This Symposium and Exhibition is part of knowledge exchange activities from the School of Design and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Greenwich.

More about the symposium and the exhibition here.
Register for the symposium here.
See the full programme here.

Exhibition Open Days
Thursday 8th and Friday 9th September: 11.00 till 20.00 
Saturday 10th September: 11.00 till 16.00
at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery and Project Space, The University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell St, London SE10 9BD

Artists and Exhibited Projects:

  • Allie E.S. Wist and Lisa Schonberg – Sensory Kinship for the Third Kind
  • Andrea Ackerman – Torso Target Trilogy
  • Ari Peralta – Brainbo: Colour Meditation
  • Camila Colussi – Tectonic Lingering
  • Camille Baker and Maf’j Alvarez – INTER/her: Journey Inside the Female Body
  • Chanee Choi – Unreal Window
  • Clémence Debaig / Unwired Dance Theatre – STRINGS
  • Hemma Philamore, Alix Partridge, Calum Gillespie, Adrienne Hart, Helen Manchester – Prehension Blooms
  • Kerryn Wise and Ben Neal – Facades
  • Kimatica Studio – Metaverse Divinations
  • Liminal Vision – Emilia Tapprest & Victor Evink – Sonzai Zone
  • Luciana Haill – The Nod
  • Ninon Lizé Masclef and Adrien Chuttarsing – Latent Organism
  • Stacey Pitsilides and the body>data>space collective – Donate Yourself
  • Terry Perk and Julian Rowe – Arthur Ducklin Peithotron

More about the artsts and their exhibited projects can be found here.

Co-Chairs
Ghislaine Boddington (University of Greenwich)
Camille Baker (University for the Creative Arts) 

Exhibition
Lead Producer – Tadej Vindiš (body>data>space)
Gallery Director – David Waterworth (University of Greenwich)
Social Media/Coordination – Bree Ngwena (body>data>space) 
Technical support –  FLAS Film and TV Support – Alexander Wright, Tim Putnam and Danny Santos Amaral (University of Greenwich)

Symposium 
Coordination – Lucy Bunnell, Anna Skulkey and Lucy Jones (University for the Creative Arts)

Event Producer
University of Greenwich FLAS Events Team / Information Services –  Suzanne Louail, Karen Wood, Laura Shering, Raza Fakhar, Sanziana Chiorescu
Impact Evaluation – Jean Malan (University of Greenwich) and Amy Jackson-Bruce