| Type: | Exhibition | | Exhibition date: | 01/02/08 - 30/03/08 | | Description: | sk-interfaces presents the work of 17 international artists reflecting on the way current technologies are changing our lives, with an emphasis on the transformation process itself. The artworks in sk-interfaces deal with the concept of liminality - a period of transition between two states of being - and the fluctuating 'in-betweenness' of our current socio-cultural climate. Curator Jens Hauser has devised an exhibition in which skin becomes a symbol: skin is the largest organ in the human body making up 16% of our body weight; it is a semi-permeable membrane demarcating the outside world from the internal spaces of the body. As technology becomes more sophisticated, so our notion of what is organic or 'natural' and what is man-made becomes blurred. In this exhibition the idea of an interface - the point of connection, the place in between one thing and another - is challenged.
The artworks in sk-interfaces express the potential of tools and methods that are being used in multiple specialist disciplines, pointing to their possible ethical implications and social concerns. Artists have always used, and often subverted, contemporary techniques of their times to create places for thought and debate. Today, with the convergence of different media, artists comprise bits, cells and genes in every kind of combination. Biotechnology, tran-species relationships and technological body extensions, wearable computing, tele-presence, biological architecture and self-experimentation are some of the methods and practices explored in sk-interfaces. | | Description Source: | FACT Gallery Guide | | Description Source Date: | 2008 |
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