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Creative Cyborgs
16th May 19.00 - 22.00
Live event at the Dana Centre - map - Free!

How have computers become an increasingly significant part of our imaginative and physical being?

Come face-to-face with natural born cyborgs as we explore how computer technology impacts on us and our creativity.

Speakers:

• In a specially commissioned film, philosophers of science Andy Clark, author of Natural Born Cyborgs, and Mike Wheeler discuss the fundamental role of tools in human behaviour. Clark argues that humans became cyborgs the moment they picked up their first tool - when he is using a tennis racket Bjorn Borg is as much a cyborg as the Terminator.

Performances by:

• Paul Granjon, creator of the 'Cybernetic Parrot Sausage' and 'Sexed robots', humorously explores the darker side of our relationship with technology in 'Zlab transported'.

• Jazz trumpeter Tom Arthurs and Ollie Bown (Icarus), with visuals specially developed for this event by Squint and Brittski through a commission from Lighthouse.

Exhibition Programme

Work from the Computational Models of Creativity in the Arts workshop will be shown here, including:

List of exhibitors:

Woven wall of sound, Tim Blackwell and Janis Jefferies
Old Skool Revolutionaries, John Cates
Milson Move, Ernest Edmunds
Aikon, Frederic Fol Leymarie, Patrick Tresset
Deptford.tv, Adnan Hadzi
Changing Weights, Ron Herrema
Fugue, Gordana Novakovic, Dr. Peter Bentley, Rainer Linz, Anthony Ruto
P erformances fromParas Kaul, Ollie Bown and Tom Arthurs with Brittski and Squint, and Paul Granjon

Running order

Film and questions
Brain wave chick, questions
Installations and general discussion
Tom Arthurs and Ollie Bown
Paul Granjon

Booking Information

This event is free but places must be booked by calling
020 7942 4040 or by emailing tickets@danacentre.org.uk

In association with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise, Goldsmiths College, Birkbeck College, University of Sussex, the Computer Arts Society and Lighthouse.