09/10 ‘Sensorium: From the Sea to the River’: a discussion on free technology, digital art, citizenship and intimate science, with Brazilian artist and researcher Karla Brunet

29 Sep, 2013

Wednesday 9th October from 18.00-20.00 @ The Pinter Studio, Arts Building One, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus. FREE

People’s Palace Projects and Queen Mary University of London would like to invite you to ‘Sensorium: From the Sea to the River’: a discussion on free technology, digital art, citizenship and intimate science, with Brazilian artist and researcher Karla Brunet. 

The Sensorium: From the Sea to the River, is a digital art project developed in Bahia [Northeast Brazil] by artist and researcher Karla Brunet.The project explores three major research areas: Technological, Environmental and Artistic Creation. The technological approach researches free hard & software, DIY practices, sensors, GPS and open-source programming language. The environmental axis explores concepts of Place and Space and methods of perceiving the surroundings. The artistic research is interested in the development of aesthetic experimentation and the environmental aesthetics of urban intervention, performances and data visualization. 
 
The Sensorium began in 2012 and has undergone 4 phases: the creation of the Sensorium device, the street and nature experimentation of this device, a data visualization process and art exhibition.To confirm your attendance, please email thiago.jesus@peoplespalace.org.uk. Booking not required.

 
Karla Brunet
Dr Karla Brunet is an artist and researcher; she has a PhD in Audiovisual Communication (UPF – Barcelona, Spain – CAPES Scholarship), an MA in Fine Arts (Academy of Art University – San Francisco, USA – CAPES Scholarship), a Post-Bachelor in Electronic Art Critic (Mecad, Spain) and a degree in Communication (UFSM – Santa Maria, Brazil).
She has participated on many photography and digital arts exhibitions in Brazil, Europe and the USA and got a grant from FAPESB for a post-doctoral research on Mobile Technology and Art, she is currently a professor at IHAC (Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências) and Pós-Cultura (Programa Multidisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Cultura e Sociedade) at UFBA (Federal University of Bahia), where she researches projects that interrogate the intersection of art, science and technology. From 2009-2012, Karla was the coordinator of Labdebug.net, a media lab focus on women and technology, and in 2012, she is the curator of FACMIL/LabMAM. Karla coordinates the Ecoarte, an interdisciplinary research and art group.

For more information (in Portuguese) please visit : www.sensorium.ecoarte.info and www.karlabru.net
Twitter: @ksbrunet”

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