Daria Martin, Soft Materials (2004) Soft Materials was shot in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Zurich where scientists research 'embodied artificial intelligence'. The film introduces a group of robots to two performers, their bodies mimicking responding, and touching. Daria Martin,
Sensorium Tests (2012), 16mm, (10 min) In Sensorium Tests, Martin uses staged scenarios based on an experiment into the neurological condition called 'mirror-touch synesthesia' People with this condition experience a physical sense of touch on their own bodies when they see other people, or sometimes even objects being touched. The film explores how sensations might be created and shared between people and objects.
Terry Fox, The Children's Tapes (1974), DVD, (30 min) In a classic early video work, Terry Fox constructs a series of elementary experiments that illustrate fundamental principles of physical science: A piece of fruit is placed under a tin lid held up by a single match, as an unsuspecting fly approaches the bait; a spoon, balanced on a fork, holds a piece of ice until the melting water topples it; a candle in a pan of water is extinguished when a pot is placed over it.
Through the work of artists spanning from the 19th to the 21st centuries, the List Center's current exhibition In the Holocene proposes that art acts as an investigative and experimental form of inquiry, addressing or amending what is explained through traditional scientific or mathematical means. TTFN.
and TTFN one more time.
