Amplified Anthropomorphic Machine
Location: MELBOURNE SCIENCE GALLERY
Date: Saturday, 11th March at 3:00pm
ARTISTS: Performance Artist, Stelarc and Sound Designer, Petros Vouris
DESCRIPTION: A performance improvising to the movements and sounds of the Anthropomorphic Machine with Performance Artist, Stelarc and Sound Designer, Petros Vouris.
A visual and acoustical performance improvising to the movements and sounds of the Anthropomorphic Machine with Performance Artist, Stelarc and Sound Designer, Petros Vouris. The performance is structured by certainly not scripted. With attached sensors and contact microphones the Anthropomorphic Machine’s cacophony of compressed air sounds, solenoid clicks and the collisions of the the tensegrity struts will be amplified, immersing the audience in its acoustical aura. The robotic installation is not figurative, but certainly anthropomorphic in that it has a deformable skeletal structure, rubber muscles, steel tendons, a pneumatic lung and a vision and computational system that monitors and detects the proximity, distribution and dynamics of visitors, with the system analysis generating the series of machine behaviours such as pulsing, swaying and glitchy movements. The performance will be streamed live to YouTube.
Featuring
STELARC
STELARC Performance Artist Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 26 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has...