22.05.2010 MAKING MEMORIES In Conversation event at Gimpel Fils, London
Including presentations by Michaela Nettell, Tom Simmons, Dr Hugo Spiers, Helen Maurer, Dr Peg Rawes and Andrew McDonnell:
"... it's almost like a slow animation the way they come together and change and shift and start creating something. It feels like trying to remember something, the process of making - trying things out and seeing what happens..." [HM]
"... Bergson is interested in is the construction of the body as a result of these relationships to memory and image. And he talks about this in terms of the notion of the body-image, so he constructs the concept of the body out of these experiences. And one thing I think is interesting about the sound images and obviously the visual images in the installation is that they are both embodied and disembodied. There is both a reality there and also a simulation of reality..." [PR]
"...Another poet I want to read from is W S Graham, and there's a sense of an oubliette. I was thinking about the hippocampus earlier and the sense that there's almost this memory prism sometimes, there's a danger of being trapped within that and what that means..." [AM]
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17.05.2010 PATTERN COMPLETION Presentation at the TESLA art-science discussion forum, University College London. Download PDF.
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