Uncanny Halloween
Saturday 31st October 2015
Venue: Wysing Arts Centre
Category: Art & Exhibitions
One Liner: Uncanny Halloween
Price Info: Free
Time Info: 2-6pm
This event will explore some of the themes raised in the exhibition The Uncanny Valley and will include contributions from:
Dr Fumiya Iida, Lecturer in Mechatronics at the University of Cambridge who will be speaking about developments in robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Dr Ellen Poliakoff, senior lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Manchester University who will be speaking about cognition in relation to the uncanny valley phenomenon.
Exhibiting artists Benedict Drew, Lawrence Lek and Sophie Jung will be performing new spoken word and music, live at the event, in response to the phenomenon.
The afternoon is organised and hosted by Wysing Director, Donna Lynas; curator of The Uncanny Valley exhibition.
The Uncanny Valley is a group exhibition with Julia Crabtree and William Evans, Benedict Drew, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Holly Herndon, Joey Holder, Sophie Jung, Lawrence Lek, Rachel Maclean and Katja Novitskova.
The uncanny valley is a phrase that was coined by robotics professor Masahiro Mori, in 1970,as a way to describe an emotional response that can be measured when encountering objects that are hyper-real; where there is a moment of uncertainty about what is being viewed that gives way to a feeling of discomfort or disorientation.
The exhibition aims to explore the phenomenon, alongside contributing to the discourse around screen based and digital works, by exploring the aesthetics of the uncanny.
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