Dear ThCl clubbers and friends,

The 5th Thursday Club in the 2010 autumn season presents

Thursday 28th October 6-8pm

Ollie Palmer and Artemis Papageorgiou

Ollie Palmer
Physical Virus – the way that things invade.

Tying a designer, an artist and a biologist, Physical Virus is a
multi-layered, interdisciplinary project that seeks to understand the nature
of invasive species as a whole. Through pheromone synthesis, and
understanding specific ants’ innate attraction to electrical fields, we're
exploring ways in which we can manipulate and change ant behaviour. This
understanding then leads to a more creative, visceral approach through
forming interactive installations, performances and an ant ballet.

This has potential for advances in communication: between humans and ants;
between artistic, scientific and design practices, and through creating a
unique and accessible entry point for the public into a range of academic
disciplines.

Furthermore, exploration of this invasive process though a number of
different perspectives provides a catalyst to develop understanding of other
invasive systems; a valuable asset for the advancement of biomedical
research.

www.physicalvirus.com

Bio:
Ollie Palmer is a cross-disciplinary designer. He runs Hoog Design and is a
collaborator with Open_Sailing; he is also a member of Unit 14 at the
Bartlett School of Architecture and a Getty Images contributing
photographer. Besides design, he has travelled around the world, hitchhiked
across Iceland, taught I.T. in the depths of the Amazon and plays with
ants.

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www.olliepalmer.com

artemis papageorgiou

Fabrique is designed as a responsive garden folly. In its space, it
accommodates visions and ideas emerging from the Renaissance garden
tradition, landscape theory, and machine structures. While the Renaissance
folly uses the reproduction of classical myths to talk about man and his
(superim)position in the garden, Fabrique uses the garden itself to talk
about the process of engagement with landscape. Landscape is the scenario,
an end in itself. In Fabrique, landscape emerges through a cycle of
engagement and disengagement with the garden through a hybrid interface,
the watering can and the virtual act of watering. Fabrique departs on
investigating co&#8208;emergent relationships with landscape through
participation and collectivity. Only through collaboration and
co&#8208;orchestration does landscape manifest within the garden, as
choreographed bike chains, a form of mechanical plants. By merging
boundaries between the mechanical and the natural through digital
technologies, Fabrique attempts to interpret landscape as a result of
engagement, and not of nature. In Fabrique,
landscape is a state of acting. More specifically, Fabrique forms a kinetic
installation composed by a grid of nine plantpots fixed on a wooden stage,
three watering cans, and a pergola structure with three overhanging bike
chains (the plants). When watering with light (instead of water) over
specific pots the plants begin to move. Each pot corresponds to the motor
–and part of the chain hanging right above it. When three consecutive pots
are watered the plant performs a complete choreography. Eventually, when
all watering cans are used the three plants regulate their movement into a
single choreography. Fabrique has been commissioned by the collective
OutOfTheBoxIntermedia (2009) and is on tour with the Locus Solus project.

http://artemispapageorgiou.wordpress.com/

Bio:
Artemis is an architect and installation designer/artist, inspired by the
convergence of landscape design with computational media. Through the
design and fabrication of participatory installations, she tries to merge
the boundaries between the natural and the man-made, the iconic and the
procedural. For that reason, she spends a lot of time archiving
landscapes, researching efficient technologies and re-inventing
interfaces. She currently splits her time between her own studio and
Cinimod Studio where she designs interactive installations.

Artemis has a background in Architecture and Engineering and holds an MFA
in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths. Her professional practice includes
architectural studios in Athens, Metalocus magazine in Madrid, and Jason
Bruges Studio in London. Her work has been exhibited in shows such as the
Locus Solus (Byzantine Museum Athens 2009), Passing Through, (James Taylor
Gallery 2009), Kinetica Art Fair (P3 Exhibition Space 2009), Double Take
(Eyebeam NY 2008). Artemis currently lives in East London, and in her free
time she loves –if not escape into the countryside- to buy things that
remind her of gardens and baroque design.




VENUE: 3/4, Ground floor, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths University of
London

Cost: Free to all
Date:  THURSDAY 21st October 2010

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Further information contact: [log in to unmask]
Club convenor: Professor Janis Jefferies
Department: Computing (Digital Studios)

Map & How to get there: Ben Pimlott Building St. James's, New Cross London
SE14

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