London Premiere
Lecture: 7 Mar, 8pm
Installation: 7-12 Mar, 12-6pm
Stelarc: Prosthetic Head
Stelarc has constructed an automated, animated and intelligent
artificial head that speaks to you as you interrogate it. The Prosthetic
Head is a
3D avatar head that has real-time lip syncing, speech synthesis and
facial
expressions. The Prosthetic Head will also be able to acknowledge the
presence and position of the physical body that approaches it. And
eventually it will be able to analyse the user's tone of voice and
facial expression.
The Prosthetic Head will have the capability of expanding its data base
from the conversations it will have, becoming increasingly autonomous in
its
responses. The artist will then no longer be able to take full
responsibility for what his head says.
Tickets:
Lecture:£8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members
Installation Free with Day Membership
ICA
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH
Tel: 020 7766 1422
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Dr Joanna Zylinska
Reviews Editor for Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
School of Humanities and Cultural Studies
University of Surrey Roehampton
Digby Stuart College
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PH
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