Experimenta Social #24:
Human To Digital
The first Experimenta Social for 2019 invites audiences to consider their physical connection to technology. Our invited speakers put the human body at the forefront of their practice in order to further investigate this connection. By visualising human sensory data – can we better understand ourselves and our impact on our environment?
Our first speaker is pioneering media artist Prof. Dr. Jill Scott, who coined the term Neuromedia to best describe the collaborative practise of combining media art with neuroscience research. Through her practice, Jill builds interactive media installations that immerse viewers inside designed environments – to gain a deeper understanding of our human sensory limitations and abilities. Jill will be joined by Dr Betty Sargeant (PluginHUMAN), who’s progressive works personalise audiences’ experiences through audio-reactive visual environments, controlled live by brain activity.
Experimenta Social is presented in partnership with ACMI X, and supported by Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO.
About the Speakers
Jill Scott
Jill Scott
Professor Dr. Jill Scott is a media artist, researcher and writer. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, and currently works between Australia and Switzerland. She co-directs the LASERZURICH in Zurich for the Leonardo Society, USA and she is Professor Emerita at the University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich, where she founded their Artists-in-Labs Program (2000).
Jill Scott`s research spans neuroscience, electronics, ecology, sociology, sculpture, performative installation and media art. Her own artwork production spans 40 years of production about the human body, behavior and body politics. For the last 16 years, she has collaborated with Neuroscientists at the University of Zurich, Switzerland as well as been artists-in-resident in other Science labs (SymbioticA, Perth and University for Applied Arts-Vienna). She has published six books on art and science research.
www.jillscott.org
Betty Sargeant
Dr Betty Sargeant is a multi-award-winning, internationally recognised media artist. She is co-creative director and artist with the art-technology duo PluginHUMAN. Betty creates multi-sensory immersive art installations that socially and physically engage audiences.
Betty Sargeant
Dr Betty Sargeant is a multi-award-winning, internationally recognised media artist. She is co-creative director and artist with the art-technology duo PluginHUMAN. Betty creates multi-sensory immersive art installations that socially and physically engage audiences.
Betty has exhibited internationally (Asia, Europe, North America, Australia). She has won Good Design Awards (2020 and 2018) and a Premier’s Design Award (2017) for her progressive artworks. She has created media art installations for institutions such as the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan, 2018), Questacon (the National Science and Technology Museum, Australia, 2018) and the Asia Culture Centre (South Korea, 2016 & 2017). Betty’s current series of work investigates carbon neutral and carbon negative materials and working practices.