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The Banff Centre for the Arts, in co-production with artist Steve Gibson, presents TELEBODY, a musical/video performance exploring the interface between man and machine. The performance will be held Friday, July 7 at 8 pm in the Rice Studio of the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building at The Banff Centre.
"In TELEBODY, the performers act as metaphorical bio-geneticists," says Gibson. "They perfectly control and manipulate images of the human body to represent the altered human figure in the digital world."
Through the use of digital image capturing, 3-D scanning and effects processing, three music and video performers use digital music instruments to control audio and video projections of human figures. Whenever the performers strike a key on the keyboard or hit a note on the guitar, the visual and the auditory realms are affected. The performers control one body or body part at a time and can switch body parts between the models, or apply effects in real-time.
Steve Gibson is a Canadian composer, multimedia artist, and theorist. Since 1997, he has served as Senior Lecturer and Director of the Multimedia Program at Karlstad University in Sweden. He has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at University of Victoria.
Gibson collaborates and performs with Jonathan Griffiths, a British new media designer and programmer, and Bert Deivert a multimedia and interactive software consultant. Griffiths and Deivert are based in Sweden.
TELEBODY is a new media co-production with the Media and Visual Arts department.
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