New technologies have given rise to alternative identities, avatars, altered presences which ask us to requestion our positions as individuals and humans within real and virtual networked spaces. The Studio proposes an evening of informal exchanges which explore how artists are adapting and developing these resources to explore different aspects of women’s realities.
Tagny Duff – EBA (Emotive Bio Algorhythm)
Located in the space between human and post-human is EBA, the emotive bio algorhythm. EBA is a remote living body controlled by people operating wireless technologies, computer interfaces, and surveillance mechanisms. Like a machine, the EBA body is programmed to perform tasks, and the user can virtually inhabit the body via remote.
Tagny Duff views live art as starting point for investigating ideas and concepts surrounding the notion of virtual, psychological and politicized geographies. Her recent performative work looks at how virtual technologies (such as the cell phone, radio, and surveillance camera) are creating new forms of action and interaction in the social world, located on-line and in the physical realm.
Christine Redfern – re:dress
Communication and feminist theories converge in performances by four artists who use clothing to convey their ideas. Through text, technology, the body, dresses, sound and humour, the resulting works are a hybrid reflecting, revealing and re-inventing these two culturally defining sources.
Artist living and working in Montreal, Christine Redfern is also a writer and independent curator. She has degrees in Studio Arts (BFA, Concordia University, 1989) and Biomedical Communications (BSc., University of Toronto, 1994).