Syndicate: Fwd: Ken Feingold at Postmasters

[Chris Byrne <chris@cryptic.demon.co.uk>]

To: syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de
   Subject: Ken Feingold at Postmasters

   Ken Feingold's new works are literally capable of carrying on
   conversations. Feingold's listening and speaking animatronic heads -
   digitally and pneumatically activated lifelike silicone portraits which
   hear and understand english speech - take art into the realm of the
   interpersonal encounter, approaching and questioning the unpredictability
   and complexity that language and mind create between people (as well as
   between people and computers), presenting new concepts of the portrait,
   and pointing to issues of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering.

   The conversations which these figures carry on are neither completely
   scripted, nor are they random; rather, the software gives each a
   "personality", a vocabulary, associative habits, obsessions, and
   other
   peculiarities, which make their conversations quirky, surprising, and
   often hilarious.

   Two of the works also involve digital projections in which the screens
   function as "mental projections" of the figures. The public will be
   able
   to interact with the characters by engaging in conversations with them at
   the gallery, and one work will be accessible via the Internet at
   http://www.kenfeingold.com/hinge from May 15 through June
   23.

   For more information on these works, please visit
   http://www.postmastersart.com/feingold/

   If you would like to receive slides or a cd-rom with high resolution
   images of these works, please contact Magdalena Sawon at Postmasters
   Gallery http://www.postmastersart.com/.

   For further information on Ken Feingold's previous works and bibliography
   on this artist, visit http://www.kenfeingold.com/.

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Chris Byrne                          chris@mediascot.org
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New Media Scotland                 Tel. +44 141 564 3010
P.O. Box 25065, Glasgow G1 5YP     Fax. +44 141 564 3011
Scotland, UK                    http://www.mediascot.org
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