[Nettime-bold] Ken Feingold at Postmasters

["postmastersart.com" <pmsart@ns.thing.net>]

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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