Workshop about mechatronic performances at SUPSI

SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland and Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction design presents, on monday 26th October, Sistematurgy - Redesigning the body, a workshop about the mechatronic performances developed by the catalan artist Marcel li’ Antunez Roca.
The workshop offers an overview on the interactive software, robotics systems and technology that Marcel li’ has been developed since the early nineties for his perfomances.
Marcel li’ Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca (Moià, 1959) is well-known in the international art scene for his avantguard mechatronic performances based on the combination of such elements as Bodybots (body-controlled robots), Systematugy (interactive narration with computers) and dresskeleton (the exoskeleton body interface).

He worked on different themes ranging from the use of biological materials in robotics, as in JoAn? l’home de carn (1992), telematic control on the part of a spectator of an alien body in the performance EPIZOO (1994) to the expansion of body movements with dresskeletons (exoskeletical interfaces) sed in the performances AFASIA (1998) and POL (2002).
The videos of his performances are available at www.innetproject.net/ipoint/

The workshop Sistematurgy - Redesigning the body is addressed to the young designers, artists and software developers selected for TEC ART ECO, a three-year project structured on a series of travelling cultural events within the Insubrica region focused on the role of new technologies applied to Art, Science, Communications and Environmental Sustainability.

Tec-Art-Eco offers three big interdisciplinary festivals (visual and performing arts, dance, theatre, music, design and architecture, photography, cinema, philosophy, literature and poetry, economy, experimental sciences and communication) correlated with productive labs, workshops and discussions with important artists and international researchers, aimed at creating a new generation of young artists and cultural operators who will have specific and innovative knowledge in the artistic and environmental fields.

The workshop is free for students SUPSI and USI. Entries are limited to 40 participants.
For more information and registration: serena.cangiano{at}supsi.ch