You and I, You and Me

Workshop

Institutio Media invites you to take part in the workshop on collaborative experience around brain-to-brain interfaces. Travel and accommodation for participants from the Nordic-Baltic countries are covered by the organizers. For inquiries and registration please send an email to o-o@o-o.lt. The deadline for applications is February 23, 2022.

Workshop: @Alt lab & online, Institutio Media, Vilnius With artists Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström And neuroscientists Ian Erik Stewart, Amelia Young and Cristiàn Ruiz de la Era 10-12 March 2022

Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström will hold a three-days workshop on making headwear as part of You and I, You and Me project. The headwear will embed electronic circuits that use electricity as a possible form of communication between humans. The workshop will end up as a participatory event with the audience, who will be invited to speculate on possibilities of communication through electricity.

The project You and I, You and Me explores the possibilities of communication through electricity. The project proposes that electricity could help to reveal the imperceptible connections between different actors within the environment. How far could electricity help in understanding the other? Is there a possibility to alter human senses by electric impulses?

Mindaugas Gapševičius (LT/DE) explores the impact of non-human actors on human creativity and the impact of humans on the umwelt. Maria Safronova Wahlström (RU/SE) is interested in social myths, and works with themes such as collective behaviour and linguistic practices that signal our social belonging. Ian Erik Stewart (DE) is a driven Neuroscience Researcher and passionate Science Communicator. Amelia Young (DE) is a neuroscience researcher seeking to connect to the larger community through art and neuroscience. Cristiàn Ruiz de la Era’s (ES/LT) research is focused on Clinical Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Biological Psychiatry.

More information about the project: http://triple-double-u.com/headwear/ Alt lab: http://www.o-o.lt/alt-lab/

Participatory event

Creative workshops and participatory events organized in non-disciplinary research laboratory and community space Alt lab, located in SODAS 2123 cultural complex, invites you to explore and rethink our relationships with one another, nature’s creative potential and ecological, social, ethical or philosophical issues related with that.

Participatory event “You and I, You and Me”, taking place on the 12th of March, 6 p.m., will invite to raise questions about the potential of electricity as a means of communication. Is it possible to change one’s senses with electrical impulses? How can electricity help communication and influence our relationship with the environment?

This event is the result of a three-day creative workshop “You and I, You and Me”. During the workshop, which will take place on March 10-12, Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström, together with the participants, will create headgear that uses electricity as a tool for non-verbal communication through newly generated sensations. The guests of the creative workshop, neuroscientists Ian Erik Stewart, Cristiàn Ruiz de la Era, Amelia Young and Felix Töpfer, will present their research in a virtual lecture on the 10th of March. Participants of the event will be able to try out the communication tools developed during the workshop and be observers of the development of non-verbal connections.

It will be possible to explore not only the origins of non-verbal communication, but also verbal – by listening to the sound installation “The System” created by the artist Roberto Becerra. This work will invite you to explore reality in the sounds of linguistic structures, to reflect on the meanings of sounds and the world of intangible structures they convey, emotions, or social patterns reflected in language.

Time: March 12, 6 p.m.

Venue: Sodas2123 Aktų Salė (Vitebsko str. 23)

Sponsors: Lithuanian Council for Culture and Nordic Council of Ministers. The event is organized by the Institutio media in collaboration with Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and the Bioart Society, a Helsinki-based association for the arts and sciences.

Photo © Bon Alog

More information about the project: Website: http://www.o-o.lt Instagram: @altlab_ Facebook: Alt lab (@TheAltLab) Twitter: @lab_alt

Participants

• Anne Cecilie Lie
• Mohar Kalra
• Nish Ellenor Rose
• Pak L Fung
• Emilia Ukkonen
• Allyana H. Thomas
• Ana Brotas
• Maria Safronova Wahlström
• Mindaugas Gapševičius

Photos

Photo: Kamilė Krasauskaitė

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