Wednesday 22nd March 2006, 4.30 - 6.30
Powerhouse Museum

How are artists bringing emotion and interaction together? How does computer based interaction lend itself as a medium for exploring emotion?  Andy Polaine and Alexa Wright will describe the relationship between emotion and interaction in their art practice, followed by discussion and refreshments.

Andy Polaine is  an artist and writer well known for his playful interactive art and design work. In 1994 Andy co-founded the award-winning new-media collective Antirom in London creating work for BBC, the ABC, Levis Strauss and Co. and The Science Museum. In 1999 he came to Australia and started the interactive department of Australia’s leading visual effects company, Animal Logic. He is now Head of the School of Media Arts at UNSW's College of Fine Arts He writes regular columns on design and new media for Desktop and IdN magazines as well as other international and academic publications.

www.polaine.com/playpen

Alexa Wright is a visual artist working with photography and digital media. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Art, Research and Technology Education at the University of Westminster in London, where she also teaches MA Photography and MA Visual Culture. Since 1998 Alexa has collaborated with Professor Alf Linney at the Centre for Auditory Research at University College London, where she holds an honorary post as artist in residence.

Alexa has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Recent exhibitions include: Monstruous, Fantasmas y Alienígas at Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Wonderful: Visions of the Near Future at Cornerhouse, Manchester and Geometry of the Face at the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen.