PUBLIC TALK: SymbioticA Friday Seminar> 'Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep'

SymbioticA Friday Seminar; Speaker: Lisa Carrie Goldberg; Title: Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep; Time & Location: 3:30 – 5:00pm @ SymbioticA;

Have you ever wondered what you look like when you sleep? Can you imagine your body positions creating artwork while you are sleeping? How about envisioning the sleep lab as an artist’s studio?

Through her studies in sleep biology and sleep technology, SymbioticA’s Master of Biological Arts student, Lisa Carrie Goldberg has found a commonality between the disciplines of sleep science and art, architecture, and design. She intends to explore these commonalities as part of her thesis.

The proposed outcome of these unique sleep studies is the production of works of art, called Somnolence Structurings, which are derived from electrical data collected by the changing body positions of sleepers in the laboratory.

Through this research, Goldberg is presenting sleep as an active state. Once the performance experiments in the lab are complete, all text, audio, and visual documentation collected from these sleep studies will be exhibited in a display open to the public at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in December 2010.

The research is being conducted at the Sleep Research Facility, through the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia.

*Warning: in this seminar Goldberg will give a talk about sleep science and art without delving into the topic of dreaming or dream interpretation. Will she still be able to sustain the interest of the attendees? Come on down and see for yourself.

Visit the project’s blog for more details: http://structuringsomnolence.tumblr.com/

Join Lisa Carrie Goldberg for her Studio Opening and Artist Talk at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art on 2 December 2010 http://www.pica.org.au/view.php?1=Lisa+Carrie+Goldberg+%28Canada%29&2=993