jihui digital salon presents Ken Feingold -- Thurs. June 8, 6 PM

jihui Digital Salon
in cooperation with The Project Room@Chelsea Art Museum
presents
Ken Feingold

Thursday, June 8, 2006 - 6-8 PM
Chelsea Art Museum, 3rd Floor
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

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Ken Feingold will discuss his recent works involving computer-generated performances, including new works not yet shown in New York. These pieces, which the artist refers to as "cinematic sculptures," often include extremely realistic, speaking animatronic human heads that talk and respond to viewers ("Sinking Feeling," 2001; "Lantern," 2005) or to each other ("If/Then," 2001; "You," 2004; "What If?," 2005). The listening and speaking figures - digitally and pneumatically activated silicone portraits - explore the unpredictability and complexity that language and mind create between people. The dialogs are not pre-recorded and are always different, generated in real time by computer programs written by the artist. Feingold uses technology to give each figure a personality, a vocabulary, associative habits, obsessions, and other traits of personality that allow them to behave as if in different takes of a scene in a film, acting out their role over and over, but always changing. However, Feingold is not involved with artificial intelligence as a scientist might be and these works are not intended to create a literal simulation of a human being. He employs metaphors of the artificial to get to what we understand about the real, how we communicate, and how meaning often is elusive or transient.
http://www.kenfeingold.com

KEN FEINGOLD (USA, 1952) has been exhibiting his work in film, video, objects, and installations since 1974. After first studying at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in 'Post-Studio Art