Test_Lab: Intimate Interfaces: Franco Berardi

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This edition of Test_Lab presented the outcome of these artistic ventures into technology-mediated bodily intimacy. In demonstrating their works, artists and designers have shown and tested their radical reconsiderations of the ways in which body, material, and technology together shape our intimate lives. Exemplified in demonstrations of the innovative Bare Skin Safe Conductive Ink, Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat's Tele_Trust data veil, and a preview of Studio Roosegaarde's project Intimacy, the topic was further elaborated upon by 'body architect' and artist Lucy McRae, and philosopher and media theorist Franco Berardi. As it is custom to Test_Lab, the audience was invited to try out the presented works. Can these explorations lead to truly intimate interfaces?

Franco Berardi (aka Bifo), philosopher, media theorist and activist, founded the magazine A/traverso (1975--1981) and was a member of the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy. He was involved in the political movement of 'autonomia' in Italy during the 1970s, then fled to Paris where he worked with the French philosopher Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis.

During the 1980s he contributed to the magazine Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milano). He published numerous books, including Cyberpunk, The Panther and the Rhizome, Politics of Mutation, Philosophy and Politics in the Twilight of Modernity, and The Factory of Unhappiness. He also collaborated with the Institute of Networked Cultures (Amsterdam).

Berardi is based in Bologna, Italy.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Intimate
• Interfaces
• Franco
• Berardi
• Test_lab
• v2
• new
• media
• art