<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font class="yui_3_7_2_18_1358980773363_56" style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;" size="4">A</font><font size="4"><span class="yui_3_7_2_18_1358980773363_95" style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 64, 127);font-weight:bold;"></span></font><font size="1"><span class="yui_3_7_2_18_1358980773363_96" style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT<font style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);" size="4">L</font><span style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);">ABORATORY</span><font size="4">B</font>ERLIN</span></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 64, 127); font-size: 18px; font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="1"><span class="yui_3_7_2_18_1358980773363_96"
style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><i><font size="3">Synaesthesia
/ 2:</font></i></b></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">
<i><b>Space and Perception<br>
<font size="2">Madi Boyd<br>
</font></b></i></font><font size="2"><b><i><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Carrie
C Firman</font></i></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Opening:
25.1.2013, 8 PM<br>
Exhibition runs: 26.01. - 10.03.2013 <br>
Open: Fri-Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment. Open on 30 and 31
January during the Transmediale 13.<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Inquiries
into the nature of Space and Perception are the basis of Art
Laboratory Berlin's second exhibition in the Synaesthesia
series. Synaesthesia, the experience of two or more sensory
impressionsat the same time, is both an artistic paradigm
and neurological phenomenon. Two installations by <b>Madi
Boyd</b> and <b>Carrie C Firman</b> explore the connection
between perception and experience of mind and body from a
synaesthetic point of view.</font></div>
<div><img src="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/assets/jpegs/boyd-point.jpg" height="400" width="600"><br>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">
Madi Boyd, <i>The Point of Perception</i>, installation, 2009/13</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Madi
Boyd</b> is a synaesthete from Great Britain, whose artistic
work focuses on perception and the brain. In collaboration
with neuro-scientists, Dr. Mark Lythgoe and Dr. Beau Lotto,
from University College London her work incorporates and combines
installation, film and sculpture. Her recent project <i>The
Point of Perception</i> explores how much information the
human brain needs in order to know what it is looking at.
It is an art experience and scientific arena about vision.
The installation uses moving image and built environments
to confuse depth perception and is designed to act specifically
on the human eye and brain to create a space of uncertainty.
A newly developed version of the project will be presented
at Art Laboratory Berlin with the addition of sound and colour.
The idea is to assign musical notes and colours to specific
points in the gridded space, in order to explore perception
of geometric space and sound.<br>
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Madi Boyd about her artistic work:"My work combines constructed
environments and projected films to create immersive installations
investigating the interaction between moving image, space,
and the brain. I see the screen as sculpture and light as
paint on the canvas of dark space."<br>
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<div><img src="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/assets/jpegs/Firman_Synexperience.jpg" height="412" width="300">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Carrie
Firman, <i>Synexperience</i>, installation 2010-11</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Carrie
C Firman</b> is an emerging electronic artist from the US.
She is a synaesthete and her work is inspired by studying
and experiencing the crossing of senses. She sees synaesthesia
not only as a sensory phenomenon, but also a fantastic world
interface, responsible for completely unique perceptual experiences.
Her current work encourages its participants to reconsider
their perception as an entirely unique phenomenon, helping
them to come to the realization that even most basic level
of perception differs widely between otherwise similar individuals.
Firman's installation <i>Synexperienc</i>e as well as her
interactive digital work <i>My Synesthetic Library</i> invite
viewers to share in her own unique perceptual experience of
the world.<br>
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Carrie C Firman commented her artistic practice as follows:
"The installation on display demonstrates the interactivity
of my viewers I often require stepping into it, sounds and
images will play, extracted from my own internal Synaesthetic
library."<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Regine
Rapp & Christian de Lutz (curators)</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Synaesthesia/
2: Space and Perception is part of the reSource 003: P2P Vorspiel
of the transmediale 2013 (www.transmediale.de) and CTM.13
(www.www.ctm-festival.de).</b></font></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;">Christian de Lutz </span><br><font style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;" size="4">A</font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 64, 127);font-weight:bold;"></span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">RT<font style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);" size="4">L</font><span style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);">ABORATORY</span><font size="4">B</font>ERLIN</span></span></font><br style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 64, 127);font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prinzenallee 34</span><br style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span
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