Pia Van Gelder Artist Talk

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Visiting artist lectures are held at SFPC, 155 Rivington Street. While these lectures and events are for SFPC students, we have space to accommodate a few guests. We ask for small donation to help with running the lecture series. Contact casey@sfpc.io for details.  We are excited to announce Pia van Gelder from Australia will give a lecture at SFPC on Oct 10th Friday, 11am in 155 Rivington street.   Pia van Gelder is an electronic artist, curator and teacher. Van Gelder creates performances and installations by working with media machines, both custom built and heirloom technologies like the audio-video modular synthesizer, and common electronic devices which are hacked and opened up to perform in ways that negate their use or assumed design. In her recent work she has been interested in presenting opportunities to experience AV mysticism and what she calls ‘machinic affinity’; feelings of closeness to a machine. She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of many prestigious grants. Involving methodologies of hacking within her practice at large, Van Gelder also explores interdisciplinary research into theosophy, technology, science, counter-culture histories and DIY pedagogy. Van Gelder has curated various festivals, art events and exhibitions and has been involved with DIY spaces and communities for the past decade, particularly the Serial Space collective. She is the Overlord of Dorkbot Sydney, a regular meeting for people doing strange things with electricity, whilst lecturing at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in the School of Media Art. For this talk, van Gelder will give a brief overview of her practice with particular attention to her recent work “Psychic Synth”, an interactive installation involving EEG. She will talk about how the project was developed and how EEG might be used to understand the hidden powers of telepathy.