[ExI] ARTS: Emotional Systems - Florence

[Natasha Vita-More]

If anyone is in Florence, this exhibition is worth visiting:

Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy) announces the exhibition
EMOTIONAL SYSTEMS
from 30 November 2007 to 3 February 2008
<http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=274&idSezioneRif=165>http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=274&idSezioneRif=165

"The event marks the inauguration of the CCCS -
Centre For Contemporary Culture Centre La
Strozzina at the Palazzo Strozzi, a space created
as a platform for the vast range of practices
that characterize contemporary art and culture.

"The inaugural installation - Emotional Systems,
contemporary art between emotion and reason, 30
November 2007 to 3 February - develops in three
clearly distinct yet complementary phases: an
Exhibition, a Publication and a programme of
Lectures designed to investigate the topic of
emotions, proposing a reinterpretation of the
correlation between the contemporary artist, the
work of art and the user, in the light of the
latest discoveries in the neurological sciences
about the human brain and its effects on the
emotions. ...

"The artists in the exhibition include: Bill Viola
(USA), William Kentridge (South Africa), Yves
Netzhammer (Switzerland), Katharina Grosse
(Germany), Christian Nold (Great Britain),
Maurice Benayoun (France), Teresa Margolles
(Mexico) Andrea Ferrara alias Ongakuaw (Italy)
and the poets Elisa Biagini, Antonella Anedda and
Valerio Magrelli."

I am a fan of Bill Viola's work.  His videos are stunning expositions 
of human interaction and reflection.  http://www.billviola.com/




<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - University of Plymouth - Faculty 
of Technology
School of Computing, Communications and Electronics
Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the 
circle, then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what 
is inside the circle and everything outside the circle, then that is 
an open system perspective. - Buckminster Fuller
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