News
KIT is touring a robotic sound installation,
Infrasense during 2006. Infrasense
started touring in 2004 and will finish in September 2006
having exhibited at 11 galleries across the UK, Belgium, Canada
and the USA. Upon completion of the final show in Canada,
a hard back book and DVD will be published featuring various
text, images and stories from and about the project. Upcoming
dates and venues of the Infrasense show are: -
May /June 2006 – Ben Maltz Gallery
(lLos Angeles, USA)
post June 2006 - Galerie Séquence (Chicoutimi,
Canada)
post June 2006 - L’Oeil de poisson (Québec
City, Canada)
A new KIT + Robert Saucier project is being
constructed during 2006. The working title for the work is
Viralava and it is the second installation
of the viral series of which Infrasense
was the first.
KIT and Roberta Buiani from York University,
Toronto, are editing a book to run alongside the projects
concerned with virus culture. Tentatively called How
We Learnt To Love The Virus, it is an anthology
of 14 essays. Below is a paragraph from the books outline:
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“ We wish to redress and question the
cultural balance, which portrays viruses in a pejorative fashion,
by exploring new cultural dynamics created by the utilization
of viral methods, models, codes or structures. In order to
chart the growth and the wider implication of such phenomenon,
the book will consist of an amalgamation of texts from media
artists/activists, security experts, biologists and cultural
theorists. A multidisciplinary approach to the study of viruses
is needed at this point in our culture to help understand
how we might reposition ourselves within this new viral paradigm
shift.”
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