Learn more about the ideas and technologies behind Of the Spheres, CHROMA’s new work created for the Brighton Digital Festival 2013. This workshop will look at the new possibilities that bio-sensor technology gives us for communicating what is going on within the body.  We’ll introduce participants to working with pulse sensors in installation and performance settings and explore using biosensor data for communication.

There is widespread speculation as to when NASA’s Voyager 1 will complete its journey across the heliosphere, the bubble-like boundary of charged particles marking the outer limits of our solar system.  Of the Spheres is an audio-visual projection event and an interactive website exploring the extended reach of technological communication.  The project mixes the images and songs that Voyager 1 is carrying on its Golden Record with the data that the probe is sending back.  The online element invites the Internet community to send in a view of earth and explores how digital tools can share, blend and re-mix these personal vistas.

The Golden Disc carries, along with its selection of images and sound files, the biosensor data of Ann Druyan, who was one of the team to select the music for the Disc.  Her beating heart as well as the electrical impulses of her brain and nervous system were included with the idea that alien intelligence may be able to decode the signals.

Kate Genevieve is an Artist and Director based in Brighton.  She explores the interaction between embodiment and perception through moving image installation and performance work.  Kate teaches Digital Media Arts and Design at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton. www.kategenevieve.com

Ian Winters is a video & media artist working at the intersections of performance, architectural form, and time-based media. In addition to individual work he often collaborates with composers, directors, and choreographers to create both staged and open-ended media environments through performance, visual and acoustic media. www.ianwinters.com

Phoenix Brighton is the largest artist led organisation in the South East of England (outside London). It provides studios for over 100 artists, runs a major arts education programme across digital, fine art, photography, craft and performance, and is one of the leading art galleries in the city. Phoenix Brighton is a Registered Charity, number 1051551.

Coinciding with our flagship exhibition of ‘Mutator 1+2: Evolutionary Art by William Latham’, Phoenix Brighton’s programme for Brighton Digital Festival celebrates some of the most innovative and internationally renowned artists working with digital technology in the city today. See the Phoenix Brighton website for more information about our work.