Critical Platform - Wednesday 16th February - Hull Time Based Arts presents Digital Illusions

Presentation and Debate: Digital Illusions - with guest speakers Simon Biggs & Ken Devine. Wednesday 16th February at Basil Reckitt Lecture Theatre, Ferens Building, University of Hull (campus map available on www.timebase.org) 6 - 8pm FREE All Welcome

In February, Critical Platform will explore the visual and sensory experiences offered by digital media. Virtual spaces can look real, sound real and even feel real. Our sensations are manipulated by digital interfaces. Is there a limit to the believability of virtual spaces or will we eventually be unable to spot the difference? Will cyberspace imitate the effects of the real upon our senses or create an alternative sensory experience? The profusion of digital technologies means that increasingly you cannot believe your eyes. Artists, games developers and engineers create elaborate virtual illusions that demand to be treated, and interacted with, as if they were reality.

Ken Devine is Principle Lecturer at thee University of Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media. Since 1994 he has worked in multi-media, animation, video, sound and interactivity. The attraction, he states, is the potential for diverse interests to be merged digitisation. Professor Simon Biggs was born in Australia, 1957, and moved to the UK in 1986.

A visual and inter-disciplinary artist, he places the computer and interactive systems at the centre of a practice addressing issues around identity and reality as social constructs. Hull Time Based Arts Web Email : info@timebase.org Web: www.timebase.org 42 High Street Hull HU1 1PS Vox +44.(0)1482 307070 England, UK Fax +44.(0)1482 307090

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