Sophia Brueckner: ISEA 2018 in South Africa

Stamps Assistant Professor Sophia Brueckner is exhibiting the Embodisuit at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Durban, South Africa from June 23 – 30, 2018.

ISEA is one of the most prominent international events on art and technology around the world, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in electronic art, interactivity and digital media.

ISEA2018, the 24^th International Symposium on Electronic Art, is the first ISEA to be held in the African sub-continent. Hosted in the coastal city of Durban, South Africa. In a strategy to build a local partnership and legacy, the event will be hosted together with the 5^th iteration of the Durban University of Technology Digifest and Innovate Durban’s Innovation Festival.

Bringing new audiences, academics, and practitioners together, the theme, INTERSECTIONS, positions creative technological innovation as an activist engagement into public space and public practice with underlying critical questions of ownership, imposition and development. Creative collaboration between artists, artisans, designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and inventors will take place in a context where survival is the most basic instigator for solutions. In such a scenario, technological developments should follow and support these solutions. This symposium and festival will focus on accessible and alternative platforms that encourage partnerships across sectors and regions, highlighting the strength of industry, institutions and government to think about how we can improve our environments and find locally relevant approaches for everyday challenges.