Gina Czarneki in residence at C&CRS 2002
An extract from Gina's description of her residency during the Summer of 2002 (taken from: Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., The COSTART Exhibition at C&C2002. in Creativity & Cognition 2002. Loughborough, UK, 2002. LUSAD Publications, p11-22.)
My work is concerned with the evolution of realistic imagery from live and video source material using paradigms of biological evolution. Working with the body and sequences of movement and sound to create real-time interactive experience, new sequences, forms and sounds are evolved. The work being explored in the COSTART workshop was related to piece already in the initial stages of production, ‘Silvers Alter’. This piece is a development from ‘Stages Elements Humans’, a video installation commissioned for the Year of Photography and Electronic Image, 1998. It is based on issues surrounding genetic engineering and related scientific, technological and ethical concerns. It is an experimental observation of the development of consciousness and science. It raises a simple question: to what extent are we prepared to participate in all that we have made possible and that we aspire to make possible for ourselves? It gives the audience the power to create, eliminate and stare.
My work is concerned with the evolution of realistic imagery from live and video source material using paradigms of biological evolution. Working with the body and sequences of movement and sound to create real-time interactive experience, new sequences, forms and sounds are evolved. The work being explored in the COSTART workshop was related to piece already in the initial stages of production, ‘Silvers Alter’. This piece is a development from ‘Stages Elements Humans’, a video installation commissioned for the Year of Photography and Electronic Image, 1998. It is based on issues surrounding genetic engineering and related scientific, technological and ethical concerns. It is an experimental observation of the development of consciousness and science. It raises a simple question: to what extent are we prepared to participate in all that we have made possible and that we aspire to make possible for ourselves? It gives the audience the power to create, eliminate and stare.
