[node-l] Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon Project, Natural History Museum.

[tina gonsalves]

After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions

Natural History Museum, Jerwood Gallery, London

After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions will feature work from artists  
and writers who explore Charles Darwin’s book The Expression of the  
Emotions in Man and Animals in which Darwin examined the continuity of  
emotional states of animals and humans.

Tina Gonsalves will be exhibiting the Chameleon Project, prototype 06,  
a 12 channel video work exploring emotional contagion. New film and  
installation commissions from Diana Thater, Jeremy Deller and Matthew  
Killip in collaboration with Richard Wiseman will be shown alongside  
existing video work by Bill Viola. New literature, commissioned from  
award-winning authors Mark Haddon and Darwin’s great-great- 
granddaughter, Ruth Padel, will also form part of the exhibition.  
These works investigate today’s cultural perspectives on human-animal  
kinship and the study of emotional expressions and offer a  
contemporary take on Darwin’s challenge to the place humans occupy in  
nature.

A publication, Expressions: From Darwin to Contemporary Arts will  
accompany the exhibition. It features new writing by Swedish author  
Aris Fioretos, essays from Julia Voss, Jonah Lehrer and a response to  
Mark Haddon’s work by leading neuroscientist António Damásio as well  
as information on all the works in the exhibition.

The Chameleon Project (2008-2010), built over ten prototypes, is a  
collaboration between artist Tina Gonsalves, neuroscientists Chris  
Frith and Hugo Critchley, affective computing scientists Rosalind  
Picard and Rana El Kaliouby, human computer interaction scientist  
Nadia Berthouze and curator Helen Sloan. Chameleon investigates the  
scientific foundations of emotional contagion, transforming it into an  
art experience. The project follows and critiques the scientific  
methodology, creating scientific and artistic research, as well as new  
models to be used in scientific experiments, and new ways to  
experience art.

The Chameleon Project has been supported by the Wellcome Trust,  
Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Network for Art and  
Technology Synapse Residency, Arts Council England, Lighthouse, The  
Wellcome Department of Neuroimaging, The MIT Media Lab and Banff New  
Media Institute and SCAN.

Bio:

Tina Gonsalves creative investigations integrate art, science and  
technology to produce embodied, interactive, audiovisual works that  
offer new ways of experiencing the connection between our 'internal'  
body and its external environment. She is currently honorary artist in  
residence at the Institute of Neurology, UK, visiting artist at the  
MIT Media Lab, USA and artist in residence at the Nokia Research Labs,  
Finland.

http://www.tinagonsalves.com



Visitor information



Admission:     adult, Gift Aid admission £6*

             		concession, Gift Aid admission £4*

            		child, Gift Aid admission £3*

                     	family, Gift Aid admission £16*

Date:             26 June – 29 November 2009

Venue:            the Natural History Museum, Jerwood Gallery

Opening hours:     every day, 10.00–17.50

Visitor enquiries:   020 7942 5000 Monday–Friday, 020 7942 5011  
Saturday-Sunday

Website:            www.nhm.ac.uk



*If you are a UK taxpayer and pay the Gift Aid admission ticket price  
this allows the Natural History Museum to reclaim the tax on the whole  
ticket price you pay.  For every £100 worth of tickets sold, we can  
claim an extra £28 from the Government. This means you can further  
support the work of the Natural History Museum. The standard admission  
charges are: adult £5.40, child £2.50, adult senior £3.50 and family  
£14. The right of entry is the same for visitors with or without the  
voluntary donation.


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