<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; ">CHAMELEON, Tina Gonsalves, Hugo Critchley and Helen Sloan</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; "><span> </span>Artist talk and panel discussion at Lighthouse<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; ">04 February 09, 7 – 9pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Lighthouse is pleased to invite you to the first Digiville event of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Why is it that one person can have the ability to ‘light up a room’? How</font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">does a previously upbeat group become miserable? The Chameleon Project merges art, neuroscience and technology into a poetic interactive video art installation driven by emotions of the audience. The project investigates emotional contagion, highlighting how we innately and continuously synchronize with the facial expressions, voices, postures of others, unconsciously infecting each other with our emotions.</font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">With Chameleon, individuals become intimately connected and implicated into varying emotionally provocative and reflexive social interactions.</font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The work uses mind reading technology, video and emotional algorithms to assess and respond to the emotional states of the audience. For the audience, the piece reveals the delicate nature of how our emotional state constantly shifts how we make sense of our external and internal world. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The CHAMELEON project takes the form of a progression of experiments through ten stages each combining new neuroscientific and affective computing research into powerful video art installations. These installations both provoke and respond to emotional processes in the viewer by producing meaningful emotionally responsive audiovisual narratives.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Lighthouse has recently commissioned Tina Gonsalves to develop and exhibit prototype 8 of her 10 stage CHAMELEON project in the Lighthouse space during 2009. Currently Honorary Artist in Residence at the Wellcome Department of Neuroimaging at The Institute of Neurology (IoN) in London, Gonsalves is collaborating with various eminent neuroscientists and world leading affective computer scientists, merging key research centres internationally including the Affective Computing Group at the Media Lab, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA where she is Visiting Artist.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Tina Gonsalves will be discussing the development of the CHAMELEON with members of her collaborative team,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "> neuroscientist Dr. Hugo Critchley and curator of the project, Helen Sloan Director of SCAN media arts agency. <span> </span>this evening of presentation, demonstration and discussion promises to be unmissable for anyone interested in the collaborative and cross-disciplinary aspects of innovative media art practice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Chameleon is funded through a large arts award Wellcome Trust, Australia Arts Council, Arts Council England, Australian Network for Arts and Technology and is supported by UCL, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, SCAN, MIT and The Banff Centre</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>tina gonsalves</div><div><a href="http://www.tinagonsalves.com/">http://www.tinagonsalves.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>