Name: CONNECTED - Hello Machine_opening
Start: 2019-01-17T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2019-01-17T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Ca' Foscari Zattere CFZ - Cultural Flow Zone

CONNECTED - Hello Machine_opening

Science Gallery Venice

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CONNECTED programme includes an artwork by Rachel Hanlon - media archeologist -called HELLO MACHINE and a series of artscience workshops gravitating around the interactions and communication between humans to humans and humans to machines.
HELLO MACHINE consists of an old fashioned landline telephone ringing from time to time. If you answer the call you will talk to someone from another HELLO MACHINE in the world! Telephones by Rachel Hanlon are located in Australia, USA, Japan, Ireland and Austria.
The two telephones will be located in important Venetian cultural sites like the new <A HREF="https://www.m9digital.it/it" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">M9</A> museum as well as in other locations part of the <A HREF="http://distrettovenezianoricerca.it" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DVRI</A> - District of Venetian Research and Innovation, like <A HREF="http://www.querinistampalia.org/eng/home_page.php" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Fondazione Querini Stampalia</A>. 
CONNECTED will open on Jan. 17 and close on April 7, and it will be located in multiple sites at Ca' Foscari and at other important museums in Venice and Mestre (CFZ, Ca' Foscari scientific campus, Fondazione Querini Stampalia onlus, M9).
OPENING PROGRAMME
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17.30 - 17.40 Institutional greetings  Marco Sgarbi, Ca' Foscari Vice Provost for Communication and Promotion Anna Puccio, Science Gallery Venice Managing Director
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 Partners' representatives: DVRI - District of Venetian Research and Innovation, Supporting Partner  M9, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, CFZ and Ca' Foscari scientific campus, Hosting Partners 
 
17.40 - 17.50
Presenting HELLO MACHINE
Rachel Hanlon, artist
 
17.50 - 18.00
CONNECTED workshops
Claudia Schnugg, Science Gallery Venice Creative Director
introduces Fabio Pittarello, Francesca Franco, Stefano Coletto and Luc Steels
 
18.00 - 18.30
Open debate on A.I. Rachel Hanlon and Paola Vesco - Young Voices Board
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18.30  Artwork preview & cocktail 
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Hello…? Can you talk to me…? When technologies reach obsolescence, our relationship with them changes, but what never changes is our need to reach out to others, connect and share. But what if no one is on the other end of the line? Who is there to hear us? AI has made sure there always is! A ‘speech race’ is upon us, first we had interactive voice response systems, now with natural language interface systems we have our new ‘weavers of speech’, these modern day ‘voices with a smile’ are changing the way we communicate with our phones. Siri, Alexa, Bibxy, Cortana and Google Assistant (shall we call her GAbby?) are all vying for your attention, but what will our budding relationships to these Boy/Girl Fridays blossom into? Hello Machine - Hello Human, touches on the playful moments that are shared between man and machine, and seeks to connect with you by inverting this relationship, by asking what can you do for her. With future developments in AI, and the possibility of ‘machine learning’, will it be a version of Samantha, Her (2013), or a version of HAL 9000, A Space Odyssey (1968)? Some of the greatest minds today are joining together to limit the possibility of an eventual Skynet, (Terminator franchise) developing. While we in the now wait for the history of the future let us know what happens, we have fun with our ‘Siris’ and they humorously, and often fumblingly, play along with us, giving us more the reality of Holly from Read Dwarf. In the end, maybe they will end up being like Deep Thought from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy(1979), and answers the most important questions in life for us. Hello Machines are situated across the globe in ever changing locations and time zones, picking up the receiver rings the other Hello Machines, creating space for spontaneous voice visiting. They provide a way in which the viewer can interact with re-animated technically obsolete telephone systems, utilising present day advancements in telephony. Their aim is to open up a dialogue between the technologies original ideas and meanings, and what makes up the 'thingness' these devices now possess, by unraveling its historical and societal content that contains traces of our identity.
ARTIST Rachel Hanlon is an emerging artist in the field of media archaeology. Her works make available many layered metaphors and meanings through reinterpretations of obsolete technologies that are heightened by our cultural reliance on them as a part of the narrative of our times. Hanlon’s interest in the re-articulation and appropriation of found materials, explored through creative art practices, reveal and inform the way the complexities of past and present are understood and experienced. The Hello Machine body of work forms a part of Hanlon’s PhD research into the interplay between people and things, cementing the telephone as an object that verifies its place within our history as part of our cultural voice. Hanlon is presently a researcher and artist at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. She holds a Bachelor and First Class Honours Degree in Visual Arts, and is currently a PhD candidate at Deakin University, Australia.
DVRI is the supporting partner of the programme and founding partner of Science Gallery Venice.
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