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February 5th 2009, Chameleon at the Dana Center, Science Museum London.
Tina Gonsalves is currently working on a large responsive video art installation “Chameleon”. The project explores ideas of emotional contagion, highlighting awareness of our inner selves, as well as our innate tendency to synchronise and connect with others.
The project is collaboration with UK based neuroscientists prof Hugo Critchley and prof Chris Frith, affective computer scientists Prof Rosalind Picard, and Dr Rana El kaliouby at the MIT Medialab, Cambridge, and curated by Helen Sloan of SCAN. Gonsalves is currently honorary artist in residence at the Institute of Neurology at University College London and visiting artist at the Affective Media Group, MIT. Gonsalves would like to acknowledge the in kind support from the MIT Media Lab, Banff New Media Institute, SCAN and Institute of Neurology at UCL. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust Large Art Award, Australian Network for Art and Technology Synapse Residency, Arts Council England, Australia Arts Council inter-arts board, Australia Arts Council Visual Arts Board.
The CHAMELEON project begins by mapping emotional exchanges. A hypothesis of emotional exchanges has been put forward by Chris Frith. This is evaluated in the lab, as people are monitored emotionally expressing to each other. This is then translated into a learning algorithmic code to inform the video engine's emotional intelligence. Mind reading technology is developed to track emotional expression of participants from a distance, with movement and in darker light scenarios. Information from mind reading technology triggers the emotional algorithmic video engine, which then plays appropriate video portraits to build empathy over a social group. The video portraits are created using actors and artist to speak in present tense about emotional feelings. The videos entice the participant to respond to them. CHAMELEON will create a progression of installations, papers in neuroscience and human computer interaction fields, important research in networking, embedding external peripherals using Max MSP.
July/August 2008 : Chameleon prototype 06 at UCL Hospital, London.
July 2008, Tina Gonsalves features in Artlink : Unleashing Emotion by Darren Tofts.
April 2008: Tina Gonsalves features in Italy's Digimag
April 2008: Feel_Melancholia screens at the European Media Arts Festival
March 2008 : Producing the first prototype of Chameleon at theLiminal Screen Co-production, Banff New Media Institute, Canada
Feb 2008: Chameleon launches at the Dana Center, Science Museum, London
December 2007: Awarded the Wellcome Large Art Award to produce CHAMELEON: Tina Gonsalves will work with the Affective Computing Group, MIT (USA), Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UK) and Brighton & Sussex Medical School (UK) on the project "Chameleon", which draws upon earlier work developed in partnership with Nueroscientist, Professor Chris Frith and Professor Hugo Critchley. Chameleon synthesizes neuroscientific and affective computing research to explore and provoke emotional processes by producing emotionally responsive audiovisual narratives.
December 2007 : Awarded the Banff New Media Insitute Liminal Screen co-production, CANADA
August 2007: Awarded Australian Network for Art and Technology Synapse Residency:
August 2007: Directed music video clip for Tim Roger's new release, when yer sad
Jan - May: lead international workshops for Nokia Design, Helsinki, based at Venice International University. The focus is on the development of more empathic, creative and intimate interaction scenarios for mobile media.
Solo Exhibtion, FEEL_INSULA, at New Greenham Arts, UK 29 June -3rd August 2007
The installation, SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, is showing at the THE ROVING EYE, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
Her short film FERMENT is screening at ICELAND's 700is festival, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, BBC Bigger Picture, Hull Short Film Festival, Hull, UK, Media Art Festival Friesland,White Chapel Gallery, Wormhole Salon, London, UK
Her psychophysiological interactive installation, FEEL TRACE was shown at CYNETART, Dresden in Nov 2006. Her installation FEEL INSIDE was shown at Betaspace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.