SLOW FURL : Mette Ramsgard Thomsen talks about Slow Furl

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Mette Ramsgard Thomsen will introduce Slow Furl and its development, from concept to construction, and will talk about researching and developing interactive architecture work, and its creation. Slow Furl is a room size textile installation that acts and reacts on its inhabitation. The installation exists as a soft and pliable skin that lines the Lighthouse space. The skin shifts. As guests enter and move within the foyer, the skin moves imperceptibly at deep timeframes, creating new cavities and spaces, revealing slits and apertures. The project explores the notion of flow. Rather than fixing the digital in a responsive relationship to the user, where every call defines a reply, Slow Furl finds its temporality outside the immediately animate. The thick skin envelops the space in a deep furl. Like a glacier, this robotic membrane, is formed by its slow action, reacting imperceptibly to its inhabitation. For information about Lighthouse: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk and for Digiville go to: http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/whatson/interarchtive.htm 03 July 08 Doors and Bar: 6.30pm (Cocktail Happy Hour from 6.30pm) Talk: 7.30pm At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton FREE