SymbioticA - The Centre of Excellence in Biological Art presents

Silent Barrage

Blackbox

The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 233 James St, Northbridge

Dates:

7 Nov | 6–10pm

Silent Barrage culminates six years of research by Phil Gamblen and Guy Ben-Ary contemplating the artistic and philosophical implications of an entity made of a ‘living brain’ controlling a robot body. The project commenced with MEART – The Semi Living Artist, a single robotic arm that could draw.

Now Silent Barrage presents sixty sculptural robotic objects, each responding to electric activity occurring in a living network of rat neurons, grown in a Petri dish in the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. For one night only during the festival, Silent Barrage will be presented as an active public lab and work in progress. It is an opportunity to engage directly with the artists before the work heads to a large show overseas.

Blackbox @ The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex

Supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts, WA and The Australia Council