Queensland Brain Institute and IT/EE, Architecture and Music departments at UQ. Svenja holds a PhD in Biotechnology and Contemporary Art from QUT and has exhibited her works at a range of national and international. She is currently based in Hobart and works as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice at the Creative Exchange Institute (CxI) and Tasmanian College of the Arts (TCotA) at the University of Tasmania.
‘A view from the inside: Art scanning from a somatechnical perspective’ Fiona Fell (Griffith University)
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This paper comments on a particular development in my artistic practice in the realm of ceramic sculpture that can be identified as an instance of somatechnics. By employing technologies that are meant and developed for scientific rather than artistic use and employing them for constructive rather than diagnostic purposes, my art evolves on an exciting, innovative interface that reconnects rational distance and emotional involvement and allows for alternative paths of creative experience and analysis. In my search for new terrains of representation of the body beyond established ceramic and sculptural methods, I have incorporated medical scanning and imaging technologies into my studio-based research, inserting my art practice and outcomes in New Media and Performance Studies. The technologies applied to my artistic research and practice are producing new ways of seeing beyond their alleged initial purposes, leading to a rich somatechnical interface of ex/change that rescripts the body of art and the artist’s in novel ways. Fiona Fell has been a professional ceramics artist for over 25 years and an educator at Tertiary institutions for 20 years. Fiona has received several international grants and exhibits nationally and internationally. She is represented by Watters Gallery in Sydney and is currently Lectures in 3D
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