Exploring the boundaries of body, identity and self using virtual reality technology, Israeli media artist and researcher Daniel Landau presents his “Time-Body Study,” 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28, in UCLA’s Broad Art Center, room 1250.
This live event includes a lecture as well as a demonstration of an experiment in which a participant, wearing a virtual reality head-mounted display, is re-embodied in the body of a 7-, 40- and 80-year-old individual.
Throughout "Time-Body Study," Landau adds narrative layers to the re-embodiment experience in an attempt to explore this cognitive mechanism on an emotional level. The audience will be able to see both the participant’s view of the virtual body — projected onto a large screen — and the live performer’s interactions, demonstrating how the human body is effectively an evolving medium subjected to its technological environment.
Landau’s work resides in the intersection of art, technology and science. In exploring the complex relationship between body and technology, he traces techno-political processes and their impact on social and private spaces.
Sponsored by the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Landau is the artist-in-residence in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts this winter.
Admisison to Landau's presentation of "Time-Body Study" is free of charge. RSVP for the event online.
