Artist talk at WeeGee / Fri 22 Oct 2010 / 18.00
Pessi Parviainen (FI)
The Semi-Automatic Guitar
The Semi-Automatic Guitar has an attached robotic device that plays the guitar’s strings.
The guitar’s neck is still handled by the guitarist – hence the name.
Pessi Parviainen works in the convergence zone of music, visual art, and performance. Having recently begun doctoral studies at Theatre Academy Helsinki, his research takes a systemic approach at musicianship, considering the musician to be more than simply a sound source.
Cartes Centre of Art and Technology Espoo operates mainly within the fields of electronic and media art, aural and visual. The role of Cartes is critically productive, by presenting site specific projects as well as ‘traveling’ productions it strives to challenge interdisciplinary encounters between the many actors of culture and technology. The Foundation of Art and Technology, Espoo, that governs Cartes was established in 1989 by the City of Espoo, Helsinki University of Technology and Sibelius Academy.
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