Tä: Harmonious Dynamics with Goni Shifron and Uri Hershberg

“Tä”

Harmonious Dynamics: Exploring Emergent Cooperation through Participatory Art and Brain Activity

“Tä” is an art participatory piece that emerged from joint research between Goni Shifron (artist) and Uri Hershberg (scientist). A collaboration of art and science aiming to identify the moment when individual actions merge into adaptive group dynamics. In “Tä”, we invite the audience to be part of an immersive experience of art and have unique access and contribution to scientific research.

Tä is for 12 participants. Following simple rules, each individual will move pebbles between piles on a table and the group will together create the dynamics of the entire population. Participating in Tä reveals large questions about harmonious dynamics that each of us can relate to our own way of interpretation (symbolic, geographic, sociological, and esthetic considerations).

For the next presentation of Tä we will for the first time, give some of the participants special wireless wearable headbands which can be used to measure brain activity. This event will act also as a first pilot study for an international research team studying how cooperation and synchrony emerge from the interaction of unconnected individuals.

DETAILS:

Friday, August 30, 2024

First Session begins at 4:30 PM
*Doors open at 4:00 PM, performance begins at 4:30 PM*

Second Session begins at 6:00 PM
*Doors open at 5:30 PM, performance begins at 6:00 PM*

Open discussion with the artist and researchers after each session.

Tickets are available for both participants and observers. If you choose a participant ticket, we will be in touch by email with more details ahead of the event and will also send a release form since this performance will be recorded for documentation and research purposes.

Paradigm Arts Building, 3rd Floor Gallery
12 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Goni Shiforn is an Israeli artist living and working in Paris. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 2016. Across her own work and collaborations, Goni explores intimate and universal stories through various mediums (installation, performance, photography).

Uri Hershberg is a Professor of Biology and the director of the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology at the University of Haifa. He studies how complex living systems learn through interaction with their environments, mostly, but not always, by studying the adaptive immune system. He tries in his research to create true stories about biology.

Hasan Ayaz is an Associate Professor at Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering Science and Health Systems. His research is focused on unraveling the complexities of human brain functioning through mobile neuroimaging. He utilizes next-generation brain sensing technologies and neuro/physiological data analytic approaches with applications ranging from aerospace to healthcare.

Luciano Perondi is a typeface, graphic and game designer. He was appointed associate professor of Design at the IUAV Venice in 2018 and he is also a member of the Alpaca and Cast, cooperatives of designers. Often within a theoretical approach, his interests are focused on visual studies, writing, typography, games and information design mostly in a design for all perspective. In particular he focuses on the empirical study of visual syntax, also known as synsemia, a foundational aspect of graphic design.