The Body as Tool: Creating New Media

Media artists Laetitia Sonami, M Eifler, and Camille Utterback use technological contraptions, such as video, electronic processing, and computers to explore the boundaries of art, and discuss their use of modern day contraptions. Presented in conjunction with Contraption: Rediscovering California Jewish Artists and The Art of Rube Goldberg. Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist, performer and researcher. Sonami’s sound performances, live—film collaborations and sound installations—focus on issues of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place, and objects.