Hi-Tech

 

Thursday 8 April 2010

Barbican Art Gallery

6:30-10pm

 

The Wallis Gallery's Vanessa Carlos has curated this and a series of other events for the Barbican to compliment the Ron Arad Exhibition. Tickets are free to same day ticket holders or £8 / £7 (concessions), available at www.barbican.org.uk

 

Enthused by Arad’s love for innovation and experiment, designers and artists invite you to revel in possibilities of new technologies. Learn the scales with Matt Brown’s Singing Sock Puppets or watch Marc Owens activate his avatar machine and witness a virtual character simultaneously in real space. Interact with Steven Ounanian’s robot of himself or explore the trails and rhythms of your own movements on Harry Meadow’s Video Feedback Stage. Rough Trade will provide a selection of 1990s sounds.

 

 

Absolut bar

Absolut Vodka have joined up with designers Tom Foulsham and Valentin Vodev - Ron Arad ’s ex-students - to celebrate Ron Arad:Restless with a drinking experience like no other. Tom and Valentin, who have created the mechanisms in the exhibition that make Arad’s designs rock, wobble and bounce, have produced a playful rotating bar which will appear every Thursday evening at Barbican Art Gallery providing visitors with a completely interactive experience.