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LABS — October 22, 2012 at 10:18 pm

Structuring Somnolence by Lisa Carrie Goldberg

by Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief)
Split screen - Sleep laboratory bedroom and polysomnogram.
Split screen - Sleep laboratory bedroom and polysomnogram.
Participant’s sleep architecture - Monument Valley.
Participant’s sleep architecture - Monument Valley.
Participant’s sleep study set-up.
Participant’s sleep study set-up.

Structuring Somnolence – The New Sleep III.
Structuring Somnolence – The New Sleep III.
Structuring Somnolence – The New Sleep II.
Structuring Somnolence – The New Sleep II.
Structuring Somnolence – The New Sleep I.
Structuring Somnolence – The New Sleep I.

Leonardo Abstract Services (LABS) 2010-2012
Structuring Somnolence: Sleep Science Technology as a Medium for Drawing with the Body at Rest

In December 2010, three volunteers participated in a two-week sleep study conducted by artist Lisa Carrie Goldberg and administered by a certified sleep technologist. It was through these nocturnal events that the process of employing the body and the mind during sleep as a means of art making was realised. Through her studies in sleep biology and sleep technology, Goldberg has come to regard sleep science as a field heavily driven by the visual representations produced by its technological devices. Through the process of repurposing these sleep-measuring devices as drawing tools, Goldberg intended to subvert the purpose and values of the sterile laboratory environment by exchanging them for an artistic purpose, calling upon alternative models for envisioning sleep.

This text begins with a brief overview of sleep science from its early years to its contemporary standpoint. Following this overview, references are made to former artworks that have used sleep as their central theme. The paper also explores the semantic and diagrammatic crossovers between sleep science, art and architecture, as comparisons are made between the term sleep architecture and structural architecture.

Structuring Somnolence: sleep science technology as a medium for drawing with the body at rest comprises a series of sleep study performances that were created at SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, in conjunction with the Centre for Sleep Science at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, the University of Western Australia. A description of these works is presented and positioned in amongst theoretical discourse. The culmination of this exegesis is a synthesis of the Goldberg’s research in sleep science and her artistic practice.

Degree: Master of Science in Biological Arts
Year: 2011
Pages: 124
University: The University of Western Australia
Supervisor: Dr Ionat Zurr
Semail:
Supervisor 2: Peter Eastwood
Language: English
Dept: SymbioticA- the Center of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences
Copyright: Lisa Carrie Goldberg
Lang_author: English
Url: http://structuringsomnolence.tumblr.com/
Email: lisa.c.goldberg@gmail.com
Keywords: sleep, sleep science, sleep biology, sleep technology, sleep architecture, bioart, architecture, art

LEONARDO ABSTRACTS SERVICE (LABS) is a comprehensive collection of Ph.D., Masters and MFA thesis abstracts on topics in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology.

If you are interested you can submit your abstract to the English LABS, Spanish LABS, Chinese LABS and French LABS international Peer Review Panels for inclusion in their respective databases. The authors of abstracts most highly ranked by the panel will also be invited to submit an article for consideration for publication in the refereed journal Leonardo.

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Author: Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief) Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.

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