Me, my brain and emotions. My surroundings and my relations with the environment. Societies and communities and rules within them. Earth as a global village. All this constitutes the RE: generation.
GALLERY IS ADDRESSED TO VISITORS ABOVE THE AGE OF FOURTEEN.
RE: generation is unique – it extends the perception of science, covers also areas which are often not seen as forming a part of science, e.g. human emotions, feelings, sympathies or antipathies, or even ethical problems, for example in-vitro. As it is the case for other galleries of the Copernicus Science Centre, RE: generation also allows for experiments and the visitors may actively try things out.
The gallery entails 80 multi-media and interactive exhibits, where visitors may experiment themselves or with their friends or family. They are located in four zones: Me (psychology and inner life), Me-You (relation between two people, partnership, friendship, love, dependence between humans and new technologies), Me-We-They (relations between individuals and a group and between groups, social phenomena), Me-World (how does the modern world influence us and how do we influence the world).
The RE: generation gallery may be visited using the same ticket which opens the remaining five galleries. It is also open within the same opening hours as the rest of the Centre.
RE: generation gallery may be entered basing on the same ticket as all the other galleries. It is also open in the same office hours.
RE: generation. You’re in the game!
INVITATION TO THE RE: GENERATION GALLERY
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- Eye-to-eye with a cyborg
- prof. Kevin Warwick
The opening ceremony was held upon the attendance of a special guest, British cybernetics professor, Kevin Warwick, nick-named by the media as Captain Cyborg.
‘I was born a man’, says professor Warwick in his interviews. ‘But this is only a coincidence. I do not intend to give in to such limitations.’
Professor Warwick became famous as be implanted himself with a chip integrated with his nervous system. The implant allowed him to communicate with machines and to steer them using only his thoughts.
Professor’s wife, Irena, also participated in the Cyborg project. She was implanted with a similar chip and tried to communicate with her husband without using any traditional methods. With the help of the computers linked to the implants, Mr and Mrs Warwick transferred emotions as well as sensations of pain and pleasure.
During the opening ceremony of the RE: generation gallery, professor Warwick described his experiences to the visitors of the Copernicus Science Centre.
The meeting with professor Warwick was accompanied by a performance of the Łuhuu! group. Visitors could become the Master of Puppets and explore the boundaries of our freedom. Does manipulating others make us also be manipulated? Can those who are manipulated and those who are manipulating suddenly switch places? Are we aware of that?
- Reactable Live!
The opening ceremony of the RE: generation gallery was hosted by DJ Carlos Lopez Campmany from Reactable (Spain). DJ from Reactable presented the possibilities of his incredible instrument: synthesiser which takes the form of a tangible interface on a translucent and luminous round table. Various objects move and rotate on the table. Depending on their shape and interactions between these objects, sounds are generated.
This unique instrument was used e.g. by Björk Turing Her turnee promoting the “Volta” record.
The “Rolling Stone” magazine deemed Reactable the hottest musical instrument of 2007.
