Thursday June 11th Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat will present their performance-installation TELE_TRUST at the Theatrum Anatomicum of Waag Society.

The public will participate in the installation and at the same time a TELE_TRUST data-veil will roam the Amsterdam public space being in constant connection with the event at the Theatrum.Both the artists will extensively test and tell the meaning
and function of TELE_TRUST. The evening will start with an introduction to the work by Eric Kluitenberg, author of Delusive Spaces and head of the media department of De Balie, Amsterdam.

TELE_TRUST is developed in collaboration with: V2_Institute for unstable media, Rotterdam, De Balie, Amsterdam en fashion artist AZIZ. De presentation will be held at Theatrum Anatomicum in de Waag, Amsterdam. For more information visit www.waag.org en www.lancelmaat.nl.

TELE_TRUST: How do we trust each other as networking bodies? Do we need to look each other in the eyes? Or do we need to touch each other? In TELE_TRUST Lancel and Maat explore how in our changing social eco-system we increasingly demand transparency; while at the same time we increasingly cover our vulnerable bodies with personal communicationtechnology. For TELE_TRUST Lancel and Maat designed a hybrid play zone for a vulnerable process, of balancing between fear AND desire for the other. In a visual, poetic way they explore the emotional and social tension between visibility and invisibility; privacy and trust.

TELE_TRUST is a meeting place. TELE_TRUST takes place in dynamic public spaces. Here Lancel and Maat invite the audience in six interactive, full body data-veils. The data-veils combine visual elements of full body covering wearables in eastern and western traditions. They are inspired by a monks? habit and a burqa; as well as by a ?trustworthy? chalk stripe business suit. Everyone can wear a data-veil. When wearing a data-veil your body becomes an interface: flexible sensors are woven in the smart
textile of each data-veil. When touching your own body, the six data-veils form a digital network.

By touching your body in the data-veil you can meet others in the network. You meet in an intimate virtual experience, to exchange stories on horror and beauty: Am I here with you? Who is watching who? Who is controlling who? And in whose body?

TELE_TRUST Shows 2009/2010: ElectroSmog / De Balie, Amsterdam; Eyebeam - New York; Media Lab Prado Madrid; BANFF Canada; RIXC Riga;Tschumipaviljoen- Groningen, V2_Instituut voor instabiele media, Rotterdam.

With generous support of: Mondriaan Stichting Interregeling; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst; De Balie; Amsterdams Hogeschool voor de Kunst; ARTI, V2_Institute for unstable media; Waag Society Amsterdam.

Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat create meeting places? in (semi) public spaces. These meeting places are performances and installations, designed as seductive, visual
environments. Here the artists invite their audience to experiment and play with their especially designed deconstructed social technologies. Lancel en Maat research contemporary social systems in a mediated society. Their works are internationally shown, among others at: Ars Electronica, Linz (A); ZKM, Karlsruhe (D); De Appel,
Amsterdam (NL); Transmediale, Berlin (D); Eyebeam, New York (US); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); Urban Screens 08, Melbourne (Aus); ISEA 04 (Fin); Biennale Villette Numerique, Paris (F); Art Center Nabi, Seoul (Kor); Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL); Millennium Art Museum, Beijing (CN).