[NetBehaviour] Patrick Tresset exhibition PV and conversation with Dr Nick Lambert
Dear All I am very pleased to announce our new exhibition, Whilst we were here... by Patrick Tresset, which opens at Watermans on Wednesday 18 October. I hope you can join us for the launch event. *In Conversation: Patrick Tresset and Dr Nick Lambert * Wednesday 18 October, 6.30-8.30pm FREE Please book your place on https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/patrick-tresset-in-conversation-with-dr-nicholas-lambert/ The conversation will take place in the theatre and will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by drinks in the gallery. In partnership with the Computer Arts Society Artist Patrick Tresset and Dr Nick Lambert (Head of Research at Greenwich Peninsula's Ravensbourne and lecturer in Digital Art and Culture at Birkbeck College) will discuss Tresset's work creating theatrical installations using robots, including the new work presented in his new exhibition at Watermans. Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] V Digital Design Weekend
Dear all I wanted to share with the programme for this year's V Digital Design Weekend, taking place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th September, so very soon! As every year, the event is taking over the Museum to present contemporary digital art and design, engage participants and visitors in conversations, share processes and explore how design, technology and creativity can help bridge ideas, generating new relationships between people, cities, environments and more. You can find out more about the Digital Design Weekend in this link: http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/network/digital-design-weekend-2017 The full programme is listed here: https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2017/09/19/13/03/53/86060b37-bb90-4c09-95bb-34ade429215f/VANDA%20DDW.pdf And if you want to register for a reminder nearer the time, we have a page on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/va-digital-design-weekend-2017-tickets-37206658116 All events are free and drop-in. I hope you can join us! All the best Irini Irini Papadimitriou Digital Programmes Manager Department of Learning V South Kensington London SW7 2RL T: 020 7942 2258 M: 07986 347 922 Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains Until 15 October 2017 at V South Kensington Presented by Pink Floyd, the V, and Iconic Entertainment Studios Sound Experience by Sennheiser Book now on vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/pink-floyd See the exhibition for free if you join as a V Member vam.ac.uk/members Michael Morpurgo: A Lifetime in Stories Until 25 February 2018 at V Museum of Childhood Admission free Keep in touch Sign up for V e-newsletters vam.ac.uk/content/email/signup Become a fan on Facebook.com/VictoriaandAlbertMuseum Follow us on Twitter.com/V_and_A and instagram.com/vamuseum/ This message is intended solely for the use of the individual or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the originator immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not use, copy, alter, or disclose the contents of this message. All information or opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and are not necessarily those of The Victoria and Albert Museum or its affiliates. The Victoria and Albert Museum accepts no responsibility for loss or damage arising from its use, including damage from virus. Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, Tel: 0207 942 2000 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Esther Rolinson in conversation with Douglas Dodds, the V's Senior Curator of Digital Art | Watermans
Dear all I hope you can join us for the launch event of our new exhibition, Gravitate by Esther Rolinson at Watermans, and special event in partnership with CAS; artist Esther Rolinson and Douglas Dodds, the V's Senior Curator of Digital Art, will discuss Rolinson's new exhibition, in which her drawings and light installation Flown will be exhibited together for the first time. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 7 June. The conversation will take place in the theatre and will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by drinks in the gallery. All are welcome - please book your free ticket on our website. *Gravitate Exhibition Launch Event*Wednesday 7 June, 6.30-8.30pm Theatre, FREE Bookings: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/esther-rolinson-in- conversation-with-douglas-dodds-senior-curator-of-digital-art-at-the-va/ <https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/esther-rolinson-in-conversation-with-douglas-dodds-senior-curator-of-digital-art-at-the-va/> Gravitate gives insight into Rolinson’s meditative drawing process in which she explores sensations, structures, movements and connections. Hand-made pencil drawings on paper are often digitally manipulated to experiment with forms in light and colour, and simple combinations of lines are repeated building up complex forms. Rolinson's construction rules are a method of disassociating from conscious thoughts and allowing spatial patterns and movements to emerge. Some of these works conclude like solved puzzles, whilst others have the potential to grow infinitely. Her installations are immersive, extendable structures that can be adjusted to fit diverse environments from light festivals to art galleries. In 2016 she was awarded The Lumen Global Digital Arts Prize Sculpture and 3D Award, and the first prize at the inaugural International Art CHI Exhibition, Computer and Human Interaction Conference, San Jose, California for Flown developed in collaboration with artist and programmer Sean Clark. Examples of Esther's drawings and prints have been acquired by Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Objects of Transcendence opens tomorrow, 20th January - Watermans
Dear all I hope you can join our drinks reception this Friday, 20th January, for the launch of the new exhibition at Watermans, Objects of Transcendence. Objects of Transcendence looks at how the object can transcend its individual meaning to make a social or political comment. It brings together the work of leading contemporary artists Ele Carpenter, Jeremy Hutchison, Jasleen Kaur and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez. The exhibition explores how each of the artists focuses on materiality in their own art practices and how the language emerging from the object can draw our attention, challenging our way of seeing reality, and rewarding us with new perspectives on a range of contemporary issues. From portraits built from Amazon's purchase-behaviour algorithms to everyday items bathed in radioactivity, this is an exhibition that will spark new ways of thinking. Objects of Transcendence continues until 5 March. More information: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/objects-of- transcendence/ Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Objects of Transcendence opens 20th January - Watermans
Dear all Our next exhibition, Objects of Transcendence, opens at Watermans on Friday 20th January, 6.30-8.30pm with a drinks reception and a chance to talk to the artists about their work. Objects of Transcendence looks at how the object can transcend its individual meaning to make a social or political comment. It brings together the work of leading contemporary artists Ele Carpenter, Jeremy Hutchison, Jasleen Kaur and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez. The exhibition explores how each of the artists focuses on materiality in their own art practices and how the language emerging from the object can draw our attention, challenging our way of seeing reality, and rewarding us with new perspectives on a range of contemporary issues. From portraits built from Amazon's purchase-behaviour algorithms to everyday items bathed in radioactivity, this is an exhibition that will spark new ways of thinking. The exhibition continues until 5 March. More information: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/objects-of-transcendence/ I hope you can join us for the opening launch. Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Technology is Not Neutral Symposium - 3 Dec
Dear all I hope you can join us for the Technology Is Not Neutral symposium at Watermans next Saturday. The event is free, but booking is required. Please see below for the schedule and info. Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk *Technology is Not Neutral **Symposium* 3 December 2016 Watermans, London Free, booking required https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/technology-is-not-neutral-symposium/ Symposium schedule: 11.00 Welcome Chair: Irini Papadimitriou 11.10 - 11.40 Gordana Novakovic: Introduction to the project 11.45 - 12.15 Melanie Lenz 12.20 - 12 50 Julie Freeman 12.50 - 14.10 Lunch and gallery break Chair: Gordana Novakovic 14.15 - 14.45 Hannah Redler 14.50 - 15.20 Josephine Berry 15.25 - 16.00 Cornelia Sollfrank (via Skype) 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break Moderator: Bronac Ferran 16.30 - 18.00 Plenary discussion with speakers, artists, and audience The 'Technology Is Not Neutral' project was inspired by the desire to counteract the frequent under-representation of the achievements of women in the field of digital art. Whereas the touring exhibition showcases the quality and diversity of the work of female digital artists, this symposium addresses the causes and effects of the problem, and opens up a space for challenging the status quo and the presumptions on which the history of digital art is written. Many of the causes of the current situation are not specific to the area of female digital art, but are also linked to the wider socio-political effects of technology, and technology, as the project title declares, is not neutral. The speakers, all female, will include curators, digital artists, media activists, academics, and feminists, and will therefore offer a variety of perspectives relevant to the central issue. The questions addressed may include, among others: - How does the current state of affairs affect female digital artists and their practices? - Has there been any improvement in the representation of women in digital art since the discipline began? - What are the approaches and strategies that they apply to engage with these issues, and which are most effective? - What is the relevance of cyberfeminism today to female digital artists? - Are female digital artists facing a glass ceiling syndrome, so common in many other professions, when it comes to curating major exhibitions and evaluating and documenting the past? The closing plenary session of the symposium will offer a space for artists, speakers, and the audience to review and discuss the experiences and lessons from the symposium and the exhibition. This structured discussion will also act as a starting point for the project to formulate and disseminate a strategic guide for the future development and promotion of women working in the digital arts. Speakers: Dr Josephine Berry, Goldsmiths University of London, http://www.gold.ac.uk/ cultural-studies/staff/berry-josephine/ Melanie Lenz, Curator of Digital Art, V Julie Freeman, artist, http://www.translatingnature.org/ Hannah Redler, art curator, https://theodi.org/team/hannah-redler Dr Cornelia Sollfrank, artist and Cyberfeminism pioneer http://www.artwarez.org/ (Cornelia Sollfrank will join the symposium online) Bronac Ferran, writer, curator and researcher, http://www.boundar yobject.org/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Technology Is Not Neutral and Digital Weekender | Watermans 12 & 13 November
Dear all I hope you can join us this weekend to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, Technology Is Not Neutral and our annual festival of digital performance, including installations, performance, games, talks and discussions. Please see below for the list of events. For times and bookings, please visit: https://www.watermans.org.uk/weekender/digital-weekender-2016/ Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk *WATERMANS' DIGITAL WEEKENDER 2016* *Technology Is Not Neutral exhibition tour with the artists and curators*Saturday 12 Nov, 5-6PM, Free, no booking required *Followed by exhibition launch drinks, 6.30-8pm*Technology Is Not Neutral targets the frequent under-representation of the achievements of women in the field of digital art by highlighting the contribution of female artists in shaping what digital art is today. The curatorial concept focuses on a diversity of approaches and methodologies including sequencing of bacteria, robotic performance, data as an artistic medium, biologically inspired simulation, site specific online transmission, digital print, kinetic art, telepresence, social media activism, drone choreography, brainwave art and hacking reality. *Symposium: Digital Performance Today: Cutting Edge Avant-Garde or Cultural Mainstream?* Saturday 12 November, 11.00 – 17.00, Free, booking required For this year’s Digital Weekender Symposium we’ll be looking at the practice and applications of digital performance today. Featuring practice and research demonstrations, talks, round tables, provocations and coffee sessions, the Symposium will ask how the field of digital performance has developed over the last decade. *DREAMS REWIRED, Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode* Sun 13 November, pls check website for bookings DREAMS REWIRED traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality. Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, DREAMS REWIRED reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid. *The Phrontesterion: EEG and Dreamachine sonified, Luciana Haill* Sat 12 & Sun 13 November, pls check website for times, Free In this interactive, participatory artwork the Brainwaves of participants are monitored whilst experiencing a hypnotic light sculpture ‘The Dream Machine’ and creating the phenomena Flicker. *the 4th floor, Kaffe Matthews* Saturday 12 November, 8PM Half price (£4) ticket offer with code DIGITALHALF (please input code before you select your tickets) The first woman to receive the Edgar Varèse professorship at TU Berlin, Kaffe Matthews returns to the stage with a new performance, making massive beats from tiny elements weaving architectural rhythms that never conclude. http://www.kaffematthews.net/ *The Cube, Simon Wilkinson AKA Circa69* Sat 12 & Sun 13 November, pls check website for times and bookings Created by artist Simon Wilkinson, AKA CiRCA69, The Cube combines virtual reality, live performance and kinaesthetic effects to tell the story of a mass disappearance that happened in Idaho in 1959. You awake to find yourself sitting at a table across from a stranger; you have no idea how long you have been asleep or where the rest of the group has disappeared to as you consider the question. www.circa69.co.uk *A Moment of Madness, The Other Way Works* Sat 12 & Sun 13 November, pls check website for times and bookings On the eve of the vote on radical new legislation to combat climate change, the revelation of a politician’s clandestine rendezvous threatens to destroy the coalition and scupper the bill. Your job is to make sure this doesn’t happen. Stay in your vehicle. Report everything. www.theotherwayworks.co.uk *Q Session with The Other Way Works* Sun 13 November, Free Do you make interactive theatre or real-world games? Do you work with technology in your creative practice? Would you like to? Come along to this Q Session with Katie Day, theatre maker and producer and John Sear, developer and game designer and find out more about how they’ve brought their two practices together to create their new immersive experience ‘A Moment of Madness’. *Trust: Mixed Reality, Kate Genevieve* Sat 12 & Sun 13 November, pls check website for times, Free This one-on-one Mixed reality experience is an experiment in trust and contact. Using head goggles, multi-sensory illusion and affective touch, visitors are invited into an exploration of inter-perso
[NetBehaviour] Opening event: Building the Bridge between Science and Art CAS Lecture | Morphogenetic Creations by Andy Lomas
Dear all We are very pleased to be launching our new exhibition, Morphogenetic Creations by Andy Lomas, with a special lecture and exhibition tour in partnership with the Computer Arts Society. Building the Bridge between Science & Art - D'Arcy Thomson and On Growth and Form A lecture by Matthew Jarron Wednesday 15 June, 6.45pm, Watermans Followed by a tour of the Gallery Exhibition ‘Morphogenetic Creations’ with artist Andy Lomas at 7.30pm https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/building-the-bridge-between-science-art-darcy-thompson-and-on-growth-form/ I hope you can join us. Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Altered Landscapes symposium - art and human rights
Dear all I thought some of you might be interested in this symposium coming up at Watermans. As part of the Altered Landscapes exhibition programme, we are very pleased to announce a symposium to discuss issues of displacement and migration, exploring how art can catalyse debate around human rights and create a dialogue around these issues. Speakers include international artists May Abdalla and Juan delGado, curator and Co-Director of Culture+Conflict Michaela Crimmin and Áine O’Brien, Co-Director of Counterpoint Arts. The discussion will be chaired by Saphia Crowther, editor at Amnesty International. Altered Landscapes Symposium Saturday 21 May 14.00-18.00 Watermans More information and bookings: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/altered-landscapes-symposium/ The symposium will be followed at 6.30pm by a screening of Syrian short films in partnership with Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts. The screening is free and tickets do not need to be booked. For the full list of films, please visit: https://www.watermans.org.uk/events/syrian-short-film-screenings-part-of-altered-landscapes/ Altered Landscapes is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Artist Juan delGado has been awarded an INSIDE commission from New Art Exchange and DASH. INSIDE is a Disability Arts commissioning programme led by DASH with funding from Arts Council England. I hope you can join us. Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Production Methods by Executive Chair at Watermans
Dear all I wanted to share info for our new exhibition at Watermans, which opens very soon. I hope you will get a chance to visit. We have a special event on Saturday 14 November as part of the Digital Performance Weekender, as well as a series of free workshops collaborating with the artists for a new artwork. Please see info below. Fell free to share with anyone who might be interested to join us. *Production Methods * By Executive Chair Friday 6 November - Sunday 10 January Watermans Special event: Saturday 14 November, 18.30-21.00, as part of Digital Performance Weekender http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873541456/events?show_id=873541456 Whether you have had a job for life, are on a zero-hours contract or are an unpaid intern, Production Methods will seem familiar to all that have ever worked. It gives an unsettling sense of scale forcing us to look upwards to the boss or "the management" and beyond to the infrastructure and digital technologies that influence so many of our waking and working hours. Throughout the space office furniture and the remains of a bankrupt business sit, the workers are absent, perhaps fired by group text message? When visiting the gallery it might be buzzing with energy, and words, or lying dormant waiting for the start of the business day. The boxes that dominate the space are the kind hastily packed with possessions and clutched by a worker just made redundant; containing within them the promises and produce of marching progress, these boxes also serve as the site of artistic production. And the gallery will be re-energised, a business founded anew through a group of new economy workers who will bring the space to life through a programme of participatory public workshops. Production Methods brings together curatorial insights, sculptural critiques and playful interventions into the infrastructure of financial markets, the polemics and semantics of outsourced public services and the diffuse boundary between work and life. *Executive Chair* are artists Haydn Jones, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Jonathan Munro working with curator Ozden Sahin. The group examines the worlds of work and finance and how art and technology can be used to cast a light on the diffuse boundary between work and life. They make playful, challenging and engaging installations and sculptures that examine complex personal, governmental and organisational relationships. http://executivechair.co A series of five free participatory workshops will allow members to engage with the project and collaborate with the artists for the production of a new artwork and/or publication for the exhibition. Workshop Dates: Saturdays, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 14.00-17.00, FREE Bookings: http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873541300/events?show_id=873541300 All the best Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste
Dear all I am very pleased to announce our new exhibition at Watermans, Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste. The exhibition is the result of an amazing journey and a collaborative research project that started in London, continued to Lagos and Hong Kong and came to an end in London this week. Bodies of Planned Obsolescence is an art-science research project that engages with the global economy of discarded electronics. Old computers and other electronic appliances from countries in the West, including the UK, are often exported to West-Africa and China. As part of the project, an international group of artists, cultural theorists and scientists followed this global stream of waste to Nigeria, Hong Kong, and the UK, and took part in e-waste recycling labour on dumps and in factories in these places. In a journey filled with piles of all sorts of electronic materials and devices, from old flat screen TVs to computers and household appliances; keyboards and other plastic shells; CDs, DVDs and their boxes; cables and other peripherals, the research group spent a few (adventurous!) days working at an e-waste dump site connected to the Alaba market in Lagos, an enormous market in the western outskirts of Lagos which includes one of the biggest used electronics trading sites in Nigeria. Following Lagos, the group travelled to Hong Kong, where they participated in electronic waste recycling labour, dismantling computers and monitors, but where they also explored the consumer world and trade at used and new electronics markets. During the last part of their research, the group spent a week working together at Watermans and exploring e-waste recycling sites around London. Bodies of Planned Obsolescence forms a platform for artists and academics, but also looks to open public debate and discussions around the problematics of e-waste. 'Bodies of Planned Obsolescence' is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. http://www.e-waste-performance.net http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/bodies-of-planned-obsolescence.aspx The exhibition will be open from 5-24 July and on Saturday 4 July, there will be a public event from 2-6PM and great opportunity to meet and chat with the participants, Dani Ploeger, Shu Lea Cheang, Neil Maycroft, Chris Williams and Hannah Millest, who will be sharing their experiences and research. I hope you can join us! All the best Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The Stuff of Machines by Dani Ploeger | Watermans
Dear all I hope you get a chance to visit our new exhibition, The Stuff of Machines by Daniel Ploeger, which opens tonight at Watermans. This exhibition is linked to Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste, a research project and group show which will follow in the gallery from 4-24 July ( http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/bodies-of-planned-obsolescence.aspx ). All the best Irini The Stuff of Machines Dani Ploeger PV: Wednesday 10 June, 6.30-8.30PM - all welcome! Exhibition continues: 11- 25 June For the past three years, Dani Ploeger has exposed his body to the stuff of techno consumer culture, ranging from brand-new objects of desire in British and American shopping malls, to the debris of discarded electronic devices on dumps and recycling sites in Nigeria and Hong Kong. The Stuff of Machines brings together recent performance, installation and interactive work that explores and subverts the expectations and dreams surrounding everyday technologies, through an engagement with their materialness in connection to bodies: parts of old televisions were installed in the artist's abdomen, tablet computers wrapped in sheet metal are left to charge forever, a petrol generator powered a computer inside a transparent box with the artist inside, and a magnified infected wound documents electronic waste recycling labour on a Nigerian dump site. Meanwhile, visitors are invited to lick an iPad to indulge in their own techno consumer fetishism. www.daniploeger.org http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/the-stuff-of-machines.aspx The Stuff of Machines is linked to Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste, a research project and group show which will follow in the gallery ( http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/bodies-of-planned-obsolescence.aspx ). Bodies of Planned Obscolescence is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. Grant reference: AH/L01582X/1 -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Subject: Re: Art That Makes Itself symposium and preview
Hello John We are filming the symposium so it will be available in a week or so. I will post the link once online. All the best Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 08:10:15 -0700 From: John Hopkins chaz...@gmail.com To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Art That Makes Itself symposium and publication preview Message-ID: 55536957.5080...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Irini -- This is a reminder for our symposium this Saturday, I hope you can join us. *Brown Son: Art That Makes Itself* *Symposium* Saturday 16 May, 2pm - 6.45pm Are you streaming this? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Art That Makes Itself symposium and publication preview
Dear all This is a reminder for our symposium this Saturday, I hope you can join us. *Brown Son: Art That Makes Itself* *Symposium* Saturday 16 May, 2pm - 6.45pm *Bookings:* http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873530584/events?show_id=873530584 Concerns of different generations, tribes and networks who make up digital culture, the challenges and opportunities for making and conserving generative artworks and rapid developments in digital image-making since the late 1960s are among the themes of a symposium on 16 May coinciding with the Art That Makes Itself exhibition at Watermans. Speakers include computer art pioneer *Frieder Nake*, Professor of Cognitive Science Sussex University *Margaret Boden*, digital archaeologist *Jim Boulton*, artists *Paul and Daniel Brown*, lecturer in Performance New Media at Hull University *Maria Chatzichristodoulou*, Senior Curator at Victoria Albert Museum *Douglas Dodds*, CAS chair and Lecturer in digital art and culture *Nick Lambert*, writer on design and innovation *Nico Macdonald*, artist and computer art pioneer *Ernest Edmonds* and artist *Alex May*. This event is organised in association with the Computer Arts Society. The symposium will be followed by the peview of a *new publication; Art That Makes Itself, Brown Son – Purveyors of Digital Images since 1968*. The publication has been designed by Daniel Brown and edited by Bronaċ Ferran, with newly commissioned texts from Grant Taylor, Douglas Dodds, Golan Levin, Jim Boulton, Peter Fowler and Maria Chatzichristodoulou with accompanying artworks and new writing by Daniel and Paul Brown and a foreword by Irini Papadimitriou. The book preview will take place at the close of the symposium. For more information about the exhibition please visit: http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/brown---son-art-that-makes-itself.aspx http://www.brown-and-son.com All the best Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Brown Son: Art That Makes Itself - Symposium and Book Launch
Dear all I hope some of you will be interested in our forthcoming Brown Son: Art That Makes Itself symposium and publication launch at Watermans on Saturday 16 May. The symposium and publication coincide with the first joint show by Paul and Daniel Brown, Art That Makes Itself, which is currently on display at Watermans until the 31st May, and will bring together leading artists, academics and writers across the digital art generational divide. A keynote talk will be given by one of the earliest computer art pioneers Frieder Nake introduced by Dr Nick Lambert, chair of the Computer Arts Society and throughout the afternoon a series of presentations and discussions will take place on the subject of art that makes itself and the challenges of creating, conserving, collecting and containing this within the context of an ongoing digital revolution. You can find the full programme and info about how to book here: http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873530584/events?show_id=873530584 We look forward to seeing you there. For more information about the exhibition please visit: http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/brown---son-art-that-makes-itself.aspx http://www.brown-and-son.com *Also, coming up at Watermans: * *A Basic Introduction to Generative and Code Art* *Led by Paul Brown * Tuesday 12 May. 11-4pm FREE, but booking required (max 10 participants, 17+ yrs) http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873532249/events?show_id=873532249 Best wishes Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Networked Bodies: Digital Performance Weekender | Watermans 7-9 November
Dear All I am very pleased to announce Networked Bodies, a long weekend of performances, talks, installations and workshops, exploring networks and networked performance practices at Watermans. I hope you can join us! All the best Irini -- Irini Papadimitriou Head of New Media Arts Development Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS Direct line: +44 (0)20 8232 1012 Admin: +44 (0)20 8232 1020 www.watermans.org.uk *NETWORKED BODIESDigital Performance WeekenderFriday 7 – Sunday 9 November 2014Watermans * *Programme of events: * http://issuu.com/mirena/docs/networked_bodies_programme_a2c24d4f34fbef *Bookings: * http://watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/873523000/events?show_id=873523000 Networks are at the heart of how we live today. Networks generate transnational zones of action, bring together communities, circulate knowledge and information, expand spheres of influence, contaminate ideas, germinate exchanges, foster innovation, and facilitate distribution of power. However, networks are unfairly distributed and closely monitored. Geopolitical injustices and dominant political and economic forces mean that networks can foster segregation, facilitate hyper-centralized forms of citizen surveillance and control, fragment living space and experience. These developments of the network society generate social tensions, which invest the task of understanding networks in their many manifestations –including cultural ones– with social and political urgency. Networks, despite many past promises of disembodiment and internationalism through the obsolescence of both bodies and geographical boundaries – promises now widely perceived themselves as obsolete – are still experienced by subjects that remain both embodied and geographically situated (Cohen, 2012: 11) As Cohen argues, not only are networks firmly connected to material bodies and physical geographies, but they also play “an increasingly significant role in constructing embodied experience” (ibid), by both empowering and configuring the “networked self” (ibid: 12). In Networked Bodies at Watermans we want to explore networked performance practices with a view to considering how they transform live (embodied, disembodied and trans-bodied) performance practices. We are keen to consider the many, increasingly well documented, exciting possibilities these present to live performance, as well as their potential downsides. Speaking for the devil (so to speak), we ask: do these practices raise any ethical concerns through the use of surveillance and control, fragmentation of space and experience, alienation or even exploitation of their participants? Networked Bodies will aim to look beyond shiny appearances and into the –occasionally dirty– folds of the networks (and the bodies). Curated by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X) and Irini Papadimitriou *Participating artists: *Invisible Flock, Stanza, Annie Abrahams, Camille Baker, Norah Lorway, Jo Scott, Chisato Minamimura in collaboration with Nick Rothwell bodydataspace, Kate Sicchio Nick Rothwell, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori Louise Ashcroft, Suzon Fuks, Steve Dixon, Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera), Maria Oshodi (Extant), Prof. Susan Broadhurst, Daniel Ploeger, Ellen Harlizius-Kluck, Rachel Jacobs (Active Ingredient), Tim Murray-Brown Jan Lee, Christina Papagiannouli, Evi Stamatiou, Helen Varley Jamieson, Miljana Perić Vicki Smith, Joel Cahen, Garrett Lynch, Joseph Hyde with Phill Tew bodydataspace, Kasia Molga Adrian Godwin, Ka Fai Choy, Jennifer Lyn MoroneT Inc, Alex May, Nina Kov in collaboration with COLLMOT Robotic Research Group, Exploring Senses CIC. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Digital Design Weekend at the VA
Dear all I am very pleased to share with everyone the programme for this year’s Digital Design Weekend at the VA. This year we are inviting participants and audiences to explore digital value, cultural value and 'making' value. I hope you can join us in a weekend of collaborating, networking, sharing ideas, expertise and practice. All the best Irini Digital Programmes Manager Department of Learning VA South Kensington London SW7 2RL T: 020 7942 2258 *VA Digital Design Weekend* *Saturday 20 – Sunday 21 September* 10.30–17.00 Free, drop-in, no booking required Take part in a weekend of free events and collaborative making activities exploring physicality and digital value, coinciding with the London Design Festival at the VA. *Event page and full programme: * http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/va-digital-design-weekend-tickets-12772016445 http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/3404/digital-design-weekend-4853/ http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/media/uploads/files/Digital_Design_Weekend_Programme_-_Online_2.pdf *Participants and projects* *Paolo Cirio, (W)orld Currency: t*his artwork illustrates a global currency through the creative formulation of an equation and a trading algorithm for the currency exchange market. *James Bridle, A Quiet Disposition: Remembrancer: *an evolving database of news reports about unmanned aerial vehicles. The Remembrancer, named after the City of London Officer charged with reporting to Parliament, is a daily newspaper generated from the AQD database by movements in the London Stock Exchange, connecting and implicating other datasets by its operation. *Commissioned by the Open Data Institute as part of Data as Culture.* *Fabio Lattanzi Antinori supported* *by Bare Conductive, **Data Flags*: generative data driven sound installation where large scale screen-printed reactive surfaces explore the invisible patterns of financial algorithmic trading. *Heidi Hinder, Money No Object: *explores a new significance for material and physical currencies in an increasingly immaterial digital world, where smart payment transactions are imperceptible, but human emotions, creativity and culture, retain value that money can’t buy. *Open Collaborative Making: A Digital Perspective *publication distributed for free at Open Collaborative Making. Edited by Jon Rogers, Irini Papadimitriou and Andrew Prescott. Design by uniform.net. Funded by Arts Humanities Research Council. *Flora Bowden Dan Lockton, Drawing Energy Powerchord: *exploring our relationships with energy in everyday life, through visualisation and sonification. *Dean Brown (Fabrica), THE 7 LAMPS OF MAKING: *Does the future of making have philosophical roots in 19th century Arts Crafts Theory? *The Restart Project: b*uilding tools to measure the environmental impact of our community repair events called Restart Parties. Help us conceive of ways of showing the amount of waste we divert as we help you fix your laptop, mobile or kettle. *Daniel Ploeger, Janet Chan and Jelili Atiku, Back to Sender (2014) Digital Performance and the Politics of Electronic Waste: *trategies in performance and digital art to engage with the political, sociological and ecological issues around electronic waste in countries that export (UK) and import (Nigeria and China) used technology. *Knyttan and Common Works: *pioneering the democratisation of manufacturing, giving people the opportunity to design the things they buy. *THE UNSEEN, AIR: *the AIR collection, involving wind reactive ink, changes colour upon contact with the air around us. It is intended to reveal the unseen turbulence surrounding the human as it goes about its environment. *Nelly Ben Hayoun, Designer of experiences SETI Institute and guest scientists, Disaster Playground (A Preview):* future outer space catastrophes and the design of procedures to manage them and assess the risks. *Raphael Kim, Biohack the Economy: *Looking at possible roles of technology and micro-organisms in shaping our socio-economy, narrated through hands-on biological experimentation and set building. *Sitraka, Time Conditioning: *a series of 'handicap devices' that speculate on our ability to manipulate and slow down our perception of time. *Open Collaborative Making: *open lab with projects exploring data in meaningful ways. Projects/participants include: Weather data Choreography with The Met Office, readysaltedcode guests, Microsoft Research, BBC RD Playlister Fob Perceptive Radio, Jon Rogers/University of Dundee, Aurora Wearables internet-connected spacesuit with Jon Spooner/Unlimited Theatre Exeter College, Uniform physical weather apps, REACT prototypes, AHRC Digital Transformations showcase, Penguin Random House YourFry: a meeting of text and technology, Remixing weather forecasts by Natasha Trotman, James Parr and many more. *Tine Bech, Can a statue be playable? *new digital materials used with traditional aesthetics of visual art to create sculptural interactivity
