Fantastic programme - only wish I was nearer so I could be there! On 9 November 2016 at 16:52, Irini Papadimitriou <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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&A 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&A 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-personal relationship and > transformation. > > *Movement Alphabet, Jan Lee and Tim Murray-Browne* > Sat 12 & Sun 13 November, pls check website for times, Free > Movement Alphabet is an interactive work transforming your moving body > into a unique portrait capturing your physical presence. In a one-to-one > immersive experience with the artist, you are invited to explore your own > physicality and memories. http://movementalphabet.com > > *WHIST, AΦE* > Sat 12 & Sun 13 November, pls check website for times, Free > WHIST is a Mixed Reality dance piece exploring the notion of consciousness > influenced by Freud’s case studies and avant-garde film maker Shuji > Terayama. Project comprises dance, physical design installation, 3D sound > and 360 degree film, accessible via Virtual Reality headsets. > http://www.aoiesteban.com > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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