[NetBehaviour] Technology Is Not Neutral and Digital Weekender | Watermans 12 & 13 November

[Irini Papadimitriou]

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
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