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

[Gill Davies]

Fantastic programme - only wish I was nearer so I could be there!

On 9 November 2016 at 16:52, Irini Papadimitriou <irini at watermans.org.uk>
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
>
>
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