AlgoMech 2016, Access Space, Sheffield, UK
Thursday, 17 November 2016, 6-9pm
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| OPEN PLATFORM - Lego robot by John X. Moseley |
AlgoMech seeks to examine the complex relationship between technology, widely defined, and performance. This first edition of the festival will celebrate the resurgence of making in performance, where creative processes are made visible during a live event. Rather than presenting technology as seamless, AlgoMech will pick at the seams, exposing its innards as human made and reconfigurable. algoMech goes beyond fashionable notions of technology by taking the long view and bringing together mechanical, kinetic, electronic and software arts. Spanning the stone age to present day AlgoMech builds a picture of the human maker as both digital and analogue, thinking and feeling, embodied yet reaching beyond what is bodily possible.
At the heart of OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. lies the idea of making performance from algorithmic processes and translating computational processes into physical presentations and performances. We invite you to experiment, perform, express, make things, dance, present, sing, rap, read, or just tell us about your digital project or work - but without using anything digital! Anything goes as long as it is about or related to digital technology, 1 to 10 minutes in duration and happening on some sort of platform. You can use the wooden platform provided (65x95cm) or make your own.
At the heart of OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. lies the idea of making performance from algorithmic processes and translating computational processes into physical presentations and performances. We invite you to experiment, perform, express, make things, dance, present, sing, rap, read, or just tell us about your digital project or work - but without using anything digital! Anything goes as long as it is about or related to digital technology, 1 to 10 minutes in duration and happening on some sort of platform. You can use the wooden platform provided (65x95cm) or make your own.
OPEN PLATFORM_7/RAP(s) - TwT.algomake is
open to anyone interested in re-thinking the digital and not limited to
artists or professional performers/presenters. 'Technology without
Technolggy' (TwT) performances are a creative, playfully serious strategy to
negotiate the 'unknowable' of digital technology and the constant
information overload in our contemporary world.
OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. is
a micro event series that explores the digital with physical means by asking
performers to present digital work without using anything digital. Five performers take up the challenge of re-thinking
the digital with free interpretations that are 1 to 10 minutes in
duration, about or related to digital technology and happening on some
sort of platform. OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. originated at Access space in 2012 and is curated by Susanne Palzer.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 03 November 2016.
Please note there will be a small fee to cover expenses.
For further information please contact Susanne Palzer.
More information about OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. and previous events here.
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