OPEN PLATFORM_6 @DoItAnyway2015 16 May 2015 at Access Space - Performances

RAP(s)- Random Access Performance(s) - TwT.doitanyway

In May this year OPEN PLATFORM_6 returned as part of Do It Anyway Festival 2015 - the first digital arts festival at Access Space and the first Pixel Network festival in the UK.

Do It Anyway Festival concluded Access Space's larger EU Grundtvig supported project Open Sourcing Festivals (in collaboration with other Pixelache Network nodes - more info below).

Following on from OPEN PLATFORM_5 last year Access Space and OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. once again welcomed artists, curators and cultural producers from Finland, Iceland, France, Norway, Latvia and the UK, introducing a new audience to our evenings of digital randomness!







Susanne Palzer - 256x256x256

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Susanne Palzer
Photo: Nathalie Aubret

Susanne Palzer opens the event with a performance which emulates a colour picker screen for web designers running in the background. While moving a cursor across an invisible screen Susanne Palzer vocalizes RGB codes in random combinations. The performance intends to highlight how familiar digital processes only exist through hidden code and numbers - the vocalized colours remain unseen. At the same time the analogue performance allows for a combination of RGB codes which may produce 'impossible colours' and positions colours in random locations on the spectrum.






Leila Johnston - A Talk about Fantasy and Technology 

"Old people, who can make clothes, fix cars and build furniture, think young people are good at technology because they can click on a picture. ..."

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Leila Johnston
HDV still: Richard Bolam/Susanne Palzer

Not without humour 'A Talk about Fantasy and Technology' is a thought provoking and reflective call for adventure and fantasy. Looking at the past and future of digital technology Leila Johnston from Hack Circus demands to bring magic back into technology, "to empower it to be unpredictable and useless - to make it interesting to us again." 
A full transcript can be found here.


Silvia Champion - Search Engine: What is home for you? 

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Silvia Champion
HDV still: Richard Bolam/Susanne Palzer

Silvia Champion 'uses' the audience as a search engine by inviting everyone to access the platform and share their thoughts on the questions "What does home mean to you?" and "What can the word home mean?". She copies all researched info by hand to "process it later". At the end of the performance Silvia gives away soap houses made by the artist so everyone can "take a house home".

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP:
Silvia Champion/Mathieu Marguerin
Timelapse still: Richard Bolam

With contributions by Egil Paulsen, Hlöðver Sigurðsson, Mathieu Marguerin, Nathalie Aubret, Susanne Palzer, John W. Fail, RíkharðurH. Friðriksson, Maite Cajaraville, Chella Quint, Jonathan Cook, Richard Bolam and many others.














Chella Quint - Analogue Tweets  

Breaking news! Live! 

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Chella Quint
Photo: Susanne Palzer

Chella Quint analogue tweets stories that took place in a time and place without Twitter. Reducing known fairytales to 140 characters, 'typed' with a pen and 'backspaced' by rubbing out, for 10 minutes the audience is only allowed to "tweet with their eyeballs and scroll past by looking up and down". 


Richard Bolam - Dystopian Conference/Work in progress

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Richard Bolam
HDV still: Richard Bolam/Susanne Palzer

"The client arrived late but wanted to start early."










Drawing on his real-live experiences as an AV professional at conferences, award ceremonies and corporate events, Richard Bolam describes to us the ultimate Dystopian Conference. "It's all true."



The Facebook album for OPEN PLATFORM_6 is here.

Pixelache Network is an international network of cultural organizations enaging with art, technology and social change. Access Space is the UK hub of Pixelache Network.

Do It Anyway Festival ran from 15 to 17 May 2015. Over the weekend the festival featured free performances and workshops. Do It Anyway 2015 was developed as part of a larger EU Grundtvig supported project called Open Sourcing Festivals, co-produced by five experimental art, design and technology organizations from the Pixelache Network and focused on open source culture. Open Sourcing Festivals was a mobile circuit of workshops and seminars organized across Europe during 2013-2015 by Piksel (NO), Pikslaverk (IS), Mal au Pixel (FR) and Pixelache (FI). In the process the partners have been gradually working towards 'open-sourcing' the knowledge embodied in their respective workshops and festival production, in order to share it with a broader range of users. A database of resources and documentation is accessible here.

OPEN PLATFORM_6 16 May 2015 @DoItAnyway2015 - OPEN CALL

RAP(s) - Random Access Performances - TwT.doitanyway - OPEN CALL 
Do It Anyway Festival at Access Space, Sheffield, UK

Saturday, 16 May 2015, 6-9pm

OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s) - TwT. returns this year as part of Do it Anyway International Digital Arts Festival @AccessSpace in May and we invite you to contribute to another unforgettable evening of digital randomness! 

Experiment, perform, express, dance, present, sing, rap, read, or just tell us about your digital project or work - but without using anything digital! You really know your stuff - then do it! You have never performed or presented before? Do it anyway! You think you know nothing about computers? Do it anyway! You struggle to switch off? Go on and do it anyway! 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_6/RAP(s) - TwT.doitanyway 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, playful 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 that explores the digital with physical means by asking performers to present digital work without using anything digital. In a small, intimate space 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.

Join the TwT.(Technology without Technology) network today and help us build an even bigger digital network with physical means!

Do It Anyway Festival 2015 will run from Friday, 15 May to Sunday, 17 May and will be the first Pixelache Network International Digital Arts Festival in the UK! As the UK hub of the network Access Space is bringing arts practice from across Northern Europe - with participating artists from Finland, France, Iceland, Norway and Latvia - to Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Over the weekend the festival will feature free digital arts performances and workshops. More info here.

To register or for further information please contact: 

Susanne or Jake 

Access Space

Unit 1, AVEC Building

3-7 Sidney Street

Sheffield

S1 5RG

More information about OPEN PLATFORM/RAP(s)-TwT. and previous events here.

The Facebook event is here.

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OPEN PLATFORM_5/RAP(s) - TwT.hashbangbinbash - x

RAP(s) - Random Access Performances - TwT.hashbangbinbash -x 

Friday, 04 April 2014, 6-8pm at Access Space

A big thank you to all the performers and anyone who came to OPEN PLATFORM_5/RAP(s) - TwT.hashbangbinbash -x. You made our fifth event a great success! We were also delighted to welcome the Pixelache Network to Access Space! OPEN PLATFORM_6 will take place later this year and we look forward to seeing you there! If you would like to present or perform please get in touch with Susanne or Jake.

OPEN PLATFORM_5/RAP: View from the platform
Random selfie: Richard Bolam