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UKI Shu Lea Cheang 22 May 2014, 20:00 - 23:00
UKI Viral Love is the sequel to Shu Lea Cheang’s acclaimed cyberpunk movie I.K.U., which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000. Conceived in two parts—both viral performance and game—the film tells the story of coders working...
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Bio-box Leslie Garcia 22 May 2014, 20:00 - 23:00
Bio-Box is an interface that uses biofeedback to establish audio communications between different living systems (mosses and algae). The interface takes a hybridized format, at once live performance and laboratory. The bio-box generates micro-voltage from...
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Whose Fictions? Upturning the Male Dystopian Narrative 22 May 2014, 16:00 - 18:00
Binaries are at the core of dystopian literature: good/evil, protagonist/antagonist, male/female. In this discussion, panelists Adrienne Maree Brown – sci-fi writer and Octavia Butler scholar, Paula Pin and Maria Mitsopoulou – members of the...
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Disco Robots 22 May 2014, 12:00 - 18:00
In the Disco Robots workshop, artists and participants will work together to create servo-motor based analog walking robots and transform them into little dancing machines! You will have the opportunity to design and personalize your own disco-robot...
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Monochrome Layering 21 May 2014, 20:00 - 23:00
During this performance, Christian Faubel, Tina Tonagel, and Ralf Schreiber will combine overhead projectors with kinetic objects, autonomous robots, solar-powered machines, analog synthesizers and other constructed objects to create a live-stream of images...
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Phonotube Arcángel Constantini 21 May 2014, 20:00 - 23:00
Arcángelo Constantini’s performance Phonotube uses uncommon light instruments and sound sequencers, made up of fluorescent tubes and strips of leds, as light sources. The tubes have offset negatives with printed sound patterns, which spin at...
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Turntablism for the Hard of Hearing Ally Mobbs 21 May 2014, 20:00 - 23:00
Toy robots, ink cartridges, turntables, papers, microphones, arcade game controllers, field recordings, nuts, bolts, screws, and code: disparate objects brought together in a new kind of symphony. Divorced from their typical functions, these...
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“La Trahison des images:” Science Fictions and Bodies Without Organs in the Event Horizon of Ubiquitous Mediation Beth Coleman 21 May 2014, 19:00 - 20:00
In this talk, Coleman looks at the event of living with media technologies and deep modes of mediation in the everyday experience of ubiquitous computing, wearable technology, and smart objects. She suggests that these are the science fictions one creates...
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Between 0 and 1 21 May 2014, 11:00 - 18:00
After consumerism collapses, a reapropriation of our electronic devices and our human bodies becomes necessary. A virus has attacked a whole new generation computers, smartphones, tablets, with most features becoming unusable. This series of four...
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Sibyl 20 May 2014, 20:00 - 21:00
Sibyl of Cumae was an ancient Greek prophetess who was visited by pilgrims from the furthest reaches of civilization. Her prophecies, written on oak leaves in a sacred cave, sent their recipients into a mystical rapture, in which nature spirits and...
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Pulsu(m) Plantae V.2 Leslie Garcia 20 May 2014, 12:00 - 20:00
Pulsu(m) Plantae V.2 makes plants sing! The project empirically analyzes the mechanisms whereby plants communicate with one another and the ways in which their own biological processes are a manifestation of communication, seemingly inaccessible to our senses....
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Field of Grooves (Campo de Surcos) Arcángel Constantini 20 May 2014, 12:00 - 20:00
Field of Grooves is an interactive installation comprised of a wooden structure outfitted with turntables and electronic devices. When the spectator/participant bites down on a small piece of acrylic, s/he will feel the vibrations of the turntable directly in...
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Crystalline Domain Erin Sexton 20 May 2014, 12:00 - 18:00
Crystalline Domain is a body of installation works where Sexton involves crystallization with custom electronics, creating a tactile link with matter and energy through electro-chemical improvisation. In the studio she grew crystals from salt, sugar, borax,...
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Feedback Babies Darsha Hewitt 20 May 2014, 12:00 - 18:00
The Fisher-Price Nursery Monitor is a low watt household radio set that was commercially sold throughout North America in the early 1980s. It was intended to "let parents be in two places at once" by transmitting the sounds emanating from the baby...
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La Sonora Telemática Astrovandalistas 20 May 2014, 12:00 - 20:00
Data is no longer simply a part of our daily lives; it is fast becoming our currency, literally, figuratively and socially. We produce and consume data at an unprecedented rate; we use data to mediate our transactions and our relationships; we fight for data...