Upcoming events, workshops, and conferences, as well as archived happenings.
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Audrey Samson
ne.me.quittes.pas Mass surveillance is reality. Data fornicates, replicating at quantum speeds, multiplying our traces, sold to the highest bidder or even leaked for free. Selfies, email archives, twitter posts, likes, places, late night chat logs, health insurance records, bank statements, search histories… all those bits of identity, involuntarily immortalized as personality profiles in corporate server farms. Whisper. If […]
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Luke Munn
Digital Disenchantment: Post Digital Practices Luke Munn, is a post graduate student at Colab, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand Amazon Fulfilment Centre – image by Ben Roberts – http://benrobertsphotography.com/commissions/amazon-unpacked/ From Cascone’s digital fluff to Snowden’s revelation of cyberspace as panoptic platform, technology’s ‘glossy innovation narratives’ have finally lost their gleam. Stepping back from the hyperfocused moment of […]
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Dunedin Symposium programme
The full programme for the 8th ADA Symposium in Dunedin = Space: Network : Memory. Three days of presentations, panels, discussions and activities with national and international artists and academics. This event happened 13-15th September 2013 in the Dunedin Warehouse district (Vogel Street) and at Otago Polytechnic
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Mesh Cities Artist Tour 2013
Mesh Cities Artist for 2013 is Dr Janine Randerson who will developing a collaborative network for a new work. ‘Neighbourhood Hope Index’ uses clouds and sound to map affective zones in post-earthquake Christchurch. The framework for this artwork stems from the emergent currency of data in the plan for a better city. A so-called silver lining for the embattled inhabitants is that a ‘smart’ city may emerge where the instrumental measurement of traffic flows, water quality, air quality and urban weather can be remedied.
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Roundtable/Launch Event – Physics Room 30/3/13
The research project Mesh Cities Christchurch begins in the post-quake city and looks outward to the possibilities and implications of this transitional state for urban, public, and social space in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Why Mesh?
A roundtable discussion event was held at The Physics Room Gallery on the 30th of March. This was to begin the research project with a thorough grounding with the projects and artist communities operating already in the this space. A group of fifteen discussed their work and the alignment with proposed themes as part of the launching of this project.