Counter Optimizing the networked social

Counter Optimizing the networked social

Friday 07/05/2021: Helen Pritchard is chairing the panel “Counter Optimizing the networked social” at 9.15pm with artist Ben Grosser, VISA researcher Mohsen Minaei and MIT scholar Alex Berke. At the 3rd obfuscation workshop organised by, TU Delf, Cornell Tech and funded by the ERC. https://www.obfuscationworkshop.org/about2021/

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CalArts-Now|Swerve – featuring Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting

CalArts-Now|Swerve – featuring Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting

The CalArts Center for Integrated Media’s (CIM) online curatorial initiative, archive, and virtual studio viralnet-v4.net launches its 2021 edition with three new projects: a podcast series titled Now|Swerve — featuring Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting on the project:  Figurations of Timely Extraction, an examination of the dynamic crossings of time

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World on a Wire: Pete Jiadong Qiang Play-through

World on a Wire: Pete Jiadong Qiang Play-through

https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1710/world-on-a-wire-pete-jiadong-qiang-playthrough Please RSVP for this online program here. Artist Pete Jiadong Qiang will join Michael Connor, artistic director of New Museum affiliate Rhizome, for a screening / play-through and conversation exploring Qiang’s recent interactive works. The event will revolve around the artist’s concept of the “HyperBody,” a transformative,

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Queer Motto API

Queer Motto API

On Thursday (28/01/21) evening, Dr. Helen V. Pritchard’s new browser based art service, Queer Motto API, made in collaboration with Winnie Soon (Digital Design, Aarhus University) will be launched. The work is commissioned by of one of Europe’s most significant festivals for art and digital

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Figurations of Timely Extraction

Figurations of Timely Extraction

PRITCHARD, Helen; ROCHA, Jara; SNELTING, Femke. Figurations of Timely Extraction. Media Theory, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 159-188, dec. 2020. ISSN 2557-826X. Available at: <http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/123>. Vol 4 No 2 (2020): Mediating Presents | Media Theory (mediatheoryjournal.org) http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/7 The contributions to the special issue see

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Sea Snails and Jellyfish Game

FUTURES2020 is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions; delivered collaboratively by the University of Bath, Bath Spa University, University of Bristol, University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth.

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Our Solar System Game

FUTURES2020 is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions; delivered collaboratively by the University of Bath, Bath Spa University, University of Bristol, University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth.

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Cutting together-apart: Transimage 2020

Cutting together-apart: Transimage 2020

Cutting together-apart: Creative and critical practices as agential cuts within digital economies Date: 6 November 2020. Stephen Loo / Warren Parry / Chris Speed / Mike Phillips / Pip Thornton / Andrew Dwyer / Birgitte Aga / Coral Manton.     Dark Eden Program 6.30

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Action at a Distance

Fernwirkung*. The Action at a Distance (Fernwirkung) series of research presentations embraces the telematic opportunities of the pandemic-social-distance and brings a range of international presenters entangled in the landscape of i-DAT’s research. Far away so close, this superposition will deliver some action at a distance.

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Blue Grindrod

Blue Grindrod is a speculative designer, multimedia artist and researcher whose work deals primarily with the aesthetics of the future human body and human cultural practices. Rooted in queer theory, mythos and post- and trans-humanist philosophy, their design ethos is one of play, of craft,

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