An engaging day of performances and interactive installations from digital artists, hacktivists and new media explorers from the West Midlands, Chicago and beyond. Artworks take the form of hacked and customised hardware, accessories, demos, lectures, data-mangling, projection and more!
This eclectic, expectation bending event is presented by Vivid Projects in association with artist/curator Antonio Roberts and The Barber institute of Fine Arts.
/-;-/-;-/– AV Performances –\-;-\-;-\ 7 – 10pm
Minuek
Norah Lorway
Circuit Ben
/-;-/-;-/– Screenings –\-;-\-;-\ 6 – 7pm
Modulate, Carrie Gates, Theodore Darst, Antonio Roberts, Nick Kegeyan, Jennifer Chan, Kevin Carey, Michael Lightborne, Sian Macfarlane, Bryan Peterson
/-;-/-;-/– Lectures –\-;-\-;-\ 4 – 6pm
/-;-/-;-/– Workshop –\-;-\-;-\ 12 – 2pm
Optical Theremin Workshop with Circuit Ben
Sign up here: http://dnmthereminworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk/
/-;-/-;-/– Exhibition –\-;-\-;-\
Benjamin Gaulon [aka Recyclism], Jeff Donaldson, Dec Ackroyd, Jason Soliday, Charlotte Frost and Rob Myers, Kate Pemberton, Jamie Boulton, URRRGH, Stef Lewandowski
/-;-/-;-/– Super Special Essay –\-;-\-;-\
Shawne Holloway + Steven Hammer
Free admission, no booking required. For further information and times, please contact 0121 414 2261 or email education@barber.org.uk
Dirty New Media is presented as part of the University of Birmingham’s first Arts & Science Festival, a week long celebration of ideas, research and collaboration across campus.