Imagining Technology
What:
Create new machines through which to re-collect, distribute and examine works from Tate’s collection
When & Where:
TATE EXCHANGE, Level 5, Switch House, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG (12pm - 5:30pm)
- Weds 8th March 2017
- Weds 22nd March 2017
About:
Collaborative making towards interactive installation. In 1964 artist Roy Ascott said: ‘The machine, largely self-regulating and highly adaptive, stands between man and his world’.
BA Fine Art Painting students from Wimbledon College of Arts will be creating new machines through which to re-collect, distribute and examine works from Tate’s collection, using the educational projects of Roy Ascott as a model. Roy Ascott talked of concepts formed and developed via visual means – reinventing syntax to navigate the inadequacies of verbal and numerate systems.
These projects will run alongside two one-hour events on each date which link our own artistic research to the Imagining Technology project.
On 8 March Alex Veness will engage the public in production using his own self-constructed scanner camera.
On 22 March Zoë Mendelson will invite the public to create the soundtrack to a collage film.
Event Image:
Who:
BA Fine Art Painting students from Wimbledon College of Arts
Public Engagement:
Will involve material production in response to some direct questions posed by the lead group, following the methodology of Ascott’s Groundcourse but actively articulating issues arising within fine art as it continues to respond to and become activated by digital interfaces and modes of capture. Example questions could be:
Imagine you wake up one morning to find you are Colin Self’s Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber No. 2 (1963) Visually restructure the parts to form a new identity.
Imagining that Beatriz Gonzalez’ Interior Decoration (1981) is an analogue for an event that included sound, construct an analogue for a sound-work in Tate Modern.
Analyse and dissect Louise Bourgeois’ Cell (Eyes and Mirrors) (1989–93) Visually discuss its cellular structure.
Photos from the Event :
Programme Tate Exchange 22nd March 2017
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Programme Tate Exchange 8th March 2017
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