Arts Work of the Future

Tate Exchange, Tate Modern
6-11 March 2018

Get hands on with exploring the role of technology in the arts and join us in questioning and re-thinking its impact on our lives

Help us reimagine the role of the arts in an age of rapid technological change and explore how, through the arts, we can move beyond everyday consumption and technology as a spectacle. Together let’s challenge the mainstream, say the unsaid and address inclusion, integration and the production of technology in our lives, society, work, education – and in the arts.

The Digital Maker Collective and invited guest contributors from across the globe will transform Tate Exchange into a large public tech innovation hub, a space to get hands-on with technology exploration and rapid prototyping, and discover new forms of collaborative digital making experimentation. The full week-long event programme will be posted and updated daily on digitalmakercollective.org website and on the #artsworkofthefuture hashtag.
 

The floor of Tate Exchange will include:

• Two large themed incubators on either side of the space. Each incubator includes an open studio, drop-in style working spaces, as well as a larger programmed space where tech workshops, test innovations and debates will be showcased and performed throughout the week:
  • Incubator One: Are Humans Sustainable? 
  • Incubator Two: What is the future of interaction?
• Practice as Research Wall: A place to map progress throughout the week
• Un-conference Space: Will technology enslave us or save us? (public led debates).
• Welcome Area: And help us build the Six Million Dollar Bionic Art Student of the future (We have the technology)

At each incubator, you will have the opportunity to engage in digital making, co-creation and open innovation. Throughout the week you are invited to contribute and question the positive and negative impacts of technology in our lives and help us accelerate or decelerate ideas which can make a difference to society.