Open Tech Calendar

Interactive digital art installations

Two works, "Conflux" (video) and "We Stood On The Bridge" (interactive installation) by Geraint Edwards will be staged at Bank Street Arts as part of Wrought festival, Sheffield's unique one-to-one and micro-audience performance festival (based at The Hide with numerous locations around the city).
Both works investigate the role of the audience and our relationship with technology.

https://wrought-sheffield.com/

https://wrought-sheffield.com/

Fri 15th Apr 2016 5:00pm (Europe/London)

Sun 17th Apr 2016 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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These two installation works are free to anyone. Tickets for other performances can be bought through the Wrought website (see as much as you can - it's going to be brilliant).

The Book: Changing Technologies

Aa full day event, as part of Opening Up the Book, which spans book genres (artist's books, digital, novels, poetry etc) and looks at how technology influences / changes / effects / determines content (and form).

There will be a clear focus on what this might mean for the book's future but we will seek to embed such discussion within the context of how technological developments have always influenced and changed the book (something that is often missing when addressing technology today). This will include but not be limited to: printing presses, mass print, cheap paper, transport developments, digital print, internet etc).

We envisage a mix of short(ish) presentations, discussions and then possibly break out sessions depending on what suits the proposals we get in and through discussion with contributors.

Proposals and contributors to date include:

* Alice Bell - digital fiction – technology and form
* Joe Bray – the relationship between technology and the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century
* Will Finley - the relationship between image and text, specifically printed images in nineteenth-century books
* David Hucklesby - how literary innovations amongst twentieth century authors such as B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, and Marc Saporta were direct responses to new technologies and new media as well as how we can see similar trends in contemporary writers such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Steven Hall, and Jonathan Safran Foer
* Sharon Kivland – The Good Reader: person and object
* Rob Kovitz - a Skype session from Canada giving a very brief description of the Treyf Books followed by Q+A or discussion about POD/distribution and other changing technologies including composition/design
* Liam Rodgers - POD and self publishing (a start up and social perspective)
We are interested to hear from anyone with an interest in the theme and open to any suggestions on shaping or contributing to the event at this stage.

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-book-changing-technologies-tickets-17711778406

Fri 30th Oct 2015 10:00am (Europe/London)

Fri 30th Oct 2015 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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