Wednesday 14 January 2009
1.00 - 5.30pm
£20.00/£12.00 concs.(includes admission to the evening performance event)
Arnolfini Theatre, Bristol
Dylan Evans, Seth Giddings, Natalie Jeremijenko, Helen Kennedy,Claire Pajaczkowska, Victoria de Rijke and Paul Hoggett
In the evening there will be a Lo-Tech Songs Servo Drive performance by Paul Granjon.
Bringing together contributions from educationalists, artists, technologists and theorists, the day expands on themes in the Supertoys exhibition: play, affective machines and object relations.
Victoria de Rijke and Claire Pajaczkowska will broach the paradoxical zone of play, as an activity that is simultaneously relaxed and also passionately destructive and amorous. Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy will explore the nature of the relationships between children, media technology and play objects in virtual and actual gameworlds. Dylan Evans will examine the dilemma at the heart of human-robot relationships. Natalie Jeremijenko will talk about her projects to develop Robotic Feral Dogs.
Chaired by Paul Hoggett, Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, UWE, this event is aimed at anyone with an interest in toys and play, object relations, teaching and pedagogy and artificial intelligence. This interdisciplinary event will be of particular interest to those involved with teaching, robotics and child psychology
For more information see www.supertoy.org
For bookings contact Arnolfini www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300/01
If you can't make it to the whole symposium, CTN highly recommends the Lo-Tech Songs Servo Drive performance by Paul Granjon, which can be booked separately: Wed 14 Jan, 7.30pm. £6.00 / £3.00 concs.
Tags: Bristol, Computing, CTN, Digital Media, media, performance
