Unleashed Devices is an exhibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects by artists who explore technologies critically and creatively. By reconstructing, remixing and reinventing everyday electronic devices, these take on a new life as they shift our vision of the use of data and purpose of technology. Playing with frontiers, such projects not only challenge our conception of technology but also music, art and design. Here, they reveal the power of DIY modes as tools to stimulate social reflection and participation.

New ways of engaging with the spectator is a core concern. Unleashed Devices includes playful installations, interactive electronic-sculptures, movement tracking works and performances, as well as coding and hardware based artworks, creating innovative media installations and new experiences.

Unleashed Devices is part of the nodel (www.nodel.org) Autumn season in London

Participating artists:
Tine Bech, Hellicar & Lewis, Patrick Tresset & Nanda Khaorapapong, Daniel Soltis, John Nussey, Matthew Applegate/ Pixelh8, Alex Zivanovic, Neil Mendoza & Anthony Goh, Communications (Alex McLean & EunJoo-Shin), Ryan Jordan, Genetic Moo, Wajid Yaseen, Eduard Prats Molner & Marijana Mitrovic, Owl Project, sketchPatch, Mary Thompson, Peter Forde, Evan Raskob, Owen Bowden, Tom Schofield, Dave Griffiths, Stuart Dunbar, Anna Dumitriu, Megan Smith, Vincent Van Uffelen & Olga Panades, Andy Deck, Jordan Tate & Adam Tindale, Andrew Back, Thessia Machado,Daniel Ploeger

Curated by Irini Papadimitriou, Head of New Media Arts Development at Watermans and TINT

TINT is a UK based interdisciplinary media arts organisation, dedicated to art which is derived from, and reflects upon the intersections of technology and culture. We assist in pursuing and establishing collaborations with scientists, theorists, artists and other practitioners.
http://tintarts.org/

A combination workshop/competition to see who can build the most creative device using only a single button for user interaction.

The Idea:
A one-button object embodies the most minimal aspect of interactive design. We guide you through 5 weeks of designing and building your one-button device through a series of guided workshops. At the end, the best two devices (as decided by participants and instructors) will be displayed as part of the AND Festival in Manchester.

We Provide:
We will provide some useful electronics (plenty of LEDs, resistors, servos, motors, capacitors, etc) inspirational examples, and 5 weeks of hands-on expertise to help guide you through the development of your one-button object.

You Provide:
A creative idea, and anything else you require - feathers, knitted objects that can fit buttons inside, LED matrix, solenoids, motors, speakers. We'll help you choose them based on your project.

You also should have some basic familiarity with Arduino (or basic electronics, if you don't plan on using one). If you know how to program your Arduino to blink an LED, you're all set.

What Is A One Button Object?
It has a single button.

When that button is pushed, something happens.

It is a fully self-contained physical object, meaning there isn't anything unintentionally external to the installation such as a computer, TV, synthesizer, toaster, etc.

It is a work of art; a game; a toy; a useful tool; a nihilistic statement of futility.

Ok, But WHAT?!
Maybe you'd like a more concrete example of what these can be like this

We were very inspired by Montreal-based video games collective Kokoromi and CreateDigitalMusic's One Button Games challenge earlier this year, and are thankful that we have their blessing to run this event! We were also inspired by Gamasutra's excellent article on designing one-button games.

This competition is organized in a very large part by Cybersonica.

Schedule
The workshops will take place every Wednesday night from 7pm - 9.45pm from September 1st until September 29th 2010, in the mediaLab at SPACE. That's five Wednesdays in total.

SPACE Courtyard and Mare Street Advertising Billboard
129 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

An Intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich: From Crisis to Crime to Punishment.

Reconaissance, media technologies and advertsing playfully probe the blind spots of the financial districts and question the shift in power from state to corporation.

This is Swiss artist collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s first UK solo exhibition and is presented concurrently with an exhibition at Les Complices in Zurich. It follows their three-month PERMACULTURES residency at SPACE investigating the parasitic potential of media-based systems against the backdrop of the financial crises. !Mediengruppe Bitnik describe their work as an ‘explorative practice’ to determine how systems can be subverted, interfered with and transformed.

Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed is kindly supported by Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain.

PERMACULTURES Artists residencies: Media, technology & ecologies

Preview: Thursday 2nd September 6pm - 9pm

Can you feed the 2,150 urban residents, that live within 500 metres of SPACE, using the 25 hectares of land that houses them?

“YOU ARE HUNGRY” is a proposal to investigate this question by taking a walk with Mikey Tomkins and his "Edible Map” as your guide.

Walks start from SPACE in Hackney and will last approximately 45mins.

The map displays the potential food that could be grown within the immediate streets, parks and grassed areas around SPACE gallery. The walk will pass through the vegetable belt of Sheep Lane, the Vineyards of Pritchard's Road, and the apiaries of Goldsmiths Row.

Each walk last approximately one hour. There are places for five people on each walk. The walks are not lectures but will form part of a discussion about architecture, planning and foods apparent exclusion and potential inclusion. The walks will be audio recorded and with walkers permission used on a web version of the edible map.


Mikey Tomkins, local beekeeper and PhD student at the University of Brighton has created the project.

Booking essential:

http://foodwalks.eventbrite.com?ref=elink

YOU ARE HUNGRY is supported by SPACE throught the PERMACULTURES programme.

PERMACULTURES supports artists using technology and exploring media culture against the backdrop of apparent ecological crisis. SPACE hosts 1-3 month residencies in the MediaLab supporting artists to develop and produce new work.

http://www.drha2010.org.uk/

Hosting the DRHA Conference is an opportunity for the University to draw on local and central London resources to highlight the rich diversity of projects which focus on sophisticated digital techniques, technologies, audiences and users. An investment of £2million by Brunel in the newly expanded laboratory facilities, housed in the Antonin Artaud Building, provide new performance studio-laboratories that enable body-centred, physical research as well as the design of human-computer performance interfaces. The 2010 conference reflects the university’s mission of innovative and cutting edge research in its theme of ‘Sensual Technologies: Collaborative Practices of Interdisciplinarity’. This is also prevalent throughout the programme with the many varied and excellent papers, performances and installations reflecting this theme and additionally, there is a specific focus on discussions in and around Second Life.

Presentations from our outstanding Keynote speakers are pivotal to the theme centring on ‘Sensual Technologies’ in a variety of ways.

The local committee led by Professor Sue Broadhurst draws on considerable expertise in events management and marketing to provide a lively and interesting programme.

A combination workshop/competition to see who can build the most creative device using only a single button for user interaction.

The Idea:
A one-button object embodies the most minimal aspect of interactive design. We guide you through 5 weeks of designing and building your one-button device through a series of guided workshops. At the end, the best two devices (as decided by participants and instructors) will be displayed as part of the AND Festival in Manchester.

We Provide:
We will provide some useful electronics (plenty of LEDs, resistors, servos, motors, capacitors, etc) inspirational examples, and 5 weeks of hands-on expertise to help guide you through the development of your one-button object.

You Provide:
A creative idea, and anything else you require - feathers, knitted objects that can fit buttons inside, LED matrix, solenoids, motors, speakers. We'll help you choose them based on your project.

You also should have some basic familiarity with Arduino (or basic electronics, if you don't plan on using one). If you know how to program your Arduino to blink an LED, you're all set.

What Is A One Button Object?
It has a single button.

When that button is pushed, something happens.

It is a fully self-contained physical object, meaning there isn't anything unintentionally external to the installation such as a computer, TV, synthesizer, toaster, etc.

It is a work of art; a game; a toy; a useful tool; a nihilistic statement of futility.

Ok, But WHAT?!
Maybe you'd like a more concrete example of what these can be like this

We were very inspired by Montreal-based video games collective Kokoromi and CreateDigitalMusic's One Button Games challenge earlier this year, and are thankful that we have their blessing to run this event! We were also inspired by Gamasutra's excellent article on designing one-button games.

This competition is organized in a very large part by Cybersonica.

Schedule
The workshops will take place every Wednesday night from 7pm - 9.45pm from September 1st until September 29th 2010, in the mediaLab at SPACE. That's five Wednesdays in total.

Sottovoce is a London-based experimental live platform focused on showcasing groundbreaking acts with a combination of un-amplified acts (jazz, improv and traditional folk) in one space alternating with louder acts (generally of noise music or guitar-based amplifications) in the other. Sottovoce aims to present, introduce and showcase challenging, out of the ordinary musical acts, trying to expose experimental music to new audiences whilst maintaining the familiar crowd interested in new forms of presentation. Sottovoce is now in its third edition. As always, without the support of the artists who accept to participate at such endeavours, this festival simply would not be possible.

A season of projects on art, activism and social change. With Russian collective Chto delat? as a point of departure the ICA asks, can culture be a site for protest in a time of economic crisis?

During Dissent, the ICA becomes a platform for discussion.
Each Wednesday we ask a question related to the week's events.

Chto delat? (What is to be done?) - The Urgent Need to Struggle

9 September - 24 October 2010

The collective, made up of artists, critics, philosophers and writers, sees its diverse activities as a merging of political theory, art and activism. Formed in 2003, the group’s ideas are rooted in their observations of post-Pereostroika Russia, and in principles of self-organisation and collectivism. Their work uses a variety of means to advance a leftist position on economic, social, and cultural agendas; they publish a regular newspaper, produce artwork in the form of videos, installations, public actions, radio programmes and examinations of urban space, and contribute regularly to conferences and publications.
For the ICA Chto delat? have formulated The Urgent Need to Struggle, an exhibition and associated season of activity which extends their identity as ‘a self-organising platform for cultural workers’, presenting artwork and ideas produced by multiple individual and collaborative practices. Revolving around the publication of a new edition of their newspaper, with a gallery display centred on the group’s satirical musical videos and a programme of talks, screenings and performances throughout the ICA, Chto delat? articulate the potential for constituting new forms of living and learning.

Free

Dissent
9 September 2010 - 24 October 2010

A season of projects on art’s relationship to activism and social change. With Russian collective Chto delat? as a point of departure the ICA asks, can culture be a site for protest in a time of economic crisis?

Contact info(at)artevict.com for more information on the location, for any enquiries about ArtEvict, or if you would like to participate in ArtEvict.

DORKBOAT DORKBOAT DORKBOAT DORKBOAT DORKBOAT

Dorkbotlondon is the London chapter of an international gathering of 'people
doing strange things with electricity' - see www.dorkbot.org for a list of
dorkbots worldwide.

Next month's dorkbotlondon will happen on a boat, at 4:45pm on 11th September
2010. , We'll be sailing from Westminster pier, passing by Tower Bridge and
then back to Kew.

When we get to Kew we'll head across the bridge to the Waterman's gallery for
some curry, and artist talks around the unleashed devices exhibition.

http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/unleashed_devices/

This'll be advance tickets only, available here:
http://dorkcamp.eventwax.com/dorkboat

£19 including the boat trip and a curry.

It would be really great if you could buy your tickets now, this is a
zero-profit, volunteer-run venture and we've had to put a grand of our own
money up front, if we don't sell enough tickets straight away we'll have to
cancel. Also, we're expecting to sell out of tickets at
some point.

Wiki page developing here: http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/Dorkboat10

Please get in contact if you'd like to present something, perform something, or
generally help out.

Come and take part in Street Training Hoxton - First session THIS SUNDAY at
Hoxton Hall

The unfolding story of a collective assault on the culture of fear and cynicism that pervades urban city streets.
We meet at the theatre. Perhaps we might get a glimpse of something precious in the world around us? Maybe we will find out how to be more joyful in the city...
Each performance will be different as we remake the streets together.

Street Training is an emergent 21st century Martial Art. It's a way of rethinking the ways we walk down the street which requires commitment and sustained practice and encompasses the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of being. Street Training teaches that, by focusing our thoughts and behaviour, we can have an effect on our surroundings equal to that which our surroundings exert upon us. As changes take place within the street trainer they also take place in the streets.

Street Training is the art of safely and joyfully exploring ourselves and the spaces we inhabit. A form of participatory performance, it evolves interactively in relation to the physical, social and mental structures that make up the city.

Sessions: Sunday 12 Sept – Wednesday 15 September 2010
Weekday evenings at 6pm. Sunday 12 September at 2pm
Created by The Company with Lottie Child as part of the URBANISM season at Hoxton Hall

Book tickets online at:http://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/whatson/Street_Training/
fb event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149065308458454

Find out more at www.streettraining.org

Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, London N1 6SH
Tel: 020 76840060 Web: www.hoxtonhall.co.uk

A look at life inside one of the notorious Magdalene Asylums where women – who the Catholic Church adjudged to have stepped out of line in some way – were incarcerated and abused. A chilling portrayal of what happens when the state gives unfettered power to a religious institution which then uses it to literally batter the population into submission. Survivors of the Magdalene laundries are still fighting for the Vatican to recognise the enormous suffering inflicted on them by the Church.

The British Humanist Association as part of the Protest the Pope campaign presents Relief-O-Matic.

Are your eyes often dry and tired in the evening? Do you suffer from those stubborn, hard to remove stains? Relief-O-Matic can’t help you. But our patent-pending evening of comedy, stories and music is guaranteed to leave you feeling invigorated.

Relief-O-Matic has no shareholders. All profits to AIDS prevention and relief projects.

Angelo Quattrocchi’s The Pope is Not Gay! will launch on the 14th September at the Southbank Centre, from 6:30-9:00pm at September’s Polari, London’s “peerless gay literary salon”. Host Paul Burston presents readings from the book, musicians and performers protesting the Pope, including:

* David Hoyle: An artist working across stage, television and film, David Hoyle “embraces controversy as easily as he embraces the avant garde.”
* Ste McCabe: One-man-band who “blends punk rock riffs, pop melodies and retro beats with sarcastic, radical, queer, feminist lyrics.”
* Gerry Potter: Billed as “Britain’s first gay socialist transvestite poet”, Gerry Potter promises to bring “playful lyrics” and “a rock and roll ethos” to the evening’s proceedings.

A combination workshop/competition to see who can build the most creative device using only a single button for user interaction.

The Idea:
A one-button object embodies the most minimal aspect of interactive design. We guide you through 5 weeks of designing and building your one-button device through a series of guided workshops. At the end, the best two devices (as decided by participants and instructors) will be displayed as part of the AND Festival in Manchester.

We Provide:
We will provide some useful electronics (plenty of LEDs, resistors, servos, motors, capacitors, etc) inspirational examples, and 5 weeks of hands-on expertise to help guide you through the development of your one-button object.

You Provide:
A creative idea, and anything else you require - feathers, knitted objects that can fit buttons inside, LED matrix, solenoids, motors, speakers. We'll help you choose them based on your project.

You also should have some basic familiarity with Arduino (or basic electronics, if you don't plan on using one). If you know how to program your Arduino to blink an LED, you're all set.

What Is A One Button Object?
It has a single button.

When that button is pushed, something happens.

It is a fully self-contained physical object, meaning there isn't anything unintentionally external to the installation such as a computer, TV, synthesizer, toaster, etc.

It is a work of art; a game; a toy; a useful tool; a nihilistic statement of futility.

Ok, But WHAT?!
Maybe you'd like a more concrete example of what these can be like this

We were very inspired by Montreal-based video games collective Kokoromi and CreateDigitalMusic's One Button Games challenge earlier this year, and are thankful that we have their blessing to run this event! We were also inspired by Gamasutra's excellent article on designing one-button games.

This competition is organized in a very large part by Cybersonica.

Schedule
The workshops will take place every Wednesday night from 7pm - 9.45pm from September 1st until September 29th 2010, in the mediaLab at SPACE. That's five Wednesdays in total.

Is it possible to invent (new) media otherwise, without falling back onto their pre-determined patterns, models and hierarchies? The philosopher Gilles Deleuze encourages us to go beyond the established schools that regulate the creative process in the arts and media, and to recapture the creative functions of the media themselves that transcend their ‘author-function’. For Deleuze, the key issue today ‘consists in reinventing – not simply for writing, but also for the cinema, the radio, the TV, and even for journalism – the creative or productive functions freed of this always reappearing author-function’. He sees these functions as moving beyond the constraints of the individual I. Proceeding ‘by intersections, crossings of line’, such creative functions assemble multiple enunciations, actions and affects, some of which may not even be human. What emerges as a result of this is ‘a living line’, which is always inevitably temporary and broken, but which can help us envisage ‘something else’ – the truly new media as we do not perhaps know them yet.

The graduates of Goldsmiths’ MA Digital Media Practice pathway whose work is showcased here have seriously engaged with this interpellation to invent otherwise. Capturing the vitality of new media practices, they have also injected life into the conceptual and technical landscape of digital culture, a landscape which often seems to produce just more of the same via incessant commercial updates and upgrades. In their respective projects, they have thus all attempted to perform what Angela McRobbie has termed a ‘socially engaged, critical creativity’. In other words, they have followed the injunction to ‘invent well’ – that is to say, creatively and critically – forms ever new.

Dr Sarah Kember and Dr Joanna Zylinska
Tutors on Goldsmiths’ MA Digital Media: Technology and Cultural Form

Alpha-ville is the new London Festival of Digital Arts, Music and Culture that will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery and Rich Mix Cultural Foundation on the 17th & 18th September 2010.

For this 2010 edition we have organised an exciting programme under a theme of Visionary Cities:

“Our cities are in crisis and their futures depend on architects and urbanists who are willing to look beyond today’s realities to drive the direction for our increasingly urban world. Contemporary city design is full of obstacles standing in the way of visionary thinking. It is time for us to take a position on how we want to live in the future…it is time for a visionary city”. (from the book “Visionary Cities” by The Why Factory, 2009).

Expect 2 days jam packed of visual and sound performances including:

LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC /// LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCES /// INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS /// 3D AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCES /// MOVING IMAGE COMPETITION /// OVER 4 HOURS OF DIGITAL SCREENINGS /// BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE SHOWCASE /// INSPIRATION LAB /// MAKE MUSIC WORKSHOP FOR GIRLS /// & MORE

“This is an event you owe yourself to go and try first hand” Playground Magazine.

“It’s not just a festival, but a cultural shift” Run Riot

PROP: A group show of artists working with objects, images and interventions that suggest narrative or theatrical action.

Matt Ager, Thorbjørn Andersen, Louise Ashcroft, Roxane Borujerdi, Floss Cobb, Blue Curry, Paul Eachus, Douglas Ebbage, Sandra Erbacher, Livia Garcia, Rebecca Gould, Toby Huddlestone, Jonathan Kipps, Ladies of the Press, Simon Linington, littlewhitehead, Janko Matic, Christina Mitrentse, Laurence Payot, Tessa P...ower, Matthew Robinson, Ilona Sagar, Mark Selby, Jonathan Velardi, Charlotte Young, Neil Zakiewicz.

Architecture-themed performance with dancers by Ilona Sagar.
Live Press by Ladies of the Press.

Refreshments will be served!

Free taxi shuttles from Merrick Road (first left out of Southall train station, wait by the Departure Gallery sign). Runs there and back between the space and the station 6-9.30pm.

Getting there: take national rail from Paddington to Southall (14mins) oyster zone 4, then wait for the taxi shuttle by the sign on Merrick Road (or get buses 105, 195, h32 to brent road and walk down the road until you see the international trading estate).

Departure Gallery, 8 Trident Way, The International Trading Estate, Southall, London UB2 5LF

A provocative and entertaining documentary that follows amateur filmmaker Thierry Guetta as he attempts to get to the bottom of the Banksy myth, only to end up becoming an artist in his own right.
Dir Banksy, US/UK 2010, 87 mins, 15, digibeta

Having been butchered not long after its initial release in 1927, Fritz Lang’s science-fiction epic now returns looking much like it did when first presented more than 80 years ago. The missing footage, once presumed lost forever, has been painstakingly restored and reinstated: Metropolis lives again as a wild and visionary masterpiece!
A Eureka release Dir Fritz Lang, Germany 1927, Restoration 2010, 145 mins, PG, HD Digital

First Earth is about a massive paradigm shift for shelter—building
healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and
living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An
audiovisual manifesto filmed over four years on four continents, it
proposes that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world;
and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, we
must transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages.

First Earth is not a how-to film, but a why-to film. It establishes
the appropriateness of earthen building in every cultural context,
under all socio-economic conditions, from third-world communities to
first-world countryside, from Arabian deserts to American urban
jungles. In the age of collapse and converging emergencies, the
solution to many of our ills might just be getting back to basics, for
material reasons and for spiritual reasons, both personal and
political.

This months Talkaoke host training session is part of Barmy Park series of events happening at Bethnal Green Library. Barmy Park is a 14 day event of art, performance, poetry, music and madness… and Talkaoke will be there on 21st Sept from 6pm till 8pm as part of our host training session. So if your interested in having a chat, debat, supporting the new hosts or even having a go at hosting then pop over.

14 days of art, performance, poetry, music and madness…?

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/barmy-park

The question is whether artists, like the insane, are blessed/cursed with heightened sensitivity and extraordinary perception enabling them to break out of conventional frameworks? The exhibition and events, on the first floor of Bethnal Green library, explore the links between madness and creativity with the aim of de-stigmatising the subject (one in four of us will experience mental health problems at some point in our lives). Barmy Park questions the stereotype of the mad artist and asks whether we don't all need a little madness to be free or a little freedom to be mad?

The exhibition / events take their title from the name locals use to describe The Green in front of Bethnal Green Library, harking back to the site’s history as ‘Bethnal House’ or ‘The Blind Beggar’s House’, a notorious ‘private madhouse’ between 1727 and 1922. The old asylum had some distinguished inmates including Alexander Cruden, author of the best-selling Concordance to the Bible (who escaped after being incarcerated by his greedy business partner). Cruden later wrote about his vicious treatment at the hands of the sadistic keeper who was later employed to ‘cure’ the madness of King George III.

Bethanl Green Library (hidden away at the back of The Green – near to Bethnal Green tube station) was constructed in 1896 as part of the asylum and makes an excellent venue for this slightly unorthodox show. There is certainly a good mix of sculpture, installation, video, 2D and performance art, all of which have the potential to liberate from the mundane in every day life. The line up of artists looks good too..

Alex Ingram, Bobby Baker, Brendan Quick & Geraldine Swayne, Catherine Halpin, Dermot O’Brien, Elizabeth Manchester, Emma‐Louise Boulding, Ian Bruce, Imogen O’Rorke, Jon Purnell, Kim Noble, Lee Holden, Martin Sexton, Nicole Wassall, Olivia Reynolds, Paul Sakoilsky, Russell Higgs, Sophie Aston, Tony Lee, Valentin Hertweck.

The show starts on 11th September and runs to 25th, at Bethnal Green Library, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 0HL.

Nearest Tube Bethnal Green (Central Line), Cambridge Heath Rd (overland rail) and bus route 8, D6, 106, 254
Image from the Barmy Park series by Nicole Wassall and Imogen O'Rorke.

The Digital Design Drop-in programme is an exciting collaboration with contemporary digital artists and designers. Once a month we invite an artist to take over our Digital Studio as a drop-in space and make ‘show and tell’ presentations of their work to the public.

This month's session is with Matthew Applegate/Pixelh8.

Internationally renowned chip tune musician Pixelh8 makes his music from reprogramming vintage computer systems such as the ZX spectrum, Commodore 64 and Game Boy.

Parallel to his involvement in music performance Pixelh8 lectures and runs music and computer related workshops across the United Kingdom and is patron of the Access To Music Centre, Norwich and is currently studying for his Masters Degree at UCS Centre for Design Innovation.

A combination workshop/competition to see who can build the most creative device using only a single button for user interaction.

The Idea:
A one-button object embodies the most minimal aspect of interactive design. We guide you through 5 weeks of designing and building your one-button device through a series of guided workshops. At the end, the best two devices (as decided by participants and instructors) will be displayed as part of the AND Festival in Manchester.

We Provide:
We will provide some useful electronics (plenty of LEDs, resistors, servos, motors, capacitors, etc) inspirational examples, and 5 weeks of hands-on expertise to help guide you through the development of your one-button object.

You Provide:
A creative idea, and anything else you require - feathers, knitted objects that can fit buttons inside, LED matrix, solenoids, motors, speakers. We'll help you choose them based on your project.

You also should have some basic familiarity with Arduino (or basic electronics, if you don't plan on using one). If you know how to program your Arduino to blink an LED, you're all set.

What Is A One Button Object?
It has a single button.

When that button is pushed, something happens.

It is a fully self-contained physical object, meaning there isn't anything unintentionally external to the installation such as a computer, TV, synthesizer, toaster, etc.

It is a work of art; a game; a toy; a useful tool; a nihilistic statement of futility.

Ok, But WHAT?!
Maybe you'd like a more concrete example of what these can be like this

We were very inspired by Montreal-based video games collective Kokoromi and CreateDigitalMusic's One Button Games challenge earlier this year, and are thankful that we have their blessing to run this event! We were also inspired by Gamasutra's excellent article on designing one-button games.

This competition is organized in a very large part by Cybersonica.

Schedule
The workshops will take place every Wednesday night from 7pm - 9.45pm from September 1st until September 29th 2010, in the mediaLab at SPACE. That's five Wednesdays in total.

As with open source software, the development of open source hardware is characterised by not only liberal licensing but by communities that engage in open, collaborative development. For the fourth meeting we'll be joined by speakers from three hardware communities, and gaining an insight into their operation and the motivations of the various stakeholders involved, whilst considering what open source hardware means to them.

mbed - Rapid Prototyping for Microcontrollers

Microcontrollers are getting cheaper, more powerful and more flexible, but there remains a barrier to a host of new applications; someone has to build the first prototype. There is no reason why it has to be so hard, but without the right tools, it really is. So mbed has tackled this by being a tool for the sole purpose of developing prototypes. We haven't had to dumb down the technology; it's all built on industry standard stuff. We've just done a lot of the groundwork for you, and made the trade-offs and choices appropriate for the task, so you don't have to. With the right tools for the job, you'll be more adventurous, inventive and productive. But best of all, you'll love building things with microcontrollers again. We built it for ourselves really!

Chris Styles graduated from Imperial College in 1996 with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. After a few years spent gaining a range of experience in the industry, he joined ARM as an application engineer. For six years he helped numerous ARM partners around the world through the process of turning IP into silicon, supporting them by email and through working onsite at their offices. For the last three years Chris has been a part of a small team developing mbed. The original idea was conceived between Chris and Simon Ford as they both struggled to resolve their frustrations with applying ARM microcontroller technology outside of the embedded profession.

DesignSpark - The gateway to online resources and design support for engineers

DesignSpark is an interactive and social community for electronic design engineers. It allows members to share information and ideas, network with industry experts and partners, read and create reviews, gain and share knowledge and the opportunity to peruse a whole host of development kits. It also hosts the Spark Store, which provides free (as in beer) tools such as DesignSpark PCB for community members to download.

Lee Stacey is community manager at DesignSpark and was formerly an electronics engineer with Beyerdynamic, specialising in audio amplification and processing.

London Hackspace

The London Hackspace is a non-profit, community-run hacker space in central London. It provides a space where people who make things can come to share tools and knowledge.

Speaker TBC (London Hackspace)

Click for registration

Deptford X takes to the streets
http://www.deptfordx.org

The Deptford X lead artist, Mark Titchner, worked with students from Deptford Green School to create a new piece of artwork with original photography from the students.
The work has now been placed on the side of 3 Refuge Trucks, which can seen working there way through Deptford

Deptford X at People's Day

For the first time Deptford X had a presence at Lewisham People's Day.

Deptford X invited the innovative and highly successful Lost Property Office to take up residence at Lewisham People's Day.

As well as the Lost Property Office we also gave away special Deptford X beer mats and badges, plus there was a chance to get a temporary tattoo

Beer, Mats & Badges

Keep your eyes peeled for the Deptford X beer mats and badges that will be appearing in a local venue soon!

http://www.deptfordx.org

Mobilefest London presented by FILMOBILE

in collaboration with

the Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film at the University of Westminster

and

the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology

The 4th international forum on Mobile Creativity and Innovation, the Mobilefest London presented by FILMOBILE will take place at the

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in London on Friday the 24th September 2010 at 5pm.

The event is scheduled for three hours and will feature a live web-broadcast and roundtable discussion of international participants in São Paulo and London.

Date: 

24 September 2010
17:00 – 20:00

Venue: 

London - Limkokwing University of Creative Technology

São Paulo - MIS Museu da Imagem e do Som

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology

106 Piccadilly

London 
W1J 7NL
(4 min walk from Green Park tube station)

RSVP: info@filmobile.net

Programme:

Live-web broadcast 17:00 – 20:00

Participants for round-table discussion London

Dr Adam Kossoff (Filmmaker, University of Wolverhampton)

Dr Chris Fry (Artist, University of Westminster) 

Eloise Villez (MA History of Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck University)

Professor Joram Ten Brink (Filmmaker, Director CPRD)

Julia Kazarina (HeARTbeat Festival Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Jorge Lopes Ramos (Zecora Ura, University of East London)

Kasia Molga (Artist, Designer, Limkokwing University)

Max Schleser (FILMOBILE, Mobile filmmaker, Limkokwing University)

Sylvie Prasad (Photographer, University of East London) 

Waiming (Multimedia Producer, Unit 9)

The event is followed by a screening of selected mobile films curated by FILMOBILE and a drinks reception in the Limkokwing Gallery.

Organisers:

Mobilefest

http://www.mobilefest.org

FILMOBILE

http://www.filmobile.net

mail: info@filmobile.net

Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film (CPRD) at the University of Westminster

http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/media/cream/documentary-film centre

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, London

http://www.limkokwing.net/united_kingdom/

106 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NL

Viral Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs4bBWbjP98

Facebook group: FILMOBILE

Discover contemporary digital art and design through the work of artists including Hellicar and Lewis, Tom Schofield, Owl Project, Daniel Soltis, Andras Szalai, Matthew Applegate, Adrian Westaway and more. See web projects and installations, hacking and electronics, and designers at work in the Digital Lab, create your own postcard in our family activity. Further details to follow.

Exploding Cinema is excited to announce a FREE show this month as guests of Elefest, see http://www.elefest.org.uk/, the South London-based arts festival

Outside: A disused office building
Inside: A filmic fairyland.
Outside: Elephant and Castle
Inside: Elephantine entertainment
Outside: Hang around on the pavement for free
Inside: Films, live music, psychedelic decor and prizes for free.
All the fun and thrills of an underground shorts show for less than
the price of a fizzy cola bottle? IT'S A NO-BRAINER.

This is the show for all you scroungers that turn up to our regular
shows and try and blag your way in for nothing,

Exploding Cinema
Saturday 25th September
77-85 Newington Causeway
Southwark,
London SE1 6BD, UK
8pm- 12 midnight
Tube: Elephant and Castle
Bus: 159

Go outside. Look under a leaf. Turn over a log. Part the grass and look very very carefully. What do you see?

In a world where a dew drop is the size of a swimming pool and a flower is as tall as a skyscraper, an insect falls in love with a beautiful butterfly. A heart-warming story in miniature about love and friendship, inspired by the poems of Federico García Lorca.

Beyond economics, what are the possibilities in open source, crowd-sourcing and resource sharing for artists, organisations and industry? What new ways of working does digital technology offer for a renewed vision for culture?

Wieden+Kennedy - The Cole Building
16 Hanbury Street (off Bricklane, 2nd floor, stairs only)
London E1 6QR

6:30-8:30pm

Please RSVP: info@doxacollective.org / 07595917229

Speakers:
Joel Gethin Lewis (Co-Founder of Hellicar&Lewis, former Interaction Designer at United Visual Artists)
Ele Carpenter (media art curator, lecturer at Goldsmiths MFA Curating)
Francesca Bria (PhD Researcher, Imperial College, filmmaker and network activist)
Chair: David Rogerson (Digital and New Media Manager, Sound and Music)
Respondent: Yuk Hui (Co-Founder, DOXA)

In a time where the UK Budget is undergoing a mass overhaul with the depletion of public subsidies and the cutting of councils, what are the opportunities now in networked technology and collective working beyond 'cost-efficiency savings' and business exploitation for the development of culture, ideas and a thriving social ecology? In following an enriching first event in May, DOXA presents a second discussion 'Futures in Collective Working', which looks at not so much on the problems of the current cultural and economic system, but the new possibilities in forms of collective working including open source, crowd-sourcing and resource sharing. The discussion begins yet does end with digital technology and seeks to explore practices and models of work that can nourish, as well as, sustain creativity. 'Futures in Collective Working' brings together a diverse group speakers from backgrounds of media arts, the media industry and academia to look at various collaborative practices and emerging models to approach a renewed visions of culture for the future.

Supported by Openvizor and A Foundation

!Mediengruppe Bitnik
Following The Crisis -- Instruction for a Dérive
Thursday, Sept 30th, 2010, 2:00pm - 6pm (approx)

As part of the exhibition "Too Big To Fail / Too Small to Succeed,"
currently in the court yard at SPACE, we cordially invite you on a
Dérive through the financial center of London. The Dérive is a
psychogeographical self-experiment with the aim of re-appropriating an
urban environment through personal wanderings.

Please send an rsvp email to connect@bitnik.org
for further instructions.

"Too Big To Fail / Too Small to Succeed" is kindly supported by SPACE http://www.spacestudios.org.uk and The Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain.

”It's as if we've been transported to some nocturnal ritual in ancient Sparta... curiously alluring, intriguing and weirdly enjoyable...” Luke Jennings, The Observer

Following its hit Spring tour, Fleur Darkin Company returns to Laban Theatre to present the second season of DISGO. This intimate, un-intrusive piece creates new and closer proximities between performer and audience. DISGO is a different experience for everyone. The centre of DISGO is within the individual experiencing it. “One of the more overtly theatrical of the new wave British choreographers” (The Observer), Fleur Darkin merges her company of powerful dancers with the audience to create a riot of choreography. Experience a unique intimacy with the performers as they dance this rawly submerged new work.

The ticket to this show is an invitation to come and play.

prospectives

prospectives invites international artists for month-long residencies at ambient.space studios, East London.

This programme follows the very successful ambient.vista residencies, in which four international artists reframed the city by addressing the views over it afforded by the hosting studio. For artists are asked to consider the prospect from the studio in the metaphorical sense of possible futures: specifically, those arising from transformations of public space (both 'real' and online), citizenship, and civil liberties.

The programme will commence with photographer Naoya Hatakeyama (Tokyo). public dates coming soon

book a ride on a kayak taxi along Regent's and Hertford Union Canal. The fare is a conversation about alternative modes of transport

sketchTag - programming made fun!

Come and collaborate on animations and interactive drawings, created by you from the code up! This is a fun and easy way for everyone to share code, newbies and experts alike.

sketchPatch in an online programming playground, using the programming language Processing.

The workshop is a game of tag, in which everyone contributes to each others sketch. It will be an opportunity for complete novices to get tinkering with some easy code, and experts can merrily play along showing off and passing on skills.

At the end of the day we will print sketches out and turn them into BADGES!!!!!!!

So come and join sketchPatch.net in a round of sketchTag!

£10

sketchPatch is featured in the "Unleashed Devices" exhibition at Waterman's gallery, and will be taking part in London Digital Design week at the V&A 25th & 26th September... so make a sketch and you can get your work in there too!

Hope you can make this! - our first event where Red Shoes Films transmogrifies into the brand new project/space Inside I'm Dancing..

KRISSIFIED ROCK N ROLL SWINDLE
Promoting the Beautiful Work of Brilliant Krissy

Join us early for a busk/ parade in Broadway Market or a Lindy Hop dance lesson to get you into a swinging mood..
..browse and model the beautiful frocks and stay for champagne tea (and other beverages), cupcakes and dancing till late.

Live band, DJs and womannequins!

Please feel free to bring friends
See you at the hop

Unit 61 Regent Studios E8 4QN

Back to the Future Book - Vol. III
Opening Party @ Cafe Oto

Following on from September’s edition of The Wire Salon, which looked at the rise of sound art, this month’s salon examines a parallel phenomenon of 21st century sound - the emergence of environmental field recordists as sonic artists in their own right.

Now Then _____ is a framed collaboration between Nicole Bachmann, Una Knox, Jasiek Mischke, E. Park & Laure Prouvost. The five artists have traveled on a journey in order to share a common experience and make work about it. Over the course of a changing, month-long exhibition and event series their individual responses will provoke reactions from the others, the results culminating in a limited edition publication presented at the close of the show.

E:ventGallery, 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU
E. Park, Jasiek Mischke, Laure Prouvost, Nicole Bachmann, Una Knox

Curated by Shama Khanna

Saturday 9 October 2010 until Sunday 31 October 2010

Learn how to build electronic things that you can control with your computer!

What could be better than spending a weekend learning about Arduino, the favorite open source hardware hacking platform for designers, artists and hobbyists.

Aimed at students, artists, and designers or anyone who wants to learn the basics of Arduino, simple electronics and building interactive projects

TinkerLondon has been running monthly workshop around Arduino and its uses in creative uses since 2007. TinkerLondon is a mulitdisiplinary design studio based in London. We design interactive products that bridge the physical and the digital. We help our clients develop innovative design practices in their business using open-source tools. We research new areas where design and open source technologies intersect and share the results.

This event is kindly hosted by SPACE.

What do I need to bring?

- A laptop (if its a Mac, then you need to know the admin password for it to install the software)

NB: You don't need to already know about electronics to come to this workshop.

What we will provide

A beginners Arduino kit which you can take away with you after the workshop.

Schedule

SATURDAY

10:30: Introduction to the workshop and round table introductions

11:00 - 12:00: Introduction to physical computing, interaction design and the history of Arduino

12.00 - 13.00: Getting Arduino on your computer

13:00: Lunch

13:00-1700 Getting started with Arduino

17:30- Drinks at a nearby pub

SUNDAY

10:30: Round table presentations of project proposals

11:00 Build your project!

13:00 Lunch

13:00-16:00 More building

17:00 – 17.30 Documentation

How much?

Tickets are £140 for professionals and £115 for students

Book here...
http://beginnersarduino22.eventbrite.com/

Learn how to build electronic things that you can control with your computer!

What could be better than spending a weekend learning about Arduino, the favorite open source hardware hacking platform for designers, artists and hobbyists.

Aimed at students, artists, and designers or anyone who wants to learn the basics of Arduino, simple electronics and building interactive projects

TinkerLondon has been running monthly workshop around Arduino and its uses in creative uses since 2007. TinkerLondon is a mulitdisiplinary design studio based in London. We design interactive products that bridge the physical and the digital. We help our clients develop innovative design practices in their business using open-source tools. We research new areas where design and open source technologies intersect and share the results.

This event is kindly hosted by SPACE.

What do I need to bring?

- A laptop (if its a Mac, then you need to know the admin password for it to install the software)

NB: You don't need to already know about electronics to come to this workshop.

What we will provide

A beginners Arduino kit which you can take away with you after the workshop.

Schedule

SATURDAY

10:30: Introduction to the workshop and round table introductions

11:00 - 12:00: Introduction to physical computing, interaction design and the history of Arduino

12.00 - 13.00: Getting Arduino on your computer

13:00: Lunch

13:00-1700 Getting started with Arduino

17:30- Drinks at a nearby pub

SUNDAY

10:30: Round table presentations of project proposals

11:00 Build your project!

13:00 Lunch

13:00-16:00 More building

17:00 – 17.30 Documentation

How much?

Tickets are £140 for professionals and £115 for students

Book here...
http://beginnersarduino22.eventbrite.com/

GHost invites you to join us for three presentations on the wondrous world of ghost hunters in film, in video games and in real life. A 'blue lady' is said to haunt our atmospheric venue, so you'll have the the chance to do a bit of ghost hunting yourself.

Venue: The Senate Room, 1st floor, Senate House South Block,
University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Scott Wood, Elliott O’Donnell: Number 1 Ghost-hunter.

Rob Gallagher, “Press X to Enter”: Videogame Ghost Hunts and the Horror of the Object

Maya McKechneay, Respectable gentlemen, techno-geeks and wise women: gender roles in ghost-hunter films

In fiction films ghost hunters are usually portrayed in a standardized way: There is the stereotype of the respectable gentleman in the Brit-Mood-Horrorfilm. Like Dr. John Markway in Robert Wise’s “The Haunting” or Mr. Barrett in John Hough’s “The Legend of Hell House”. The respectable gentleman-ghost hunter has greying hair and is on top of the hierarchy within the team he assembles around him (the psychic-medium, the experienced eye-witness, etc.) ... which makes him the love interest of the female participants. There is the clergyman, deeply afflicted by his responsibility, who performs an exorcism, most famously Max von Sydow in William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”. Then of course, there is the comic ghost hunter: you’ll find him (and his technical gadgetry) in Ivan Reitman’s 1984 classic “Ghost Busters” and its sequels or in family entertainment like “Disney’s Haunted Mansion”.

Female ghost hunters usually choose the mental path and take the role of the psychic medium. They rarely use machines or technical gadgets like the male ghost hunters. Women lure ghosts out of their hidings with their mind, they try to establish communication and offer to be the therapist. Some even offer their voice and body to the ghost, which may take the form of a more or less explicit metaphor for the sexual act.

Ghost hunting is an archaic profession, so – not surprisingly – gender roles are firmly cemented. Still: the classical male ghost hunter is usually far less interesting than his female counterpart. While he is in for ratio and eventually knows less than he thinks, she always seems to know a little bit more than what she chooses to tell the audience.

Maya will explore the gender-theme by talking about some spectacular (and some spectacularly crappy) films. She will also show clips from the films.

Scott Wood, Elliott O’Donnell: Number 1 Ghost hunter.

“And now, as I stared in wonder –and, I admit, not a little fear – I saw something rise from the floor and advance towards me.”

Elliott O’Donnell (1872 – 1965) was an Irish ghost hunter and writer who couldn’t have a drink in his club, sit on a park bench or stay in a boarding house without someone telling him their encounter with a ghost or seeing something spectral himself. His mother was psychic, he saw his first ghost, with “yellowish green and sphinx-like” eyes at the age of 5, he was throttled unconscious by a dangerous spirit in Bristol and his father’s death was heralded by the family banshee. He wrote many books based on these encounters that tell wild tales of almost medieval ghosts and spirits, all with spare but well round narratives attached to them.

Scott Wood, of the South East London Folklore Society and Fortean London column, picks out and discusses some of O’Donnell’s stories, compares them to our meagre contemporary ghosts stories and tries to find out who Elliott O’Donnell was through his stories, ghosts, opinions on Celtic identity and his eagerness to prove his own membership of the O’Donnell clan.

Rob Gallagher, “Press X to Enter”: Videogame Ghost Hunts and the Horror of the Object

Rob will discuss the Fatal Frame, Silent Hill and Forbidden Siren videogame series, all of which allow players to go hunt ghosts from the (dis)comfort of their own settees.

While the games remediate various tropes from gothic literature and horror cinema, their plots – and their marketing campaigns – have also drawn heavily on the culture of contemporary ghost hunting and paranormal investigation: the Siren games were promoted via a series of hoax websites and blogs purportedly maintained by in-game characters, while Fatal Frame was marketed in America as ‘based on a true story’ - a claim that catalysed widespread online debate as to the location of the game’s (fictional) setting.

These electronically-orchestrated misinformation campaigns hint at a dominant theme in the titles, which are profoundly preoccupied with the capacity of technology to unearth and make sense of the past. While all the games stage dramatic confrontations with spectral, undead or demonic antagonists, the horror they generate turns out to have much more to do with the ghostliness of electronic media and the intractability of material objects; players spend as much time fiddling with cameras, radios and telephones, collecting keys, lockets and dolls as they do discharging firearms.

What emerges is a fear of the capacity of objects to look back – both in the sense of indexing the past, and that of seeming, uncannily, to return the player’s gaze. Via a reading of these titles informed by Sartrian phenomenology and the ‘thing theory’ of Bill Brown, Rob hopes to throw light on their presentation of ghost hunting as paradigmatic of modern experience and to suggest how their interactivity furthers this end. He will use footage of play to illustrate his argument.

The GHost Project

Led by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal GHost has been running since 2008. It addresses the various roles ghosts play in contemporary culture by bringing artists, writers, curators and researchers together for workshops, so-called ‘hostings’ and exhibitions of moving image and performance art. The hostings are supported by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study and exhibitions are hosted by St Johns on Bethnal Green (East London).

An alchemical mix with Japan's no. 1 performing sculptor, Ujino the rotator and London musicians Leon Michener (Piano), Hiroto Amamiya (Drums) and Taigen Kawabe (Bass guitar).

Class Wargames presents Guy Debord’s Game of
War; a collective playing of the board game using
a replica of the original 1977 design. A film screening
will be followed by an open invitation to join the
game and learn the strategic and tactical skills
required for success in the deadly struggle against
the global bourgeoisie. For Debord, The Game of War
wasn't just a game - it was a guide to how people
should live their lives within Fordist society. By playing,
revolutionary activists could learn how to fight and win
against the oppressors of spectacular society

Join Tinker London on this fun electronics workshop and learn about wire bending, basic electronics and how to hack toys!
Materials included in course fee. No previous experience necessary

A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC ART DEBAUCHERY WILDERNESS & WEIRDNESS

UTURNS LIVE AT
HOXTON UNDERBELLY (ZIGFRID DOWNSTAIRS)
11 HOXTON SQUARE
LONDON N1 6NU
OPEN 10PM-3AM

FRIDAY OCTOBER 15TH 2010
ENTRY £5 WITH FLYER, £7 WITHOUT

http://www.underbellyhoxton.com/

Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama brings his unique guitar stylings to OTO. His sound takes the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisation sidestepping both folk and improv cliches. Guests include Chris Forsyth, Seymour Wright + more tbc

This year's Galvanised! festival will be an exploration and study into the ecology of performance - based around the terms of ‘Singularities’ (solo) and ‘Clusters’ (group). Artists include Goodiepal, Steve Beresford, Dylan Nyoukis's Chocolate Monk collective, work/group and more.

A Billion Gadget Minds: Thinking Widgets, Data and Workflow A One Day Workshop at the Swedenborg Society

A growing body of research, including literature on cognitive anthropology, software studies and cognitive capital suggests that whatever is called 'thinking' occurs amidst mechanisms, habits, codelike systems, devices and other formally structured means. If intelligence, far from being a property of 'the human', is an informal and provisional function of the ensemble of mechanisms and relations that comprise a social field, then we need to explore the co-relation of cultural and experiential practices, thought and intelligent devices.

This day-long workshop seeks to evaluate the ways in which contemporary hardware and software augment and distribute intelligence, as well as the ensemble of social relations which form around thinking practices as they synchronise, mesh, de-couple, breakdown and collapse with variable effects. Contributors are proposing analyses and discussions of thinking work as it is imbricated in cultural, material, corporeal, technical, economic and psychic practices, and adopt a range of disciplinary perspectives - from cognitive science and systems theory, through science and technology studies, to cultural theory and philosophy

There is no charge for attending the workshop but numbers are restricted. We will be starting the workshop promptly at 10.00

Keynotes and Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Anna Munster Nerves of data: 'the neurological turn' in/against networked media
Mike Wheeler Thinking Beyond the Brain: Arguments and Implications

- Ingmar Lippert Administering Carbon Thinking
- Gabriel Menotti The interpenetrating boundaries between coding and computation in the performance of Livecoding
- Luciana Parisi and Stamatia Portanova Soft thought in architecture and choreography
- Chryssa Sdrolia Intelligent Accidents. Towards an Ethology of Mental Heterogeneity
- Ting-jieh Wang Intelligence as system-specific property: systems, emergence, and structural coupling

The Swedenborg Society
20-21 Bloomsbury Way
London
WC1A 2TH
United Kingdom

EVICTED is a temporary large-scale outdoor video installation which is exploring alternative uses of empty spaces in office buildings in the City. Visually, it reflects on the nature of these spaces as places of gamble in the financial world and proposes use that is beneficial to wider community beyond material gain.

Evicted is part of This is not a gateway:

21-24 OCTOBER 2010, LONDON

HANBURY HALL, 22 HANBURY STREET, E1 6QR

Chicago-based musician Rob Lowe (90 Day Men, Om, Singer, Matteah Baim) demonstrates the startling, spectral grip of his mesmerising solo vehicle, LICHENS> Joined by Lancastrian finger-picker DEAN McPHEE’s arresting, implausibly beautiful compositions for solo electric guitar, and Frances Morgan/Mark Dicker’s wintery instrumental investigations as TIME.

As capitalism collapses around us in the market of ideas the anarchist pound is bouyant and the 28th London Anarchist Bookfair is back at Queen Mary College in London’s East End. A big thank you to everyone who helped make last year’s bookfair run smoothly and to you all for respecting the space. Last year we have 50 meetings, 100 stalls, an all day cabaret starring assorted ranters, poets, singers and comics; all day film showings and, two kids spaces. We are planning more of the same in 2010.

Stalls will again be split between the Great Hall and the Octagon room, which means that there will be more space and the whole bookfair will be wheelchair accessible. Please contact the info stall for wheelchair lift passes if you need one. If you have any other access requirements, please let us know in advance if possible so we can meet your needs. If you are Deaf and require BSL interpreting and/or speech-to-text provision, please give us as much notice as possible and we will do our best to organise these.

To discuss any specific access needs, please contact us at access@anarchistbookfair.org.uk . At the bookfair please go to the info stall for further details.

Next to the Octagon room will be an all day tea, coffee and snack stall (until 6pm).

The creche will be signposted, and the ‘older kids room’ is also in the basement below the Octagon Room.

We have loads going on - see the rest of the website, for a run down of the meetings and other events. More will be added as we get nearer to October.

Please don’t forget this is all organised by a small collective – so any help would be very much appreciated. This year, more than ever, we need your donations to break even – the room and table hire have gone up and we may be over a grand down again. So, any donations or funds from benefit gigs would come in very handy.

An evening that captures the best of the current new wave of experimental electronica that's causing delirious electronic goosebumps on both sides of the Atlantic. Netherlands-based synth goddess Christelle Gualdi aka Stellar Om Source; Steven Warwick aka Heatsick - one half of the infamous/revered Birds Of Delay; and Dutch electronica producer Hungry Soul.

noise=noise, Radical Sound Practices, and The Woodmill present....

an evening of psychokinetic noise, rhythmajik,

possession-trance, distant folk and chamber music,

telepathic sculptures, decomposition and consultation.

The Woodmill
Neckinger, Bermondsey
London, United Kingdom, SE16 3QN

Thursday 28th October 2010
7pm-1am
£7

KK.NULL & JULIEN OTTAVI
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http://www.kknull.com/
http://noiser.org/

Z'EV & RYAN JORDAN
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http://www.rhythmajik.com/
http://ryanjordan.org/

JACQUES BELOEIL
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http://www.entracte.co.uk/

LEPKE B
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http://www.lepkeb.co.uk/

TABATA
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http://tabatamitsuru.com/

GERALDINE MCEWAN
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distant folk and chamber music

RICHARD SIDES
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sculpture

Solo set from Australian guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi. Ambarchi takes on various strains of contemporary musical practice from Feldman to rock and strips it back to its bare bones, replacing it with pure signal. Holy Family are the twin-modular synth duo of ROOM40 label operatives Lawrence English and John Chantler - expect ELEH lineage tonal stasis, chaotic bomb clusters and bristling distortion.

Music of the Mind combines scientific experiment, modern music and performance theatre to create a soundworld that recalls Kraftwerk, Sun Ra, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, '60s sci-fi funk, and the avant garde disco of Arthur Russell.

This major international and multidisciplinary conference seeks to engage with questions regarding the role of arts and cultural activity in civil society.

The TAKING PART conference will share research findings; it will hear about the wide range of national and international arts practice engaging directly with the community, creating new contexts for debate and animating the dialogue in challenging and exciting ways.

It will provide a unique opportunity to strengthen links and develop a shared understanding between third sector organisations and those working in arts and participation.

The two days will offer opportunities to share effective practice, listen to keynote speakers and contribute to the thinking; but shared through the creative methods of World Cafe, Open Space Technology and pecha-cucha.

And, there will be plenty of time for the kinds of informal networking and exchanges that help to create new partnerships and consolidate old ones.

Fees: We have endavoured to keep the fees as low as possible for this conference in order to include everyone. The fees are as follows:

2 days conference attendance: £50 for individuals and £75 for organisations

1 day conference attendance (either day): £30

http://www.gold.ac.uk/taking-part/

The 'Symphony of Deptford' workshop will introduce participants to database film-making where material and images from the Deptford.TV archive will be edited to create a 'Symphony of Deptford'.

Date: 29th October - 31st October, 12pm-5pm

RSVP only: Interested person should please RSVP with phone number & state your specific interest: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!).

Symphony of Deptford.

WORKSHOP

Footage taken from Deptford.TV was filmed during a previous TV hacking workshop where participants equipped with CCTV surveillance signal receivers were lead through the city by incoming surveillance camera signals. CCTV video signal receivers cached surveillance camera signals into public and private spaces and were made visible: surveillance became sousveillance.

By making images visible which normally remain hidden, we gain access to the “surveillance from above” enabling us to use these images to create personal narratives of the city. The Images of Ebb workshop will look at constructing a narrative to the Sounds of Ebb.

Sound of Ebb (a branch project of The End of Something) is an open source sound series that asks sound artists and artists working with sound to respond to the question: What is the sound of Recession? Contributions are collected internationally reflecting the affects of crisis and recession from various social contexts and geographic locations. Together the Sounds of Ebb and images from Sousveillance produce articulations of a local city in crisis with global resonances of recession.

Deptford.TV is a research project on collaborative film - initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media collective, OWN project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College.

It is an online media database documenting the urban change of Deptford, in Sout East London. Deptford TV functions as an open, collaborative platform that allows artists, filmmakers and people living and working around Deptford to store, share, re-edit and redistribute the documentation of Deptford. http://deptford.tv

Interested person should please RSVP with phone number & state your specific interest: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!)

R.I.P.:
- Area10 did not make it into this Season, see http://savearea10.org
- The Fury did not make it into this Season, see http://foundry.tv/
- The Free School did not make it, 195 Mare Street was evicted in the morning on the 2nd of September 2010. Events and workshops will be relocated in the near future.

Whereever you are remember the deaths.

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.

Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.