The School of Cyborg (SoC) is a project that Dundee Based Digital Art Festival NEoN proposes in a joint effort with students from MA Culture Criticism and Curation from the University of the Arts London. The School of Cyborg, an international group of MA students, will “warm up” the city before the festival: they will be present in Dundee the 6th and 7th of November 2021. It proposes is oriented to tackle Dundee communities’ digital gaps and aims to involve local groups to raise consciousness on the theme and to provide tools to be active and work for a change.

We have 2 other programmes, which are AI: A FUTURE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY and NEW WAYS OF SEEING.

About the Talk

Are we cyborg?

How do we shape our online identities?

Is our online identity political?

The conversation with Shannon McRae will focus on the themes of online identity: from roleplay to catfishing, how our real-life shapes and is shaped online? With the help of the American scholar, we will delve into the short-circuits that happen when IRL and URL collide. We will be using the figure of the cyborg as a thread through which to develop a conversation around queer, feminism, social justice. The event will be oriented towards inclusivity and accessibility, aligning with SoC’s aim to engage with local community groups and address the digital gender divide.

In line with NEoN's Wired Women * theme, we will focus on and highlight women's digital art *.

Time: Sunday, 15:00 - 17:00(GMT)

Date: Nov 7, 2021

Location: Kathryn Rattray Gallery and Online Stream

The in-person event will be in Dundee, at the Kathryn Rattray Gallery, 3A Meadowmill, West Henderson’s Wynd, DD1 5BY.

Due to access limitations, only a few people can access the gallery. If you are interested in joining our in-person event please contact us send us an email: schoolofcyborg@gmail.com or contact us on Instagram @theschoolofcyborg, so we can discuss your access requirements.

Ticket: FREE ENTRY

About the Artists

Shannon McRae (she/her) is an American Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at the State University of New York at Fredonia. She teaches literature, film, mythology, religion, queer theory, and popular culture. She is interested in bodies, pleasures, the semi-permeability of the boundaries by which we customarily define self and other, technologies of ecstasy, and tracing the cultural stories that instruct humanity in their use. She is currently writing a book about non-mainstream religions, spiritual tourism, and pop-culture paganism in Jazz Age America.

ACCESS KEY: CC

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