Have you ever wondered what lies underneath the soft silicon layers of sex-products? Well, now it’s the time to stop wondering, and get your own hands on it! This edition of UNSENSORED talks will shine the light on many efficient and creative ways to build your very own “sex tech” at home. To celebrate DIY practice and sparkle enthusiasm in our audience we are inviting thought-provoking hackers and makers to share with us their practice and push the boundaries of what sex-products can be.

LOCATION

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Rd, Primrose Hill, London NW1 7AY

DATE & TIME

Thursday 27.02 | 18:30 - 23:00

SPEAKERS

Julia Spence - "Rethinking Pleasure in the Body & DIY Sex Toys"

This short talk will present the workshops undertaken by designers Julia Spence and Esther Angelo. The project explores the conversation of alternative points of pleasure in the body and how can we design for them using different materials. Designer Julia Spence will discuss how this project developed, share with you details of the workshops undertaken in London and Brazil and dissect the importance of rethinking where pleasure in the body can come from.

Julia - a Designer and Maker based in London. While living in Brazil, she collaborated with Brazilian designer Esther Angelo and developed a workshop based on Esther’s research on alternative sex toys. In July 2019, during a residency at Makerversity, Somerset House, Julia ran an iteration of this workshop on alternative points of pleasure in the body.

Deviant Designs - “Creativity in Kink”

"You don’t need an electronics lab and access to vast manufacturing resources to create adult toys. Thanks to the maker movement there are thousands of resources out there teaching us how to inexpensively create custom yet complex toys at home. This talk will be about my development process, some of the tools used and some of the lessons I have learned."

Deviant Designs is an Engineer & a Designer who focuses on creating fun and unique toys for BDSM play. Constantly looking for new ways to pervert technology into a kinky device to create slightly cruel, yet enjoyable, scenarios for submissives.

Cathline Smoos - "How I teleported myself thanks to SexTech”

"Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac. This talk is an invitation to drawn into your deepest fantasies, to use your imagination and SexTech to extend the game of erotism and love. I will teach you how to teleport and extend your consciousness thanks to the new technological tools that our generation provides us. Make your days and nights an ultimate SexTech playground. The future of sexuality is yours, just DIY!"

Passionate about the world of sexuality, imaginary worlds and freedom. TheVRsexologist, has decided to take control of the ship, in order to explore the confines of sexuality and the imagination with a poetic and playful dimension. In her empire, love recognizes no other limits than those of pleasure. Cathline Smoos divides her time between accompanying sexual and relational difficulties with individuals in her private practice, consultancy, talks and her research in various fields related to sexuality, love, health and culture, and new technology.

Raspberry Dream Labs - "From Kitchen Appliance to Soft Robotics"

Raspberry Dream Labs (RDL) is team of artists and engineers drawn together to create innovative multi-sensory solutions for cybersex, represented by a visionary and founder Angelina - futurist and transhumanist specialising in creative storytelling through Extended Reality(XR) tech with the background in sculpture and performance art - and technical lead Edward - cybernetics & systems engineer with a particular interest in prosthetics, brain-machine interfaces, human augmentation, robotics, Virtual Reality and aerospace engineering.

In this talks RDL will take you on the journey to origin of DIY SexTech culture, highlighting important steps in its evolution and go-to resources. We will expose some of the exotic creations we discovered during our research, reveal to our audience what DIY is for us and immerse our audience in the latest experiments with the soft robotics

EXHIBITS

Pussy Talk & ImbueVR - Cathline Smoos

Interactive BDSM Toys - Deviant Design

Norgasm - Blacksphere Follower

DIY Stroker - Lustful Woodpecker

AGENDA

18:30 - Doors Open ; Exhibition

19:00 - Intro

19:05 - Raspberry Dream Labs

19:25 - Julia Spence

19:45 - Break; Exhibition continues

20:15 - Deviant Designs

20:35 - Cathline Smoos

20:55 - Q&A with all presenters

21:15 - Networking: Exhibition continues

23:00 - Doors Closed

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