V&A Digital Design Weekend 2017
Event Information
Description
Back for the seventh year, the Digital Design Weekend brings together artists, designers, engineers, technologists and the public to celebrate and share contemporary digital art and design, engage in conversations, and learn about processes.
Designers and artists take over the Museum with interactive installations, performances, talks, open workshops, labs and family-friendly activities taking place around the building, exploring how design, technology and creativity can help bridge ideas, generating new relationships between people, cities, environments and more.
The Digital Design Weekend coincides with the London Design Festival at the V&A.
Over the weekend we will be showcasing a huge programme of cutting edge, international projects, including:
A Virtual Futures Salon discussion between Stelarc and Nina Sellars on collaboration in artistic practice and the influence of anatomy on our understanding of body, identity and subjectivity.
Dr. Garnet Hertz talking about his research in DIY culture, electronic art and interdisciplinary design practices, and his recent publication "Disobedient Electronics: Protest".
The Human Sensor by Kasia Molga; a futuristic narrative in which people with COPD and asthma are used to detect changes in the air quality in urban environment.
A pop up Data Detox Bar installation and workshops by TacticalTech and Mozilla, an experimentation and play on how we live our lives online.
WearAQ & Social Wearables by Ling Tan; using wearables as an expressive interface, participants in various cities co-create body gesture sensing wearables that enable them to record their bodily interaction with the
city, ranging from the quality of air in London to perception of safety in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Geomancer (Virtual Reality Edition) by Lawrence Lek; a two-part science-fiction moving image work about a satellite surveillance AI, who escapes its imminent deletion by coming down to Singapore to fulfill its
dreams of becoming an architect.
Outrospectre, a proposal by Frank Kolkman for a medical device that simulates an out-of-body experience. Referencing X-ray machines and CT-scans, the installation questions how we could begin to apply said research to designing tools and techniques for hospitals to help patients comfortably acknowledge their own mortality.
RIOT by Karen Palmer in co-production with The National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio; an emotionally responsive, live-action film, with immersive 3D sound design, which uses facial recognition and AI technology to navigate through a riot.
Exposed / Unauthorised Copy by Antonio Roberts; collage of works where creativity and the complex copyright laws have clashed, and a collage of everyday encounters with surveillance and digital rights, from the light-hearted to more serious war games
Code Liberation artworks including digital games and creative technologies by women, nonbinary, femme, and girl-identifying people.
The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke; a free compendium of imaginative, provocative works from world-leading artists, activists and theorists re-sponding to a call to push the 3D printer and other cre-ative technologies to their absolute limits.
A series of installations presented in partnership with Ars Electronica Linz and the Austrian Cultural Forum London...
...and many more!
The Weekend will also include many talks and workshops, such as Data Detox workshops with Tactical Tech, Future Fixing drop-in workshops with Helen Steer and Fixperts, a Hack the City! family activity with Plymouth University and ODI Devon, a pop up radiostation broadcasting online and live with Very Very Far Away (VVFA): Telling tales of a future, and many more activities.
Events are also taking place at the Austrian Cultural Forum on both days as well as guided tours between the two venues.
All events are free and drop-in, and available on a first come, first served basis.
You can view the full programme here.
The Bridging Open Borders publication, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Mozilla, designed by Uniform, with contributions by all participants, will be available during the event.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & ORGANISATIONS:
Arts and Humanities Research Council Digital Transformations Theme, Ars Electronica Linz, Stelarc & Nina Sellars / Virtual Futures, Garnet Hertz, Tactical Tech, Mozilla Open IoT Studio, Daniel Charny (Fixperts), Helen Steer & Phoenix Perry (Do it Kits), Sean Roy Parker (School of Damned) , Jane ni Dhulchaointi (Sugru), Julian Melchiorri, TECHnique, Eszter Bircsák, Györgyi Gálik, Emilie Giles, Bhavani Esapathi, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Anab Jain, Ida Tin, Jara Rocha, Invisible Flock, Studio Marlene Huissoud, BR Innovation Agency, Kasia Molga with Prof.Frank Kelly, Dr. Andrew Grieve (King’s College London), Ricardo O’Nascimento and Erik Overmeire, Davide Bevilacqua and Veronika Krenn, prazlab, Chomko & Rosier, Code Liberation, The 3D Additivist Manifesto, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke , Lawrence Lek, Fabio Giampietro and Alessio de Vecchi, Leonhard Peschta, Sitraka Rakotoniaina, Andrew Friend and Jasmin Blasco, Frank Kolkman, Irene Posch, Karen Palmer, Ling Tan, Paul Granjon & Michka Mélo (FoAM), Luca M. Damiani with John Philip Sage and Natasha Trotman, SOAS University of London, Adam Lusby and Michael Saunby (University of Exeter), Hack the Senses, Studio Ini, Antonio Roberts, Dr. Helen Manchester & Dr. Kirsten Cater, Stand + Stare and Alive!, Dr. Peter Bennett, Heidi Hinder & Steve Symons, Arianna Mazzeo, Prof Rob Toulson, Prof Justin Paterson, Sarah Kayte Foster, Gameli Kodzo Tordzro & Naa Densua Tordzro, Prof Gascia Ouzounian, Dr Peter Bennett and Dr Christopher Haworth, Ben Neal (Birmingham Open Media), Plymouth University with ODI Devon and more.
The Digital Design Weekend is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Mozilla, Ars Electronica Linz, Austrian Cultural Forum London, NIO, AVL Cultural Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts, Lottarox, Curtin University, BRIA Innovation Agency, KUKA Robotics UK, Holition, Autodesk, DESISLAB Elisava-Desis Network, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.
Image credits (in order of appearance):
If You Go Away, Invisible Flock. Digital Design Weekend 2016. Photo: Victoria and Albert Museum
Exposed, Antonio Roberts. Photo: Marcin Szymczak
Hyperplanes of Simultaneity, Fabio Giampietro and Alessio de Vecchi
Mozilla Open IoT Studio. Photo: Martin Skelly
Outrospectre, Frank Kolkman. Photo: Juuke Schoorl
Organiser Digital Programmes, Victoria and Albert Museum
Organiser of V&A Digital Design Weekend 2017
The Digital Programmes Team at the V&A, formed in 2008, engages visitors of all ages in a range of free activities and events that promote digital art and design practices and collaborative processes, inspire creativity, and stimulate discussion and exchange among creative industries professionals, students and visitors.
