Feedback
Over the last 30 years, technological changes have altered how we see, read and even think, often making us crave a more active involvement in the culture that we consume and giving rise to a new aesthetic. Going beyond web 2.0 hype, Feedback wonders how our experience of growing up with computer games, the internet and texting has changed us as human beings, and asks what opportunities and dangers it brings for our culture.
In Our New Home Cyburbia, James Harkin, lead programmer of the Feedback season discusses the roots of our feedback culture in cybernetic experiments of the 1940s and makes the case for the new messages our new media need.
The use of camera phones and recording equipment during talks and events in the Feedback series (except Mark Leckey's talk) is encouraged. Snap it, video it, blog it and then share it with us .
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Mark Leckey in the Long Tail
31 January 2009 - 1 February 2009
A lecture that roams through television history and takes in the 'long tail' theory of economics, delivered from a revolving stage. Extra date added.
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Clay Shirky
4 February 2009
The online communities expert is back to update his thesis on mass internet collaboration in light of the 'Obama effect'.
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Giles Foden + Tom Perrotta
5 February 2009
Is The Wire really as good as Dickens? Two authors whose work has been turned into feature films discuss our new era of TV storytelling.
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Scratch 'n' Sniff Cinema
9 February 2009
Grab a scratchcard and sniff your way through the rotting meat and dusty books of Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
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Peter Greenaway on the New Visual Literacy
9 February 2009
The writer and director explains why he believes that the world of text is giving way to a new visual age.
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The Parallax View
16 February 2009
Ace new label City of Quartz trace connections between the present economic crisis and the pervasive cultural paranoia of the early 70s.
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Mike Figgis on Digital Filmmaking
16 February 2009
How does digital film change the work of the film-maker and the perspective of the audience?
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Jotta Pad
17 February 2009
An offline community (in the ICA bar) and an online community (at www.jotta.com) collaborate on a piece of art.
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The Audience in Fragments
17 February 2009
Looking at evidence of a new kind of theatre, one which takes advantage of the fractured sensibility of the audience and its thirst for a more active involvement.
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Sandpit: Come Play with Us
18 February 2009
Form teams or play alone, trade information, listen carefully, follow clues, negotiate, betray, sneak, create, discover, explore and more!
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WITH: Always On
21 February 2009
A whistlestop multimedia tour from the creators of Life Enhancement solutions, the collective who engineer vicarious living through a team of highly trained agents
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Total Feedback Loop
23 February 2009
Honeygun Labs & Calendar Songs present a night of mixed media music to close our Feedback sessions.
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The Cybernetic Way of War
23 February 2009
How has network-centric warfare affected the wars in Iraq, the Israel-Lebanon war and the current conflict in Gaza?