Event overview
Forking Bits
An exposition of works exploring the edge of media, art, science and technology in computational culture.
Why use the fork when you have the natural technology of hands: the age old, computer versus man?
It is partly within this question where we can find the MA:IM 2012 exposition *Forking Bits* where it's not the ‘versus’ that matters and it's not the answers that glean.
Instead, *Forking Bits* stabs straight into the guts of it, raising new questions, and exploring and exposing the processes where technology meets culture, where practice meets theory, where materiality meet criticality, and vice versa.
As ‘forking’ is to copy and diverge, *Forking Bits* lives up to its name by considering the bits by bits, the processes and transformations – the in between – in the frontier leaves of computational culture and theory and in the historical roots and emergences of media systems.
Their prodding of technology does not bring new flavours to the table; instead, it serves what it is we already taste without knowing. It is the methodologies, interventions and ideas that are significant. Unfolding and assimilating, technologies reveal themselves as cultural power flows, disciplining our thoughts and behaviours.
It is here we find *Forking Bits; *the forks* *are constructed and the bits are made ready for prodding.
We look forward to seeing you.
Contributions by Anila Ladwa, Anna Blumenkranz, Anna Kartasi, Anton Kats, Bayan Naseer, Charlotte Robinson, Foteini Vergidou, Ji Young Lee, Marco Dalbosco, Marcos Chilet, Maria Carlsen, Niklas Petzke, Shania Xing, Thomas Aston, Tom Keene, Mira Dobreva, Nick Blythe, Sabina Plamenova
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Jul 2012 |
6:00pm - 9:00pm Opening night |
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| 7 Jul 2012 | 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 8 Jul 2012 | 11:00am - 4:00pm |
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