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The Inside Out Festival presents: After the Circuits Died: Exploring electronic waste Sunday 26 October 2014, Open session: 10am - 4pm, and Presentation and discussion: 4pm - 5pm. Free entrance. Art Studio Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL A pile of discarded computers, telephones, printers, and microwaves will be delivered to the museum. Throughout the day, four artists will experiment with this material through mechanical and chemical processes. The session will be open to the public. The day will conclude with a presentation of the work-in-progress by the artists, in discussion with two cultural theorists whose work focuses on consumer electronics and waste. Artists: Paul Granjon<http://www.zprod.org/>, Jonathan Kemp<http://xxn.org.uk/>, Dani Ploeger<http://www.daniploeger.org/>, Madaleine Trigg<http://www.madaleinetrigg.com/Home.html> Theorists: Dr Neil Maycroft<http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/nmaycroft>, Dr Toby Miller<http://www.tobymiller.org/> The event is part of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste’, which is aimed at exploring and developing strategies in digital performance art, cultural studies, and science, to engage with the political, sociological and ecological issues around electronic waste in countries that export (UK) and import (Nigeria and China) used technology. www.e-waste-performance.net<http://www.e-waste-performance.net> http://www.insideoutfestival.org.uk/2014/events/after-the-circuits-died-exploring-electronic-waste/ <http://www.insideoutfestival.org.uk/2014/events/after-the-circuits-died-exploring-electronic-waste/> Dr. Daniël Ploeger Senior Lecturer and Course Leader Performance Arts The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London Principal Investigator, Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste AHRC grant reference: AH/L01582X/1 www.daniploeger.org<http://www.daniploeger.org> www.e-waste-performance.net<http://e-waste-performance.net> Notice of Confidentiality- This email and its attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute them. Please contact the sender if you have received this email in error. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------