SPAM New Media Festival
Festival projects include:
* Brainwave-powered VR: Rose Ansari's technology that lets users “think out loud.”
* Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive: ephemeral:data’s Chinese cyberfeminist anthem derived from censored archives.
* Collaborative Extended Reality Performance brings to life an ambisonics archive realized in uniquely acoustical spaces in Washington State.
* Ghost Sensors: Brandon Dalmer uses electromagnetic sensors to detect unusual phenomena produced by entities residing within the Georgetown Steam Plant.
* Inflatable vejigante mask: Jo Cosme transforms this folkloric Puerto Rican colonial-era symbol of resistance into an inflatable object to highlight the power dynamics of cultural appropriation
* Machine Learning Encounters: Lauren Sarah Hayes' interactive musical improvisations. (Photo Credit:Tobias Feltus)
* Listening Space: Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Briot use NOAA weather satellite data as a raw material for poetic exploration and citizen science.
Exhibition Hours:
Friday & Saturday: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Performances:
Friday from 7:00-9:00PM
Saturday from 6:00-9:00PM
(Exhibition only on Sunday)
Performance Schedule:
Friday September 27th, 7pm-9pm:
Alemseged Bishu
Zeynep Özcan
Michael Bruner & Jeff Morris
Maria Thrän
Saturday September 28th, 6pm-9pm:
BLUES.WEAVE the INVENTOR
Michal Seta & Dirk Johan Stromberg
Lauren Sarah Hayes
St Celfer
Laura Luna Castillo & Ewa Trebacz & Daniel Peterson & Josiah Boothby & Leanna Keith & Ashley Menestrina
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