[mf2012] Sorry, TODAY! Opening Event 'Forking Bits' 6-9pm

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Sorry, the opening event is today 6-9pm!


On Fri, July 6, 2012 8:00 am, AnnaB wrote:
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> Subject: [Ccs-ma-im] Tomorrow OPENING EVENT 'Forking Bits' 6-9pm
> From: Anila Ladwa <cu101al at gold.ac.uk>
> To: ccs-ma-im at gold.ac.uk
> CC:
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> Please joins us tomorrow for the MAIM 2012 Expo 'Forking Bits' opening at
>  Laurie Grove Baths at Goldsmiths College.
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> Further details:
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> ‘Forking Bits’   Exploring the edge of media, art, science and
> technology in computational culture.
>
> Free All Welcome!
> Opening Event: Friday 6 July 6 pm – 9 pm
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> Open on: Saturday 7 July 11 am – 5 pm
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> Sunday 8 July 11 am – 4 pm
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> Find us at:
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> Laurie Grove, (old Swimming Baths)
> New Cross
> London SE14 6BX
> Directions www.gold.ac.uk/findus
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> FORKING BITS
> 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 its not the ‘versus’ that matters and its
> 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 meets criticality, and vice versa.
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> 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.
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> It is here we find Forking Bits; the forks are constructed and the bits
> are made ready for prodding.
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> We look forward to seeing you.
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> Further info visit  http://forkingbits.net/ and course info
> www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-interactive-media-critical-theory-practice/
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