Control Shift
2 - 18 Oct 2020 - Hybrid edition
An exciting new arts programme coming to Bristol this Autumn
Three weeks of workshops, discussions, installations and screenings - online and across Bristol, UK - exploring ways to reframe and rethink our relationships with technology.
The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between Watershed, UWE Bristol and University of Bristol. Control Shift Network is a collective of artists, technologists and producers. In 2019 they produced ‘You Make the Rules’ - a day of workshops followed by an algo-rave performance, which was part of Processing Community Day (a global celebration of ‘art, code and diversity’ initiated by the Processing Foundation). Control Shift has developed from this event and follows in the same ethos, with a focus on accessibility and diverse engagement.
In the talk below curators Becca Rose, Martha King, and Rod Dickinson will discuss core ideas behind the event.
Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements
Programme of short films, Online + also showing at the Arnolfini 10-11th Oct, 12-17:00
The ruins of history offer a host of unresolved traces that imagine the global south as a site of prehistoric technologies. This programme of short-films offers counter evidence to the assumption that technology is a western construction. The films address the politics of technology in Africa, affirming the continent as an active agent in the production of technology through indigenous practices.
Films will be online throughout the Control Shift programme, and also screened at Arnolfini on 10-11 October 12-5pm.
Find out more about Control Shift, and how to get involved at https://www.control-shift.network/ Control Shift is funded by Arts Council England, Knowle West Media Centre, Institute of Coding, and University of the West of England. And supported by Watershed, Furtherfield, Aksioma, We the Curious, Bristol City Council, and Processing Community Day.
