[spectre] Venus Rising: TECHNO-SEMANTICS - ICA London

[Gordana Novakovic]

TECHNO-SEMANTICS

Wednesday 6 July  18.15-20.15
Institute of Contemporary Art
The Mall  London  SW1
tubes: Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross
http://www.ica.org.uk

Toys for the boys?  Bling for the girls?  Does it really break down that
neatly when it comes to gender and technology?

Cybersalon continues its Venus Rising series of panels in collaboration with
SMARTlab Centre to engage the general public in discussions with
technologists, designers, artists and scientists about the feminine in
technology.  Venus Rising is a forum that launched at the Science Museum¹s
Dana Centre in April.  With this series of panels we pose the question, can
we shift the cultural image and language of technology towards the feminine?

Join us on 6 July for a debate at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the
uses and misuses of language in technology.  For this event, we have invited
a group of speakers to each select their favourite (sic) used/misused word
in technology and do a rant about it for approximately 5 minutes each with
visuals.

Diane Fox Hill (Semiotician and Project Manager/PDD) will be co-chairing the
event with Lizbeth Goodman (Director, SMARTlab Centre).
Confirmed for the panel:
Brian Duffy (Eurecom, France)
Zann Gill (NASA)
Johnny Golding (Greenwich Digital Media)
Niki Gomez (RichMix)
Mukul (AmbientTV)
Eva Pascoe (Cybersalon/Wearables Group)
Katie Salen (Parsons-NY)

Wednesday 6 July  18.15-20.15
Institute of Contemporary Art
The Mall  London  SW1
tubes: Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross
http://www.ica.org.uk

Tickets: £6 general admission/£5 (ICA, Cybersalon members). To book tickets
contact the ICA Box Office at +44 (0)20 7930 3647

Sponsored by Cybersalon, Recollective, SMARTlab Centre,
Surrey Institute of Art & Design

For more information on Venus Rising:
http://www.venusrising.org.uk

To become a Cybersalon member:
http://www.cybersalon.org

To get in touch with Venus Rising contact Monica Biagioli at
monica at cybersalon.org