[spectre] Long Table discussion on Democracy and Technology

[Jim Prevett]

Wednesday 23 January 6-8pm
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH

Introduced by Lois Weaver, the Long Table is an experimental public
forum. A hybrid performance installation-roundtable discussion-dinner
party designed to facilitate informal conversations on serious topics.
Come along and give your opinion!

Previous Long Tables include conversations on Women and Prisons, Human
Rights and Performance, Manufacturing Bodies and Violence And The
Politics Of Representations held in London, Rio d Janeiro, Vienna and
Buenos Aires

Lois Weaver is a performance artist, director, writer, teacher and
curator with thirty years professional experience. She was co-founder of
Spiderwoman Theatre and the WOW Theatre in New York and Artistic
Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. She has been a performer,
director, and writer with the Split Britches Company since 1980. Her
interests include performance and human rights and performance and
technology. Lois was Director for PSi12 Performing Rights, an
international conference on the themes of performance and human rights.

As part of:
THE NOT QUITE YET: ON THE MARGINS OF TECHNOLOGY
25 January - 01 March 2008
http://www.thenotquiteyet.net

Programme
Artists Workshops: Throughout February
If I could do one thing... Performance by Lois Weaver: 28 February 2008,
7pm On the Margins of Technology Symposium: 29 February 2008, 10am-5pm

see website for details and bookings http:// www.thenotquiteyet.net 

129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH
www.spacestudios.org.uk
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Travel: 
Bus: 26 & 48 from Liverpool Street  106 & 254 from Bethnal Green  55
from Old Street
Tube: Bethnal Green
Train: Hackney Central Silverlink V

MAP http://www.thenotquiteyet.net/?page_id=13


Throughout 2007, Lois Weaver has led research sessions with groups of
older people with the aim of helping them engage with the changes
technology makes possible. This research, DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY, is a
DESIGNING FOR THE TWENTIETH FIRST CENTURY project funded by the AHRC and
ESPRC based at Queen Mary University of London, involving Pat Healey
(Department of Computer Science), Ann Light, Lois Weaver (Department of
Drama) and SPACE

For more information: http://www.thenotquiteyet.net

a DESIGNING FOR THE TWENTIETH FIRST CENTURY project funded by the AHRC
and ESPRC and ACE, London.

Jim Prevett
Emergent Technologies Producer

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