[ecrea] cfp - Speeding and Braking: Navigating Acceleration

*SPEEDING AND BRAKING: NAVIGATING ACCELERATION *
/// CONFERENCE /// EXHIBITION /// PERFORMANCES

Organised by Screen and Audiovisual Research Unit (SARU), Department of 
Media & Communications, Goldsmiths.
12th-15th May 2016

Keynotes: Frances Dyson, Ryan Bishop, Benjamin Bratton
Speakers: Susan Schuppli, Joanna Zylinska, Ayesha Hameed, Mark Fisher, 
Kodwo Eshun, Dhanveer Singh Brar, AUDINT and more (see below)

Acceleration has been characterised as both reason and remedy for the 
challenges presented by an increasingly fraught global economy - by 
financial crises, ecological ruination, neo-colonial oppression and 
forced displacements of an unprecedented scale. The contemporary 
political and cultural imagination is caught between conflicting 
velocities: the accelerationist affirmation of technological 
transformation on the one hand, and decelerative or restorative 
movements on the other. The conference Speeding and Braking: Navigating 
Acceleration gathers critical responses to this conceptual deadlock that 
reach across and beyond such entrenched (op)positions.

The conference explores the material and phenomenological consequences 
of both accelerations and decelerations, as well as the aesthetic 
strategies afforded or precluded by them. It is concerned with the 
material inscription, practical harnessing and social experience of 
varying speeds, from the perspective of contrasting temporalities. 
Particular emphasis is placed on transversal approaches reading across, 
and drawing into dialogue, seemingly incompossible positions within the 
fields of sonic and visual arts, cultural and critical theory, and media 
and communications.

More info (& final program): 
https://screenandaudiovisualtheory.com/speeding-and-braking/ 
<https://screenandaudiovisualtheory.com/speeding-and-braking/>

Attendance to conference, exhibition and performances is free. 
Registration via Eventbrite page 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/speeding-and-braking-navigating-acceleration-tickets-24650184365>.<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/speeding-and-braking-navigating-acceleration-tickets-24650184365>

Speeding & Braking: Navigating Acceleration Facebook event 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1257257490971008/>

*OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCES*
G05 St James Hatcham Church
Thursday 12th May, 19:00-22:00
/Hannah Catherine Jones
Paul Abbott
Graham Dunning
OFFAL (Orchestra For Females And Laptops)
James C Wilkie /

*CONFERENCE*
LG01 Professor Stuart Hall Building

FRIDAY 13th MAY
10:00-18:00
/Keynote: Benjamin Bratton in conversation with Ryan Bishop
Speakers: Joanna Zylinska, Ayesha Hameed, Kodwo Eshun, Mark Fisher, 
Laura Oldfield Ford, Alexander Wilson, Gary Zhexi Zhang, C.W. Winter, 
Maria-Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Verina Gfader, Tina Kendall/

SATURDAY 14th MAY
10:00-18:00
/Keynote: Frances Dyson
Speakers: Susan Schuppli, Doreen Mende, Fiona Curran, Dhanveer Singh 
Brar, Hillegonda C Rietveld, Tristam Adams, Scott Wark, Peer Illner, 
Anne Koppenburger, Abelardo G Fournier, AUDINT/

*SCREENINGS*
LG01 Professor Stuart Hall Building
FRIDAY 13th MAY 18:00-21:00

/Fragment on Machines/
/Emma Charles, White Mountain, 2016
Lawrence Lek, Berlin Mirror, 2016
Wilf Speller, Kodak Moment, 2015
Wilf Speller, BlkBx.mov, 2014
Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, The 3D Additivist Manifesto, 2015
/
/Spectres of the Future/
/Graeme Arnfield, Sitting in Darkness, 2015
Nicholas Brooks, Friendly Things From the Future, 2014
Ana Vaz, A Idade Da Pedra, 2013/
(both screenings will be followed by discussions with the artists)

*EXHIBITION*
FRIDAY 13th MAY & SATURDAY 14th MAY
G05 St James Hatcham Church
10:00-18:00
/Esther Polak/Ivar van Bekkum, Magnus Ayers, Tom Estes, Ryan Kuo, Stefan 
Riebel, mma Charles, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Lawrence Lek, Alexander Senko, 
Saly McIntyre, Ben Harper, James Andean, James Wilkie, Jez Riley French, 
Ingrid Lee, Jim Bevington, Alexander Wendt
/
SUNDAY 15th MAY
LG01 Professor Stuart Hall Building
14:00-18:00
/Esther Polak/Ivar van Bekkum, Magnus Ayers, Tom Estes, Ryan Kuo, Stefan 
Riebel, Emma Charles, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Lawrence Lek
+ Harun Farocki
/
*CLOSING PARTY*
SATURDAY 14th MAY 20:00-03:00
Amersham Arms <http://www.theamershamarms.com>
£5 OTD
/Debonair (DJ)
Dale Cornish (Live)
Shelley Parker (Live)
Vindicatrix (Live)
Disjecta (DJ)/
Facebook event closing party 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/380216212102748/>

SPEEDING AND BRAKING: NAVIGATING ACCELERATION is part of Goldsmiths 
Graduate Festival 2016 
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/graduate-school/graduate-festival/>.

Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
How to get to Goldsmiths <http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/>
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