About
SIGNAL:NOISE is an experimental cross-disciplinary research project that aims to explore the influence of cybernetics and information theory on contemporary cultural life by testing out its central idiom, âfeedback', through debates, performances, and events.
Through the application of mechanical and scientific models for the understanding of social and political life, cybernetic theory in particular notions of feedback informed the development of many early conceptual and participatory artistic practices in the 1960s/70s, yet its influence is still under-recognised. 'Signal:Noise' aims to bring together people who are working with these ideas in the fields of art, design, architecture, media and theory in order to open a discussion around this discourse, looking at how it has informed cultural, social and political life, in the past and present.
The project is led by Steve Rushton, Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), Marina Vishmidt, Rod Dickinson and Emily Pethick.
An installation of Stephen Willats' âHomeostat Wall Drawing' (2008) will form a backdrop to the event.
PROGRAMME:
Thursday 13 January, 7-9pm
Steve Rushton: 'How Media Masters Reality'
Charlie Gere: 'La Cybernétique or Dark Cybernetics and the End of the Human'
8.30pm Moderated by Rod Dickinson and Marina Vishmidt
Friday 14 January, 7-9pm
Richard Hornsey: 'The Cybernetic Londoner: A Prehistory'
Rod Dickinson: 'Closed Circuit', performance at the Cockpit Theatre
Saturday 15 January, 2-9pm
2pm Lars Bang Larsen: 'Anti-Disciplinary Feedback and the Will to Effect'
3pm 'Feedback as Cultural Logic' led by Marina Vishmidt and Matthew Fuller with Andy Goffey and Benedict Seymour
5pm Will Holder speaks to Dexter Sinister
7pm Film screenings introduced by Steve Rushton and others
Sunday 16 January, 2-8pm
2pm Emily Pethick speaks to Stephen Willats on art, society and feedback
3pm Emma Smith and Sophie Hope on social systems
4pm Rod Dickinson: 'An Invitation to a Zero Sum Afternoon: Deadlock, Chicken, Stag Hunt and the Prisoner's Dilemma', led by Rod Dickinson
6pm Dexter Sinister: 'An Octopus in Plan View'
On the Saturday and Sunday, dinner (included in ticket price) will be available during the evening events, prepared by Lucky PDF.
