Remote Contact

About

Co-designed with individuals and their families living with dementia, Remote Contact presents a series of interactive artworks exploring how sensory and generative technologies can enhance connections between families and their relatives in care.

Remote Contact is commissioned by IN-TOUCH: Digital Touch Communication an ERC research project at UCL led by Prof Carey Jewitt (UCL). It is supported by FACT and Community Integrated Care, and funded by Arts Council England, and Leeds City Council and with the support of a Wellcome Trust Arts Award and in collaboration with Prof Nadia Berthouze (UCL).

Opening Event – Monday 4 June 2018 18.00 – 20.30 including:

Drinks & Artist Talk 19.00 – 19.45

Ben Eaton, Technical Director, a member of the interactive arts studioInvisible Flock, is a digital artist and creative technologist interested in the critical use of new technology, as well as place, hardware and sound. He will talk about the artefacts and process of the development of the REMOTE CONTACT exhibition.

More info and to register your interest please visit our eventbrite pagehere. 

Interactive Touch Workshop – Friday 8 June 2018 15:00 – 17:00

How To Build A Capacitive Proximity And Touch Sensing Water Synthesiser (or How To Know What To Do When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing)

Lead by Artist Collective Invisible Flock this workshop is an opportunity to have a play with multi-frequency capacitive sensing; building simple circuits, writing code and designing applications. The workshop is open to all abilities and will focus on the problem solving skills needed to be creative with technology.

Spaces limited: to book, email Kerstin Leder Mackley at k.ledermackley@ucl.ac.uk or register your interest here. 

Remote Contact is running as part of the UCL Festival of Culture.