Control Shift – Feeling Machines
Thursday 30 March – Sunday 2 April 2023
Across Bristol locations including St Anne’s House
Control Shift “Feeling Machines” is an exciting new arts programme from Bristol, bringing together local and international artists to reflect on what it feels like to feel with machines. Artworks explore how digital technologies intertwine with the most intimate aspects of our lives. From Thursday 30 March to Sunday 2 April they’ll be hosting local and international artists in Bristol and online. It’s a gorgeous programme of film screenings, installations, workshops and an Algorave!
Full programme and booking on their website.
Events happening at St Anne’s House
Community Day at St Annes on Saturday 01 April
Live coding for Performance
By hellocatfood
11am – 12.30pm
Free workshop – book here
In this workshop Antonio Roberts aka hellocatfood will introduce you to the basics of live coding music. Live coding is a performative practice where artists and musicians use code to create live music and live visuals.
Rare Earth Walks
by Max Dovey
Free walk – book here
Walk one: 11am – 12.30pm
Walk two: 2.30pm – 4pm
A guided walk and metal detecting expedition, exploring the sounds and stories contained in rare metals.
Choreographing web environments
By Joana Chicau
2pm – 4pm
Free workshop – book here
In this workshop we will be looking at web environments through the lenses of choreography. We will use the web browser as a performative medium to interact in real-time with online environments and their content.
Drawing sound networks
By PRRRRRT!
2pm – 4.30pm
Free – just turn up
Join Jasmine and Kathy from PRRRRRT! to generate a larger-than-life electronic drawing.
SET (Scripted Emergent Togetherness)
by MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr)
11am – 5pm
Free – just turn up
How can we make data something that cares for us (particularly as trans* and disabled people) in the past, present and future?
Drop in to experience this collectively made installation and speak with the artists at St Annes House.
The phone project
By Chloe Meineck
3pm – 4pm
Free – just sign up on the day
The Phone Project explores our intimate relationship with our mobile phones. The work is a mapping of how the phone is part of the artist’s life. It will be installed at St Anne’s House, and there will be a workshop alongside the map for you to make your own.
Keep in touch
By Guilia Carla Rossi
11am – 5pm
Free – just turn up
Drawing from personal experience, combined with historical records of letters between queer women, ‘Keeping in Touch: Lesbian Dating During a Global Pandemic’ is a short interactive narrative about queer pandemic dating, and using online forms of communication to maintain contact when physically distant.
Periodical
by Wisterlitz
In person installation
11am – 5pm
Free – just turn up
Playfully exploring the design and use of period tracking apps. How do machines capture intimacy and how could it be otherwise?
Poem.garden
by Harriet Horobin-Worley
Free – Runs throughout the day
How do we share small acts of love outside of the gated communities of Facebook’s metaverse?
Ai Tattoo
By Alice Steward
11am – 5pm
Free – just drop in
AI Tattoo explores how much we want to connect with AI by inviting it as a collaborator to make the most intimate form of visual expression: a tattoo.
Divination is an Intimate Affair
by Danae Tapia
11.30am – 4.30pm (20 min slots)
Free – sign up on the day
In a private one-on-one oracle reading, expect insights on archetypes, automated poetry, technomancy and the many strategies we can activate in order to make the world an enchanted place.
Marbling with machine bodies
by Joseph Wilk
11am – 4pm
Free – just turn up
A live performance using drawing tools of digital pens, programming code, robot pen-plotter, paint and hands.
Access
If you have any access requirements please read about our venue here. If you’d like to directly speak with someone please email stannes@bricksbristol.org or give us a call on 07709 264 201.
