Past Events

A web-based performance exploring climate modelling through digital aesthetics and architectural thinking. Moving between early numerical forecasting and contemporary synthetic intelligence, Counter-Modelling challenged the aesthetics of computational realism, presenting climate prediction as a site of tension between technological development and climate futures, shaped by power, uncertainty, and abstraction.

This talk showed how practices that treat AI as a material, rather than a tool or creative agent, artists were able to make critical works that presented new ways of understanding and making sense of these unfathomably complex computational systems.

A flâneur's guide to mapping the new geographies of connection. Contemplating on internet and communications infrastructures, participants took a walk through the window piece from one side of the wall to the other. In so doing, they passed through various forms of physical and digital infrastructures that mediate and feed on our data emissions, exploring the topography of the contemporary internet.

This lecture explored the making of XXX Machina, tracing its development across philosophy, technical process, and lived experience. Through a post-structuralist and postmodernist lens, the pair discussed artificial intimacies, eroticism, and digital embodiment, reflecting on how the creation of the award winning work offered autoethnographic insights into sex, selfhood, and computational desire.

In this lecture, Dian Joy explored how desire increasingly functions as a mechanism of discipline and ideological capture within the contemporary digital landscape. Drawing from media theory, philosophy, and digital folklore, the talk interrogated how online platforms reshape desire through algorithmic environments, meme culture, and emergent mythologies through a close reading of Videodrome as a proto-Internet allegory.

In this workshop, Kat Macdonald explored technology as it relates to collective sound making, taking participants through a history of London's experimental collective performance scene of the 1970s and how those methods can be adapted and applied to our current art culture.

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A hands-on, beginner-friendly personal web-making workshop. Exploring HTML, CSS and JavaScript, to create personalised and poetic webpages, to demystify web creation and tell your own digital stories and identities.

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Why are file formats? Are they real? What??? In this workshop, we learnt what file formats really are, where they came from, and why they make us suffer. It started off with an intro to Permacomputing, and how speculative art projects could save engineering. Then, we learnt just enough computer science to be dangerous. With these new skills, we explored the surprisingly philosophical worlds of bytebeats, generative image-making, and Unicode-art.

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This workshop explored Cables.gl, a free, open-source, node-based live coding tool for WebGL development. We learnt how to manipulate live and pre-recorded video, create and modify simple video effects, and make your creations interactive. We covered how to use input devices such as the mouse, keyboard, MIDI controllers, gamepads, and webcams to drive your visual systems.

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When web-hosting company Glitch.com shut down overnight, dozens of playful self-made sites from our past workshops vanished, replaced by the error screen "Well. You found a glitch." All that remains are tiny thumbnail previews we rescued onto an Are.na board, like digital fossils of a lost web.

In this hands-on session, we revived those dead pages: decoded the previews, inspected colours, layouts, images and GIFs to reverse-engineer each site's vibe, and rebuilt them from scratch using HTML, CSS and basic JavaScript.

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In this two-hour workshop, we learnt to treat everyday objects as narrative anchors that bridge physical material to virtual, inspired by methods from Melissa's project Home is a Dwelling Path.

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A live coding performance by the live coding group 'That Sounds Exciting!'

From the artist: "This performance experimented with livecoding audio, using FM synthesis, modulating sinewaves and sawtooth waves. I used euclidean rhythms which created clashes and unfamiliar patterns in the sound. Sampling pop-cultural references and internet one-liners behave as my vocals for my sound usually. The livecoding of the audio and visuals is done through Strudel.cc, this performance mixed ambient sound and noise together. Usually, I look to my livecoding peers for reference, sometimes remixing their code, I am a fan of open-source and community knowledge sharing."

Lagtime Seedling scores and performs audio-visual compositions made entirely within web browser windows using a large number of live youtube.com video tabs. Through a meticulously choreographed way of using their laptop, they create narrative and musical journeys through strange and overlooked corners of the web. Transparency and accessibility is central to their practice: Lagtime Seedling doesn't use any traditional music software. Instead, all their sound comes from youtube tabs and a piano keyboard on a separate virtualpiano.net browser window. They interact with their browser as anyone could, using keyboard shortcuts to navigate many tabs and windows quickly, and interact with videos through youtube's default hotkeys. The sound and visuals of lagtime's compositions, being pulled straight from youtube, carry on a certain algorithmic qualia. Full of ASMR, slime squishing, nail scratching, and soft spoken words, their compositions reflect the overstimulating experience of being online. Through a carefully arranged score, lagtime recontextualises online content, extracting overlooked emotion embedded within it.

Live coders from Algorave London, featuring Sinsé (@ladysinsemilla), Nadezhda (@nadyaviaproxy), and Daniel (@algorave_london) others

A live coding performance by Orangespy who integrates real-time audio-visual systems, algorithmic composition, AI-driven generative visuals, and sensor-based interactivity to create responsive environments.

A live browser window performance by Lagtime Seedling who uses youtube video tabs, an online piano, and overlapping browser windows to create narrative audio-visual compositions. This set involved a more improvised approach to their otherwise heavily choreographed process as they browsed the web and piano melodies live on stage.

A live performance using a custom-build modular synthesizer.

An evening of computational, experimental, and artist-led short films that bend narrative, fracture reality, and play at the edges of code, image, and memory. These works pushed the medium through storytelling, inventive editing, and striking visual languages.

Featuring films by: Lucy Ellis, Autojektor, Atay Ilgun, Maggie Maggot, Erinne Huston, Dana Fox, Shannon Lu, Verona Gryshchuk, Max Colson, Natalie Maximova, Isaac Ward, Tilly Hawkins (Nukleopatra), Ned Caderni, Iman Javaid and Julian Law, Ngo Chun Phoenix Tse, Mati Granica, and Yidi Chen.

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