From Hyde Park spread their vegetating roots beneath Albion
In dreadful pain the Spectrous Uncircumcised Vegetation,
Forming a Sexual Machine; an Aged Virgin Form.
[William Blake. Jerusalem]
The London Psychogeophysics Summit proposes an intense week-long, city-wide series of walks, fieldtrips, river drifts, open workshops and discussions exploring the novel interdisciplinary frame of psychogeophysics, colliding psychogeographics with earth science measurements and study (fictions of forensics and geophysical archaeology).
Across Hackney, East and South London and within its various streets and rivers an assembled crew of tinkerers, thinkers and artists will perform diverse pyschogeophysical investigations and actions within the first week of August. The summit will culminate in a large outdoor celebration and exposure of such endeavours on Saturday the 7th day of August within a divined public space or garden.
Actors will engage in measurements of various fields pertaining to the sun, earth and moon, to determine how these elements might influence a person's humours, wills and wishes. Tinkerers will make comprehensive study of material composition at diverse locations and of how these properties might affect the faculties of individuals within such neighbourhoods. Both parties will set themselves towards the end of revealing sites of execution and memory throughout London.
The summit will commence with an open meeting and luncheon within SPACE on Mare Street in Hackney at midday on Monday the 2nd of August. Workshops, walks, river drifts and investigations originate each weekday from eleven at SPACE. Speculations will be unveiled from seven in the evening each day at the same location. On the evening of Thursday 5th August (8PM) a programme of public lectures and entertainments will take place at HTTP gallery in Haringey.
Activities are including:
Dark Heart of Codeness, a .walk: A .walk into computational darkness, Tuesday the second of August 2010 commencing three in the afternoon at the entrance of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park.
Self-execution for the plague year2012, the repurposing of common household devices and found objects for excitation, detection and measurement.
The camera obscura as a steampunk digital camera.
Diverse investigations of the thoughtographic city.
Will-o'-the-Wisp, psychogeophysicals of the ghostly light.
Shooting of the sky, studying the atmospheric propagation of
electromagnetic emanations.
Bitnik instructional drift telephony.
Please await the next playbill with more details to be issued on
Monday 2nd August.
Those taking part include: Bitnik, Alejo Duque, Kathrin Guenter, Graham Harwood, Martin Howse, Ryan Jordan, Petr Kazil, Jonathan Kemp, Martin Kuentz, Tom McCarthy(TBC), Christian Nold, Eleonora Oreggia, Nick Papadimitriou(TBC), John Rogers(TBC), Karen Russo, Gordan Savicic, Suzanne Treister, Danja Vasiliev, Wilfried HJB Bourdin.
Further information: http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=summit:desc
Please join the mailing list: http://mail.wintermute.org/mailman/listinfo/psych
IRC: irc.freenode.net: #psychogeophysics
Full workshop fee: 40 pounds including subsistence
With thanks to: SPACE Media Arts, openmute.org and HTTP gallery/Furtherfield.
Contact:
Ale Scapin, HTTP Gallery
email: aleATfurtherfieldDOTorg
HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1LD
+44(0)79 8129 2734
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