“ZEITGEIST, FROM DIGITAL TO POST DIGITAL”
We are all digital
The digital revolution has changed culture, society and business models, driving a fundamental shift in how humans live, communicate and interact. Today digital is everywhere, it means everything. Digital is not new anymore, it has become part of our everyday life without many of us even noticing it. Our culture has fully integrated digital and the internet to the extent that the majority of the rich (or maybe not so rich) countries have access to smartphones and fast broadband connections.
Entering the post-digital age
With this year’s theme, Alpha-ville wants to address the transition from a digital to a post-digital culture, that looks beneath technology at how human behaviours such as collaboration, participation and interaction have redefined the creative practice and society itself, and at how the physical boundaries between reality and online are being blurred. Alpha-ville joins the discourse about post-digital initiated in 1998 by visionary, thinker and founder of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte who pushed the edges of information to predict the future of our culture.
Today, people have started to look beyond digital to think about post-digital and what it means to be in an interactive, collaborative, participatory and hybrid era. In this context, Tom Uglow, Director of Creative Labs at Google notes, “The idea that digital is something new and transformative is now quite old. So the question for most creatives is not about going digital – it’s about making it feel less digital, about making participation and interaction feel post-digital; making the tech less techy.”
The festival and more specifically the symposium will provide a forum to exchange knowledge and inspire discussions about the humanisation of digital technologies and about the future of digital culture. During 4 days Alpha-ville will create environments where visitors will experience the cross over between digital and analogue, between technology and art, between science and culture.
Our aim is to showcase, document and make known the work of creative coders, designers, architects, artists, researchers and professionals who explore the frontiers of technology, art, computing, philosophy, technology and media. The festival also provides a platform whereby participants and festival goers can exchange ideas, discover new trends and network at the London event.
The term post-digital encompasses new conceptual models, behaviours, and practices that will be examined throughout the festival.
“I am interested in looking beneath the technology itself at how we communicate with other human beings, and how that is changing as a result of social networking,” Man Bartlett, New Media Artist.
Our programme brings together Live music and AV shows, film, social media and interactive art, workshops, meet-ups, open labs and a one-day symposium.
This is just an example of or our Live music and audio-visual
Pantha Du Prince, Rough Trade, DE (Live)
Kangding Ray, Live AV, Raster Noton, DE (Live AV)
Jon Hopkins, Live AV, Domino Records, UK (Live AV)
Jennifer Cardini, FR
Jacasezk, Gosthly, PL (Live)
Svarte Greiner, Miasmah, NO (Live AV)
Max Cooper, UK, Traum Schallplatten (Live)
Illum Sphere, Tectonic, UK (Live AV)
Truss, Perc Trax, UK (Live)
Emptyset, Tectonic, UK (Live AV, London Premiere)
+ more tba
This is just an example innovation programme:
AARON KOBLIN us
DAITO MANABE de
MORITZ STEFANER de
KEIICHI MATSUDA uk
JAMES ALLIBAN uk
MAN BARTLETT us
VVVV LAB
MODUL8 ch/de
+ Installation & live/online performance connecting with the V&A Digital Design Weekend
+ more tba
1st LONDON SYMPOSIUM ON POST-DIGITAL CULTURE with:
FILIP VISNJIC, Creative Applications Network
TOM UGLOW, Google
BILL THOMPSON, BBC
DREW HEMMENT, Future Everything
KEIICHI MATSUDA, Designer and film maker
PATRICK HUSSEY, Arts & Business
MARTIN HAYE, Sticktu
MORTIZ STEFANER, Information designer
CHARLES BECKETT, Arts Council England
And Screening and open film submission
Press Pause Play
Alpha-ville screening Programme:
The External World, David O’Reilly
Future Past Perfect, Carsten Nicolai
Unit 15 Bartlett School of Architecture Showcase
Alpha-ville International Moving Image Competition
with Ars Electronica Lins, Warp Records, Little White Lies, Hackney Film Festival
Alpha-ville Online Cinema
Nobody Here, Cory Arcangel and Seth Price
