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Tech Semantics (Venus Rising)

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Join us on 6 July for a debate at the ICA on the uses and misuses of language in technology.

The Venus Rising site is now up with a report from their launch in April at the Dana Centre and information about upcoming events in July and September. Please find it at: http://www.venusrising.org.uk

The next VR event will be hosted by the ICA on Wednesday 6 July and has been arranged in collaboration with SMARTlab Centre. For this event, Venus Rising have invited a group of speakers to each select their favourite (sic) used/misused word in technology and do a rant about it for approximately 5 minutes each with visuals.

Join them on 6 July for a debate at the ICA on the uses and misuses of language in technology.

Diane Fox Hill (Semiotician and Project Manager for PDD and now on the VR team) will be co-chairing the event with Lizbeth Goodman (Director, SMARTlab Centre).

The panel (with more confirmations to come):

Brian Duffy (Eurecom, France)
Zann Gill (NASA)
Johnny Golding (Greenwich Digital Media)
Niki Gomez (RichMix)
Mukul (AmbientTV)
Eva Pascoe (Cybersalon/Wearables Group)
Katie Salen (Parsons-NY)

Price: £6 general public/£5 ICA and Cybersalon members

**one can become a Cybersalon member by simply signing up on the Cybersalon website http://www.cybersalon.org : )

About Venus Rising:

Toys for the boys? Bling for the girls? Does it really break down that neatly when it comes to gender and technology?

Cybersalon continues its Venus Rising series of panels in collaboration with SMARTlab Centre to engage the general public in discussions with technologists, designers, artists and scientists about the feminine in technology. Venus Rising is a forum that launched at the Science Museum¹s Dana Centre in April. With this series of panels we pose the question, can we shift the cultural image and language of technology towards the feminine?

BOOKINGS:
To book tickets contact the ICA Box Office at +44 (0)20 7930 3647

ENQUIRIES:
For additional information, contact Monica Biagioli at monica@cybersalon.org

Sponsored by: Cybersalon, Recollective, SMARTlab Centre, Surrey Institute of Art & Design.

Location

Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London SW1