What’s On | ICA Feedback Talks | February 09
Event: Feedback Talks
Date & time: 31st January – 23rd February 09. Times vary.
Location: ICA The Mall, London
Date & Time: 4th February 09, 1300
Venue: ICA Theatre
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, returns to update his thesis about mass internet collaboration in the light of the last year and ‘the Obama effect’. We are now seeing masses of people engage in both spontaneous and planned generosity online, according to Shirky, who will be exploring how and why we’ve started doing this. More info
Peter Greenaway on the New Visual Literacy
Date & Time: 9th February 09, 1900
Venue: ICA Theatre
Last June, Peter Greenaway took computers, projectors and speakers into a Milan monastery in an attempt to reinterpret Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Now he comes to the ICA to argue that the world of text is giving way to a exciting new age of visual literacy. Greenaway is the director and writer of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and The Draughtsman’s Contract. More info
Mike Figgis on Digital Film Making
Date & Time: 16th February 09, 1900
Venue: ICA Nash Room
A small number of major filmmakers now work mainly or exclusively using digital film. How does digital film change the work of the filmmaker and the perspective of the audience? Mike Figgis, author of Digital Filmmaking and director of Leaving Las Vegas, is at the ICA to lecture on the aesthetic possibilities latent in digital film. More info
Date & Time: 21st February 09, 1600
Venue: ICA Nash Room
Artists Alasdair Hopwood and Sean Parfitt skim across the pool of research that feeds their ongoing practice as WITH, creators of Life Enhancement Solutions. This whistlestop multimedia tour provides an opportunity to glimpse the process behind the creation of such products as Bflog, where a WITH agent joins social networking sites on your behalf, inventing interesting anecdotes to keep your audience entertained. More info
Date & Time: 17th February 09, 1900
Venue: ICA Nash Room
There is evidence of a new kind of movement in theatre, one which takes advantage of the fractured sensibility of the audience and its thirst for a more active involvement. What can this sensibility tell us about audiences, and what opportunities does it present?
Katie Mitchell director of some trace of her at the National Theatre, will be in conversation with Dominic Cooke, artistic director at the Royal Court Theatre. Chair: David Edgar, playwright and commentator whose plays include The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Playing with Fire. More info
Date & Time: 23rd February 09, 1900
Venue: ICA Nash Room
The idea of cybernetics didn’t just give rise to the internet. Through its successor discipline of network-centric warfare, it has also burrowed into American and Israeli military culture. Where did those ideas come from, and what has their effect been on the war in Iraq, 2006’s Israel-Lebanon war, and the current war in Gaza?
Speakers: Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land; Antoine Bousquet, author of The Scientific Way of Warfare. Chair: James Harkin, author of Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We Are. More info
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