Saturday 13 June 2015, 10.30am - 4.30pm
Walkshop, Making Session and Drop-In Day
Open to everyone. Suggested donation £3 half day/ £5 full day.
Or drop-in any time for tea, cake and conversation about the project.
11am-1pm - Data Walkshop with data activist Dr Alison Powell (LSE)
Explore and discuss the data surveillance processes at play in Finsbury Park through a process of rapid group ethnography. Arrive at 10.30am at Furtherfield Commons for a short introduction to the project. We will leave at 11am for a 60 minute walk around the area followed by snacks and discussion. Please bring:
- appropriate dress for the weather.
- a camera or smart phone for documentation.
BOOK HERE (places limited to 12 on a first come first served basis)
2pm-4.30pm - LEGO Re-Creations & Making Session
Work with Cultural Geographer Dr Ian Cook to turn your commodity stories into activist LEGO re-creations. Inspired by Nathaniel Stern's hacked scanner, artist Carlos Armendariz will help you translate your data findings into visual events. Produce arresting images for an interactive poster for public display, then track and count its impact. (Feel free to bring your own laptops or smartphones along)
BOOK HERE (drop-in event)
More information
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Data Derby Day is part of the research and development for Museum of Contemporary Commodities, an art and social project led by artist Paula Crutchlow (Blind Ditch) and cultural geographer Ian Cook (Univeristy of Exeter)
Location
Furtherfield Commons
Finsbury Gate - Finsbury Park
+44 (0)20 8802 1301
MAP
Transport
Tube: Manor House, Finsbury Park
Buses: 141, 341, 153, 253, 254, 259, 29, 4, N253, N279, N29
Train: Finsbury Park, Harringay, Harringay Green Lanes stations
About Furtherfield
Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for arts, technology and social change. Since 1997 Furtherfield has created online and physical spaces and places for people to come together to develop and create critical experimental art and digital technologies on their own terms. Furtherfield Gallery and Commons are based in the heart of London's Finsbury
Park. This serves as a hub to connect and activate local and international communities of artists, technologists, thinkers and doers.
Furtherfield is supported by Haringey Council and Arts Council England through the National Portfolio funding programme.
 Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
for art, technology and social change since 1997
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