ElectroSmog

Chelsea College of Art and Design will be participating in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival organisers based in Amsterdam’s centre for Politics and Culture De Balie have developed an experimental interface to manage live streams from many locations around the world, exploring the possibilities of using everyday communications platforms to create an International Festival where no body has to leave home. In this way the project explores the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners’ home bases.

On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March the Dean’s office (EG04) will be turned into an informal seminar room to engage with the festival and test the possibilities of this experimental interface.

Developer, Grzesiek Sedek of Wimbledon College Of Art will present an Access Grid and the artists project Marcel as an alternative communications platform to the one developed for ElectroSmog and look at ways in which academic networks could play a more dynamic role in developing experimental platforms for wider use.

Members of the TED (Textile Environment Design) research group will make a contribution based on a subtle role that subjectivities in design  create textiles that have a reduced impact on the environment.

Chelsea College of Art and Design will not only contribute from its own location in London, but will also work in partnership with Ambient TV, based in Hackney and Tactical Technology in Bristol on Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th March.

For more information visit: www.electrosmogfestival.net