[spectre] London Psychogeophysics Summit Monday 2 to 7 August

[martin]

>From Hyde Park spread their vegetating roots beneath Albion
In dreadful pain the Spectrous Uncircumcised Vegetation,
Forming a Sexual Machine; an Aged Virgin Form.

[William Blake. Jerusalem]

Across Hackney, East and South London and within its various streets
and rivers an assembled crew of tinkerers, thinkers and artists will
perform diverse pyschogeophysical investigations and actions within
the first week of August. The summit will culminate in a large outdoor
celebration and exposure of such endeavours on Saturday the 7th day of
August within a divined public space or garden.

Actors will engage in measurements of various fields pertaining to the
sun, earth and moon, to determine how these elements might influence a
person's humours, wills and wishes. Tinkerers will make comprehensive
study of material composition at diverse locations and of how these
properties might affect the faculties of individuals within such
neighbourhoods. Both parties will set themselves towards the end of
revealing sites of execution and memory throughout London.

The summit will commence with an open meeting and luncheon within
SPACE on Mare Street in Hackney at midday on Monday the 2nd of
August. Workshops, walks, river drifts and investigations originate
each weekday from eleven at SPACE. Speculations will be unveiled from
seven in the evening each day at the same location. On the evening of
Thursday 5th August (8PM) a programme of public lectures and
entertainments will take place at HTTP gallery in Haringey.

Activities are including:

Dark Heart of Codeness, a .walk: A .walk into computational darkness,
Tuesday the second of August 2010 commencing three in the afternoon at
the entrance of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park.

Self-execution for the plague year2012, the repurposing of common
household devices and found objects for excitation, detection and
measurement.

The camera obscura as a steampunk digital camera.

Diverse investigations of the thoughtographic city.

Will-o'-the-Wisp, psychogeophysicals of the ghostly light.

Shooting of the sky, studying the atmospheric propagation of
electromagnetic emanations.

An instructional Derive. 

Please await the next playbill with more details to be issued on
Monday 2nd August.

Those taking part include: BITNIK, Alejo Duque, Kathrin Guenter,
Graham Harwood, Martin Howse, Ryan Jordan, Petr Kazil, Jonathan Kemp,
Martin Kuentz, Tom McCarthy(TBC), Christian Nold, Eleonora Oreggia,
Nick Papadimitriou(TBC), John Rogers(TBC), Karen Russo, Gordan
Savicic, Suzanne Treister, Danja Vasiliev, Wilfried HJB Bourdin.

Further information: http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=summit:desc

Please join the mailing list: http://mail.wintermute.org/mailman/listinfo/psych

IRC: irc.freenode.net: #psychogeophysics

Full workshop fee: 40 pounds including subsistence

With thanks to: SPACE Media Arts, openmute.org and HTTP
gallery/Furtherfield.

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