Join Berlin based artists MELT to explore how personal stories and collections can become data (or not!). We will share collected objects and playfully ask questions. The event will be automatically captioned and accessible online and in person.

This workshop is part of Control Shift’s new Feeling Machines programme: a programme of events and artworks about our intimate relationships with technologies. KWMC are proud to be venue partners of Control Shift, providing space to host their workshops and events.

Before you come to the workshop we invite you to try and collect objects, materials or feelings for the duration of one week. It could be a selection of stones from walks you have taken, or a list of every machine you touched in the last week… it could be that feeling you felt every time you arrived back home, a collection of plants you are sprouting, all the nail polish that you wore, or the poems you read, it could be…. it could be… bring a set, something that tells a story about your daily life.

Together we will transform these collections into propositions for shapeshifting the boundaries of data.

? Workshop Information

This workshop is a slow-burner. We’ll start with our first meeting on the afternoon of 30 October 2022, and then invite you to join us as we ‘slow-burn’ until the weekend of 1 April 2023. We will set up some time in between to shapeshift our sets into a collectively compiled installation during Control Shift ~ Feeling Machines, Bristol UK.

Access info for joining in-person: the workshop will take place at KWMC in south Bristol. There are a regular buses (90 and 91) and also free parking. There is step-free access to the workshop space, and accessible toilets. Full access info is available here.

Access info for joining online: the workshop will take place on Zoom, there will be regular breaks, captioning and we will use visual descriptions. We will send a joining link via email prior to the event.

We also have an access bursary that could help with barriers for reaching the workshop. Please email control.shift.network@gmail.com if you have any questions about access, the bursary, or the workshop.

? About MELT

MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr) study and experiment with shape-shifting processes as they meet technologies, sensory media and pedagogies in a warming world. They share work in the forms of videos, installations, websites, lectures, workshops.

? About Control Shift

Control Shift celebrates computational arts that explore the messy spaces in-between humans, nature and machines. They bring people together to re-imagine our relationships with technology through dialogue and arts.

Book your free ticket below. If you are unable to access the eventbrite page, we are happy to book for you. Please email ella.chedburn@kwmc.org.uk or call us on 0117 903 0444.