<nettime-ann> Coal Fired Computers talk: Power, Art and Media

["Jim Prevett" <Jim@spacestudios.org.uk>]

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Harwood and Jean Demars in conversation with Matthew Fuller.

Tuesday 1st June 2010, 7pm - 9pm
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London
£3
Book here: http://coalfiredcomputers.eventbrite.com/

Whilst we take in the shape of government, the politics of power takes  
on a new meaning as Harwood, Jean Demars and Matthew Fuller discuss  
the Coal Fired Computer Project and the implications layered under  
dusty marvels of everyday bits and bytes. Global fuel reliance, the  
price of a computer measured against the lives of 318,000 miners with  
choked up lungs, stark reality with no escape unless we begin to  
think. Empathy leads to action. Attend the talk. Read more...

Graham Harwood (YoHa and Mongrel) and Jean Demars talk to Matthew  
Fuller ( author of Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and  
Technoculture)  about the Coal Fired Computers project recently  
commissioned as part of AV Festival in Newcastle.

Over three days at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, in collaboration  
with Jean Demars and groups of coal miner activists, Coal Fired  
Computers articulated relations between Power, Art and Media. The new  
work by leading UK media artists Harwood and Yokokoji (YoHa) responded  
to the displacement of coal production to distant lands like India and  
China after the UK miners' strike in 1984/85. Coal Fired Computers  
reflects on the complexities of our global fossil fuel reliance and  
especially on how coal transforms our health as we have transformed  
it. Today coal produces 42% of the world¹s electricity, and in many  
countries this rate is much higher (more than 70% in India and China).

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/coal-fired-computers-talks
http://www.spc.org/fuller/

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