LAB

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Private View: Thursday 25th November from 6pm till late.
Join us for a first look at the new space with homebrew, cupcakes, music and a chance to talk to LAB about the upcoming laboratories.
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LAB aims to explore the ecology of ideas and the intersect between disciplines of knowledge. During Sideshow LAB are inviting a number of artists, scientists and specialists from a variety of backgrounds as well as members of the public, to work in the Laboratory.

Each week an attempt will be made to find resolutions to research problems that addresses the collective interests of invited specialists in an attempt to find a common ground. These interdisciplinary collaborations will each culminate in a weekend culture clash, an open public event in which we will present the results of that week’s project.

The research problems will be published in advance on the LAB website and the public are invited to collaborate with LAB in unpicking these problems and contribute to the living archive that will emerge in the lab and online, mapping the complexities of collaborative and collective processes.

The space will be open Thursday - Sunday for people to drop in a view the amalgamation of research and documentation, to come and chat to LAB or to join in and collaborate.

EVENTS: 

OPEN LABORATORIES:

1. Frequency Speculation Summit:   26 - 28 November
Exploring possible alternative/future uses of the radio spectrum with Ollie Palmer, Kimberly Walker, David Di Duca and Jon Arden. 

2. Ecology/Intelligence:  4 - 5 December
Artist Rebecca Beinart and robotic scientist Dr. Robert Oates consider how the built environment could be seen as a living organism to determin what an Urban Immune System might look like.

3. Voice Exchange: 11 - 12 December
Led by artist Rob Flint, with collaborator Christine Sullivan this workshop addresses the human voice as a flexible instrument of power and persuasion.

4. Human Interfaces: 16 - 17 December
Over a two day workshop learn how to design and develop interfaces for direct human interaction with objects, sound and image.
Join LAB for A closing party on 17 December with live performances from the two day workshop

LAB TALKS:

1 December: Natural Intelligence 
Artist Rebecca Beinart and robotic scientist Dr. Robert Oates on models of intelligence between the worlds of ecology and artificial intelligence.

8 December: Dead of Night
A screening of the 1949 film Dead of Night by Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti with an introduction by Rob Flint.

15 December: TBC

Ongoing

CO-LAB THURSDAYS: Every Thursday the laboratory upstairs is open to be used as a temporary office / meeting space / workshop / studio for anyone to use.

The lab is a creative and open space for experimentation, exchange and critical play; a collective, a project and community laboratory for art and ideas that aims to explore methods of process based creative research and cross discipline collaboration. The laboratory welcomes the idea of the prototype or the beta version, acting as a fertile research and development environment for side projects, experiments, follies, mistakes and failures.

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