Control Shift

Digital arts programme exploring creative and critical approaches to technology.

[Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) @knowlewestmedia]

✨ Job Opportunity: Art + Tech Producer! ✨

We’re looking for someone experienced in developing, delivering and project managing arts and tech programmes, ideally with experience of working in community contexts.

Apply by 7th June: https://t.co/woncVQgI0B

Art by @maryflorahart

[Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) @knowlewestmedia]

💫Job Opportunity💫

With our CEO @carolynhassan’s retirement, we’re entering a new chapter with @martharoseking  (previously Head of Arts) as Creative Co-Director! We’re recruiting a Co-Director of Business Development & Operations to work with Martha:

https://t.co/gkDIphYkcR

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What an amazing few years we’ve had so far with Control Shift! Here is a snippet of what we’ve been up to, created by @syndromepix. 

Remember to check out our new website full of inspiring archives plus juicy new blogs/podcasts: https://t.co/cXWFBCkn32. 

See you soon! 💜

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Grab a cuppa and deep-dive into #DavidMatunda’s epic blog exploring masking, digital arts and how this relates to his own creative practice… 🤖

https://t.co/MgKxVWK78K

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Check out our last (but not least!) Control Shift Podcast episide, ‘Technology Is Material’ where @coral_manton, @HarrietHW and @maxdovey explore the materiality of tech and remind us where it comes from: our earth. ⛏️🌿

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Dig into our latest blog by Antonio Roberts @hellocatfood on the importance of supporting early career Black artists to learn live coding in his (Algo/Afro) Futures programme co-founded with Alex McLean @yaxu 👩🏾‍💻

https://t.co/ORoZXO3ccN

📷 Jodi Cunningham, Leah Moses, Marcin Sz

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Listen to our latest juicy podcast, ‘Technology and Radical Accessibility’ with @becca_rose___ and @unstablematters 🤖🦴

https://t.co/ZwqbYxFUpH

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Check out our latest guest blog by #PRRRRRT! exploring how they embody electronic sound through touch and play - using anything from electronically infused pom poms to light-triggered sound masks…

@becca_rose___ @birdtwitchr @guest_jabu

https://t.co/wZD85E11vo

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Listen to our latest juicy podcast exploring technology and bodies with @martharoseking @BChicau @josephwilk @PublicDasha! 🤖🦴 

https://t.co/GDmZQusE1Q

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Guess what? We’ve started a podcast!!  🎉 

We’ve made four juicy episodes diving into how we want to creatively transform our relationships with technology. All include transcripts and lots of links to resources to dig into...

https://t.co/KOmGZyuiOI 🤖💜

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We've had a makeover! 👀 Check out our gorgeous new website full of juicy new blogs and podcasts plus inspiring archives, all exploring the messy spaces in-between humans, nature and machines:

✨ https://t.co/cXWFBCkn32 ✨

Special thanks to @REAALSTUDIO & @innovateuk. 💜

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We loved listening to ‘From Cyber Punk to Time Hunting’ at our #FeelingMachinesWeekender.

In collab with Container Magazine, this podcast with @RusselHlongwane + @MarkMushiva talks hip-hop, cyberpunk + new theories of creative tech for Africa 👨🏿‍💻

https://t.co/hfxSlgsmtR

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We loved co-creating noisy electronic drawings which sprawled across the floor of St Anne’s House earlier this year with #PRRRRRT! as part of our #FeelingMachinesWeekender!

📸 Ibi Feher

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Looking back on how @tapia experimented with hybrid methods to access oracular knowledge at our #FeelingMachinesWeekender 🔮🤖 blending digital ‘oracle bot’ @digitaldreamx plus physical cards of the Marseille Tarot…

📸 Ibi Feher

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Last year, a hybrid workshop at @knowlewestmedia with @unstablematters explored how personal stories can become data (or not). This research led to an artwork exhibited at our #FeelingMachinesWeekender in Spring 2023, co-commissioned with @Bristol_BathRD 🤖✨

📸 Ibi Feher

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#HarrietHorobinWorley’s residency with Container Magazine and Control Shift last year explored personal offerings on local web servers through simple acts of tending a courtyard garden.🌷🧑🏾‍🌾 #FeelingMachinesWeekender

Occasionally live here: https://t.co/vtEyauiJ6L

📸 Ibi Feher

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We’re so excited to share that since then, Dzata won the 2023 @lumenprize Global Majority Award AND received an honorary mention for @ArsElectronica 2023! 🎉 🥳 We're not surprised ;)

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Enjoyed 'Dzata' screening at @arnolfiniarts during our #FeelingMachinesWeekender! @RusselHlongwane, @lodeffilms, @FrancoisKnoetze + #AmyLouiseWilson blend documentary/poetry to imagine vernacular tech across Africa...

Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/qYoM1EHwC7

📸 Ibi Feher

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We loved @maxdovey’s Rare Earth Walks during our #FeelingMachinesWeekender earlier this year! Together we tuned into subsoil frequencies, unearthed rare treasures and turned our found metals into precious energy. ⚡🪨

📸 Ibi Feher