Torque

07/07/2022

📕📢*RADICAL FRIENDS – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts* ed. Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty


Launch 🚀 Blockchain Lab Serpentine Galleries
14th July 7-9pm.
feat. readings presented by editors followed by contributors including Sam Spike, Kei Kreutler, Calum Bowden and Jaya Klara Brekke , and a live Q+A with the audience.
BOOK NOW https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/blockchain-lab-radical-friends-book-launch/

PREORDER and book info: http://torquetorque.net/publications/radical-friends/

01/07/2022

✨Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century ✨
📚*Published Today!* 🤖
Edited by Marc Garrett, of Furtherfield, London
Yiannis Colakides of NeMe, Cyprus
🙏 🎉
20+ amazing contributors 👏✨

Alexia Achilleos, Zach Blas, Frances A. Chiu, Ami Clarke, Regine Debatty, Mary Flanagan, Carla Gannis, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Srecko Horvat, Salvatore Iaconesi, Olga Kopenkina, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Shulea Cheang, Gretta Louw, Joana Moll, Laura Netz, Eryk Salvaggio, Devon Schiller, Guido Segni, Gregory Sholette, Karolina Sobecka, Alan Sondheim, Michael Szpakowski, Eugenio Tisselli, Paul Vanouse, Ruben Verwaal

Frankenstein Reanimated presents a dynamic collection of artworks, essays, and conversations, addressing surveillance, biohacking, viruses, colonialism, digital culture, and more. It retraces and contextualises three international art exhibitions, at Furtherfield (UK), NeMe (Cyrpus) and LABoral (Spain), exploring themes within Frankenstein, and speculates on what Mary Shelley would think about the world today. Collectively, the book offers a lens through which to look at our current situation, and how art practices shape, and are shaped by, contemporary society.

“This collection shines a light on artists as critically engaged citizens providing a kaleidoscopic view on our unevenly distributed future. These are the Frankensteins we need!” — Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts

“Frankenstein Reanimated is an important record of some incredible artists working today, who both dismantle and rebuild our contemporary technological systems, profoundly reimagining everything from facial recognition to AI, 3D printing to virtual gaming environments.” — Sarah Cook, University of Glasgow

Links to buy & free pdf of intro: http://torquetorque.net/publications/frankenstein-reanimated/

23/06/2022

*Open Call* for our new edited edition, "BiblioTech" on Post-Digital Libraries. Following our ERL Liverpool and
shows of the same name.

Abstracts/proposals due July 30th, final papers, or hybrid submissions for Sept 30th. Info here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSEVdf6WAeSBnypfqZ5rkJvJWuDtuwvbF_CMEDZmZrk/edit?usp=sharing…

>Email 100-300 word abstract or proposal to [email protected] with a brief CV or bio.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
BiblioTech: Books and Libraries in the Post-Digital Age
BiblioTech explores the changing role of the library, reading, writing, and publishing in a post-digital age. The title suggests the latin term for library, ‘bibliotheca’, and also alludes to how the library and book culture has become increasingly technologised.
Across two exhibitions and symposia events in Spring 2022 with Exhibition Research Lab in Liverpool and NeMe gallery in Cyprus, Torque Editions explored these issues with a range of international artists and thinkers.

By transforming these galleries into a library-like setting of diverse publishing, note-taking, writing and learning practices, as reinvented by contemporary artists, BiblioTech events sought to playfully push against audience expectations for gallery and library alike. Through the works in the exhibitions, we also showed how libraries have become hybridised with other environments: from museums and schools, to bedrooms, computer-networks, labs and forests, opening up new conceptual space for the future of books; of how and where they are written and read.

Following on from our para-academic art books on Language Mind and Technology (2014), The Act of Reading (2015), and Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain, we are now compiling an edition on BiblioTech themes..

Along with work from the contributors to symposia and exhibitions, we invite contributions on the following:
What is the library-as-institution in the context of advanced AI language tools, new forms of text and image processing, and the increasing spread of publishing technology into our lives?
How might the library evolve within the next phases of digitisation entangled with issues of climate change, mental health, social justice, and automation?
And how will print culture respond to these changes too?

We expect the book to includes combination of essays, artist pages, and hybrid image-text works relating the library to ways of knowledge formation; the situation for publishing, reading and writing in the context of new technologies; and the library as a hybrid public space for learning, community and counter-cultural action.

Abstracts/proposals due July 30th. Full submissions Sept 30th 2022.


The book, edited by Torque directors Sam Skinner and Nathan Jones will be published under a creative commons licence. It will be available as print edition distributed in Europe by Motto, and in the UK by Turnaround, and on our website as a free PDF edition. Torquetorque.net

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BiblioTech: Books and Libraries in the Post-Digital Age BiblioTech explores the changing role of the library, reading, writing, and publishing in a post-digital age. The title suggests the latin term for library, ‘bibliotheca’, and also alludes to how the library and book ...

03/05/2022

Couple install shots for our BiblioTech "exhibition in the form of a library", which opened on Thursday. This week we're open at Exhibition Research Lab 11am-4pm Mon-Fri.
We also have a fantastic Bibliotech Symposium on Thursday 3pm-6.30pm, at the exhibition. Join us, for book-technology themed presentations from Johanna Drucker, Gary Hall & Mel Jordan, Esther Leslie and Edgar Schmitz, and Joana Chichau.
💽📲🏫📒📕🗂

21/04/2022

We are opening two shows called BIBLIOTECH next week, in NeMe Limassol, Cyprus, and in Liverpool's Exhibition Research Lab (at LJMU art school). Both have talks programmes, and will result in a new book about the post-digital future of libraries, collecting, books, reading and writing.

Featured artists in the exhibitions: Animate Assembly (w/ Caroline Sebilleau & Antonio Roberts), Anna Barham, Jonathan Basile, Joe Devlin, David Gauthier, Sumuyya Khader, INTER–MISSION & formAxioms, Rosa Menkman, Katie Paterson, Post-Digital Publishing Archive (Silvio Lorusso), Tom Schofield, Erica Scourti, Mark Simmonds and Jenna Sutela.

Here's the information
NeMe, Cyprus:
opens 29th April
https://www.facebook.com/events/418480086705930/420567449830527?ref=newsfeed

ERL, Liverpool
opens 28th April
https://www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk/exhibitions/bibliotech/