We are All Transistors

[size=25]EXPO 2010 - We are All Transistors
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The Graduate Showcase for the MA Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice course at Goldsmiths, University of London.

http://www.wearealltransistors.org.uk

Closing Party Thursday 15 July 6-9pm


Opening Hours:
Tue 13 July 3-8 pm
Wed 14 July 3-8 pm
Thu 15 July 12-9 pm

We are all transistors. We amplify. We resist. We always operate in a space, whether social, political or Hertzian. We navigate through these spaces, sometimes crashing into oblivion. We are switches that direct the current.

Through our ability to switch, we exercise our power to create turbulence in media systems. We collect and emit signals, messages and relays, make noise. We feel this matters because we live in a control society.

We are materialists. We are things that make possible the objects used everyday, such as electronic computers, radios and mobile phones. Stockhausen who famously coined the phrase ‘we are all transistors’ limited ‘all’ to human beings. We want to include the machines we interact with. We number in billions.

Our work intersects with various disciplines, from design to anthropology and from geography to science. We wish to bring such varied disciplines together by focusing on process.

For this exposition, we attempt to turn traditional research methodologies on their head. We investigate diverse areas like poetics of computing, event narratives in the real and virtual city, teleutopias, bodies in motion, enabling displaced groups with mobile technology, visuospatial impairments, cultural confusions and crashing bogus colleges into Goldsmiths.

And since we are all transistors, we contest the two terms, interactive and media by placing our energy, our potential, to the task.

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