RA Schools Public Programme: Spring Symposium
'Until Recently I Only Had a Voice'
Special events
● Fully booked
Monday 30 March 2015
11am — 5pm
RA Schools Public Programme: Spring Symposium
Organised by artists Adham Faramawy and Cécile B. Evans, this day critically examined embodiment, outsourcing, and emotional labour in relation to new technologies: the interfaces we live with and through today.
Our Spring Symposium, Until Recently I Only Had A Voice, included author readings, audience-led discussion and panel critique, plus the launch of Adham Faramawy’s app, ‘Hi! I’m happy you’re here!’ Download now.
Speakers
Lisa Blackman
Alan Blackwell
Sophia Al Maria
Cally Spooner
Yuri Pattison
Maja Pantic
Shumon Basar
Luke Robert Mason
Dora Budor
Ben Vickers
Avi Roy
Philip English
Nao
Paro Robot Seal
● Fully booked
● Cancelled
Monday 30 March 2015
11am — 5pm
Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1
£10. Free to all students. Booking required.
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Download our full resource pack containing full biographies on all of our speakers and links to their research, plus further reading, movies and more.
RA Schools Public Programme is supported by the David Lean Foundation and open to all.
Adham Faramawy’s piece ‘Hi! I’m happy you’re here!’ is supported by Arts Council England.
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Part one
Introduction and welcome
Adham Faramawy and Cécile B. Evans introduce the Symposium.
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Part two
Lisa Blackman
Watch a video of Lisa Blackman’s talk, ‘Mediated Perception and Distributed Bodies: Listening with and through another’s voice’.
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Part three
Alan Blackwell
Watch a video of Alan Blackwell’s talk, ‘Inside the Sexy Robot’.
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Part four
Panel talk - 'Outsourcing: Live our Lives'.
Sophia A Maria, Cally Spooner, Maja Pantic and Yuri Pattison, moderated by Shumon Basar.
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Part five
Robot Centre Presentation
Philip English of the Robot Centre presents Paro and Nao.
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Part six
Panel talk - 'Collected Bodies: Many as One'
This edited extract from the second panel discussion features an introduction by moderator Ben Vickers, and short presentations by Dora Budor and Luke Robert Mason.
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Part seven
Avi Roy
Tales of Immortality: how the stories we tell define the vision for our future