Hello NBers I hope you and yours are all safe and well.
Two months have passed since we played the Transcultural Data Pact LARP online. I've posted a little information about it below. A number of list members participated and gave inspiring performances which frankly, blew our minds and made me realise what potential this format holds for critical play, learning and creating new worlds together. This feels particularly valuable right now. I'm happy to share with you a parafictional video about the pact, by Pete Gomes <https://vimeo.com/470585528>. We had an embarrassment of riches to work with in the edit and found it agonising to have to leave so much out. Annie asked me in an email about what exactly this is - art or what?! I'm currently calling it Live Art Action Research Role Play = LAARRP! It sits across all kinds of things. Would love your thoughts <3 Ruth ======== Transcultural Data Pact is a game of serious make-believe, in which role-play is used to explore how personal and collective data practices and devices might shape the attitudes and fortunes of a society. In this scenario, an historic trade negotiation is underway between two nations with shared ancestry and clashing beliefs. Transcultural Data Pact was created as part of Qualified Selves, a research project funded by UKRI/EPSRC between the Universities of Edinburgh and Lancaster. Exploring how individuals make sense of personal data management. It was created by Ruth Catlow, DECAL@Furtherfield in collaboration with Kate Genevieve, chroma.space, Prof. Chris Speed, Dr Kruakae Pothong, Billy Dixon and Dr Evan Morgan from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Film by Pete Gomes. Music by Matt Catlow. -- Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab +44 (0) 77370 02879 *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender balanced. **sending thanks <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> in advance *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies research hub for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. decal.is <http://www.decal.is> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9ET.
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