A programme of events, curated by Rachel O’Dwyer (pictured) to complement the exhibition Quantified Self is currently showing at the LAB Gallery, Dublin City Council Arts Office.

The exhibition, which continues until 8 December, features new work by artists Michelle Browne, Cliona Harmey, Saoirse Higgins and Bea McMahon in collaboration with Shimmer Research, developers of wearable sensors with applications to kinematic and biometric data.

2 November
Historical failures, science fictions and technological futures: 6.30pm—8.30pm.
An evening of artists’ film screenings followed by conversations with Quantified Self artist Cliona Harmey and artist Jennifer Brady in relation to innovation, featuring Technology Autonomous – a film shot in the Dublin Institute of Technology’s optics research laboratory featuring an electronic score by Andrew Fogarty.

9 November
Drawdio Workshop: 2.30pm—4pm.
A workshop that allows participants to make a musical instrument through drawing patterns using an ordinary pencil making use of an Arduino (an open source microcontroller) and a graphite pen to generate various electrical modulations converted into musical tones by an Arduino board. This workshop is open to anyone with no electronic or programming background.

16 November
Body Rhythm Workshop: 6pm—8pm.
This workshop will allow participants to use biometric data to control their computer. The material covered will teach participants the basics of biometric sensing and actuating systems through the use of Pure Data audio processing software and Arduino (a popular Open Source microcontroller). Again, the workshop is open to anyone with no electronic or programming background.

23 November
‘Goite (come here)’: 7.30pm.
Networked performance of music and dance with Maria Coleman and Emma Meehan - Using the Body Response System developed by Coleman, this piece will see Emma Meehan improvising with the system, where her physical movements trigger audio and visual responses.

30 November
Making things public: 7pm—8.45pm.
A panel discussion that will explore some of the issues emerging around a society increasingly contingent on the economy, governance and politics of information. The discussion will address the ethico-political implications of pervasive computing, engaging issues such as digital policy, dataveillance, internet censorship and copyright. Panel members include former Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan, Professor Rob Kitchin from NUIM, artist Bea McMahon and Dr Aphra Kerr from the Department of Sociology in NUIM. The session will be chaired by Dr Michael John Gorman, director of the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.

All events are free but places must be prebooked by emailing: artsoffice [at] dublincity.ie.

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