~hotwire~ presents
T(h)inkering unSymposium
18th June 2016 | 10.00am - 7.30pm
This event explores the theme of t(h)inkering—a practice that brings together tinkering and thinking—in the contexts of living coding, hardware hacking, the maker movement, media archaeology and design.
How can working with, making, reflecting on, subverting and performing with tools and materials inspire new perspectives and approaches to knowledge? Thinkering raises issues around doing-it- yourself (DIY) versus doing-it- with-others (DIWO); ecology and obsolescence; and the tensions between signs and signals; aesthetics and tools, ontology and epistemology.
If thinkering suggests new ways of approaching knowledge, practice-based research, art and aesthetics, it also upend assumptions about academia as a gate-keeper of knowledge, pointing to the proliferation of maker/hacker labs, workshops and vernacular engagement with tools and materials. What can thinkering tell us about the world?
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~hotwire~ and Artistic Research with Plymouth University
The event will be held at:
Ocean Studios, The Factory Cooperage, Royal William Yard, Plymouth. PL1 3RP.