Cybersyn Fictions: Collected Performative Works
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2630
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Critical Media Lab Basel, Switzerland
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
- December
- Year of first performance
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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D - Design
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Cybersyn Fictions comprises stage and radio plays, designed systems of narratives and characters, and also scripts and scenographic elements based on ongoing research into contemporary reflections of the socialist implementation of technology in Allende’s Chile. The productions are based on long term engagement with the history of Project Cybersyn (Chile, 1971-73), field trips and relationships with The Stafford Beer Archive at Liverpool John Moore University. The researcher has engaged traditional forms of situated research combined with collaborations with a variety of creative and computational partners including; Critical Media Lab, Kevin Rittberger, Theatre Basel, Raul Espejo, Sitraka Rakotoninia, Central Library Liverpool and Kings College London._x000D_
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The research is engaged with the design of fictions that aggregate political ideas and notions of technological optimism. Focus is also on past-futures, visions of utopian systems that represent emancipatory change and past, present and future notions of redesigning socio-political and technological relationships. More recently, a practical engagement with Artificial intelligence has enriched both the research and process of performative cybernetics. Mortimer’s method is to design characters and scenarios with scripts written to embody the historic confluence of technology and politics. It includes the production of sets, props and digital material for the exhibitions and theatrical productions. There is a focus on experimental technology and performance, as a way to describe and persuade critical and speculative themes surrounding media, technology and politics._x000D_
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The project has been disseminated through commissions, exhibitions, performances and talks. These include; The School of Machines Berlin, Goldsmiths University of London, Liverpool John Moores University Special Archives, The London Design Festival, 199 radio, Subtext Radio, VVFA, ZKU Berlin, Cabaret Voltaire & ZHK Zurich, NOW Festival Margate, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Basel, Montez Press Radio NYC, and The Neon Hospice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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