Democratising Tools of Production in the Digital Age
with Samual Turner

This workshop will go through a range of tools, programs, and methodologies with the aim of making digital production more affordable, accessible, and democratic in our contemporary age of technological and financial inequality. Visitors are invited to contribute if they would like. Core topics covered will be 3D modelling design, photogrammetry, audio and video editing, graphic design approaches, virtual and augmented reality, presentation methods, tools for collaborative digital communication, etc and not entirely legal methods of obtaining software and materials.

Artistic Process Building Non-places in Blender
with Alexander MacKinnon

Liminal space imagery often gives a sense of haunting nostalgia to locations similar to what anthropologist Marc Augé calls ‘Non-places’. In this session Alexander will be streaming part of their artistic process building virtual liminal spaces and non-places in the Blender 3D software.

Guest Respondents Event(s)
with Kris Hillquist

Guest Respondent Event(s)
with George Kuhn

Guest Respondent Event(s)
with Samuel Turner

Guest Respondent Event(s)
with Chris Speed

Guest Respondent Event(s) Forum

The Paraspaces residency will culminate its public program with a series of discussions covering constructed realities. Paraspaces is interested in investigating the patchwork of spaces marked off in radical ways; by the inhabitants’ engagement with their environments, by digital architectures or the codes of conduct that delimit participation in a space.

Guest Respondent Event(s)
with Yajuan Han

Photogrammetry Workshop – Approaches to Digitising the Real World
with Samuel A. Turner

Photogrammetry is the method of turning images of something in the real world into a digital 3D model. This workshop focuses on how to use various photogrammetry programs (ranging from free to cheap or affordable), how to develop the models into workable spaces/platforms, and ways to use them conceptually or in creative processes.

Sound Blessings I – Live Tour of Discovery Site: Middlesex Filter Beds
with Pietro Bardini

In several of London’s nature reserves, below layers of dirt, stones have been found engraved with unidentified marks. This guided tour will take you to the Middlesex Filter Beds discovery site. This is part of ongoing research sponsored by the Lambent Institute.

Sound Blessings II – Live Tour of Discovery Site: Epping Forest
with Pietro Bardini

In several of London’s nature reserves, below layers of dirt, stones have been found engraved with unidentified marks. This guided tour will take you to the Middlesex Filter Beds discovery site. This is part of ongoing research sponsored by the Lambent Institute.

Talks From My Kitchen
with Kris Cirkuit

A short series of short talks from Kris’ kitchen in which they explore and discuss their artistic process. A chilled out, not overly academic reflection on their work.

Parasites and Space – Drop-in Chat
with George Kuhn

An informal run-down on the meaning of parasite and the relationships between parasites and space. These topics will be tackled by a free discussion of parasite stories; mice feasting on leftovers, mitochondria sheltering in host cells and swarms of internet users and forum mods.