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PHILIP Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Heman Chong and Leif Magne Tangen Project Art Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2. Workshop: November 2nd to 9th 2006 (invite only) Exhibition: Opening Night November 10th at 6pm. Exhibition runs to January 13th 2007 Public Talks: November 7th and 9th November at 4pm in association with Critical Voices 3 Book Launch: January 13th at 6pm. "The disintegration of the social and economic system had been slow, gradual, and profound. It went so deep that people lost faith in natural law itself. Nothing seemed stable or fixed; the universe was a sliding flux (?) all that remained was probable sequence: good odds in a universe of random chance." - Solar Lottery, 1955. Inspired by the worlds of Philip K. Dick, our project brings together a group of international artists, designers, critics and curators whose common language in this instance is their fascination for alternative realities, postulating the impossible and creating new worldviews. Technology, ideology, architecture, political construction and the prospects of global ruin are at the heart of sci-fi narratives and at the heart of Philip. Philip is a science fiction writing workshop led by Heman Chong (SG) and Leif Magne Tangen (NO) developed out of their online project "Untitled (Excerpts #01)", a collection of 103 submissions of dialogues taken from sci-fi writings expressing an authoritarian gesture available at www.philipville.com. The workshop participants - Mark Aerial Waller (UK), Cosmin Costinas (RO), Rosemary Heather (CA/ DE), Francis Mckee (IR), David Reinfurt (USA) and Steve Rushton (UK/ NL) - will try to collectively write a new novel envisioning the last week of the year 2019 in the life of a character that is desperately fighting for time to save his world. Philip is a series of public talks (organized in cooperation with Critical Voices 3) by the workshop participants on "being wrong about the present", mushrooms and virtual reality, a science fiction library, Benjamin Franklin and the Network Effect, the emergence of a new society of humans as the result of animal experiments, the recurring dream of the destruction of our cities, and other phenomena. November 7th at 4.00pm Cosmin Costinas will make a general travel through the recent and not so recent history of the need for "other time" based fictions in the political culture and will end up in some study cases that will contradict his previous assumptions. David Reinfurt will present some recent graphic design work with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Along the way, he will provide a cursory introduction to the MIT Science Fiction Library, share ?A Brief Account of the Library? by Benjamin Franklin and include some ideas about archives, economies of scale and the Network Effect. Steve Rushton?s talk entitled ?Behave Yourself: Reenactment and Early News Footage,? will discuss the use of re-enactment in the early news reels, and how the technology of the cinema helps us know not only how to act but also how to feel. November 9th in Association with Critical Voices 3 at 4.00pm Mark Aerial Waller will show his film 'Reversion of the Beast Folk,? a perversion of H.G. Wells novel 'The Island of Dr Moreau', a story of the emergence of a new society of human from the results of animal experiments. Aerial Waller will discuss the film?s relationship to the visionary films of Maya Derren and her study of the voudoun ritual, and the transference from cinema screen to the social position of the viewer. Rosemary Heather takes Stanislaw Lem?s novel Solaris (1961) as a stepping off point for her lecture on the unknowable nature of reality. Her interest is in the idea of being ?wrong about the present,? and how the morass of phenomena and circumstances of contemporary experience provide few clues as to how the future will understand our present reality. Francis McKee will give a short illustrated lecture entitled ?On Mushroom and Machines? investigating mushrooms and virtual reality, along the way looking at various aspects of his own practice. Philip is an exhibition consisting of an ongoing programme of shorts by Dara Birnbaum, Juha van Ingen, Tina Keane, George Melies, Jasper Morello, Otolith Group and Semiconductor and screenings of Samuel Beckett?s ?Film? every Saturday at 3.00pm. November 10th: You are invited to come to opening at 6.00pm introduced by Heman Chong and Leif Magne Tangen Philip is a new limited edition novel, produced at the Just-in-Time workshop by Dexter-Sinister, New York and is being launched at the conclusion of the project. Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Tel: 353 1 881 9613/14 www.project.ie ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/