VENUS RISING PANEL: THE USES & MISUSES OF LANGUAGE IN TECHNOLOGY

VENUS RISING with SMARTlab @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London SW1 <www.ica.org.uk>
Cost: £6 general admission/£5 (ICA members). To book tickets contact the ICA Box Office at +44 (0)20 7930 3647
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross

Toys for the boys? Bling for the girls? Does it really break down that neatly when it comes to gender and technology?

Cybersalon continues its Venus Rising series of panels in collaboration with SMARTlab Centre to engage the general public in discussions with technologists, designers, artists and scientists about the feminine in technology. Venus Rising is a forum that launched at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in April. With this series of panels we pose the question, can we shift the cultural image and language of technology towards the feminine?

Join us on 6 July for a debate at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the uses and misuses of language in technology. For this event, we have invited a group of speakers to each select their favourite (sic) used/misused word in technology--discussion will follow from there.

Diane Fox Hill (Semiotician and Project Manager/PDD) will be co-chairing the event with Lizbeth Goodman (Director, SMARTlab Centre).
Confirmed for the panel:
Brian Duffy (Eurecom, France)
Zann Gill (NASA)
Johnny Golding (Greenwich Digital Media)
Niki Gomez (RichMix)
Mukul (AmbientTV)
Eva Pascoe (Cybersalon/Wearables Group)
Katie Salen (Parsons-NY)

Sponsored by Cybersalon, Recollective, SMARTlab Centre, Surrey Institute of Art & Design

To get a report of of the Venus Rising launch at the Science Museum's Dana Centre this past April and for information on upcoming panels, please go to: <www.venusrising.org.uk>.