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Guest DJs TTB from NTS & Late Junction’s Alannah Chance
Friday 30 September 2016 6.30pm – 12 midnight

Opening late for Deptford X we’ll have the Kathy Rae Huffman Archive Reading Room open for visitors from 6.30pm and from 8pm guest DJs playing electronic and dreamlike offerings at the donation-based Enclave Machine Party bar. 

CYBER INTIMACY:  A reading and watching group presented by Beth Bramich and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau of The Bad Vibes Club, Friday 16 September 2016, 7 – 9.30 pm Join Beth Bramich and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau of The Bad Vibes Club in the Kathy Rae Huffman Archive Reading Room at Res. to read Huffman’s CYBER INTIMACY: From Net Nookie to Coffee Talk (1995) alongside a screening of excerpts of moving image works from Huffman’s programme of the same name. CYBER INTIMACY: From Net Nookie to Coffee Talk (1995) reflected on existing and potential modes of intimacy, sensuality and sex in the […]

Cybernetic Mystics – reading group
Tuesday 23 August 2016 7-9pm

Drawing on thematics from the Kathy Rae Huffman archive, the Cybernetic Mystics reading group begins an open exploration of the unorthodox spirituality of ‘cyberculture’ and some of its associated ideas – technomancy, the technoccult and techgnosis.

The selected readings are intended as an introduction to this broad field for us to explore together.

29 July, 6-8pm

The Legacies of Cyberfeminism reading group facilitates a dialogue based on a selection of books and articles found in the Kathy Rae Huffman Archive. Established by Goldsmiths PhD candidates Mihaela Brebenel and Dimitra Gkitsa the reading group have selected materials that consider modes and forms of imagining futures and of engaging with fictions. The aim is to address how these writings from the late 1990s and mid-2000s and their legacies can be set in conversation with contemporary exaltations and exhaustions of discourses on feminism, artistic practices, and activism. 

For this last reading group, we will focus on the collaborations of subRosa collective 

12 July 2016 6.30 – 9.30pm

This summer a selection of archive materials from curator Kathy Rae Huffman’s collection of rare books and catalogues held at Goldsmiths Library will be coming to Res. This screening includes work commissioned and curated by Kathy Rae Huffman with a focus upon the ritualised unfolding of the body in the ‘Bio Tech Century’.

30 June, 6-8pm

For this session short texts and catalogues (some of which are rare prints and limited copies in circulation) are brought together by concerns with how to build and sustain (cyber)feminist collaborations and networks, and how to use these to interrogate forms of artistic, domestic or other types of labour.

1 July 2016, 6pm till late
7pm –  Discussion with founding editor Renee Carmichael
9.30pm  DJ Set by Spacer Woman (Chooc Ly Tan)

For issue 02 Dance and Code, the browser is the stage, the design the dance floor, the music the rhythms between the codes; browsers, designs, bodies and movements. Constraints are in place, but each dance may be a bit different;  each browser, like a stage, allows for certain possibilities and errors. The issue is accessed through the temporality of performing and improvising it.

Preview 28 June 2016 6 – 9pm
Open by appointment 29 June – 1 October 2016

This summer a selection of archive materials from curator Kathy Rae Huffman’s collection of rare books and catalogues held at Goldsmiths Library will be coming to Res. Huffman’s career spans the 1970s to present day, supporting artists to test the expressive qualities and materiality of technology including experimental video art, new media art, net.art, and cyberfeminism. In the late ‘70s she established Long Beach Museum of Art, CA USA, as a regional media art centre, working with early broadcasting technology and later produced platforms dedicated to women online, including ‘Face Settings’ an all female mailing list of media specialists of more than 100 women from twenty countries that resulted in a series of collective cooking meetings.