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SPAM New Media Festival 2024: a space for critical exploration of digital art + culture


Taking place this September 27-29, at the historic 1907 Georgetown Steam Plant, this free, inclusive experimental arts festival will showcase work from over 36 local, national, and international artists pushing the boundaries of new media art. The 2024 programming highlights cutting-edge explorations in video game technologies, animatronics, radio interventions, e-textiles, audio-visual installations, and digitally mediated sculptural works. SPAM New Media Festival invites visitors to explore the multiple levels, hidden rooms, and corners of the Steam Plant, and discover a vast array of creative expressions, critically engaged, experimental, and research focused new media work. In addition to this year’s program of installations and performances, Fantastic Ingenuity, in partnership with SPAM New Media Festival, will engage with the multifaceted conversation of Afrofuturism, through a rich blend of digital arts, textiles, fashion, visual art, performance, and storytelling. Festival projects include: * Brainwave-powered VR: Rose Ansari's technology that lets users “think out loud.” * Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive: ephemeral:data’s Chinese cyberfeminist anthem derived from censored archives. * Collaborative Extended Reality Performance brings to life an ambisonics archive realized in uniquely acoustical spaces in Washington State. * Ghost Sensors: Brandon Dalmer uses electromagnetic sensors to detect unusual phenomena produced by entities residing within the Georgetown Steam Plant. * Inflatable vejigante mask: Jo Cosme transforms this folkloric Puerto Rican colonial-era symbol of resistance into an inflatable object to highlight the power dynamics of cultural appropriation * Machine Learning Encounters: Lauren Sarah Hayes' interactive musical improvisations. (Photo Credit:Tobias Feltus) * Listening Space: Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Briot use NOAA weather satellite data as a raw material for poetic exploration and citizen science. Exhibition Hours: Friday & Saturday: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM Sunday: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Performances: Friday from 7:00-9:00PM Saturday from 6:00-9:00PM (Exhibition only on Sunday) Performance Schedule: Friday September 27th, 7pm-9pm: Alemseged Bishu Zeynep Özcan Michael Bruner & Jeff Morris Maria Thrän Saturday September 28th, 6pm-9pm: BLUES.WEAVE the INVENTOR Michal Seta & Dirk Johan Stromberg Lauren Sarah Hayes St Celfer Laura Luna Castillo & Ewa Trebacz & Daniel Peterson & Josiah Boothby & Leanna Keith & Ashley Menestrina Free With RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spam-new-media-festival-tickets-1005673555677?aff=SeattleTimes All Ages Visit spamnewmediafestival.com for full details about this year’s artists, installations, and performances.

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