Plokta Lectures & Film: The Hidden Life Of Technology
This event is part of Press Lots of Keys to Abort Festival. ๐ฃ๐น๐ผ๐ธ๐๐ฎ is a new film festival that unravels ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ โ www.plokta.nl
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Dig deeper into Ploktaโs theme with this special program of exclusive lectures, performances and screenings. Getting to the heart of the festival, artists and researchers present and perform works considering different aspects of the Hidden Life of Technology.
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ (GB)
Explore the fictional island of King Kong in this live video essay by Graham Kelly. Since the original 1933 classic, numerous interpretations of the iconic ape have reflected the contexts of their eras and audiences. Plokta premieres the latest part of this ongoing series of performances and video works, examining the ideological and financial stories hidden in these seminal chapters of cinema.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ท๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป (NL)
Donna Verheijdenโs kaleidoscopic video essay, โEye Trick the Iโ explores the (un)reality of representation from art history to social media. She finds an eerie humour in how we construct ourselves through visual and digital culture. The result is a visual onslaught of data and images, where questions about public/private life are raised and then left unanswered in the endless scroll. Followed by a unique performance by the artist, created interactively with the Plokta audience.
๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ (US)
Mathew Kneebone explores the history of electrical innovation and the cultural mechanisms that we adopt to cope with its change. Opening the Saturday program, he considers how visible technologies have become invisible throughout history. The talk correlates technical complexity, malfunction and user anxieties with mythology, superstition and science fiction.