https://betafestival.ie Beta Festival Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:51:35 +0000 https://betafestival.ie en https://betafestival.ie/Home Wed, 14 Jun 2023 19:37:07 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Home Festival About Us News ︎︎︎ A festival of art and technology&nbsp;6-22 November 2026Dublin, Ireland https://betafestival.ie/Festival Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:29:48 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Festival Festival &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; For the 2025 Festival Programme visit:www.2025.betafestival.ie For the 2024 Programme visit: www.2024.betafestival.ie Beta is a new festival of art and technology critically engaging with the impact of emerging technologies on society. Taking Ireland’s role as a central node in today's wired world as a starting point, Beta will showcase and celebrate Ireland’s research and artistic communities through a combination of creativity, debate and experimentation. Beta allows members of the public to engage playfully and critically with new technologies essentially beta testing ethical issues facing society. WHEN? The festival runs 6th - 22nd November 2026. It always overlaps with Science Week and Irish Design Week. WHERE? The Digital Hub have made a five-year commitment to the festival (2023 - 2028) and in 2026 the festival will take place in The Digital Hub, Pallas Studios, Project Arts Centre, IMMA and Alliance Francais. WHY BETA? We came up with Beta as a title for the festival as it is immediately linked to technology, it is experimental in nature and it allows us the opportunity to beta test the ethical implications of these technologies on society with the general public.&nbsp; WHY NOW? The festival is currently the only festival of its kind in Ireland for art and technology bringing together artists, researchers, and industry with a focus on ethics and public engagement. The recently published National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and National Digital Strategy highlight Ireland’s longstanding commitment to being a leader in innovation and research in digital technologies, platforms and infrastructures - a commitment that has seen so many international tech companies establish themselves within the country over the past two decades. With government plans to position Ireland as a leader in artificial intelligence and immersive technologies it has never been more important to engage the general public with the skills and literacy required to use new technologies, while critically situating them within wider societal contexts relevant to our contemporary networked world. The Arts Council plans to publish their Digital Art Policy this year and this has also highlighted the need for more opportunities for communities interested in art and technology to come together. IDENTITY &amp; DIGITAL COMMISSION The artist Leon Butler was commissioned to imagine what the identity of a festival of art and technology could be and he created an artistic response utilising machine learning to generate a new font - he corrupted the data set with unusual fonts to lean into the more uncanny and imperfections of the type. The final logo almost looks hand drawn or screen printed with beautifully imperfect edges - this juxtaposition of cutting-edge technology and human creativity is exactly what we want to showcase and explore with the festival. The homepage of the website features a new commission from the artist and designer Farouk Alao. He is a&nbsp; artist specialising in 3D motion and web design, driven by the possibilities these mediums offer for immersive and interactive experiences. He drew inspiration from nature, his world, and human emotions, his vision explores the intersection of reality and imagination. The artists core concept behind the site and motion piece is positioning Beta Festival which is represented by the Beta Cube as a centre point in which art, technology and creativity revolve. He developed the Beta Cube in response to Leon Butler's Beta logo design. https://betafestival.ie/About-Us Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:05:05 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/About-Us About us&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Beta is a new festival of art and technology critically engaging with the impact of emerging technologies on society. Taking Ireland’s role as a central node in today's wired world as a starting point, Beta will showcase and celebrate Ireland’s research and artistic communities through a combination of creativity, debate and experimentation. Beta allows members of the public to engage playfully and critically with new technologies essentially beta testing ethical issues facing society. WHEN? The festival runs 7th - 23rd November 2025. It always overlaps with Science Week and Irish Design Week. WHERE? The Digital Hub have made a five-year commitment to the festival (2023 - 2028) and in 2025 the festival will take place in The Digital Hub, Dublin Port, Pallas Studios, Project Arts Centre, IMMA and Alliance Francais. WHY BETA? We came up with Beta as a title for the festival as it is immediately linked to technology, it is experimental in nature and it allows us the opportunity to beta test the ethical implications of these technologies on society with the general public. WHY NOW? The festival is currently the only festival of its kind in Ireland for art and technology bringing together artists, researchers, and industry with a focus on ethics and public engagement. The recently published National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and National Digital Strategy highlight Ireland’s longstanding commitment to being a leader in innovation and research in digital technologies, platforms and infrastructures - a commitment that has seen so many international tech companies establish themselves within the country over the past two decades. With government plans to position Ireland as a leader in artificial intelligence and immersive technologies it has never been more important to engage the general public with the skills and literacy required to use new technologies, while critically situating them within wider societal contexts relevant to our contemporary networked world. The Arts Council plans to publish their Digital Art Policy this year and this has also highlighted the need for more opportunities for communities interested in art and technology to come together. IDENTITY &amp; DIGITAL COMMISSION The artist Leon Butler was commissioned to imagine what the identity of a festival of art and technology could be and he created an artistic response utilising machine learning to generate a new font - he corrupted the data set with unusual fonts to lean into the more uncanny and imperfections of the type. The final logo almost looks hand drawn or screen printed with beautifully imperfect edges - this juxtaposition of cutting-edge technology and human creativity is exactly what we want to showcase and explore with the festival. The homepage of the website features a new commission from the artist and designer Farouk Alao. He is a&nbsp; artist specialising in 3D motion and web design, driven by the possibilities these mediums offer for immersive and interactive experiences. He drew inspiration from nature, his world, and human emotions, his vision explores the intersection of reality and imagination. The artists core concept behind the site and motion piece is positioning Beta Festival which is represented by the Beta Cube as a centre point in which art, technology and creativity revolve. He developed the Beta Cube in response to Leon Butler's Beta logo design. Beta festival is co-founded by The Digital Hub and Aisling Murray and funded by The Digital Hub and Science Week. The Digital Hub is managed by the Digital Hub Development Agency, a state agency set up by the Irish government in 2003 to run The Digital Hub and implement its enterprise and campus development strategy. It also facilitates and contributes to urban regeneration in the Liberties area and pilots projects that are vital to the ongoing development of the digital sector in Ireland. The Digital Hub campus is home to companies, organisations and individuals at the forefront of technology, digital media and the creative industries in Ireland. For the last twenty years The Digital Hub has delivered imaginative programmes that span a variety of areas, from developing 21st century skills in young people and empowering females to develop their own businesses, to demonstrating the potential of digital innovations to transform the health and wellbeing of citizens. The Digital Hub’s arts and culture programmes provide an intersection between innovation, art and technology to the benefit of enterprises at The Digital Hub and the residents of the Liberties community. The festival is incubated by and supported by The Digital Hub. www.thedigitalhub.com Beta is led by Aisling Murray (Festival Founder &amp; Director) a curator and creative producer with 15 years’ experience across exhibitions, festivals, literature, spoken word, theatre and dance. She has worked as programme manager for Body &amp; Soul and recently worked with the Goethe-Institut Irland in developing their Quantum Technology Art residency. She also curates the art and science stage Human Lab at Electric Picnic funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Prior to this she worked for Science Gallery Dublin where she produced national and international creative programmes converging art, science, technology and society. Aisling has extensive experience in public engagement and transdisciplinarity and has spoken on the subject internationally including MuseumNext (New York, 2019) on “Critical Thinking and Crucial Conversations with Audiences”, “Art &amp; Science on Display: A Critical Perspective” at Medical Museion (Copenhagen, 2022) and was the keynote at the International Federation of Finance Museums Conference (Rome, 2022) speaking on “Art and Technology: A Transdisciplinary Approach”.&nbsp; This year she was the Irish representative and one of 20 people selected internationally by Institut Français Paris and supported by the French Embassy in Ireland for the Digital Art Focus Programme in Paris that coincided with the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2023. Anne Kearns (Event Manager) is an experienced engagement officer, project manager, researcher and creative producer. Anne has a background in learning and development, evaluation, and community co-creation across the public, private and cultural sectors in Ireland and the UK. She is passionate about designing playful encounters which inspire ideas and connections.Paul O’ Neill (Research Lead) is an artist and researcher whose practice and research are concerned with the implications of our collective dependency on networked technologies and infrastructures. Paul is a postdoctoral research fellow at the ADAPT Centre for AI-driven Media Technologies at University College Dublin where he is focusing on the ethics and design of Artificial Intelligence systems. He is also a co-curator of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A). PURPOSETo empower people in the way they think about and use new technologies. To support and showcase Irish artists and researchers in art and technology. MISSION To critically engage with technology’s impact on society through creativity, debate and experimentation. VALUES Collaboration:&nbsp; Reaching outside ourselves. Always seeking partnership and new ways of doing and seeing things. Inter/Multi/Trans-disciplinary Integrity:&nbsp; Embracing openness, transparency and equity across all areas. Empowerment: To equip people with the tools to engage with and understand new technologies Curiosity:&nbsp; To be playful, generous and inquisitive in the way we engage with ideas and people. Our supportersFestival partners, supporters and funders include: Science Week, Creative Futures Academy, Ambassade de France en Irlande, Novembre Numerique, The British Council, ADAPT Research Centre and The Arts Council. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="624" height="200" width_o="624" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ccb7d201f6a5c1de898a88bbcfad8f7df53e97a6d6ca9db704cf644b2ee4427/ADAPT-logo-300x200.png" data-mid="183919206" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/624/i/5ccb7d201f6a5c1de898a88bbcfad8f7df53e97a6d6ca9db704cf644b2ee4427/ADAPT-logo-300x200.png" /> <img width="776" height="280" width_o="776" height_o="280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56d741583db87dc7a16ed3cb41cfc8803a50071fe3ef38d4b85c6409e2d3420e/ac-funding-festivals-ke-white.png" data-mid="190731964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/776/i/56d741583db87dc7a16ed3cb41cfc8803a50071fe3ef38d4b85c6409e2d3420e/ac-funding-festivals-ke-white.png" /> <img width="904" height="262" width_o="904" height_o="262" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ee82ca23292995fa2ccc4b2292256bb1a54d41f9a059e1de5069be394f5ddff/BritishCouncil_Logo_White_Screen.png" data-mid="193126069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/904/i/0ee82ca23292995fa2ccc4b2292256bb1a54d41f9a059e1de5069be394f5ddff/BritishCouncil_Logo_White_Screen.png" /> <img width="1180" height="255" width_o="1180" height_o="255" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0416ced8fba89cc9feef26c403be0cd358ea00bc640f88eec0b5f479de96529f/NCAD_Gallery_logo2015black_1.jpg" data-mid="184992519" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0416ced8fba89cc9feef26c403be0cd358ea00bc640f88eec0b5f479de96529f/NCAD_Gallery_logo2015black_1.jpg" /> <img width="3942" height="538" width_o="3942" height_o="538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78d44cadd8211bb687db0314a8e6078b46c3b416fa0c6b5def5290064bb6c7ad/CFA-Primary-Logo-Purple.png" data-mid="183919207" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78d44cadd8211bb687db0314a8e6078b46c3b416fa0c6b5def5290064bb6c7ad/CFA-Primary-Logo-Purple.png" /> <img width="2184" height="991" width_o="2184" height_o="991" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62772654d10f70f87b724424804fd5f61aa486daf28465bf6585d55797bc7ad9/TDH-Logo-2015-RGB-WebOnly.jpg" data-mid="184992502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62772654d10f70f87b724424804fd5f61aa486daf28465bf6585d55797bc7ad9/TDH-Logo-2015-RGB-WebOnly.jpg" /> <img width="646" height="400" width_o="646" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a29c01d0a2d293f666d11d0e8ffd4393b3fa2256b7e5625909d459ff3f5577af/PP-S-logo.png" data-mid="184992489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/646/i/a29c01d0a2d293f666d11d0e8ffd4393b3fa2256b7e5625909d459ff3f5577af/PP-S-logo.png" /> <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b1a5eeea8ad4a45597c9dde7a6591d5684d8d4d60fdf1a22ea5029d9685ff07/pac-logo-white.png" data-mid="184992485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/3b1a5eeea8ad4a45597c9dde7a6591d5684d8d4d60fdf1a22ea5029d9685ff07/pac-logo-white.png" /> <img width="2798" height="1126" width_o="2798" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03efdf08c2354f04a44bb9a5ea5ec7cd487ce9e5ecc0051f82752cc4999c8d53/WebProfileImages-50.png" data-mid="183919211" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03efdf08c2354f04a44bb9a5ea5ec7cd487ce9e5ecc0051f82752cc4999c8d53/WebProfileImages-50.png" /> <img width="1814" height="736" width_o="1814" height_o="736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43ff7329347f0329ca7cacc8853c97171d0bfc5ec68b2c73bf6969d6f0e3c3e4/logoAmb-Irlande.png" data-mid="183919208" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43ff7329347f0329ca7cacc8853c97171d0bfc5ec68b2c73bf6969d6f0e3c3e4/logoAmb-Irlande.png" /> <img width="4500" height="1530" width_o="4500" height_o="1530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cc3b27d87367200f751edcca975577f1e7b7677239869103c39de90eb5a93b8/KIT-COM-_logo-sans-fond---vert.png" data-mid="195039176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cc3b27d87367200f751edcca975577f1e7b7677239869103c39de90eb5a93b8/KIT-COM-_logo-sans-fond---vert.png" /> https://betafestival.ie/News Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:24:48 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/News News&nbsp;Beta Festival Launches AI Art Assembly Report II May 2026: Beta Festival has released the second edition of the AI Art Assembly Report, continuing an important conversation around the impact of artificial intelligence on artistic practice, cultural institutions, and creative labour in Ireland and beyond. Developed through Beta Festival’s Assembly initiative, the report gathers perspectives from artists, researchers, educators, policymakers, and technologists working across the cultural sector. Building on the inaugural Assembly in 2024, last year’s discussions moved beyond identifying harms towards questions of organisation, responsibility, and collective action. The report explores urgent issues including copyright and attribution, the environmental cost of AI systems, artistic precarity, transparency, consent, and the growing role of AI within cultural institutions. It also highlights opportunities for artists using AI critically, collaboratively, and experimentally — not simply as a tool of automation, but as a medium for questioning power, labour, and authorship. Contributors to the Assembly included artists, academics, and researchers from organisations including ADAPT Research Centre, Goldsmiths, Trinity College Dublin, TU Dublin, University of Galway, and AIxDesign. The Assembly was facilitated through roundtable discussions designed to bring together expertise from across art, research, policy, and technology. Importantly, the report positions artists and cultural workers as critical participants in shaping how AI develops within society. Its recommendations call for stronger support structures, dedicated arts representation in AI policy development, investment in AI literacy, and greater institutional responsibility around ethics, transparency, and artistic rights. The AI Art Assembly format remains open source and continues to evolve through collaborations nationally and internationally. Beta Festival 2025 Programme Announced Nov 2025: Ireland’s festival of art and technology, Beta Festival, returns to Dublin this November with a bold new programme exploring themes of water, fluidity, artificial intelligence, ecology, and digital culture. Running across multiple venues from November 7–23, the 2025 edition brings together Irish and international artists, researchers, technologists, and audiences for exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops, and immersive experiences. This year’s festival theme explores ideas of fluidity, systems in motion, from oceans and data streams to language, identity, and quantum states. Across the programme, artists examine how technology reshapes our relationship to the environment, memory, bodies, and each other. A major highlight of the festival is Undercurrent: As Below, So Above at Dublin Port, bringing together new works by Kat Austen, Lauren Moffatt and Siobhán McDonald developed through our European S+T+ARTS4Water programme in collaboration with the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre. Through AI, immersive environments, sound, sculpture and virtual reality, the exhibition reimagines ports and oceans as spaces of ecological entanglement, memory, and repair. Elsewhere in the programme, audiences can experience the Irish premiere of Foolish Flame by Peter Power and Leon Butler, an immersive installation merging dance, folklore, and machine learning; a landmark VR experience exploring Notre-Dame Cathedral; and a wide-ranging conference examining AI, digital ethics, creativity, and the politics of technological systems. The festival also continues its commitment to supporting emerging and experimental Irish practice through the Local Artists Network, featuring new projects from artists including Aoife Dunne, Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil and István László. And for the first time we have a partnership with IMMA’s Living Canvas showing work from DISNOVATION.ORG and Liam Young. Kat Austen’s New AI-Driven Artwork Tackles Microplastic Crisis at Galway International Arts Festival July 2025:&nbsp; Beta Festival and ADAPT Research Centre are thrilled that Kat Austen’s S+T+ARTS4WaterII project developed at Galway Port will premiere at the Galway International Arts Festival this July, addressing marine microplastic pollution and imagining regenerative futures with ethically trained AI. Not Breaking. This Wave Drowns Hate, commissioned by Beta Festival and ADAPT Research Centre and produced by Culture Works uses sculptural ‘lighthouses’, an immersive soundscape, and an AI trained on data collected with Galway’s coastal communities to generate evolving visuals on sailcloth, envisioning a more balanced relationship between humans and the ocean. As part of the project, Austen developed the Symbiophone, a prototype instrument that detects and creates sound from marine microplastics, with future plans to aid in their removal. During her residency, Austen worked with local groups including the Galway Hooker Sailing Club, the Ukrainian community, and local schools, using their visions of sustainable coastal futures to train the AI at the heart of the artwork. “Shared visions of a better future are crucial to building a sustainable world,” says Austen. “This work explores how we can work with AI to inspire the futures we want to see.” The installation will run from 14–27 July 2025 at Bailey Allen Hall, University of Galway, as part of Galway International Arts Festival, with free admission. More information: GIAF Event PageFollow Kat Austen on Instagram @katausten Beta Festival Artists to Feature at UN Ocean Conference 2025 June 2025: We are thrilled to share that two Beta Festival and ADAPT Research Centre S+T+ARTS4WATERII artists, Siobhan McDonald and Lauren Moffatt, have been selected to present their work at the upcoming UN Ocean Conference in Nice 2025. Their projects will feature in POROUS: Ports as Interspecies Dwelling, a symposium and live programme curated by TBA21–Academy at Villa Arson on 7–8 June, spotlighting critical conversations on reimagining ports as spaces of interspecies cohabitation. 🔹 Siobhan McDonald has spent the past year in residence at Dublin Port, creating Floating Body, Sea Bones and Lungs, supported by Dublin City Arts Office, Smart Dublin, and Waterways Ireland. 🔹 Lauren Moffatt has been developing Chorcorallium / Córcoral in and around Belfast Harbour, supported by DAS Belfast, SARC QUB, Queen’s University Belfast, Maritime Mile, and Belfast City Council. We are proud to see their innovative, research-led artworks contributing to shaping the future of our oceans and port cities on a global stage. A heartfelt thank you to TBA21–Academy and María Montero Sierra for facilitating and curating this opportunity. Stay tuned for updates from Nice as we continue supporting art and technology collaborations for a regenerative future. 🌊🌍 AI Art Assembly Report <img width="1150" height="648" width_o="1150" height_o="648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e606098734158ce0596794dce9c69bc9cbd69241c011e7f069e71353a826648/AI-Assembly-pic.png" data-mid="226319861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e606098734158ce0596794dce9c69bc9cbd69241c011e7f069e71353a826648/AI-Assembly-pic.png" />Feb 2023: We are very excited to today publish the AI Art Assembly Report.&nbsp; The AI Art Assembly took place during the festival conference last year and explored the impact of artificial intelligence on the arts and cultural sector and identified challenges and opportunities by bringing together artists, AI researchers, cultural leaders and policy makers. https://betafestivalaiartassemblyreport.tiiny.site Studiotopia II: Residency announcement. <img width="1170" height="1152" width_o="1170" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5970199c6b06d9933e9648942fc44d70a881a371b1c8c45139c1d24e05d285a3/IMG_8380.jpg" data-mid="226319713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5970199c6b06d9933e9648942fc44d70a881a371b1c8c45139c1d24e05d285a3/IMG_8380.jpg" />&nbsp;We are very excited to have two artists beginning residencies with us this year working with Professor Barry O’Sullivan. Hung Lu Chan and Cezar Mocan will be collaborating with Irish partners as part of the Studiotopia project. Hung Lu Chan (Michael) is a Taiwanese artist and social designer based in the Netherlands. He holds a master’s degree in Social Design from Design Academy Eindhoven and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from Taiwan. His creative practice lies at the intersection of interdisciplinary research, interactive installations, and participatory workshops. He is interested in exploring the diverse human imagination of the unknown, particularly looking into how humans imagine aliens throughout centuries from within. His multi-disciplinary work spans across art, neuroscience, spirituality, and AI neural networks. In his recent research project, he especially explores aliens as an internal phenomenon through a mix of guided meditation, multi-sensory neurofeedback, and embodiment. Aiming to foster more diverse and inclusive perceptions of the future, he positions his work as an imagination catalyst, re-exploring the unknown to challenge established norms and uncover humanity’s diverse imaginations. Ultimately, his work seeks to blur the borders between facts and fiction, science and fantasy, and others and selves. Cezar Mocan is a Lisbon-based artist and computer programmer interested in the interplay between technology and the natural landscape. Using narrative generative systems—animated videos of infinite duration, real-time simulations built in game engines or other software—he creates worlds that recontextualize aspects of digital culture we take for granted, often in absurd ways, while investigating the power structures which mediate our relationship with technology. Drawing on media archaeology and art history, his research process traces the origins of our current thought patterns around (technological) progress. Some of his past works have been exhibited at Office Impart (Berlin), Onassis ONX Studio (New York), Panke Gallery (Berlin), Yale University (New Haven), Currents New Media (Santa Fe), Inter/Access (Toronto), Romanian Design Week (Bucharest) and The Wrong Biennale. His real-time simulation work, Arcadia Inc. was recognized as a 2021 winner of the Lumen Prize in Art and Technology. Cezar holds a B.S. in Computer Science (2016) from Yale University and an M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunications (2021) from New York University, where he also served as a research resident and adjunct professor. <img width="1284" height="1080" width_o="1284" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8cc575821d80fc796ed07f1b48ecd620954cce4f1eb28f3a476234a7808ba4a/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-09.16.29.png" data-mid="217512475" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8cc575821d80fc796ed07f1b48ecd620954cce4f1eb28f3a476234a7808ba4a/Screenshot-2024-09-05-at-09.16.29.png" /> 04.09.2024: Beta Festival and The Digital Hub are thrilled to be part of the Second Edition of the STUDIOTOPIA Residency Programme.&nbsp; STUDIOTOPIA is an initiative designed to foster collaboration between the arts and sciences to promote sustainable development. This year, the programme focuses specifically on the concept of the Symbiocene, exploring the interconnectedness of life on Earth through the combined perspectives of art and science. Beta Festival and The Digital Hub will faciliate two residencies for emerging artists with an established scientist. The STUDIOTOPIA Residency Programme aims to break down barriers between disciplines by encouraging innovative cross-disciplinary approaches. This edition is open to both emerging and established talents across the arts, sciences, and academic fields. The programme is hosted by 11 specialized organizations, each facilitating unique residency opportunities with their own open calls. Open Call for Emerging Artists: We invite emerging artists to apply for one of eight research-driven residencies. This programme pairs each artist with an established scientist for a year-long collaboration, focusing on local issues related to sustainable development. This residency offers a unique chance for artists to engage deeply with scientific research and explore the role of art in addressing environmental challenges.Open Call for Young Scientists:The fellowship programme for young scientists offers a distinctive opportunity for ten early-career scientists to collaborate with ten acclaimed contemporary artists over twelve months. This fellowship is designed to facilitate a dynamic exchange of ideas, knowledge, and methodologies, addressing a global challenge identified by the artist and the local challenge committee. Through this collaboration, young scientists will have the chance to expand their research horizons and contribute to impactful, interdisciplinary dialogue. We look forward to receiving applications from those ready to push the boundaries of their disciplines and explore new ways of thinking and creating. Together, through the convergence of art and science, we can address the pressing issues of our time and contribute to a more sustainable future. Join us in this exciting journey of discovery and collaboration! Key Dates: Open Call:4th September – 31st October 2024, 23:59 CETAdmissibility and Eligibility Criteria Check:1st November – 5th November 2024Evaluation Period:6th November – 28th November 2024Jury Days:15th November – 20th November 2024Residency Period:12 months (1st December 2024 – 31st December 2025)Exhibitions:5 months (September 2025 – March 2027) Please ensure you submit your application before the deadline. We look forward to your participation in this exciting opportunity to bridge the worlds of art and science! We will host live info sessions to provide more information about the programme, challenges, and application process: September 18, 2024 (11.30 AM CEST)October 9, 2024 (11.30 AM CEST)STUDIOTOPIA Residency Programme The STUDIOTOPIA Fellowship Programme offers 12-month residencies starting in December 2024, fostering collaboration between scientists and artists to address specific challenges. The programme includes in-person meetings, exhibitions, and events, continuing until March 2027. For Emerging ArtistsProgramme Overview: Participants: 8 emerging artists paired with 8 established scientists.Residency Duration: December 2024 - December 2025.Timeline:Reflection (Dec 2024 - Feb 2025): Knowledge exchange and concept refinement.Concept Development (Mar - May 2025): Create a detailed project proposal and mock-up.Evaluation (Jun - Jul 2025): Assess project impact and gather feedback. Presentation of intermediary project outcomes. Production (Aug - Dec 2025): Develop final artworks or prototypes with host support. Exhibiting (Sep 2025 - Mar 2027): Showcase at local exhibitions and in a traveling exhibition across Europe. Benefits: Funding: €4,000 fee, plus a production budget that varies on the Challenge Description and art disciplines featured by the hosting institution.Support: Coverage for travel and subsistence costs, access to a wide network, and dissemination assistance.Opportunities: Present at major European festivals and exhibitions, such as the Ars Electronica Festival. Expectations: Meetings: At least six with the scientist, including one in-person.Collaboration: Work with scientists to create an artistic output, such as an artwork or prototype.Engagement: Participate in events and share progress through various media. How to Apply: Application Process for Artists: Complete the online application form&nbsp; before 31st October 2024, 23:59 CET. For detailed challenge descriptions and eligibility criteria, please refer to the&nbsp; Application Guide and the FAQ.The STUDIOTOPIA II programme is a continuation of the successful implementation of its pilot predecessor STUDIOTOPIA I, supported by the European Commission through the Creative Europe Program. STUDIOTOPIA II has received funding from the European Union from the European Cooperation Projects (CREA-CULT-2023-COOP-3) under grant agreement 101130939. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission (EC). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. <img width="1100" height="231" width_o="1100" height_o="231" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87afbcf266e9c49f888768f6bbe65abf95f2110b3b2851bdf1c2dc75265ffa98/eu_funded_en.jpg" data-mid="217512484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87afbcf266e9c49f888768f6bbe65abf95f2110b3b2851bdf1c2dc75265ffa98/eu_funded_en.jpg" /> <img width="345" height="103" width_o="345" height_o="103" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6513a849b0f968d35a6ccb7dc9ce7c2744ddcec00e6a88a3c2de81350e876d9/laznia.png" data-mid="217512494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/345/i/f6513a849b0f968d35a6ccb7dc9ce7c2744ddcec00e6a88a3c2de81350e876d9/laznia.png" /> <img width="407" height="112" width_o="407" height_o="112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59a0e998a96bfccdc67d3535f13594fcf57f9880d85f5f6891282c8b5e3da0d6/ars-electronica.png" data-mid="217512485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/407/i/59a0e998a96bfccdc67d3535f13594fcf57f9880d85f5f6891282c8b5e3da0d6/ars-electronica.png" /> <img width="233" height="80" width_o="233" height_o="80" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a562a3a7d5bc8d9d9d2f4f44265f09e50176b5efeff22784b62a7cc671d50379/bozar.png" data-mid="217512487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/233/i/a562a3a7d5bc8d9d9d2f4f44265f09e50176b5efeff22784b62a7cc671d50379/bozar.png" /> <img width="308" height="130" width_o="308" height_o="130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47baa414e2d62954f3ba8440ce2ec28a91d91bcb6844586f125ad706da6ea403/cluj.png" data-mid="217512488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/308/i/47baa414e2d62954f3ba8440ce2ec28a91d91bcb6844586f125ad706da6ea403/cluj.png" /> <img width="363" height="97" width_o="363" height_o="97" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53175f916a9a0fdaa1651fdcc93fccb2549abca3a7c2db7bec86e3b354deec52/cyens.png" data-mid="217512489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/363/i/53175f916a9a0fdaa1651fdcc93fccb2549abca3a7c2db7bec86e3b354deec52/cyens.png" /> <img width="286" height="127" width_o="286" height_o="127" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fcb5de39e2ab131155502d49c21996edd5bd2e736d1fa156ba0956f55d2115b/gluon.png" data-mid="217512490" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/286/i/2fcb5de39e2ab131155502d49c21996edd5bd2e736d1fa156ba0956f55d2115b/gluon.png" /> <img width="358" height="122" width_o="358" height_o="122" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8531a31690774a6aaf3f7ca115fb4682ad1cb0b5becc3f78505bf2d081785aac/kersnikova.png" data-mid="217512492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/358/i/8531a31690774a6aaf3f7ca115fb4682ad1cb0b5becc3f78505bf2d081785aac/kersnikova.png" /> <img width="297" height="125" width_o="297" height_o="125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f89d0bea10ea7ce254e549b05a02093f31466bc985f38975d6049601cd500274/laboral.png" data-mid="217512493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/297/i/f89d0bea10ea7ce254e549b05a02093f31466bc985f38975d6049601cd500274/laboral.png" /> <img width="407" height="72" width_o="407" height_o="72" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d5747e320b0c9d02d8c23cdc9f80e84474fe585666a357c305b114461870417/meet.png" data-mid="217512495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/407/i/2d5747e320b0c9d02d8c23cdc9f80e84474fe585666a357c305b114461870417/meet.png" /> <img width="262" height="187" width_o="262" height_o="187" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c290563fd40cd7aca9e352afb872b107823e2e0f6a4cf368466a2274467c9b41/hexagone.png" data-mid="217512491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/262/i/c290563fd40cd7aca9e352afb872b107823e2e0f6a4cf368466a2274467c9b41/hexagone.png" /> <img width="172" height="171" width_o="172" height_o="171" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/727cb44058631d0d391fd76a74dc11fe78d3ee42e69fc551c06822ab6e8ee526/beta.png" data-mid="217512486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/172/i/727cb44058631d0d391fd76a74dc11fe78d3ee42e69fc551c06822ab6e8ee526/beta.png" /> Beta Festival 2024 announcement. Tuesday, 6 August 2024: Beta, Ireland’s art and technology festival, will return for its second year in the first two weeks of November. Co-founded and supported by The Digital Hub, Beta will host a series of events including exhibitions, keynote speakers, interactive workshops and an assembly centred on artificial intelligence in Dublin 8 and beyond. The 2024 edition of Beta will explore critical themes around the relationship between technology and power including facial recognition technologies, the impact of AI on artists, untold histories &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and elevating empathy through creative technologies. The festival’s thematic exhibition, curated by Beta co-founder and director Aisling Murray and curator and researcher Nóra O’Murchú, features international and Irish artists, whose work will explore how technology can become a tool to resist hegemonic political orders and open new avenues for resistance. In addition to the thematic exhibition, a second exhibition – Local Artists Network - will spotlight newly commissioned work by Irish artists including Aisling Phelan and Cailean Finn, among others.&nbsp; Beta will aim to evoke important discussions on topical areas at the intersection of art and technology, with Kay Watson, Head of Arts Technologies at the Serpentine Gallery in London scheduled to deliver a thought-provoking keynote speech at this year’s festival. ADAPT Research Centre will return as the research partner for Beta with their collaborative interactive Ethics Studio curated with Paul O’Neill, a dedicated exhibit space for visitors, researchers, and artists to meet and explore our relationship with AI using creative methods and interactions. This year, Beta will offer specific activities as part of the official Science Week programme, including a Digital Democracy Lab with KT4D (Knowledge Technologies for Democracy) developed by project partner DemSoc, as well as workshops with ADAPT Research Centre and Better Images of AI. The Digital Hub and Aisling Murray are being supported in its preparations for Beta by Science Week, Ambassade de France en Irlande and Institut Francais, The Arts Council, British Council, ADAPT Research Centre, European Media Art Platform (EMAP), Creative Futures Academy, Project Arts Centre, Pallas Projects, NCAD Gallery and IMMA. Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Art &amp; ScienceBeta festival &amp; The Digital Hub are thrilled to be partners on the newest edition of Studiotopia “Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science”. This edition aims to propose innovative perspectives on 21st-century challenges by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue around themes of nature, humanity, and technology. By combining the insights of artists and scientists, Studiotopia inspires new ways of thinking and acting to tackle these challenges. This time, 11 prominent European cultural and science organizations have united under the banner of Studiotopia. In this groundbreaking project, they explore the intersection of art and science to address pressing global issues, delving into the symbiotic relationship between these two disciplines to shed light on the pressing issues of our time. In an era marked by unprecedented challenges, the Studiotopia initiative seeks to harness the creative synergy between artists and scientists to address one overarching theme: the Symbiocene. This concept, coined by eco-philosopher Glenn Albrecht, envisions a future where humanity lives in harmony with the Earth and all its inhabitants, fostering mutual flourishing and interconnectedness. Through Studiotopia, artists and scientists from diverse backgrounds collaborate on projects that illuminate the complexities of the Symbiocene. From exploring biodiversity hotspots to investigating sustainable technologies, each endeavor offers a unique perspective on our relationship with the natural world. Together, these institutions serve as catalysts for innovation and collaboration, fostering dialogue and exchange across disciplines and borders. By bringing together the best minds in art and science, Studiotopia aims to inspire new ways of thinking and acting in the face of global challenges. Visit studiotopia.art for more information RESIDENCY OPEN CALL: S+T+ARTS 4WaterII The ADAPT Research Centre and Beta Festival are thrilled to announce the open call for S+T+ARTS4WaterII - a European project bringing together Science, Technology + Arts which utilises artistic residencies as catalysts for innovation addressing global challenges. These residencies will focus on Ports in Transformation and there will be 20 residencies across Europe. We will facilitate three residencies on the island of Ireland: one in Dublin Port, one in Port of Galway and one in Belfast Harbour. Supported by each of these ports as well as the Irish Maritime Development Office, Waterways Ireland, Smart Dublin, the Digital Hub Development Agency, Galway Culture Company, Culture Works, Digital Arts Studio Belfast, Maritime Trust Belfast, Belfast City Council. Are you an artist and passionate about sustainability? Apply now for one of our residencies and collaborate with experts to tackle water challenges through art and technology. Deadline: June 26, 2024. Budget: 40.000€ per residency. This is your chance to turn ideas into impactful artworks and be part of the solution! Take advantage of this opportunity to make an impact with your ideas and work. This residency period between September 2024 and May 2025 will be facilitated by Beta Festival, an annual art and technology event in Ireland, inaugurated in 2023 and co-founded by The Digital Hub with a five-year commitment. The host institution will be the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Research Centre, the festival's research partner, having previously collaborated on projects such as the Ethics Studio in the 2023 festival. The primary contacts for artists during their residency will be the Beta Festival director and ADAPT’s Education andPublic Engagement Team. Artists are required to attend workshops, activities, and conduct field research during the residency period, with travel expenses included in their budget plans. They must produce a prototype or artwork for presentation locally in Summer 2025 as part of the S+T+ARTS4WaterII programme, and for a final presentation at Beta Festival in November 2025, showcasing all three Ireland-based residencies. The residency format will be hybrid, with in-person attendance of at least one month, can be arranged in segments, plus additional online engagement. S+T+ARTS4WaterII builds on the success of S+T+ARTS4WaterI to tackle the environmental and societal challenges within European ports and port cities. Join us on a journey to drive innovation and promote sustainability in water management within port ecosystems. S+T+ARTS4WaterII is initiated by the European Commission and the United Nations. The consortium uses advanced digital technologies to explore sustainable solutions in port ecosystems, leveraging lessons from the previous project. Focused on clean water as a fundamental right and aligned with UN SDGs 6 and 14, the project engages industry professionals, researchers, artists, designers, policymakers, and local communities. The consortium partners include Gluon, VITO, Camargo Corrêa Infra, Beta Festival, ADAPT Research Centre, Drugo More, Waag Futurelab, TBA21, OGR, PiNA, and Klimat Biennale - Kunsthaus Wien. More information here. VOLUNTEERING Call out for volunteers for the Beta Festival&nbsp;We're currently looking for volunteers&nbsp;to help us with the programme. You can sign up to&nbsp;volunteer&nbsp;by completing this google form We're asking volunteers to (ideally) cover 2x 4-hour slots&nbsp;volunteering&nbsp;at the Beta exhibition from the 3rd-19th of November at the Digital Hub, and/or the Beta Conference on the 3rd-5th November in The Bank at Digital Depot. (Though we'd love to have you even if you can only do one slot!). Each&nbsp;volunteer&nbsp;will get a 20-minute break within their 4-hour shift. Volunteers can complete this Google form to indicate when they might be free to cover some shifts, and what time of volunteer&nbsp;work they prefer to do. For example, if people would prefer to invigilate in the exhibition, or help out with the conference. We will not ask people to cover more than 2 shifts max but if you can indicate any shifts you are free to cover that helps us ensure we've some help throughout! In return for contributing your time and energy volunteers&nbsp;will get free entry to the 1 event at the Beta conference. We will do our best to ensure we meet people's first choices, but this will be on a first come first serve basis, or a lotto for events with very high demand. For that reason we ask you to indicate your three preferred choices in the Google formTo say thank you for volunteering- you will also receive an invite, and some drink tokens, to our very special&nbsp;Volunteer&nbsp;party on the evening of Sunday the 5th. We also hope you'll get to see some of the new and exciting works on show at Beta!We will provide training for all volunteers on the 26 October, between 4-7pm for 45 min virtual training session. We will confirm the exact time in the coming days. Any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch! All the best, Anne &amp; The Beta Team _____________________________________ RESIDENCY Beta festival is thrilled to have been funded by The Arts Council to facilitate a residency exchange with transmediale in Berlin. Beta x transmediale&nbsp; Announcing Selected Projects for Beta x transmediale Residency We are pleased to announce Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, bela and Kloxii, Mac Andre Arboleda, and Nadia J. Armstrong as artists-in-residence for the Beta x transmediale Residency this fall. The residency takes place in Dublin, Berlin, and remotely during October and November 2023. During their residency, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah&nbsp; will develop Uncensored Lilac – a new AI animated film. A story about revenge and desire, Uncensored Lilac questions the ways in which climate change affects and alters social and environmental relations. The film follows a group of goddesses, who may or may not be aliens, and their assembly of familiars, pets, servants, and technologies. Set in a dreamlike hallucinatory landscape that mutates between ornate embellishments and its original form, the landscape and the assembly have been invaded and altered by a toxic species, making them nurturing but venomous. Bassam Issa Al-Sabah is an interdisciplinary artist working with film, video, sculpture, and paintings, based in Belfast. 暴洪野火机构 – a fictional agency established by bela and Kloxii&nbsp; – creates the context for their collaborative performance. Focusing on the production and dissemination of musical scores that respond to the anxieties of climate collapse and mass disintegration, the duo explores how the news and social media cycles of crises affect our emotional and psychological responses to them. Drawing inspiration from East Asian rain rituals and the duo’s witnessing of flash floods and wildfires in their homelands of South Korea and California, they question the atmosphere of never-ending doom, deconstructing and reorganising its patterns and rhythms. bela is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin known for electronic music performance merging pungmul – a Korean folk act rooted in agricultural traditions and linked to past social movements - and vocals inspired by extreme metal. Kloxii is a Berlin-based artist and music producer of experimental pop inspired by trip-hop and industrial beats. ABOLISH THE SCREEN! is an artistic research project and manifesto that investigates the implications and politics surrounding the screen as a central medium for societal functions. Through a series of workshops, dialogues, and presentations, the project questions what the abolition of the screen might mean, and speculates on the new dependencies that could arise from its disappearance. Mac Andre Arboleda&nbsp; is an artist exploring the sickness of the internet, currently based in Berlin. RENDER ME TENDER is an audiovisual experience that invites the public to consider the neo-primacy of the chat forum in our present understanding of communication. Rooted in cyborg feminist practices and eco-social concerns the project attempts to unbury the liveness and physical immediacy of the socio-political, and the oratory origins of the word “forum.” Through aesthetic signifiers, scripted conversations, and public interaction, automated AI characters will emerge on screens to engage spectators in rhetoric around the mutations of social interaction that the socio-technical history of the forum presents to us. Nadia J. Armstrong&nbsp; is a Dublin-based visual artist working with performance, 3D composition, AI, and expanded video based in Dublin. The residents were selected by Aisling Murray, Sheena Barrett, Tomke Braun, and Nóra Ó Murchú.&nbsp; The Beta x transmediale residency is a cooperation between transmediale, Berlin, and Beta festival, Dublin, and is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland International Residency Initiatives Scheme. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://betafestival.ie/Events-1 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:16:16 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Events-1 Events A creative cartography of Ireland’s art and technology landscape November 2nd - 5th 2023Taking inspiration from our name, the first edition of Beta Festival is an opportunity to map new ways of bringing Ireland’s vibrant creative and research communities together to explore the relationship between art and technology.The three day festival programme&nbsp; featureed performances, discussions, workshops, and panels that critically engage with a wide range of themes related to digital culture and expression including artificial intelligence and creativity, networked infrastructure, data rights, open-source culture and sustainability, and much more. <img width="2016" height="2016" width_o="2016" height_o="2016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a84a5bed34950e32c852031c3bef9257adf26dc8f7cc88bad19b9f27dced1abe/_LeadimagePB.jpg" data-mid="190682255" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a84a5bed34950e32c852031c3bef9257adf26dc8f7cc88bad19b9f27dced1abe/_LeadimagePB.jpg" />︎The Bank&nbsp; ︎2nd November _ 8.30pm Prompt Battle Sebastian Schmieg, Bernadette Geiger, and the Prompt Battle Team Do you have what it takes to be a prompt engineer?Prompt Battle is a live game show format where people compete against each other using text-to-image software. Show off your prompt skills and maybe the audience will choose you as the winner who elicited the most surprising, disturbing or beautiful images from the latent space of DALL·E. Do you have what it takes to become a prompt engineer? The original Prompt Battle was developed at HTW Dresden by Sebastian Schmieg, Florian A. Schmidt, Bernadette Geiger, Robert Hellwig, Emily Krause, Levi Stein, Lina Schwarzenberg and Ella Zickerick. Book Here <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a22b20b48c411f575c44452b0f44a9c4acdde715e076215b608688709f76d1f8/GASH-x-Beta-2023.png" data-mid="190690388" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a22b20b48c411f575c44452b0f44a9c4acdde715e076215b608688709f76d1f8/GASH-x-Beta-2023.png" />︎ Tailors Hall, Back Lane. ︎3rd November _ 7pm Gash Collective x BetaRising Damp, Doubt, ANIMWAL ft. aux pheonix, polyp Gash Collective are proud to present a night of Irish experimental dance music supported by Roe &amp; Co.Gash x Beta Festival is set to showcase Ireland's most innovative artists featuring an immersive ambient DJ set from polyp, two debut live sets from ANIMWAL and Doubt, and a headline solo performance from Rising Damp. polyp (they/them) is a clump of cells grown in Dublin and made in Vietnam. Their taste varies between ambient and noisy, silly and sincere. They are vice chairperson of BPM energy, a brand new FLINTA-centered club night manufacturing countercultural cultural production. ANIMWAL is a Polish music producer and DJ based in Cork. ANIMWAL reimagines her productions in an Ableton driven live performance with live vocals, midi controllers and synthesisers. She explores a broad range of musical genres from slow atmospheric beats with field recorded samples to up-tempo electronic dance music and everything in between. Normally seen fuelling dance floor euphoria behind the decks, Doubt will be showcasing his own productions live for the first time at Betafest. Drawing on his past work as well as new material the performance will be a sonic expression of subjective dilemmas, feelings and frustrations he holds towards Ireland - channeling experience through immersive sound design, sampling and his staple percussion focused style of club music Rising Damp (solo set) is an experimental artist whose music fuses the energy of EBM and punk. Known for her unconventional performances, she's no stranger to underground shows in tunnels, underpasses, and social centres. Her songwriting delves into subjects as diverse as brutalist architecture, cannibalism, intimate encounters with a motorbike, and thought-provoking themes of corporate metaphor and innovation. Book Here <img width="962" height="962" width_o="962" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbcb6c7f1a8bec674c009f36af11ac41907822cc60ea9635ec5ceb6e82d38949/_leadimageD.png" data-mid="190682020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/962/i/cbcb6c7f1a8bec674c009f36af11ac41907822cc60ea9635ec5ceb6e82d38949/_leadimageD.png" />︎Project Arts Centre︎3rd &amp; 4th November _ 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm DWELLING Peter Power &amp; Leon Butler Dwelling is the premiere of a new work by artists Peter Power &amp; Leon Butler at Project Arts Centre presented by Sparsile Collective and Once Off Productions. In association with Beta Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival and Carlow Arts Festival. “I am here, I am gone. I am here again.”Dwelling explores the outskirts of cultural isolation, the dispersal of self across the multimedial universe and digital death, transformation and rebirth.In a chaotic climate of dissolution, how can we grieve things that are still leaving?Taking place in the fragments of a home with dance performances by Robyn Byrne and Rosie Stebbing, we bear witness to a life lived in and across the boundaries of the digital divide. &nbsp;Dwelling offers an opportunity to avatar our individual experiences of disconnection and loss through the poetic portal of the everyday. Project Arts Centre Fri 3rd &amp; Sat 4th&nbsp;November 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm Duration: Approx 40mins and audience members are invited to interact with the installation at the end of the performance. Book through&nbsp;projectartscentre.ie Book Here <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6620d88911434b873817abee2455cdb783cd22ce42b4481a1fe914c2ef88c079/ALT.CTRL.GameCraft.png" data-mid="190687109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6620d88911434b873817abee2455cdb783cd22ce42b4481a1fe914c2ef88c079/ALT.CTRL.GameCraft.png" />︎ iD8 Studio at The Digital Hub ︎4th November _ 12-5pm ALT.CTRL. GameCraft Vicky &amp; Michael Twomey, GameCraft Ever thought game controllers were too boring? Buttons too predictable or where you expect them to be? Here’s your chance to build your own take on what a controller should be. Build an alternative controller for a game you love or make a game harder with hard to master controls! Write your own game and build a controller to match!This workshop will help you build a custom game controller with some basic crafting and a tiny dash of electronics.Making materials will be provided, you will need to bring your own computer (and a game).&nbsp; No experience required! Just your &nbsp;imagination! Big thanks to DIGIT Game Studio for supporting the event.https://gamecraft.it / https://twitter.com/globalgamecraft / info@gamecraft.it Book Here <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/994b7f1d725dc21429cb0da503a6a6db44862c96f939a78e0be76413c5258828/Open-Ear-x-Beta-2023.png" data-mid="190690433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/994b7f1d725dc21429cb0da503a6a6db44862c96f939a78e0be76413c5258828/Open-Ear-x-Beta-2023.png" />︎Tailors Hall︎4th November _ 7pm OPEN EAR&nbsp;One of Ireland's primary festivals for the platforming of experimental music, Open Ear, for their Betafest showcase, will present new work from 3 artists with radically different approaches to experimental music, teasing out commonalities in their varying methodologies.&nbsp; Supported by Roe &amp; Co. Book Here <img width="944" height="944" width_o="944" height_o="944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4484e99770ba19f28ee3adb3d53d4b9ff6c52f25e2daf0a7dd6a57b94256745c/Square-Image---p5js-workshop.png" data-mid="194842563" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/944/i/4484e99770ba19f28ee3adb3d53d4b9ff6c52f25e2daf0a7dd6a57b94256745c/Square-Image---p5js-workshop.png" />︎ Digital Depot at The Digital Hub. ︎4th November _ 1-3pm Introduction to Creating Interactive Visuals with p5.jsKieran Nolan An introductory workshop to creating interactive graphics in the open source creative coding application p5.js. This workshop is an introduction to creating interactive graphics and animations in the browser-based creative coding application p5.js. During this lab session participants will learn how to create dynamic visuals using the p5.js command line interface, working with custom shapes, colours, text, imported data and algorithms while adding interactivity and movement to their onscreen canvas. Book Here <img width="900" height="900" width_o="900" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c1193472f7e21a05cc702eb4d49b74fe4ddc997d9064a8a86e3cce843a1211c/_leadimageTOG.jpg" data-mid="190682732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/1c1193472f7e21a05cc702eb4d49b74fe4ddc997d9064a8a86e3cce843a1211c/_leadimageTOG.jpg" /> ︎ iD8 Studio at The Digital Hub ︎5th November _ 12-3pm Tog Repair Cafe Tog Hackerspace &nbsp;Save your things from the landfill and your wallet from having to replace them. Bring them to our repair café and learn how to fix them together with our volunteers.&nbsp; We have tools, materials, space to work on your item, and repair experts who will help you with your repair.&nbsp; A repair cafe is a community gathering place where people can bring their broken items, such as appliances, clothing, bicycles, or electronics, to be repaired by skilled volunteers for free. The idea behind repair cafes is to promote sustainability and reduce waste by encouraging people to repair and reuse their belongings instead of throwing them away. At a repair cafe, visitors can learn how to repair their items themselves or watch and learn from the volunteers. Repair cafes also offer a social atmosphere where people can connect with others who share their interest in repairing, reducing waste, and promoting sustainability. Our passionate team of skilled volunteers will be on hand to help you fix everything from electronics and appliances to furniture and clothing, all while sharing valuable repair skills and promoting a sustainable lifestyle. If we can’t fix your items, we will do our best to make suggestions on where to get spare parts or the best recycling options for you to continue your journey of repair. FREE ENTRY / WALK-IN <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e1053e4f4e7c57e6eea7e182cee98f8eb9d04151e2bda058634bb759403143d/beta-fest-x-concept-null---poster-final-Black.png" data-mid="193119668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e1053e4f4e7c57e6eea7e182cee98f8eb9d04151e2bda058634bb759403143d/beta-fest-x-concept-null---poster-final-Black.png" /> ︎ Learning Studio, The Digital Depot ︎5th November _ 2-5pm Beta Fest x Concept NULL - Meet Up_02: Untitled_UnfinishedConcept NULL Concept Null’s second new media art meet up will take place as part of this year's Beta Festival. Untitled_Unfinished will provide a space for artists to showcase moments from their past projects where they have encountered setbacks or have fallen into stagnation, giving these abandoned projects a platform to be revisited and revalued. At this event, speakers will take the stage to introduce and present their unfinished or untitled projects. They will delve into the core concepts and technologies employed, share the challenges they’ve confronted during development, and illuminate the unique aspects that continue to resonate with them. The project can be at any stage - whether it’s some buggy piece of code, a chaotic mood board, or a fully developed project which encountered unforeseen problems. Concept Null is a collective of new-media artists dedicated to fostering connections among individuals with an interest in the intersection of art and technology in Ireland. They currently run the new media art newsletter and organise meetups where artists and makers can talk about their practice and work with others in the community. Book Here <img width="6144" height="6144" width_o="6144" height_o="6144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f0fa01f636e231d0e8e3887032c935bb4271a5ad4befee8042dd4d17d65f549/erick-butler-3XQlnryKz0o-unsplash.jpg" data-mid="190680016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f0fa01f636e231d0e8e3887032c935bb4271a5ad4befee8042dd4d17d65f549/erick-butler-3XQlnryKz0o-unsplash.jpg" /> TERRAIN: A creative cartography of Ireland’s art and technology landscape&nbsp; Taking inspiration from our name, the first edition of Beta Festival is an opportunity to map new ways of bringing Ireland’s vibrant creative and research communities together to explore the relationship between art and technology. The three day festival programme will feature performances, discussions, workshops, and panels that critically engage with a wide range of themes related to digital culture and expression including artificial intelligence and creativity, networked infrastructure, data rights, open-source culture and sustainability, and much more. The full discussions programme is available through the conference page of our website. <img width="1333" height="1333" width_o="1333" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7399fa062e1277bdba836116b60592065445e5143cf6b6922a1db8d3dc0bf123/_leadimageBK.jpg" data-mid="193816597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7399fa062e1277bdba836116b60592065445e5143cf6b6922a1db8d3dc0bf123/_leadimageBK.jpg" /> ︎The Bank ︎4th November _ 5:30pm Live Performance: 暴洪野火机构 (The Office Agency of Flash Flood and Wildfire) bela and KloxiiFocusing on the&nbsp; production and dissemination of musical scores that respond to the anxieties of climate collapse and mass disintegration, the duo explores how the news and social media cycles of crises affect our emotional and psychological response. Artists bela and Kloxii will create a special live performance as part of the Beta x transmediale residency supported by the Arts Council. <img width="1800" height="1002" width_o="1800" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11dc47f0c95bba4032412f75b310c37b0cd69f473e6d6b13c46347ec9e5ddd0e/IMVA-GALLERY.jpg" data-mid="193816949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11dc47f0c95bba4032412f75b310c37b0cd69f473e6d6b13c46347ec9e5ddd0e/IMVA-GALLERY.jpg" /> ︎Digital Lounge, Digital Depot ︎5th November _ 1pm - 5pm IMVA (Irish Museum of Virtual Art) Showcase IMVA IMVA (Irish Museum of Virtual Art), the virtual art community, empowers Irish artists, both at home and abroad, by offering them a platform to globally exhibit their work and providing a valuable resource for their professional growth. Within this innovative digital space, artists can delve into the intersection of art and technology, gaining profound insights into how technology is reshaping the art world. IMVA serves as a dynamic hub where artists can showcase their work and enhance their understanding of contemporary art, thus staying at the forefront of creative exploration. Furthermore, we collaborate with embassies around the world to showcase and promote the work of Irish artists. <img width="688" height="688" width_o="688" height_o="688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a8a89df790ec670260315bab05fe7bbe48957ff40ea2367ebb00f2eb50c1816/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg.jpg" data-mid="193817496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/688/i/2a8a89df790ec670260315bab05fe7bbe48957ff40ea2367ebb00f2eb50c1816/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg.jpg" /> ︎Learning Studio, Digital Depot ︎3rd November _ 2pm - 5pm Art and Digital Culture - A Crit with John Gerrard John GerrardNCAD and CFA in partnership with BETA Festival Dublin offers an opportunity for young and emerging artists Do you create art work exploring aspects of digital culture or technology? Do you have a project which is complete (or nearing completion) for which you would like feedback? Would you like to share your views of current work by other artists in a 'crit'? Artist John Gerrard will lead a closed crit for 5-6 emerging artists as part of the 2023 BETA Festival Dublin in partnership with the Creative Futures Academy / NCAD. The event is open to emerging artists exploring any aspect of digital culture and/or technology including algorithmic art, facial recognition technologies, deep learning and generative AI, video games, social media, screen culture, VR, 'deep fakes',&nbsp; online social lives and relationships, etc. Projects which address the values of BETA Festival Dublin (see here) are strongly encouraged. Participants in the crit will make short presentations about a current or recent project, and engage in a discussion with the other participants led by John Gerrard.&nbsp; The crit will take place in the Digital Hub, Dublin 8 from 2-5pm on Friday 3rd November. This opportunity is open to emergent artists (final year BA students, postgraduate students and new practitioners within 5 years of finishing study). <img width="1024" height="1024" width_o="1024" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cafcd7b25a6a4f89aff578105716b16c741aa53602fd112742eb2fb0215d112b/Show-Case.png" data-mid="193817554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cafcd7b25a6a4f89aff578105716b16c741aa53602fd112742eb2fb0215d112b/Show-Case.png" /> ︎iD8 Studio ︎3rd November _ 10am - 5pm SHOW / CASE Taking inspiration from the format of academic poster sessions, this hands-on, interactive exhibition of cutting-edge researchers’ work urges researchers and participants alike to move their ideas off the page and into tangible forms. Curated to showcase how theory meets practice, and designed to appeal to all senses and a range of tastes, visitors are invited to move through a series of interactive displays, while a rotating line up of our presenters take to the main dais/stage to both show – and make the case – for their research/projects to the assembled audience of attendees and peers. Ticketholders, participants and attendees of Beta Festival are invited to drop in to iD8 Studio on Friday, with walk-ins also welcome on the day. We are delighted to feature the project ‘Lost in the Retroverse’, a virtual reality experience created and mediated by graduates of the MSc in Interactive Digital Media at Trinity College Dublin, Márcia Marques, Rosie Connolly, Vasiliki Karathanasi, Audrey Nicole K, and Brad Lee. Sarah Halpin from Irish National Opera will present the app Isolde, their new street art performance software ecosystem revolutionsing presentation, sustainability and access for the performing arts. Maynooth Robotics Department will be bringing their robot dog, with Shauna Recto, Liam Glennon, and David Soyele running demonstrations throughout the day. Professor Gareth Young from the School of Computer Science will be running a VR Music Video demonstration, while Accenture’s Human Sciences Studio will present their KerTrust interactive piece, facilitated by Bremeline Muthurajah, Patrick Feeney, Isabel Thomas and Charlotte O’Neill. <img width="838" height="838" width_o="838" height_o="838" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0d2e0aea00133cc5e90e663834afdede58293c1589cf74afe4a7aa0a2bca86d/_leadimageCE.jpg" data-mid="190680031" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/838/i/b0d2e0aea00133cc5e90e663834afdede58293c1589cf74afe4a7aa0a2bca86d/_leadimageCE.jpg" /> ︎ Carpark, Digital Hub ︎4th November _ 5.30pm, 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, 7.30pm Children in the Universe Crash Ensemble Crash Ensemble present the world premiere of Laura Sheeran’s film Children in the Universe. Set to the music of Children in the Universe composed by Sam Perkin during his time as composer in residence with the ensemble, the film will be screened outdoors at the Digital Hub Campus on Roe Lane. You can tune into the audio for the film through the Isolde App. https://betafestival.ie/Connect Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:37:06 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Connect ︎ Contact us Beta’s community is made up of people across artistic practice, academia, research and engaged citizens. We are still lining up partnerships for this year and into the future so please get in touch if you’re interested in getting involved in some way. Contact: Aisling Murray, aisling@betafestival.ie Subscribe for updates Email Address * &nbsp; https://betafestival.ie/Exhibition Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:16:57 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Exhibition Exhibition A creative cartography of Ireland’s art and technology landscapeNovember 2nd - 19th 2023 12:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday - Sunday)Exhibition FREE ENTRYBeta Festival featured a unique exhibition of Irish-based and international artists spanning the material and digital, the real and the virtual, the local and the global through creative and critical practice.Beta Festival provides a platform for Irish-based artists and researchers to bring their work to new audiences so that collectively we can seek out original ways to navigate through our contemporary networked world. ETHICS STUDIOADAPT / Beta <img width="962" height="962" width_o="962" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e4c46c6c786266cea58703472d36e902bb05ad122b35611280fa53a965be780/ETHICS-STUDIO.png" data-mid="190677242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/962/i/2e4c46c6c786266cea58703472d36e902bb05ad122b35611280fa53a965be780/ETHICS-STUDIO.png" />︎The Digital Depot, Bay 1 The AI Ethics Studio is a dedicated space for visitors, researchers, and artists to come together and explore our relationship with AI using alternative and&nbsp; creative methods and interactions. Created in partnership with the festival research partner - ADAPT the world-leading SFI Research Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology. The Ninth MuseAoibheann Greenan <img width="3600" height="3600" width_o="3600" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e75922035d5d8dee044b8685a749040ec45ca66f5eb2947ce9a6dda8d61298c/_leadimageAG.jpg" data-mid="190468438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e75922035d5d8dee044b8685a749040ec45ca66f5eb2947ce9a6dda8d61298c/_leadimageAG.jpg" />︎ The Digital Depot,&nbsp; Bay 1, ︎ Pallas Projects, The Coombe “The Ninth Muse" explores brain-machine interfacing’s creative and social implications, through the lens of ancient Greek mythology, 20th century surrealism and feminist strategies for countering corporate capture. Uncensored LilacBassam Issa Al-Sabah <img width="2362" height="2362" width_o="2362" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b17633cbeacaface3ad3780bc25d221365f3e0e2ef3fa1e398834ac29dbf561a/_leadimageBAS.jpg" data-mid="190468617" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b17633cbeacaface3ad3780bc25d221365f3e0e2ef3fa1e398834ac29dbf561a/_leadimageBAS.jpg" />︎ The Digital Depot , Bay 1 Work-in-progress AI Animation exploring climate changes impact on social and environmental relations,&nbsp; part of the Beta x transmediale residency supported by the Arts Council. 暴洪野火机构&nbsp; (The Office Agency of Flash Flood and Wildfire) Bela and Kloxii <img width="1333" height="1333" width_o="1333" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/459aff544da2ad3ef292ad7680cad3a4fc7239ce7620df065f61b8a9b4142b68/_leadimageBK.jpg" data-mid="190468742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/459aff544da2ad3ef292ad7680cad3a4fc7239ce7620df065f61b8a9b4142b68/_leadimageBK.jpg" /> ︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Focusing on the&nbsp; production and dissemination of musical scores that respond to the anxieties of climate collapse and mass disintegration, the duo explores how the news and social media cycles of crises affect our emotional and psychological response. Work in progress - part of the Beta x transmediale residency supported by the Arts Council. Potato Internet Caroline Sinders <img width="962" height="962" width_o="962" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14409f7397dd43cf3ce892799e8acf64e1904f2e4e30d389a2a3e87d70c02ffe/_leadimagePI.png" data-mid="190677380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/962/i/14409f7397dd43cf3ce892799e8acf64e1904f2e4e30d389a2a3e87d70c02ffe/_leadimagePI.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 When discussing alternatives for today's extractive and toxic online world, the usual commentary is 'but they don't scale up'. But what if the future of the internet is all about scaling down? Potato Internet is a small scale, social network built from handy materials and e-waste.(in collaboration with Trammell Hudson and fabrication support with Motong Yang)Supported by British Council Ireland. Deliver&nbsp; S. Harikrishnan and Paul O’ Neill<img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee8c87fb7c32b949dda0498e2a325837957288d2e3e2351b6ea4e4acbf4663e5/leadimagehari.png" data-mid="191817673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee8c87fb7c32b949dda0498e2a325837957288d2e3e2351b6ea4e4acbf4663e5/leadimagehari.png" /> ︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Deliver is an ongoing collaborative research project by S. Harikrishnan and Paul O’ Neill focusing on food delivery workers in Dublin within the context of digital culture and platform capitalism. As part of Beta festival, they will be exhibiting images documenting the social spaces created and occupied by delivery workers, and contrasting them with areas of the city where some of the most dominant tech companies of our networked era are based miss-communication Joanna Walsh <img width="604" height="604" width_o="604" height_o="604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0cabefcfdc0515565260e246b5ceddacb6701f6e015b3d7f5a4126f6cacc783/_leadimagemac_.png" data-mid="190473653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/604/i/e0cabefcfdc0515565260e246b5ceddacb6701f6e015b3d7f5a4126f6cacc783/_leadimagemac_.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Talk with Markievcz Mark1, an AI trained on the historical records of Irish women's words, and print out a receipt of your conversation. Ent- Libby Heaney <img width="1198" height="1198" width_o="1198" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1b3f2ed548ce615c9ff6a9f7949fda0555ee14109c207a8c380f0f736e03640/_leadimageLH.png" data-mid="190470457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1b3f2ed548ce615c9ff6a9f7949fda0555ee14109c207a8c380f0f736e03640/_leadimageLH.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Ent is a 360-degree immersive installation taking quantum computing as both medium and subject matter. Supported by British Council Ireland. ABOLISH THE SCREEN! Mac Andre Arboleda <img width="604" height="604" width_o="604" height_o="604" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4932110f0e7769bb2912a96a8df08a85d7fdef2f14786006a4c48024c9094b3/_leadimagemac.jpg" data-mid="190470285" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/604/i/c4932110f0e7769bb2912a96a8df08a85d7fdef2f14786006a4c48024c9094b3/_leadimagemac.jpg" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Artistic research project dissecting the role of the screen as a central mediating force. Work in progress - part of the Beta x transmediale residency supported by the Arts Council. RENDER ME TENDER Nadia J. Armstrong <img width="1972" height="1972" width_o="1972" height_o="1972" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6c1395322776479db644c6a9e38e40302be639a63c286325a92c3100333ba3b/_leadimageNJA.png" data-mid="190471038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6c1395322776479db644c6a9e38e40302be639a63c286325a92c3100333ba3b/_leadimageNJA.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 A 3D virtual avatar performance that reflects upon our digital dependencies and methods of online expression. Part of the Beta x transmediale residency supported by the Arts Council. ALTER Sal Stapleton <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0807f7da9875dca30a4274c3cf1c6b1453838e953345dd0eab04002951e57078/_LeadimageALTER.jpg" data-mid="190473597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0807f7da9875dca30a4274c3cf1c6b1453838e953345dd0eab04002951e57078/_LeadimageALTER.jpg" />︎ Multiple locations in Dublin 8 ALTER, is an immersive digital installation combining 3D imagery and motion, soundscape and augmented reality. Commissioned by Beta Festival &amp; supported by Roe &amp; Co. TAOTIE Thomas Garnier <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3da451bb5b5f779408559ff27e2a149d706c2def55dd054aa3339237460a576c/_leadimageTG-1.png" data-mid="190473873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3da451bb5b5f779408559ff27e2a149d706c2def55dd054aa3339237460a576c/_leadimageTG-1.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 The new production sites of our accelerated contemporary world, the "dark factories" (or "lights-out factories") are fully automated factories that operate without human intervention. Without even having to light the space, machines can now "work" day and night, without breaks, without compromising the quality of their production. These places with a basic architecture take the form of large, modular, repetitive warehouses where everything is designed to facilitate the movement of robots.&nbsp;Thomas Garnier proposes with Taotie an immersive installation which aims at questioning these new time-spaces of work and production. Can machines live without us in the dark? Supported by Ambassade de France en Irlande and proudly part of the&nbsp;Novembre Numerique programme. Transition To Transcendence Nikolas Ryan <img width="1365" height="1365" width_o="1365" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26a0e6d449afd3fb80663cd1e078d64ffe2d182806e8b0b0dab4f5155273c67d/NikolasRyan_Installation_2.jpg" data-mid="193845085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26a0e6d449afd3fb80663cd1e078d64ffe2d182806e8b0b0dab4f5155273c67d/NikolasRyan_Installation_2.jpg" />︎NCAD Gallery ‘Transition To Transcendence’ is an interactive, immersive installation which includes a VR element. It takes root in a profound exploration of my experience with Evangelical Queer Conversion Therapy, guided by Foucault's insights on Biopolitics. Book your experience here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/transition-to-transcendence-tickets-749201300257 Trespass Katie Nolan <img width="962" height="962" width_o="962" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9836c00b8f0363b932bffc473a7adfa80d9ef0994f693abca8bbac3cd2071414/_leadimageTresspass.png" data-mid="190679806" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/962/i/9836c00b8f0363b932bffc473a7adfa80d9ef0994f693abca8bbac3cd2071414/_leadimageTresspass.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Trespass examines our digital culture as pharmakon, both poison and cure. Data Centres in Ireland consume more than 30% of Ireland's total electricity,&nbsp; complicating our nations ability to combat climate change at this time of anthropocentric environmental destruction. Filmed at an organic fruit farm in Co Waterford and secretly at a Data Centre in Dublin, the work points to the history of an orchard that once existed where this Data Centre now stands. Critical ChangeLab // Beta Youth participants <img width="962" height="962" width_o="962" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2f793f9c3deb0a5572cb5a5a0a52e94997f2a296e5e9676ce093fce96719543/cc.png" data-mid="190679904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/962/i/b2f793f9c3deb0a5572cb5a5a0a52e94997f2a296e5e9676ce093fce96719543/cc.png" />︎ The Digital Depot, Bay 1 Launch of digital artwork co-created by youth participants in Critical ChangeLab workshops at the Digital Hub. Data City Dublin Data Stories <img width="1606" height="1568" width_o="1606" height_o="1568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/372b34d5cfac31a6b84c42bf264cd37b4d5c8405caeb534c6b4f4b71fdba2f11/Screenshot-2023-10-16-at-09.25.43.png" data-mid="193817719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/372b34d5cfac31a6b84c42bf264cd37b4d5c8405caeb534c6b4f4b71fdba2f11/Screenshot-2023-10-16-at-09.25.43.png" />︎The Digital Depot, Bay 1 A large-scale 3D printed model of central Dublin with projected data overlays. Bone of What Absent Thing (2021-22) Elaine Hoey <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6de9366677b30d88d07bf426f317956d3324861ff7f196945a7fb577f7628dc/EH3A.png.jpg" data-mid="193817788" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6de9366677b30d88d07bf426f317956d3324861ff7f196945a7fb577f7628dc/EH3A.png.jpg" />︎NCAD Gallery In this contemporary retelling of the myth of Medusa, Elaine Hoey trains an artificial intelligence (AI) model with multiple narratives surrounding the ancient myth. Combining classical literature, academic text, fiction and personal writings, the AI shapes new narratives that questions violence towards women and the negative representation of the ‘monstrous’ female body. https://betafestival.ie/Conference-1 Sun, 08 Oct 2023 10:51:35 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Conference-1 &nbsp;Conference FRIDAY&nbsp; 03.11&nbsp; &nbsp; The first Beta Festival Conference took place 3rd - 5th November with day tickets available for Friday (€25) &amp; Saturday (€30) and a number of limited €5 tickets at the door on the day._________________ Arts Council of Ireland Digital Arts Policy Launch - Perspectives from Art &amp; Tech Collectives 10am Timpeall (Cork), Digital Art Studios (Belfast), Concept Null (Limerick), Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A.) The Arts Council launches its Digital Arts Policy at the festival with an overview of the policy followed by an in-conversation with art and technology collectives from around Ireland on the opportunities and challenges in working with digital technologies within creative practice. Book Here (FREE) Digital Art in Ireland: Reflections and Visuals (Book launch) 11am Digital Art in Ireland: Reflections &amp; Visuals is a collection of images and essays that captures a snapshot of Irish digital art as it exists in the present moment. The book showcases the work of 12 contemporary artists through a series of visuals and practitioner reflections. Book Here (FREE) Celtic Tigers, Bored Apes and other tales from the Miseryverse (Keynote) 12pm Rachel O’Dwyer Of his abiding mission to colonise Mars, Elon Musk has the following to say: “it’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. I can't think of anything more exciting.” Few of us believe that the future will be a nice place when we eventually get there. Instead, so much of our technical enchantments, whether it’s desperate bets on crypto, AI, bored apes, or a new life in the metaverse, seem to respond to this disillusionment, to the sense that the future is, well, a bit of a shithole. All previous pathways to what we might have once called ‘the good life’ aka, the stories we tell about how we and the world should ‘add up to something’ – tales of hard work rewarded, Celtic tigers, or ‘winning the system’ through perseverance, no longer ring true.&nbsp; So what happens, as in the financial crash and the pandemic, when those fantasies begin to fray? De/central: Who Owns the Web? 2pm Rachel O’Dwyer, Linda Shelvin, Harun Šiljak, Aileen Carville Decentralisation, blockchain technologies, and token-based economies are some of the key concepts and technologies associated with the evolution of the World Wide Web. Built upon transparency, Web 3.0 promises to empower users while making the Internet more democratic and equitable. However, as with all technological innovations, there is also much hype - this discussion focuses on the impact of Web 3.0 on privacy, security, and data sovereignty, asking if these new digital innovations are hindering or helping our hyperconnected world. Navigating AI: National Perspectives on Policy and Regulation 3pm Aphra Kerr, Elaine Burke Marguerite Barry, In 2021, the National AI Strategy was published with the goal of setting out how Ireland can be an international leader using Artificial Intelligence to benefit the economy and wider society. This panel considers the strategy within international concerns and debates surrounding policy, regulation, and transparency including the upcoming EU AI act and the impact on creativity, particularly around Intellectual property and copyright. From Local to Global: Ireland as an Infrastructural Node 4pm Linda Doyle, Fiach Mac Conghail, Fiona McDermott Since the first transatlantic cable connected Valentia Island to Newfoundland in the 1860s’, Ireland has long been a significant node in global networked communications, hosting not only the corporate headquarters of the most dominant companies of the networked era but also the physical infrastructure that supports them. Featuring contributions from industry, academia, and policy, this panel will consider the responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities facing Ireland in its role as a core infrastructural hub of the Internet. Our Data, Our Environment: Extractivism and its impact 5pm Patrick Brodie, Trish Morgan, Katie Nolan, Donal Lally The current climate crisis sees the world faced with unprecedented global challenges. In thinking globally but acting locally we try to counterbalance environmental concerns. However, our interactions with networked technologies are another form of extraction - our data consumption contributes to further environmental instability. This is particularly evident in Ireland where the energy needs of the data centre industry result in massive demands on the national grid. This panel focuses on the extractive nature of data, asking what we can do to offset the environmental impacts of our networked interactions and how we can move towards a more sustainable future. Book Day Ticket &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; SATURDAY&nbsp; &nbsp;04.11 Creativity &amp; the Technical Tendency 10am Thomas Garnier, Cliona Harmey, Bassam Issa Al Sabbah, Sinead McDonald Artists have always been innovators when it comes to using new technologies - from photography to hacking gameboys - they reimagine creative uses of new tools. This session focuses on the ways in which artists embrace and utilise digital technologies in their work while providing insight into the influence of technology on creative practice and the impact of creative practice on technology. Unplugged Perspectives on the Digital Divide 11am Kylie Jarrett, Shamim Malekmian, Paul O’ Neill, Harikrishnan Sasikumar From exploitative labour practices associated with delivery workers and content moderators to issues surrounding exclusion based on age, gender, ethnicity, and location, the emancipatory promises associated with digital technologies and platforms often exacerbate and reinforce pre-existing divisions. This discussion engages with these divisions, asking how they can be challenged and changed while looking to identify ways in which we can use digital tech in a more ethical and sustainable manner. The Bodily Experience in Hyperconnected Realities: Art and Technology 12pmDr Angela Butler, Aoibheann Greenan Joanna Walsh This conversation will address art’s role in the digital age and its influence on the human-AI relationship, focusing on how technology impacts our embodied experiences and how it may shape our future connections.By delving into the implications of our burgeoning digital connections on our tangible and emotional experiences, the panellists will explore the emerging social dynamics, identities, and innovative thought patterns arising from interconnected realities. Extending Reality: The Future of Storytelling? 2pmBronagh Gallagher (ScreenService), Elaine Hoey, Jo Mangan, Gareth Young From Jaron Lanier’s Virtual Reality to the rise (and fall?) of the metaverse, we are always seeking out simulated networked environments with which to create and connect. This session features contributions from Irish-based creatives who use immersive technologies to build alternative worlds beyond our own and discusses the future potential of extended reality. In doing so, we ask how can we move beyond the spectacle of the technology itself to ‘real’ immersive experiences. Material Matters: Artistic interventions in the network 3pm John Conway, Kerry Guinan, Adam Stoneman The history of AI is interwoven with that of textiles—the invention of the Jacquard Loom in 1804, which encoded pictures and patterns on ‘punch cards’ that could be read by machines, inspired Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, considered the first computer. Mathematician George Boole, son of a shoemaker, invented Boolean logic, the system of noughts and ones that underpins digital age, and which echoes the binary process of weaving. Following this thread takes us to the neural net that powers AI image generation, formed of millions of artificial neurons—a multitude of interconnected and layered nodes light up with electronic signals until they give birth to a ready-made cultural product. This session connects our hyper-networked era to the physical world through artistic interventions focusing on labour and mechanical processes and their histories. Art as Critical Compass through Quantum Technologies 4pm (FREE EVENT - No registration required)Studio Quantum Artists-In-ResidenceArtists often create work that signals the canary in the coal mine - early warning signs of the potential impacts of new technologies on society. For years, artists around the world have presented work in this sphere in relation to artificial intelligence. But what about quantum technologies? Can we have conversations about quantum now, that enable us to navigate future scenarios? What role can artists and the arts play in deepening our understanding and exploring potential issues?Studio Quantum led by Goethe-Institut Irland is a new artist residency programme and accompanying event series that connects artists and audiences with partners in technology, culture, science and education to foster an open dialogue on the topic of quantum technologies and the arts. Here, Studio Quantum artists-in-residence kennedy+swan discuss their projects and the importance of such art and technology residencies in conversation with Dr Deirdre Kilbane, Project Lead Ireland Quantum Communications Infrastructure, CONNECT Principal Investigator and Director of Research at Walton Institute. Studio Quantum is supported by CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications. Book Day Ticket SUNDAY&nbsp; 05.11&nbsp; &nbsp; “Authentic” Creativity and Artificial “Intelligence”: The Generative Generation 12pm, FREE (Walk-in) Moderator: Luke Clancy (Culture File) Themes: AI, authenticity, art, creative process, automation, originality Over the past number of years, the emergence of deep learning AI models has given rise to a wave of algorithmic platforms that create new worlds of expression and creativity with little more than prompts. From chatgpt to Dall-E , these algorithmic platforms are increasingly dominating our digital vocabulary, however with this new form of expression tensions are arising - hoax articles in national papers to fears over the Artificial intelligence being used to generate films scripts or negate the role of actors, these platforms are as problematic as they are creative. This panel will focus on the implications of Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Industries https://betafestival.ie/Programme Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:31:24 +0000 Beta Festival https://betafestival.ie/Programme &nbsp; Programme Beta Festival’s theme for 2023 will be xyz. ARTWORKS: <img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63a00ffa27d85ccbaa0c6a6d8c93a022982460f2500e4af657d95d84bd87b49c/simon-lee-ynmPY1MLwMs-unsplash.jpg" data-mid="182607934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63a00ffa27d85ccbaa0c6a6d8c93a022982460f2500e4af657d95d84bd87b49c/simon-lee-ynmPY1MLwMs-unsplash.jpg" /> Potato Internet by Caroline Sinders The Potato Internet is an experimental small-scale social network, created by Caroline Sinders and Trammell Hudson to envision the internet in times of climate emergency and the global energy crisis. When imagining alternatives for today’s toxic and extractivist online world, the common criticism often comes down to: "but they don’t scale up". But what if the future of the internet is all about scaling down? In Potato Internet, the small scale allows the artists to build a functioning social network from scratch, rethinking all layers of the system, from hardware to protocols and governance. An 'anti-scale' network can be framed in a local context and endorse slow communication. For the physical framework, the artists experiment with potatoes as a source of energy, and with e-waste and other recycled materials for the interface. The governance of the network, its safety, equity and codes of conduct draw on Sinders' work on the Feminist Data Set. <img width="2550" height="3188" width_o="2550" height_o="3188" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0e8c5145c72e9ca91a5ff62d7244019de4b42fdd46bdf052b6e78bbdf444e7d/jimmy-fermin-bqe0J0b26RQ-unsplash.jpg" data-mid="182608313" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0e8c5145c72e9ca91a5ff62d7244019de4b42fdd46bdf052b6e78bbdf444e7d/jimmy-fermin-bqe0J0b26RQ-unsplash.jpg" /> Caroline Sinders Caroline Sinders is a critical designer and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), the Mozilla Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Some of her research fellowships and funded research work has focused on dark patterns, community health, online harassment, AI inequity, and the labor and systems in AI and platforms.Currently, she is a fellow with Ars Electronica AI Lab with the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, LABoral, Wired, Slate, Quartz, the Channels Festival and others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. https://carolinesinders.com/