Reactor Halls E12: Ugly Weekender
Dirty Electronics
Saturday 14 February, 19:00
£3 on the door

The first in a new season of Reactor Halls events. A 24-hour retreat exploring DIY electronics, sound and design will produce the content for this performance. With: John Richards, Alexandra Moon-Age, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Natalie Kay-Thatcher, John Fass, Jim Frize, Phillip Henderson, et al.

“The most difficult challenges for designers of electronic objects now lie not in technical and semiotic functionality, where optimal levels of performance are already attainable, but in the realms of metaphysics, poetry, and aesthetics …” Anthony Dunne, Hertzian Tales

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Reactor feature in this new book on art collectives by Francesco Spampinato, published by Princeton Architectural Press. The book investigates the mechanisms behind the collective production of culture, through discussion with forty collectives about collaboration, membership, responsibility, audiences and more.

Link to the publisher.

More information on the book and the contributors can be found here.

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My name is Daniel Oliver. I have written a chapter about Reactor for the recently published Žižek and Performance book, edited by Broderick Chow and Alex Mangold, published by Palgrave Macmillan (2014). The book collects essays that either bring together key performance theories with key theories from Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, or read certain performances or performance practices through a Žižekian lens. Mine does the latter.

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With just 23 days to go until this year's Martinmas Interviews (taking place again in Nottingham on the 11th November 2014) - there is still (just enough) time for you to apply, complete your preparations, and join us for the celebration. Reactor sincerely encourages those who feel ready to join the group, and take on the role of the Secret Member, to step forward urgently and present themselves for the Martinmas Interviews. There is an opening at the heart of the group that awaits the correct initiate, and Reactor is ready to guide you through the preparations. For further information click here, and to apply click here.

On Thursday 14 August 2014, Reactor showed our new video work - 'Max Gold PAYPERVIEW' - at the very first ESP Film Open.

Works were selected by artist Benedict Drew and ESP Programmer Elinor Morgan. Other films as part of the screening were by Dan Auluk, Sophie Bullock, Georgie Grace, Amanda Grist, Tracy Hickinbottom, Michael Lightborne, Amy Lunn, Joanne Masding, Emily Mulenga and Mathew Parkin.