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The Saloon I (WE) AM (ARE) ANONYMOUSInteract with this installation by Calvin Lok that explores how our behaviour changes when we are given anonymity.

Emoji Café Imagine a future in which emojis have replaced all language at this café installation by Emily Groves.

Slaughter Room

Complimentary drink plus cash bar

General Assembly Room

Flickering Phrontisterion6.30 – 10pm; Drop in In this interactive, participatory artwork by Luciana Haill, the brainwaves of participants are monitored whilst experiencing a ‘Dreamachine’. Emergent sonic guides and voices recede and new ideas come to the fore.

General Assembly Room Landing

Black Box Whisper your secrets into a safe deposit box and listen to recordings by others. Created by Ziyang Zhang and Katie Johnson

Council Room Wearable Technologies Experience computational jewellery by Yulia Silina and coded couture by S E E T H E U N S E E N

Reynolds Room Network Ensemble Listen to music and sounds created from local communications, the blocks of information that smart phones send to each other. Performances at 7pm, 8pm and 9pm (background sound played continuously)

The World Has Always Been an Internet of Things Smart objects have accumulated human-like properties: able to sense their environments or communicate with one another via the internet anonymously. Visit William Fairbrother’s video and installation piece which follows the journey of three inanimate objects.

Designing Cities with Data: Oculus Rift with ArupDiscover how Arup is innovating the design process by using the latest technologies to bring schemes in their earliest stages to life. Plus 10-minute talks by Léan Doody, Associate Director at Arup Digital, on ‘Designing Cities with Data’ at 7.30 and 8.30pm

Servery

Learn counter surveillance techniques with technologies created by students from the RCA’s De-Computation initiative.

Have a go at deciphering online messages that cannot be tracked by computers

For Your Eyes Only by Thomas Gayler and Joanne Harik

The Normal Cypher by Jean Vatchara and Yan Lu

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The RA Grand Café

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Cloakroom

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The RA Grand Café

Silent Disco and Cocktail Bar 8–11pm Grab a headset and dance at our digital silent disco withDJs Richie Moment andAdam Shield.

#wearewatchingPut on the CCTV or censoredeye masks, take photos of different scenarios and upload on to twitter using #wearewatching to highlight issues of online surveillance and privacy. By Meret Vollenweider and Sam Phong Nguyen.

Plus listen in to audio installation ‘What’s Your Emergency’ by Callum Pepper consisting of live feeds of ten emergency service dispatch units from New York City, USA and consider the ethics of listening in on our public services.

Digital (Dis)connect i o n s

The Saloon

Main Galleries - Central Hall

Front Hall

Slaughter Room Council Room

General Assembly Room

Reynolds Room

Servery

Old Gallery Café

General AssemblyLanding

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We take inspiration from Ai Weiwei’s infamous blog and prolific use of social media to host an evening of talks, performances, installations and more that challenge our contemporary use of the internet, and imagines future applications of digital technologies.

Front Hall

Data Dash Take part in this game of hide and seek that invites you to collect data from Hiders wearing encryption suits. It’s up to you whether you display it for everyone to see, or keep it to yourself. Led by artist Ellie Power.

Street food by KERBPOKE - Tropical Hawaiian seafood pots

Please note that food and drink are not permitted in

the galleries.

Sir Hugh Casson Room

Robotics with the Institute of Unnecessary Research6.30–10pm; Drop in Interact with humanoid robot ‘HARR1’ and swarm bots, or have a go at making your own scribble bot with Anna Dumitrui and Alex May from the Institute of Unnecessary Research.

Old Gallery Café

Complimentary Drink Bar

Outside The RA Grand Café

Street food by KERBOH MY DOG! - Gourmet hot dogs

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