Nadia J. Armstrong is a resident in the Beta x transmediale 2023 Residency Programme. During her residency Armstrong will be continuing her project RENDER ME TENDER, 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.
jury
Nora O Murchú, Aisling Murray, Sheena Barrett, Tomke Braun
credits
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.
transmediale has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004.