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adashboard (for fiction)

Science-fiction as a tool and experiments in digital narratives

Weblog · Brussels
http://www.adashboard.org

In a predigital area An Mertens would have been the type of author struggling with small cards in large drawers, trying to keep everything categorized alphabetically and with a 100 different colors. Lucky to have been born in the seventies, she can now use digital flexible systems, add and delete as it pleases her.

Adashboard (for fiction) hosts a.o. following items:

* (radio)sessions on women’s and non occidental science fiction, parallel futures and technologies in music, and any interesting work that question the ideas of identity, language, domination, classification, gender and sampling.

* reflections on and experiments with ‘new media literacy’ and comments on new formats of digital narrative.

PS: language: language is not neutral. The English text your read on this page.blog is not neutral, it is written by a Dutch speaking person. Who decides upon the standards? How can we consciously politicize language as non-native English, as women, as… ? How can we open up texts and stories through different languages? Consider this an absolute free space: congratulate and despise formulations, references, invent and create, punish and demolish!

Keywords: Fiction as tool · Women · Collaborative ·

! Co LAPse KoDe at the Festival Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe

Performance · 2011
The collective of ! Co LAPse KoDe will present their latest creation at the Festival for contemporary creation Le Souffle de l’Equinoxe in Poitiers, France. The festival presents 50 creations (...)

!Co LAPse Kode @ CCA

Workshop · Residency · 2011
Artist Kirsty Stansfield and storyteller An Mertens will round up their 3 weeks residency at CCA with a workshop for artists and performers, in which they share the results of their research. In (...)

!Co LAPse KoDe @ Marginalia+Lab, Brasil

Performance · Residency · 2011
The project !Co LAPse KoDe was selected out of 97 submissions from 27 countries to participate in the international residency program of Marginalia+Lab, a space for creation and research in art (...)

!CoLAPSeKoDe @ Pianofabriek KWP

Residency · 2011
!CoLAPseKoDe continues its research in De Pianofabriek KWP. Simon Yuill, Lot Jansen and An Mertens will be working with the surveillance imagesof one of the cameras of the residency. On a daily (...)

11e Festival Bandits-Mages

Performative lecture · 2009
An Mertens will be participating in the 11th Festival Bandits-Mages, in the program ’Anticipated Worlds/Augmented Territories’. Fiction allows you to take a distance from everyday reality and to (...)

A society under surveillance

Lecture · 2010
The great wish for the closing event of this conference was a showcase of the Kaleidoscope project. Unfortunately the infrastructure of the university makes it very difficult to set this up. (...)

Boektegoed

Workshop · 2009
Ana Foor & Anne Wiel show children how you can turn a memory into a fiction story and how you stitch the story into a selfmade cover. Children make their own book with free software during (...)

Boektegoed Toolkit

Toolkit · 2009
This toolkit is freely downloadable for all children (and those who still feel like children) who want to make their own book. In this toolkit you find: tips to turn a memory into a fictional (...)

CIAO/CU 2nd

Award · 2008
The digital narration *CIAU/CU* was awarded the 2nd place in the trails category of the ShiftSpace commission program and will be granted a development grant from Turbulence.org CIAO/CU is a (...)

CIAO/CU @ PLACE@SPACE

Exhibition · 2008
CIAO/CU – Digital narration CIAO/TOT LATER — Novel * Work in Progress* Linda is a young photographer who dreams of making a living as a comic artist. She lives on a square in the center of (...)