Tuesday 17th December 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

SUBSONG

Technology isn’t just changing the way cultural objects and interventions are produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for writers, musicians, artists and researchers to colonise.

It's also creating a context in which many techniques characteristic of experimental poetic practice have become commonplace. Join us for innovative poetics, interactive performances, lively debate and, of course, sparkling wine.

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Wednesday 20th November 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 9: Inappropriation

Join Holly Pester, an experimental sound poet and writer with an idiosyncratic vocal technique plus Verity Spott, a writer, musician and performer and finally Henry Stead, maker and imitator of things as they get Inappropriation.

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Technology isn’t just changing the way cultural objects and interventions are produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for writers, musicians, artists and researchers to colonise.

Tuesday 22nd October 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 8: DEGAMIFY

Technology isn’t just changing the way cultural objects and interventions are produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for writers, musicians, artists and researchers to colonise.

Syndicate 8 explores the theme of DEGAMIFY with poet Francesca Lisette, writer/singer Lydia White and others. Expect innovative poetics, multi-media artworks, interactive performances, lively debate and sparkling wine.

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Thursday 19th September 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 7: NANO

Technology isn’t just changing the way cultural objects and interventions are produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for writers, musicians, artists and researchers to colonise.

Syndicate 7 explores the theme of NANO, with performances from Sandra Alland, Steve Willey and Ian Davidson, expect innovative poetics, multi-media artworks, interactive performances, lively debate and sparkling wine.

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Friday 30th August 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 6: I/O

Technology isn’t just changing the way cultural objects and interventions are produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for writers, musicians, artists and researchers to colonise.

It’s also creating a context in which many techniques characteristic of experimental art practices have become commonplace. Syndicate explores this through a series of live performances, installations and dialogues.

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Thursday 14th March 2012, 6.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 1: Allopoiesis

Technology isn’t just changing the way poetry is produced and disseminated, and it isn’t just creating new media forms for poets to colonise. It’s also creating a context in which many techniques characteristic of experimental poetry practice have become commonplace.

The first instalment of Syndicate will explore the raw intersection of avant-garde poetics, technology and cyberculture through a series of live performances, installations and dialogues. Join us to debate the meaning of authorship and identity in a digital context.

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Sunday 15 April 2012, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 2: Real Time Strategy

Bram Gieben, Justin Katko, Lisa Otty and Jo L Walton will perform / present under the broad rubric of Real Time Strategy. The term chiefly refers to a genre of computer game, and thereby hints at Syndicate’s large, even ontologically nosy, exploratory remit.

Real Time Strategy also has an aura of the ad hoc, of acts on the fly. Just as allopoiesis elides with autopoiesis, so “real time” suggests a raft of unreal types of time: turn-based time, false time, untimeliness, being out of time, and – ahead of all – being before one’s time.

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Tuesday 21st May 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 3: Swarm

Syndicate is a unique initiative bringing together writers, musicians, artists and researchers working within, and in response to, digital technologies, new media and evolving network practices. 

Syndicate 3 presents multimedia poetry, electronic music, zesty discussion over carbonated drinks and performances from Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte, Samantha Walton and Sean Williams under the theme: SWARM.

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Wednesday 5th June 2013, 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 4: Poor.Old.TIred.Pancake

The fourth instalment of Syndicate welcomes Jennifer Cooke, nick-e Melville, Laurie Irvine and G S Smith who will perform, talk, project, make noise: please come and enjoy a range of sparkling drinks, experimental poetry and fizzling chat.

Inspired by text-based art practices of the 60s and 70s advertising, new media and contemporary consumerism, the themes of the night include: materiality/thingliness, infrastructure, malfunction, security, concrete poetry, capital and labour.

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Thursday 25 July 2013, 6.30 for 7pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Syndicate 5: Like

The fifth instalment of Syndicate features the word and music performances of Peter Manson, Arild Vange, Peter Davidson, Colin Herd, and Karen Veitch.

Potential hashtags include: cyberculture, social media, dissemination, remediation/intermediation, intention, form/context, glitch, mass collaboration, and public sphere.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a stimulating evening of poetry for mind and sense, conversation, and of course, sparkling drinks.

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