Venue: AD England/Peste
Time: January 30th, 5:30pm
FREE entry
Join D∀RK ON January 30th for Wretched Screens, their first event of 2025.
This specific engagement is focused on media in relation to their occulture sympathies and explorations. The night will feature talks from artist Tom Motley discussing 3d modelling marketplaces and digital intimacy, researcher Matteo Polato discussing Pokémon and the hauntological materiality of retro-gaming, SODA alumni Isa Alsaba on Realism and simulation theory and SODA technician Jake Hatt presenting his videogame projects inspired by witchcraft and cosmic horror. Along with the talks included in the event will be an exhibit of documentation of Real Engine, a collaborative project between game development, magical thinking and psychogeography by Polato and Bortolussi, and Jake Hatt will display his games A Station Beyond and COVENJAM. Following, will be screenings of i luv u (2024), a video artwork by Tom Motley, and a collection of influential online videos that have set precedent for and have defined the aesthetics of contemporary internet culture. All culminating in an in conversation between Motley and SODA PhD researcher Dave Mee on the history of internet culture.
D∀RK has produced a free Zine based on the work from the evening.
The night will take place at 70 Oldham Rd, M4 5EB on the 30th of January from 5:30pm – 9:30pm.
