IN-PERSON London Heritages. Section A
Abstract
A joint presentation form the team at the University of Greenwich research group, Captivate prior to the opening of the Thursday evening exhibition.
The Captivate Heritage Lab combines, technological, academic, cultural and commercial concerns to explore the threshold between the real and the virtual, the permanent and the transitory, the core and the peripheral, in relation to heritage assets. Experts from Architecture (Design/Practice/History & Theory), Urbanism, experimental film, digital arts and philosophy, share their knowledge in relation to new forms of materialism, the object as data set and speculative trajectories.
The exhibition presents a selection of their work to date and invites visitors to engage with a selection of images and objects from the Captivate archive. Baroque folds will be ever present, arranged around a central console echoing the ‘table non standard’ of Patrick Beaucé et Bernard Cache (from 2005), and the phased transitions between spatial and temporal regions.
Nb. After the concert delegates will meet informally for drinks at The Mitre, a small pub just across the road from the university building.
291 Greenwich High Road, London. SE10 8NA
Simon Withers leads the Captivate: Spatial Modelling Research Group. In February 2020 using Ground Penetrating Radar Captivate discovered the location of King Henry VIII’s tilt yard complex (jousting ground), banqueting house, and disguising house (theatre). Now undertaking a PhD allied to the Research Group, ‘Captivating the Attention of Strangers. Since 2012 a teacher at the AA, Hooke Park, the Bartlett and the University of Greenwich. From 2008 to 2016 founding partner in a variety of companies involved in various aspects of architecture and from 2000-08 an eponymous architectural design practice. Previously founder of an electrics company specialising in high speed LED software and hardware, a partner in an architectural practice, production assistant to Matthew Barney, design assistant to Malcolm McLaren, design assistant to Vivienne Westwood.
Professor Stephen Kennedy’s work extends across Media, Digital Arts and Sound Design. His research interests lie at the intersection of theory and practice in relation to the political economy of contemporary communications technology. He is the author of Chaos Media: A Sonic Economy of Digital Space (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018). His work involves reformulating the idea of noise as a means of supporting philosophical frameworks capable of accounting for the complex nature of contemporary digital environments.
6:45 pm -
Thursday 26th June, 2025