Beta is a new festival of art and technology critically engaging with the impact of emerging technologies on society. Taking Ireland’s role as a central node in today's wired world as a starting point, Beta will showcase and celebrate Ireland’s research and artistic communities through a combination of creativity, debate and experimentation. Beta allows members of the public to engage playfully and critically with new technologies essentially beta testing ethical issues facing society.
Beta is a new festival of art and technology critically engaging with the impact of emerging technologies on society. Taking Ireland’s role as a central node in today's wired world as a starting point, Beta showcases and celebrates Ireland’s research and artistic communities through a combination of creativity, debate and experimentation. Beta allows members of the public to engage playfully and critically with new technologies essentially beta testing ethical issues facing society
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The 2024 edition of Beta will explore a range of themes relating to AI and the politics of
resistance in an algorithmic age. Through a programme of exhibitions, workshops and
talks, the festival will interrogate what kinds of powers reside in technology.
The 2024 edition of Beta will explore a range of themes relating to AI, Automated Systems, and the politics of resistance in an algorithmic age. Through a programme of exhibitions, workshops and talks, the festival will interrogate what kinds of powers reside in technology.
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Highlights include two exhibitions: Unsettling the Algorithm: Seeds of Resistance
curated by Aisling Murray and Nora O’Murchú, featuring Basil Al Rawi, Firas Shehadeh
and Winnie Soon, and “Local Artist Networks” - an exhibition showing new works from
Aisling Phelan, Cailean Finn & Screen Service.
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The festival's dynamic programme of talks and workshops will return this year and
includes keynotes from Kay Watson and Abebe Birhane. New to Beta for the 2024
festival are three collaborations; with Fire Station Artist’s Studio, who present “New
Obsolescence: Critical Media Conversations”, an Assembly on Art and AI with members
of the AI Advisory Council, and with IMMA.
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Performances includes the award winning NOIRE XR performance and live activations
of artworks by selected artists.
The festival is co-founded by The Digital Hub and supported by Science Week with additional support for the 2024 programme from the French Embassy, British Council, Smart Dublin, Screen Ireland, Arts Council Festival Investment Scheme and Goethe-Institut. Programme partners this year include ADAPT research centre, Creative Futures Academy, Fire Station Artists Studios, Pallas Studios, IMMA, D.A.T.A., Base, Creative Spark FabLab.
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<pclass="list-info-text"><u>This year Beta Festival will have two main exhibitions:</u></p>
<pclass="list-info-text">An international thematic exhibition curated by Nora O’ Murchú and Aisling Murray called <b>Unsettling the Algorithm</b> including works by: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Basil Al-Rawi, Caroline Campbell, Firas Shehadeh, Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry, Nora Al Badri, Patricia Domínguez and Suzanne Treister, Sebastian Schmieg, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, and TzuTung Lee and Winnie Soon.</p>
<pclass="list-info-text"><b>Local Artist Networks</b> spotlights exciting Irish voices with emergent practices. This strand of the programme is dedicated to new work by some of Ireland’s most exciting artists experimenting with art and technology this year this includes new work from Pallas Studios/Project artist Conan McIvor and new commissions from Aisling Phelan, Cailean Finn and Screen Service artists Mel Galley and Aindriú Ó’Deasún.</p>
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<pclass="list-info-text">Beta Festival will feature a variety of performances, workshops and discussions as part of this year's programme including collaborations with D.A.T.A., Base, Fire Station Artists Studios, Creative Futures Academy and Creative Sparks Fab Lab.</p>
<pclass="list-info-text">We will also present Noire, the Cannes award-winning immersive experience directed by Stéphane Foenkinos and Pierre-Alain Giraud, based on the work by Tania de Montaigne, produced by Novaya in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, co-produced with Flash Forward Entertainment (Taiwan).</p>