SOMESTIC MEDIA |  New Talent Residency 2017 | Watershed
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Date: 15/03/2018

SOMESTIC MEDIA |  New Talent Residency 2017 | Watershed
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Designers Vytautas Jankauskas and Jon Flint talk about creating Somestic Media, a series of home appliances that satirically expose our relationship to social media.

Designers Vytautas Jankauskas and Jon Flint talk about their creation of Somestic Media, a series of home appliances that satirically expose our relationship to social media. Their aim is to heighten our understanding how new technologies change the way we live and socialise, and what information we take for granted. Evoking humour and disconcertion, the work encourages us to reassess the impact social media has on our perception of time, distance and normality.

Watershed's annual New Talent Residency programme supports ambitious practitioners to develop creative technology projects. We actively support those who are just starting out, changing career direction or looking to return from a career break. With space to work within the Pervasive Media Studio, a community of peers, a project bursary, and support to make, test and discuss work, we help get ideas off the ground.

Watershed is a three-screen cinema in Bristol UK showing independently produced films from Britain and beyond. We are also a centre for art and creative technology: home to the Pervasive Media Studio, where artists, technologists and academics work on projects and products at the cutting edge of art, science and digital.

Film by Jon Aitken – https://www.jonaitken.com

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