Category Archives: Writing Session

Word of Mouth: Pip Thornton talks Poem.py, Engineering Fictions and the Monetised School of Poetry with Michael Rosen – Tues, 23rd Jan @ 4pm BBC 4

Throwback Alert!!! On Tuesday 23rd January at 4pm, Engineering Fictions catalyst Pip Thornton will speak with Michael Rosen about her intervention into the Google Ad Words world via her Poem.py device. Pip catalysed a session of EF on Valentines Day,

Word of Mouth: Pip Thornton talks Poem.py, Engineering Fictions and the Monetised School of Poetry with Michael Rosen – Tues, 23rd Jan @ 4pm BBC 4

Throwback Alert!!! On Tuesday 23rd January at 4pm, Engineering Fictions catalyst Pip Thornton will speak with Michael Rosen about her intervention into the Google Ad Words world via her Poem.py device. Pip catalysed a session of EF on Valentines Day,

Engineering Fictions: Cloud Illusions @ Galway Arts Festival with SuperProjects & ANNEX Entanglement

Cloud Illusions: Sonnets for Sustainability Are we living with our heads in the clouds, and how can we explore, communicate and change this experience? Cloud Illusions will explore the theme of a ‘cloud-based lifestyle’ proposed by the ANNEX exhibition. Through

Engineering Fictions: Cloud Illusions @ Galway Arts Festival with SuperProjects & ANNEX Entanglement

Cloud Illusions: Sonnets for Sustainability Are we living with our heads in the clouds, and how can we explore, communicate and change this experience? Cloud Illusions will explore the theme of a ‘cloud-based lifestyle’ proposed by the ANNEX exhibition. Through

EF#2.20 Weird Compliance – 4th Nov. 2020 – 1-4pm on MS Teams

SEED: Weird Compliance CATALYST: Anonymous HOST: Jessica Foley MEETING-PLACE: Microsoft Teams DATE: 4th November 2020 TIME: 1-4pm We are living through a time filled with contradictions and inversions, where public health recommendations are increasingly perceived as a threat to individual

EF#2.20 Weird Compliance – 4th Nov. 2020 – 1-4pm on MS Teams

SEED: Weird Compliance CATALYST: Anonymous HOST: Jessica Foley MEETING-PLACE: Microsoft Teams DATE: 4th November 2020 TIME: 1-4pm We are living through a time filled with contradictions and inversions, where public health recommendations are increasingly perceived as a threat to individual

EF#1.20 Fastidious Inquiry – 30th Sept. 2020 – 1-4pm on MS Teams

SEED: Fastidious Inquiry CATALYST: Anonymous HOST: Jessica Foley MEETING-PLACE: Microsoft Teams DATE: 30th September 2020 TIME: 1-4pm In 1967, the poet Richard Brautigan imagined a cybernetic world where people would be watched over by “machines of loving grace”. Half a

EF#1.20 Fastidious Inquiry – 30th Sept. 2020 – 1-4pm on MS Teams

SEED: Fastidious Inquiry CATALYST: Anonymous HOST: Jessica Foley MEETING-PLACE: Microsoft Teams DATE: 30th September 2020 TIME: 1-4pm In 1967, the poet Richard Brautigan imagined a cybernetic world where people would be watched over by “machines of loving grace”. Half a

EF#5.19 Orienteering Fictions – Weds 26th June – 1-5pm @ CONNECT

SEED: Orienteering Fictions (in the Docklands SDZ) CATALYSTS: Jessica Foley, with Eva George Richardson McCrea and Building City Dashboards (MUSSI) HOST: CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, 34 Westland Row, Dublin 2. DATE: 26th June 2019 TIME: 1pm to 5pm (approx) A

EF#5.19 Orienteering Fictions – Weds 26th June – 1-5pm @ CONNECT

SEED: Orienteering Fictions (in the Docklands SDZ) CATALYSTS: Jessica Foley, with Eva George Richardson McCrea and Building City Dashboards (MUSSI) HOST: CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, 34 Westland Row, Dublin 2. DATE: 26th June 2019 TIME: 1pm to 5pm (approx) A

EF#4.19 Monumental Scraps – Tues 18th June – 2-4.30pm

SEED: Monumental Scraps CATALYST: Olly Dawkins, Jessica Foley  HOST: The Russell Library DATE: 18th June 2019 TIME:  2 – 4.30pm (approx.)   How are we to speak of these ‘common things’, how to track them down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross

EF#4.19 Monumental Scraps – Tues 18th June – 2-4.30pm

SEED: Monumental Scraps CATALYST: Olly Dawkins, Jessica Foley  HOST: The Russell Library DATE: 18th June 2019 TIME:  2 – 4.30pm (approx.)   How are we to speak of these ‘common things’, how to track them down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross

EF#3.19 Sampling Poetics (fuzzy_personae_contd.) Tues 11th June 2 – 4.30pm

SEED: Sampling Poetics (fuzzy_personae_contd.) CATALYST: Christodoulos Makris HOST: Jessica Foley/MUSSI DATE: 11th June 2019 TIME: 2 – 4.30pm My days are shaped around the digital material I consume. From the moment I check my tablet in the morning for the

EF#3.19 Sampling Poetics (fuzzy_personae_contd.) Tues 11th June 2 – 4.30pm

SEED: Sampling Poetics (fuzzy_personae_contd.) CATALYST: Christodoulos Makris HOST: Jessica Foley/MUSSI DATE: 11th June 2019 TIME: 2 – 4.30pm My days are shaped around the digital material I consume. From the moment I check my tablet in the morning for the

EF#2.19 Fuzzy Personae Tues 4th June 2 – 4.30pm

Catalysts: Jessica Foley, Gareth Young and Burcin Yazgi-Walsh Host: The Russell Library, Maynooth University  Date: Tuesday 4th June Time: 2 – 4.30pm On Tuesday 4th June, from 2 – 4:30pm, the second Engineering Fictions session of 2019 will take place in The

EF#2.19 Fuzzy Personae Tues 4th June 2 – 4.30pm

Catalysts: Jessica Foley, Gareth Young and Burcin Yazgi-Walsh Host: The Russell Library, Maynooth University  Date: Tuesday 4th June Time: 2 – 4.30pm On Tuesday 4th June, from 2 – 4:30pm, the second Engineering Fictions session of 2019 will take place in The

EF#1.19 How do I Love Thee, Let me Count /Map the Ways…

CATATLYST: Jessica Foley & Oliver Dawkins HOST: Maynooth Library & Love Data Week SEED: How do I Love Thee, Let me Count/Map the Ways… DATE: 14th February 2019 2-4pm The first Engineering Fictions session of 2019 took place on Valentines

EF#1.19 How do I Love Thee, Let me Count /Map the Ways…

CATATLYST: Jessica Foley & Oliver Dawkins HOST: Maynooth Library & Love Data Week SEED: How do I Love Thee, Let me Count/Map the Ways… DATE: 14th February 2019 2-4pm The first Engineering Fictions session of 2019 took place on Valentines

EF#3.18 Computer Says No…

CATALYST: Jessica Foley HOST: The Incomputable + OMG  SEED: Computer Says No… This writing workshop session will tease out relationships between authorial voice, the production of facticity and lived experiences of ‘the incomputable’. Taking a Little Britain sketch as a point

EF#3.18 Computer Says No…

CATALYST: Jessica Foley HOST: The Incomputable + OMG  SEED: Computer Says No… This writing workshop session will tease out relationships between authorial voice, the production of facticity and lived experiences of ‘the incomputable’. Taking a Little Britain sketch as a point