Books From The Future

New Genres: X + Y = Z Work-in-progress Show 2020: White City Royal College of Art 31 January 2020, 3–5pm

HQI, The Rotunda, W12 7FQ

Performance lectures on whispered absorption, human playing, immaterial labour, public larping, collective rain, the circulating image, double meaning, otherwhere, virtual gifts and synchronised heartbeats…

George Dutton, Thomas Hedger, Danyang Liu, Ping Mu, Ewa Poniatowska, Julia Renning, Emily Schofield, Julia Van Ijken, Yayuan Xue, Yuhui Zhou 

New Genres is a research group for emergent practice at the RCA, led by Joshua Trees and Chris Michael

Open to RCA staff, students and registered visitors

NB: Gate will close at 3pm. Arrive by 2.45pm for 3pm start. Entry requires an RCA ID card or name on guest list; Visitors outside of RCA should contact joshua.trees@rca.ac.uk to be added to the guest list.

Theory Objects Vilnius Academy of Arts 19 April 2019, 1300–1600

Theory Objects is an exhibition, discussion and celebration of ‘theory objects’ enacting philosophies and publishing strategies of postconceptualism, memetics and FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software).

Theory Objects launches a range of self-replicating manifestations (events, actions and things) designed to be copied, modified and shared, including: a manifesto for the grass snake, a movement for ‘fullysleeping’, a comparison machine for conspicuous waste, a DIY hydrofoil wing, mutant plastic fish, the feminist bob, the death of choice, chonk abuse and the ultimate hangover cure.

A project led by Joshua Trees in collaboration with VDA students (MA Visual Communication Design and BA Graphic Design): Noatė Atkočiūnas, Kotryna Abromaityte, Ona Vėliūtė, Monika Šumauskaitė, Austė Dzikaraitė, Lina Vaiškūnaitė, Aurelija Slapšytė, Domas Cibas, Juta Kibildytė. Joshua Trees is a researcher, publisher and educator. He is currently Tutor at Royal College of Art and co-founder of Books From The Future.

Open to the public

Funded by the Lithuanian Education and Science Support Fund

VDA, Titanic Building Room 112 Maironio str. 3 Vilnius, Lithuania 01124

Theory Objects Vilnius Academy of Arts Workshop:  8—19 April 2019 Exhibition PV: 19 April, 1300—1600

Theory Objects is a workshop and exhibition by Joshua Trees, produced in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts (MA Visual Communication Design and BA Graphic Design).

Theory Objects investigates the open-source concept of a ‘theory object’* 
 *Historically Bruce Sterling has used the term to describe “shareable concepts” such as ‘Spime’ and ‘The New Aesthetic’, but Trees has adopted the term to refer to redistributable concepts designed to both initiate and facilitate their own modification, duplication and dissemination. Such concepts could be material (publications, posters, furniture, souvenirs…) or immaterial (downloads, workshops, rumours, algorithms, performances, videos, fonts…) Funded by the Lithuanian Education and Science Support Fund

Model and Countermodel School of Communication Work-in-Progress Show Royal College of Art 15 February 2019, 1400-1730

Lectures on love, touch, downsampling, angst and ennui, sausage rolls, antidotes to anti-feminism, the ego, the outsourced alter ego and Depeche Mode’s Basildon…

Lectures by Yexin Cai, Andrew Dhesi, Kai-Ning Huang, Yuanbo Jiang, Julia Mahrer, Georgina Marshall, Jacob Pardoe, Eilis Searson, Christopher Smith, Jack Warne, Dimitri Wiss, Iain Worgan

New Genres is an interest group for experimental practices and pedagogies at RCA, led by Joshua Trees

1400-1530  Act I: Lectures 1-6 1530-1600  Intermission*    1600-1730  Act II: Lectures 7-12 

*Feel free to exit and enter during intermission

Open to RCA staff, students and registered visitors NB: entry requires an RCA ID card or name on guest list; Visitors outside of RCA should contact joshua.trees@rca.ac.uk before 1200 on 14 February to book a place on guest list.

Huckletree West Mediaworks 191 Wood Lane, London W12 7FP

Distributed: a conversation with Joshua Trees, Jack Clarke and Ayşe Köklü Content Free, Royal College of Art