Friday, 31 October 2008, 6.30-10pm
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL
www.vam.ac.uk/fcfridaylate
FREE
Nearest Tube: South Kensington

Join us for an evening to celebrate the exhibition, Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970.

Cybersonica and Cybersalon with Fashion in Film and the London Games Fringe showcase an evening of progressive electronic music and audiovisual performance, accessible interactive and digital art, thought-provoking screenings and classic and contemporary gaming.

Become an activist and nurture your revolutionary streak with Class Wargames who will be on hand to help you fight and win against the oppressors of spectacular society!

  • Cold War Live & Direct – a live audiovisual entertainment channel tuned to the Cold War era featuring Secret Films, I Am The Mighty Jungulator and Ben Osborne and Overlap presenting Baby Space Disco (Noise of Art)
  • A new interactive work by Squidsoup – The Stealth Project: Under The Radar – incorporating NOVA, the world’s first full-colour real 3D LED video screen.
  • Adolescent nostalgia and political critique with redeveloped and DIY ‘board games of war’ from Class Wargames & Copplestone Castings featuring players from the Warsaw Pact Forces Group.
  • Take centre stage and become iconic characters from three great Cold War Film Classics with The Casting Scene‘s online ‘audition’ service.
  • Shelley Parker‘s emotive and atmospheric soundscape – Cast – evokes a post-apocalyptic future in the awe-inspiring grandeur of the V&A’s Cast Courts.
  • The London Games Fringe load up and invite you to play three classic Cold War themed video games: Missile Command, Defcon and the multiplayer GoldenEye 007.
  • Fashion in Film presents Beyond Espionage – a selection of some of the most eloquent newsreels and documentaries from post-war East Germany and Czechoslovakia exploring the rhetoric of “socialist fashion”.
  • Alex Veness and his custom-made camera the Xenon-Eye create grotesque, bizarrely misshapen, anxious Imaginary Cold War Portraits.
  • Stanza‘s Robotica: Control Inside the Panopticon is a playful installation that questions ideas of surveillance and tracking using robots, CCTV and sensor technologies.
  • and Stanza‘s Sensity V&A uses a network of ‘motes’ around the V&A to collect data and drive a visualisation that reflects the ’emotional state’ of the building.

Full details are listed under PROGRAMME.