Please join us for the launch of WEEB THEORY
Edited by Jamie Sutcliffe & Petra Szemán, published by Banner Repeater

Saturday 29th April, 12-6pm
Conversation: 2pm
Including an afternoon preview of the VR work:
Pandemonium: do androids dream of? by Ami Clarke, in discussion with Jamie Sutcliffe

WEEB THEORY features newly commissioned essays, artists texts, and interviews by David Blandy, Dawn Chan, Ian Condry, Patrick W. Galbraith, Cole J Graham, Catherine Harrington, Thomas Lamarre, Deborah Levitt, Sahej Rahal, Jamie Sutcliffe and Petra Szemán.

"This book is a resource for artists encountering the dreamworlds of Japanese animation and anime-adjacent media. On the one hand, it is a collection of lyrical and theoretical provocations for thinking through the intensities and intimacies of fandom, for finding critical opportunities within the series, movies, manga, and video games that an increasing number of us have come to share emotional and intellectual connections with. But it is also—and perhaps more importantly—a book about the broader conditions of animation and animacy, of what happens to the relationship between “life” and “image” in a hyper-mediated techno-political milieu. It no longer seems appropriate to say that we simply “watch anime”, or “play video games”, but that our lives are to some extent affectively “produced”, “maintained”, or “conditioned”, by them.

Banner Repeater

Platform 1, Hackney Downs Network Rail, Dalston Lane, E8 1LA

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