The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Bristol extend a warm invitation to this years' Annual Lecture.

THIS IS A TEMPORAL LANDSCAPE, YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE by Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron.

Dr Francesco Bentivegna & Katy Dadacz (CCT members) will also be launching a Queering AI Manifesto, after a six-month project part-supported by the CCT. 

"THIS IS A TEMPORAL LANDSCAPE, YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE is a digital assemblage that displaces the authority conferred by the historical timeline. In doing so, it eschews direction.

THIS IS A TEMPORAL LANDSCAPE, YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE evades the clock by grappling with the impossibility of total narrative cohesion. It dehistoricises cultural objects in order to draw out their affective resonances. You will find no dates attached to archival material.

THIS IS A TEMPORAL LANDSCAPE, YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE invites you to consider the non-rational forces that condition our knowledge of the past – all the moments, intensities and potential that cannot be neatly rendered.

THIS IS A TEMPORAL LANDSCAPE, YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE is an ongoing and collaborative project initiated by Lola Olufemi and Agnes Cameron. This experimental lecture will reflect on the use of artistic practice and digital forms to aestheticize the political imaginary using the cultural production of radical social movements as its starting point. It argues against the force of conservative historiographies which compound political impasse and in favour of radical and expansive conceptualisations of temporality and material resistance."

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Dr. Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London who recently completed her doctorate based in the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisation of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), the forthcoming Against Literature (2026) and a member of 'bare minimum', an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective

Agnes Cameron is an engineer and artist based in London, UK. Her research, technical and pedagogical work is focused on the question of
what it means to develop an unalienated relationship to technology, and on open-source collective knowledge projects. She is a specialist technician and lecturer at UAL's Creative Computing Institute and director of the community interest company Inflationary Assets, and was a 2024 Bellingcat Tech Fellow.