Events/Workshops

WITCiH Digital Festival 2021
Jun
9
to Jun 11

WITCiH Digital Festival 2021

WITCiH Digital Festival, 9-11 June 2021 (online)

Join us for 3 nights celebrating the unique stories of intergenerational and intercultural women and non-binary creatives in tech. Each evening presents a digital premiere of a new commission/s, followed by an engaging, intimate conversation with established star guests.

Post-event, WITCiH Digital Festival attendees are also invited to an experimental, immersive after-party within a custom environment we've designed in @topia.io. Join us for intimate avatar exploration of spatial audio artworks plus video chat to fellow audience members, commissioned artists and guests. WITCiH World will be open for an hour after each event finishes next week.

BUY TICKETS HERE [Single Day passes (£10), Festival Pass (£25). Concessions available. WITCiH Community Members have access to discounted tickets]


[Support organisations information for 10 June - Wellbeing In Electronic Music]

If you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in this panel, the following organisations may be able to provide help and advice:

Victim Support - Provides help and information for anyone who has been affected by a crime, including a violent or sexual assault, or is wary about involving the police. Helpline: 0845 30 30 900 (Seven days a week)     

The Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre - Support and information for women and girls who have been raped or sexually abused, however long ago and whatever the circumstances. Helpline: 0845 1221 331 (Seven days a week)      

Samaritans - Provides confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair. Helpline: 08457 90 90 90 (24 hours a day, seven days a week)

Support for musicians experiencing mental health issues: 

Key Changes

Music Support (helpline: 0800 030 6789) 

Musica Therapy

MITC: Music Industry Therapists & Coaches

Music Minds Matter

MIND (Hackney Mind is now also offering a new service called Rainbow Mind for LGBTQ+ individuals)

Mind Guide for Artist Managers: https://www.mind.org.uk/media/8461/mind-mental-health-guide-for-artist-managers-final.pdf

The Musician’s Union (Offer regular free guided meditation for members and non-members )

Talk Changes (FREE CBT)

ELOP (LGBTQ / low income)

Black Minds Matter

Music and You

BAPAM

Recommendation to read: The Artist’s Way:
Sleep Station (app)

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Guests

Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Best known for her multimedia presentations, innovative use of technology and first-person style, she is a writer, director, visual artist and vocalist who has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, and experimental music.Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, includes many records released by Warner Records among them “Big Science” (1982), the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Brave”(1986) “Strange Angels” (1989) “Life on a String” (2001) “Homeland” (2008) and “Landfall” (2018) released on Nonesuch which recently won a Grammy Award in 2019 for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.[photo: Ebru Yildiz]

Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Best known for her multimedia presentations, innovative use of technology and first-person style, she is a writer, director, visual artist and vocalist who has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, and experimental music.

Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, includes many records released by Warner Records among them “Big Science” (1982), the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Brave”(1986) “Strange Angels” (1989) “Life on a String” (2001) “Homeland” (2008) and “Landfall” (2018) released on Nonesuch which recently won a Grammy Award in 2019 for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

[photo: Ebru Yildiz]

Nemone has been broadcasting for a quarter of a century with the last twenty years at the BBC (Radio 1, Radio 2, Five Live, BBC Radio 6 Music.) Her passion for electronic music led her to curate a weekly specialist show Electric Ladyland for the last decade. She now hosts her Journeys in Sound series taking a deeper dive into our relationship with music and its effect on the mind, body and soul. Nemone holds a masters in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling and sees clients weekly. During the pandemic, she promoted breathing and grounding exercises as part of supporting well-being and you can find her mini mediations at Mixcloud.com/NemoneNemone is currently collaborating with the Scottish Ensemble on a performance piece about how music might be implicated in transcendental experiences and the necessity of those experiences in a rational world. https://www.nemonemetaxas.com/

Nemone has been broadcasting for a quarter of a century with the last twenty years at the BBC (Radio 1, Radio 2, Five Live, BBC Radio 6 Music.) Her passion for electronic music led her to curate a weekly specialist show Electric Ladyland for the last decade. She now hosts her Journeys in Sound series taking a deeper dive into our relationship with music and its effect on the mind, body and soul. 

Nemone holds a masters in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling and sees clients weekly. During the pandemic, she promoted breathing and grounding exercises as part of supporting well-being and you can find her mini mediations at Mixcloud.com/Nemone

Nemone is currently collaborating with the Scottish Ensemble on a performance piece about how music might be implicated in transcendental experiences and the necessity of those experiences in a rational world. 

https://www.nemonemetaxas.com/

Hannah Holland is a worldwide DJ, producer, composer and label boss from London, with releases on Classic Music Company, Crosstown Rebels, her own imprint Batty Bass and has remixed the likes of Metronomy, Goldfrapp, The Knife and Planningtorock. She regularly plays at clubs such as The Carry Nation New York, Berghain / Panorama Bar Berlin and Adonis London. Outside of clubland she works on theatre, installation and film music, as well as playing bass for the band Black Gold Buffalo. Latest scores have included Channel 4 series Adult Material and award winning indie feature Electrician. Hannah’s much anticipated debut album, Tectonic, is coming out on Prah Recordings in 2021.https://www.hannahhollandmusic.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/djhannahholland/ Latest release: Midnight Horizon on Prah Recordings, from forthcoming album Tectonic coming out in Sept.

Hannah Holland is a worldwide DJ, producer, composer and label boss from London, with releases on Classic Music Company, Crosstown Rebels, her own imprint Batty Bass and has remixed the likes of Metronomy, Goldfrapp, The Knife and Planningtorock. She regularly plays at clubs such as The Carry Nation New York, Berghain / Panorama Bar Berlin and Adonis London. Outside of clubland she works on theatre, installation and film music, as well as playing bass for the band Black Gold Buffalo. Latest scores have included Channel 4 series Adult Material and award winning indie feature Electrician. Hannah’s much anticipated debut album, Tectonic, is coming out on Prah Recordings in 2021.

https://www.hannahhollandmusic.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/djhannahholland/


Latest release: Midnight Horizon on Prah Recordings, from forthcoming album Tectonic coming out in Sept.

Kayla Painter is an experimental artist and producer.  “Fragmented beats, heading towards uncharted musical territories” - Crack MagazinePainter’s immersive, ever-evolving AV performances are a natural consequence of the entire writing process; the AV show has appeared at; Glastonbury, The Great Escape, Camp Elsewhere, Bluedot, and We Out Here festivals. Supported through Gilles Peterson's ‘Future Bubblers’ talent development program, Kayla has made a lasting impact on tastemakers. She has crafted remixes for a string of well-regarded acts, written music for Disney, Channel 4, Discovery Channel and a range of independent films, as well as having been commissioned by Universal Publishing for sync.  Kayla is an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University, and has a monthly show on Worldwide FM called Connections to Sound.https://www.kaylapainter.com/2021 will see a much anticipated EP release.  Following the release a brand new 3D live show will be toured. 

Kayla Painter is an experimental artist and producer.  “Fragmented beats, heading towards uncharted musical territories” - Crack Magazine

Painter’s immersive, ever-evolving AV performances are a natural consequence of the entire writing process; the AV show has appeared at; Glastonbury, The Great Escape, Camp Elsewhere, Bluedot, and We Out Here festivals. 

Supported through Gilles Peterson's ‘Future Bubblers’ talent development program, Kayla has made a lasting impact on tastemakers. She has crafted remixes for a string of well-regarded acts, written music for Disney, Channel 4, Discovery Channel and a range of independent films, as well as having been commissioned by Universal Publishing for sync.  Kayla is an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University, and has a monthly show on Worldwide FM called Connections to Sound.

https://www.kaylapainter.com/

2021 will see a much anticipated EP release.  Following the release a brand new 3D live show will be toured. 

Artists need to be interdisciplinary. In the case of Samantha Togni, the Italian DJ, producer and promoter is the word 'interdisciplinary' personified.Founder of the Boudica platform for women and non-binary folk in techno, Samantha curates a monthly radio show on Threads of the same name, in tandem with promoting Boudica events at Pickle Factory, where she invites established and upcoming artists to soundtrack the intimate space. After the success of the Boudica Music Conference streamed from Freemasons' Hall in November last year, she swiftly secured a second date for the conference in October 2021.Recently signed to RAW agency, she is set to release an EP on the RAW imprint in 2022 and contribute to its forthcoming VA with a searing track in the pipeline.Further releases on Pls.UK and Obscuur will drop in the months ahead, and on the DJ front, Samantha’s 2021 summer diary includes stints at Ministry of Sound, Colour Factory and Orange Yard.samanthatogni.netHTTP://boudicamusic.com

Artists need to be interdisciplinary. In the case of Samantha Togni, the Italian DJ, producer and promoter is the word 'interdisciplinary' personified.

Founder of the Boudica platform for women and non-binary folk in techno, Samantha curates a monthly radio show on Threads of the same name, in tandem with promoting Boudica events at Pickle Factory, where she invites established and upcoming artists to soundtrack the intimate space. After the success of the Boudica Music Conference streamed from Freemasons' Hall in November last year, she swiftly secured a second date for the conference in October 2021.

Recently signed to RAW agency, she is set to release an EP on the RAW imprint in 2022 and contribute to its forthcoming VA with a searing track in the pipeline.

Further releases on Pls.UK and Obscuur will drop in the months ahead, and on the DJ front, Samantha’s 2021 summer diary includes stints at Ministry of Sound, Colour Factory and Orange Yard.

samanthatogni.net

HTTP://boudicamusic.com

Ana Matronic is an orator, author, artist, musician, DJ & broadcaster best known as the co-lead singer of pop phenomenon Scissor Sisters. Her show Dance Devotion airs every Saturday night/Sunday morning at midnight in the UK on BBC Radio 2. Matronic's book Robot Takeover: 100 Iconic Robots of Myth, Popular Culture, and Real Life was published by Hachette/Octopus in 2015. Matronic is a frequent public speaker on the subject of robots, artificial intelligence, and Transhumanism; in November 2017 she delivered her TEDx talk “Living the Electric Dream” at Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Ana Matronic is an orator, author, artist, musician, DJ & broadcaster best known as the co-lead singer of pop phenomenon Scissor Sisters. Her show Dance Devotion airs every Saturday night/Sunday morning at midnight in the UK on BBC Radio 2. Matronic's book Robot Takeover: 100 Iconic Robots of Myth, Popular Culture, and Real Life was published by Hachette/Octopus in 2015. Matronic is a frequent public speaker on the subject of robots, artificial intelligence, and Transhumanism; in November 2017 she delivered her TEDx talk “Living the Electric Dream” at Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


 
Anil Sebastian is a multi-disciplinary artist, member of the Icelandic band Hrím, co-founder and director of London contemporary voices choir and creative director of DLMDD.  Anil Sebastian has also co-founded Trans Voices with Coda Vallach - the UK’s first professional transgender choir. They are also currently collaborating with Ai Da, the world’s first humanoid AI robot performance artist. In October 2020 Anil Sebastian’s music film Daffodil was released on NOWNESS Experiments. The film meditates on what it means to be human in a mesmerizing short film that pairs live-action and archival footage with cinematic animation.Sebastian has contributed co-writes/features the debut album of legendary producer Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Imogen Heap, Robyn), Björk percussionist Manu Delago’s Silver Kobalt album as well contributing choral arrangements to queer artist and activist Nakhane’s debut album. www.anilsebastian.com

Anil Sebastian is a multi-disciplinary artist, member of the Icelandic band Hrím, co-founder and director of London contemporary voices choir and creative director of DLMDD.  Anil Sebastian has also co-founded Trans Voices with Coda Vallach - the UK’s first professional transgender choir. They are also currently collaborating with Ai Da, the world’s first humanoid AI robot performance artist. 

In October 2020 Anil Sebastian’s music film Daffodil was released on NOWNESS Experiments. The film meditates on what it means to be human in a mesmerizing short film that pairs live-action and archival footage with cinematic animation.

Sebastian has contributed co-writes/features the debut album of legendary producer Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Imogen Heap, Robyn), Björk percussionist Manu Delago’s Silver Kobalt album as well contributing choral arrangements to queer artist and activist Nakhane’s debut album. 

www.anilsebastian.com

Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Often inspired by the connections between science and music, her solo record career includes the album Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; the electronic ruralism of Chalk Hill Blue, an album recorded with the poet Will Burns; and connecting our brain neurons to stars in our solar system, the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band.In 2019 Peel composed and recorded the soundtrack for Game of Thrones: The Last Watch which earned her an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series Or Special (Original Dramatic Score)’. A year later she created the soundtrack for BBC documentary, Lee Miller - A Life On The Frontline and scored the 4-part Channel 5 TV thriller The Deceived. In March 2021 she released a new electronic album Fir Wave to critical acclaim where she rebuilt and re-defined the music of Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop by re-interpreting the original music of the celebrated 1972 KPM 1000 series: Electrosonic and only weeks later recorded a collaborative record with the Paraorchestra, details of which will be announced later this year. Hannah is also a regular presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show, Night Tracks. www.hannahpeel.com

Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish artist, composer, producer and broadcaster. Often inspired by the connections between science and music, her solo record career includes the album Awake But Always Dreaming, which became an ode to her grandmother’s mind as she lived with dementia; the electronic ruralism of Chalk Hill Blue, an album recorded with the poet Will Burns; and connecting our brain neurons to stars in our solar system, the space-themed Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, scored for synthesisers and a 30 piece colliery brass band.

In 2019 Peel composed and recorded the soundtrack for Game of Thrones: The Last Watch which earned her an Emmy nomination for ‘Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series Or Special (Original Dramatic Score)’. A year later she created the soundtrack for BBC documentary, Lee Miller - A Life On The Frontline and scored the 4-part Channel 5 TV thriller The Deceived. In March 2021 she released a new electronic album Fir Wave to critical acclaim where she rebuilt and re-defined the music of Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop by re-interpreting the original music of the celebrated 1972 KPM 1000 series: Electrosonic and only weeks later recorded a collaborative record with the Paraorchestra, details of which will be announced later this year. Hannah is also a regular presenter on the BBC Radio 3 show, Night Tracks. www.hannahpeel.com

Portrait XO is an artist who creates musical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods.  In collaboration with DADABOTS, they won the first Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’, and completed her artist residency at Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020.  She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound.  She holds a monthly radio residency with her art & activism collective CO:QUO on Refuge Worldwide Radio, founder of SOUND OBSESSED, and a founding member of The IASAS (International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists). www.portraitxomusic.com. instagram.com/portraitxo

Portrait XO is an artist who creates musical and visual works with traditional and non-traditional methods.  In collaboration with DADABOTS, they won the first Eurovision AI Song Contest Jury Vote for ‘most creative use of AI’, and completed her artist residency at Factory Berlin x Sonar+D in 2020.  She researches computational creativity, human-machine collaboration, and explores new formats & applications for forward-thinking art and sound.  She holds a monthly radio residency with her art & activism collective CO:QUO on Refuge Worldwide Radio, founder of SOUND OBSESSED, and a founding member of The IASAS (International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists).


www.portraitxomusic.com. instagram.com/portraitxo

Commissioned Artists:

Halina Rice is a London-based electronic music producer and AV artist. Uniting elements of ambient, electronic and bass music, her sound ranges from evocative and melancholic soundscapes to beat-driven tracks. Alongside the release of her first album REDUX via Blurred Recordings in 2017 live performances evolved using abstract visuals and projections. In 2020 Rice launched the NEW WORLDS project, working with a team of international technologists and designers, for which a series of tracks were created each with their own visual world. In a mixed reality live-stream, Rice performs these as a real-time digital projection into the visual environment. Website Youtube Instagram @halinerice_music Facebook Twitter

Halina Rice is a London-based electronic music producer and AV artist. Uniting elements of ambient, electronic and bass music, her sound ranges from evocative and melancholic soundscapes to beat-driven tracks. Alongside the release of her first album REDUX via Blurred Recordings in 2017 live performances evolved using abstract visuals and projections. In 2020 Rice launched the NEW WORLDS project, working with a team of international technologists and designers, for which a series of tracks were created each with their own visual world. In a mixed reality live-stream, Rice performs these as a real-time digital projection into the visual environment. 

Website Youtube Instagram @halinerice_music Facebook Twitter

Hinako Omori is a musician and producer based in London. Initially training to be a sound engineer, Hinako started her journey as a keyboard player/programmer live and in the studio, working with EOB (Ed O’Brien), Georgia, Kae Tempest, KT Tunstall, James Bay and Sophie Hunger.Debut EP 'Auraelia' is a sonic exploration of space and transformation, building on layers of synths and vocals.Other collaborations include music for Cécile B. Evans’ installation “Notations for an Adaptation of Giselle (welcome to whatever forever)” at the Centre Pompidou, and the score for animation “Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup” on pandemic dreams.Website Instagram @hinakoomori[photo: Luca Migliore]

Hinako Omori is a musician and producer based in London. Initially training to be a sound engineer, Hinako started her journey as a keyboard player/programmer live and in the studio, working with EOB (Ed O’Brien), Georgia, Kae Tempest, KT Tunstall, James Bay and Sophie Hunger.

Debut EP 'Auraelia' is a sonic exploration of space and transformation, building on layers of synths and vocals.

Other collaborations include music for Cécile B. Evans’ installation “Notations for an Adaptation of Giselle (welcome to whatever forever)” at the Centre Pompidou, and the score for animation “Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup” on pandemic dreams.

Website Instagram @hinakoomori

[photo: Luca Migliore]

lula.xyz Habesha by way of London, lula.xyz (Lula Mebrahtu) is the vanguard of creative expression. Equipped with cutting edge technology MiMu Gloves and a soulful timbre which carries the weight of her heritage, lula.xyz makes levitation through so…

lula.xyz

Habesha by way of London, lula.xyz (Lula Mebrahtu) is the vanguard of creative expression. Equipped with cutting edge technology MiMu Gloves and a soulful timbre which carries the weight of her heritage, lula.xyz makes levitation through sound waves possible, singing about a lived experience of the past, present, and future.

Website Instagram @lula.xyz

BISHI is a singer, electronic rock-sitarist, composer, producer, & performer born in London of Bengali heritage. As a multi-instrumentalist, she has been trained in both Hindustani & Western Classical styles and studied the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar.Previous collaborations & commissions for the stage include; The London Symphony Orchestra, The Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono’s ‘Meltdown’, The Science Gallery, Joanna McGregor, Nick Knight's SHOWstudio’, a film collaboration with fashion designer Manish Arora, and recorded collaborations with Sean Ono Lennon, Tony Visconti, Jarvis Cocker, Daphne Guinness & City of London Sinfonia as a Tanpura soloist on Jonny Greenwood's Water.' BISHI recently produced LANDR's first-ever Sitar Sample pack.A passionate advocate for inclusivity in the music industry & the gender equality of women in tech, BISHI founded WITCiH (Women In Technology Creative Industries Hub), has been a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and is currently an ambassador for the Featured Artists Coalition and Imogen Heap's Creative Passport. She is also on the board of directors for The F-List.Website Instagram @bishiofficial Facebook Twitter Youtube[photo: Frederic Aranda]

BISHI is a singer, electronic rock-sitarist, composer, producer, & performer born in London of Bengali heritage. As a multi-instrumentalist, she has been trained in both Hindustani & Western Classical styles and studied the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar, a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar.

Previous collaborations & commissions for the stage include; The London Symphony Orchestra, The Kronos Quartet, Yoko Ono’s ‘Meltdown’, The Science Gallery, Joanna McGregor, Nick Knight's SHOWstudio’, a film collaboration with fashion designer Manish Arora, and recorded collaborations with Sean Ono Lennon, Tony Visconti, Jarvis Cocker, Daphne Guinness & City of London Sinfonia as a Tanpura soloist on Jonny Greenwood's Water.' BISHI recently produced LANDR's first-ever Sitar Sample pack.

A passionate advocate for inclusivity in the music industry & the gender equality of women in tech, BISHI founded WITCiH (Women In Technology Creative Industries Hub), has been a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and is currently an ambassador for the Featured Artists Coalition and Imogen Heap's Creative Passport. She is also on the board of directors for The F-List.

Website Instagram @bishiofficial Facebook Twitter Youtube

[photo: Frederic Aranda]

Gnarly is a British Sri Lankan female producer, live performer, DJ and educator. Most known for her live finger drumming performances with her online content reaching a large following all over the world and a rapidly growing audience. You can find her performing a highly skilled and captivating live show using Native Instruments Maschine. Her debut label release in 2020 featured on new independent label 4NC¥ created by Foreign Beggars founding member Pavan Mukhi. Gnarly also featured on her first international compilation in 2020 with German label Dedicate and is set to appear on Amsterdam based label Anarkick Beats in 2021. Gnarly is also the Lead Mix & Mastering Engineer for the UK Beatbox Championships post-production since 2015 and has worked with World Champions, The Beatbox Collective, on sync projects featured on national TV.She has worked with organisations such as Native Instruments, ROLI, LUMI, Novation, BandLab, Sample Music Festival, Music Producer Convention, Secret Walls, Meeting of Styles, Stylefile, School of Bop, Wired4Music, Lyrix Organix and more.Website Instagram @gnarly.music Facebook Twitter Youtube Spotify

Gnarly is a British Sri Lankan female producer, live performer, DJ and educator. Most known for her live finger drumming performances with her online content reaching a large following all over the world and a rapidly growing audience. You can find her performing a highly skilled and captivating live show using Native Instruments Maschine.

Her debut label release in 2020 featured on new independent label 4NC¥ created by Foreign Beggars founding member Pavan Mukhi. Gnarly also featured on her first international compilation in 2020 with German label Dedicate and is set to appear on Amsterdam based label Anarkick Beats in 2021. Gnarly is also the Lead Mix & Mastering Engineer for the UK Beatbox Championships post-production since 2015 and has worked with World Champions, The Beatbox Collective, on sync projects featured on national TV.

She has worked with organisations such as Native Instruments, ROLI, LUMI, Novation, BandLab, Sample Music Festival, Music Producer Convention, Secret Walls, Meeting of Styles, Stylefile, School of Bop, Wired4Music, Lyrix Organix and more.

Website Instagram @gnarly.music Facebook Twitter Youtube Spotify

 

This event is supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund, Ableton, The FAC & The Creative Passport

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WITCiH at Now Gallery
Mar
5
6:00 PM18:00

WITCiH at Now Gallery

NOW Later with WITCiH

5 Mar 2020

6pm – 10pm

Free to attend. All welcome! Click here to RSVP on Eventbrite

WITCiH – The Women in Technology creative industries hub, elevates & commissions the voices of Womxn in Tech,  co-founded by artist/composer, BISHI. Former WITCiH guests have included Imogen Heap, Mira Calix, Gazelle Twin & Ana Matronic.  WITCiH has curated performances at Tate Modern, BFI Southbank, & founded their own festival, ‘The State of Gender?’ WITCiH is based at The Rattle, a collective of tech startups & have advocated for gender equality in parliament for the PRS Foundation.

WITCiH celebrate the positive & fundamental womxn have made to the inception, development & utilisation of technology in art, education & industry.

WITCiH at NOW Gallery will celebrate a return to form with performances by BISHI, Output Arts, Laura Kreifman, Abi Wade and with more guests to be confirmed. The event will be the launch of a new video collaboration for BISHI’s forthcoming album ‘Let My Country Awake.’

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May
1
8:00 PM20:00

WITCiH at The Rattle

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This year, WITCiH continues with a series of live streaming events at The Rattle to coincide with the launch of a WITCiH Patreon. As ever, these salons will focus on the artistry & ideas of Women/Womxn in Tech. Guests include:

Laura Kriefman


Laura Kriefman is the Director, Producer and Artist behind Hellion Trace and has over a decade of experience delivering interdisciplinary projects worldwide that fuse the performing arts and creative technology.Her expertise in these areas has been recognised by numerous international fellowships including: Questlab Artist in Residence with Wayne McGregor, 2018 Mozilla XR Studio Fellow, PRS Female Innovator in Music (keychange.eu), 2016 INK Fellow, 2015 WIRED Magazine/The Space Creative Fellow and a 2011-2012 Fellow of the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme.

Hellion Trace (formerly Guerilla Dance Project) have won multiple awards for digital innovation and specialise in Augmented Dance: the fusion between movement and technology. Resident at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, they create interactive installations and spectacles that have been commissioned worldwide including USA, Brazil, Ireland, Croatia, Europe, India, and Indonesia. Recent work includes Kicking The Mic, a performance piece fusing live tap dance, looping and a fully sound reactive LED dress, winning the Smart Oxford Playable City Commission, and Mass Crane Dance which was launched as part of her Creative Fellowship with WIRED Magazine. Mass Crane Dance is a spectacular meeting of music, light, and synchronised construction cranes dancing across the skylight at night: The inaugural Crane Dance Bristol event was seen by 10,000 people and reached 4 million people online.

Laura has been a guest speaker at INK, WIRED, ReMIX, SxSW Interactive, World Science Fair (New York), IRCAM Paris, the Southbank Centre, and TEDxRoma, TEDxDanubia and TEDxLondon. She has been an expert reviewer for MoCo for the last 4 years, and for SIGGraph and has recently started a practice based PhD into Augmented Choreography with the 3d3 Research Centre.

BISHI

Musician, Artist, Multimedia Performer, Producer and Curator, BISHI was born in London of Bengali heritage. Bishi received musical training in both Hindustani and Western Classical styles, including the study of the sitar under Gaurav Mazumdar a senior disciple of Ravi Shankar. She has recorded two albums, produced by Matthew Hardern: Nights at The Circus and Albion Voice. Bishi is the Artistic Director of WITCiH: The Women in Technology Creative Industries Hub, a platform she co-founded to celebrate Women & Non-Binary at The Intersection Creative Tech & STEM.

Commissioned by National Sawdust NYC, her third album ‘Let My Country Awake,,  co-produced with composer, Jeff Cook is inspired by ‘The Good Immigrant,’ collection of essays edited by Nikesh Shukla.

Bishi's collaborations & commissions for the stage have included The London Symphony Orchestra, Yoko Ono’s Meltdown, The Science Gallery, Nick Knight/Showstudio & session work with Sean Ono Lennon, The Kronos Quartet, Daphne Guinness & Tony Visconti.

Bishi has been commissioned by the Delia Derbyshire Archive to compose a piece of music, to celebrate 50 years of ‘An Electric Storm,’ which Derbyshire was responsible for the electronic sound realisation. Bishi is currently making a documentary for Radio 4 about the groundbreaking tech company, ROLI & is touring nationwide with Emmy The Great in May/June 2019.


Abi Wade

Using cello, vocals, orchestral arrangements, choral ensembles, location samples, synths and piano Abi Wade explores human nature through real and abstracted personas on her debut album ‘Beautifully Astray’ released in April on Love Thy Neighbour.

‘Beautifully Astray’ was recorded with support from Help Musician’s Emerging Excellence award, and the release with support from PRS for Music Foundation’s Women Make Music.

While developing as an artist, she has has toured the UK & Europe with Patrick Wolf, sold out her debut EP and released music on the label set up by Daniel Copeman of Esben & The Witch and has played shows with the likes of CocoRosie, Polica, Michael Kiwanuka, Other Lives, Deptford Goth and festivals such as End of The Road, The Great Escape and Wilderness.


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WITCiH in Bristol
Nov
22
6:30 PM18:30

WITCiH in Bristol

WITCiH is proud to present 'The State of Gender?' an After Hours event at We The Curious.

Watershed and We The Curious have invited Bishi – Artistic Director and Co-Founder of WITCiH (Women In Technology Creative Industries Hub) – to curate an evening of music, performance and workshops celebrating creative technology and the women using it. As well as performing live on the night, Bishi will be joined by an exclusive line up of local and national artists and DJ’s to perform alongside her.

Confirmed acts include:

You can also book tickets to join Anna Henley (Planetarium Officer) in the Planetarium who will take you behind the scenes, live coding your journey through the universe.

The whole of We the Curious will be open to explore and will be filled with a series of performances and workshops including some from our own Pervasive Media Studio residents. The bars will be open all evening and the Pizza Bike will be serving too.

WITCiH at We The Curious is a partnership event between We the Curious and Watershed.


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