Taming Technology – Addomesticare la Tecnologia :: April 22-23, 2011 — Associazione Culturale Nub in Montale (PT) + April 29-30, 2011 — Le Murate, via delle carceri, Italy (at the historical prison complex of Le Murate and at the club Cargo).

Switch – Creative Social Network in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Nub and Tempo Reale present Taming Technology, a two day program including performances, DJ sets, installations, lectures and workshops exploring the territory between music, art and new media. The focus will be on practices such as physical computing, interface and interaction design, hardware hacking and biological computation, framed as fields of research capable of providing new connections between the virtual domain and the physical world.

Taking part in the program will be: Giulio Ammendola, Lilian Beidler, Holo Unplugged Laptop Ensemble, Francesco Giomi, Ivan Henriques, Alessandro Ludovico, Matteo Marangoni, Damiano Meacci, Slugabed, Eddie Spanier, Transductors Connections, Quiet Ensemble and Tom Verbruggen.

The project has the support of the Comune di Firenze and of the Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome.