Broadcast live from Camden Arts Centre, 14 June 2014

Panel Discussion: Slowness in the Digital Age

This cross-disciplinary discussion focuses on the Slow Movement which has emerged as a reaction to the speed of our modern age, an idea that resonates with the work of both Moyra Davey and Phillip Lai. A series of short presentations culminating in a panel discussion, this event welcomes four guest speakers to examine ideas of ‘slowness’ in the context of a digital age.

Speakers include: Art historian and critic Marcus Verhagen, who will chair the panel discussion and present on ideas relating to the slow and fast of contemporary art; Richard Kerridge, nature writer and Director of the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, will consider ‘slow literature’; Carolyn F. Strauss, founder and Director of slowLab, will talk about slow design and the role it plays in activating and amplifying the potentials of slow knowledge; Manu Bazzano, writer, Zen monk and psychotherapist, will draw on Zen practice, contemporary philosophy and psychotherapy to explore ideas of time, memory and how the speed of capitalist culture can affect modern living.