Join Tony White, Science Museum writer in residence for summer 2008, for a short story workshop at the Science Museum. The workshop is inspired by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post, which can be seen every day at the museum until February 2010.

Listening Post immerses the viewer in a rhythm of computer-synthesised voices reading, or singing out, a fluid play of uncensored and unedited real-time text fragments sampled from thousands of live, unrestricted internet chatrooms, bulletin boards and other online public forums. Listening Post asks the question: what might 100,000 people chatting online actually sound like? In the words of the artists, ‘the messages start to form a giant cut-up poem’.

Inspired by Listening Post, this workshop explores the use of experimental writing techniques such as cut-ups to create completely new works of fiction, using methods and approaches that Tony has developed both for his current work-in-progress Balkanising Bloomsbury and for his ongoing series of collaborations with visual artists.

Participants will be required to bring an A4 notebook or laptop (however you usually write!), and a number of easily obtainable items in order to participate in the workshop. You will use these few items to create a new short story from scratch in one day. Completed stories may be published on the Science Museum website.

To maximise writing time and discussions among the group, spaces are strictly limited. This writing workshop is suitable for participants aged 18+. A workshop for 16-18s will be held later in the summer.

Click here for more information and to reserve a place.

Refreshments and lunch is included as part of the workshop.

Friday July 11, 09:45 to 16:00, The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD

This workshop is FREE, but pre-booking is essential.

• Listening Post
• Review of Foxy-T by Tony White
• Chapters of Tony White’s Balkanising Bloomsbury project are currently being published on-line in the Diffusion Generator ebook format, e.g. ‘Bottle Orchestra’ at http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=191

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