
How is technology changing us and what can we do about it?
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Focus Inside is the unique pop-up festival in Central London that challenges our unhealthy digital consumption habits. It's six days of art exhibitions, workshops and talks, plus, an interactive digital detox space to rethink our relationship with technology.
On the opening night, we have a fantastic line up of speakers. It will start with a presentation of the project and announcement of winners in art competition, and will be followed by a panel with some of the most authoritative people in the space of relationships between humans and technology:
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Robert Elliot Smith, Senior Research Fellow of computer science at UCL, worker in A.I. research and development for the past 30 years, and author of Artificial Inhumanity: How "smart" tech works...against our better nature
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Henrietta Bowden-Jones, consultant psychiatrist at NHS, Founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic
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Kwame Ferreira, CEO at Impossible.com
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Anna Radchenko, award-winning artist, Melancholy Rooms project
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Panel moderated by Anastasia Dedyukhina, Consciously Digital, book author TEDx speaker and Huffington Post blogger
Addresss: Focus Inside, 35-37 Church street NW8 8ES.
Nearest tube: Marylebone or Edgware road station.
The festival is supported by Westminster Council and Create Church Street Fund. It's a non-commercial initiative, and we appreciate any support you can give us.
More about the festival and the full program: www.focus-inside.com