This is Not a Good Sign is an AR poetry app by J. R. Carpenter and Tomo Kihara overlaying our surroundings with signs posing questions about past and present climatic conditions. In this workshop we will learn about the collaborative process that went into creating the app, play with the app, and then experiment with writing new signs to articulate absences created by climate crisis.

Requirements: Participants should bring a phone if they have one.

About the facilitators:

J. R. Carpenter

J.R. Carpenter is a UK-based artist, writer, performer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Her poem Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her print collection An Ocean of Static was highly commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. This is a Picture of Wind was one of The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020.

Tomo Kihara

Tomo Kihara is a designer, developer and an artist who loves to create things at the intersection of play, technology and society. Kihara is both the project initiator of Street Debater — a European Commission funded project that enables people on the street to earn money through positive conversations — as well as the maker of TheirTube, a web service that allows you to see what other people's YouTube recommendation look like.