Our exhibition Between Worlds looks at the structural and socio-political issues around online worlds. These two talks, as part of TPG Fri Lates, dwell on ideas of the death of digital spaces and the creation of 'virtual elsewheres':

Nick Murray shares their fascination with Tamagotchi and where we find ourselves decades later, looking back on those little creatures we took care of now that they are long gone. In this light-hearted performative presentation, Nick looks at how we consider death in digital spaces, and the rituals we take to turn the lights off when digital spaces die.

Teodora Sinziana presents a look at her practice and research into ways of worlding with algorithmic technologies through a screen-based talk that explores the fluid topographies of computer-mediated worlds. Attempting to think techno-geographically about cyberspace and its underlying, less visible architectures, the presentation will navigate through a series of digital ephemera, experimental blueprints and snippets of world-instances, reflecting on the ways in which digital worlds produce structures of feeling. Bringing together speculative storytelling, practices of sensing and virtual space, the talk will delve into what it means to move through a ‘virtual elsewhere’, both poetically and politically - emphasising the idea that algorithmic worlds do not just represent a place that is already there with varying degrees of accuracy, but rather emerge as complex recombinant forms that enable collective engagement in speculative practices.