Drop-in events
Music: Music Programmed by Global Roots
Location: Level 1 Bridge
Catch sets all night programmed by Global Roots. At 19.30 Emptyset present a live performance previewing material from their new album exploring the legacies of analogue production in the evolution of electronic music, cosmic rock and minimalism, revisiting hardware and early multitrack recording techniques to create a hypnotic and sensory bridge to the past.
18.00–19.30 The G.R.I.N
19.30–20.00 Emptyset
20.00–21.30 Trent Raver
Music and Drinks: DJ Sets Programmed by Global Roots
Location: Corner Café, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: 18.00–21.30
Mr. Redley celebrates his recently released EP Running Away with an extended session in the Corner, alongside enjoy food and drinks that support local growers.
Music and Drinks: DJ Sets Programmed by Global Roots
Location: Terrace Bar, Blavatnik Building Level 1
Time: 18.00–21.30
Head to the Terrace Bar for sets all night as Infa Red takeover, expect one foot in the past one foot in the future. Plus enjoy Tate’s own brews, cocktails, and craft beers on tap.
18.00–19.30 Tibor
19.30–20.30 SCAR
20.30–21.30 Muskila
Interactive Display: Human Mutator
Location: Tanks Foyer, Blavatnik Building, Level 0
Time: 18.00–21.30
Shown for the first time in the UK, experience Human Mutator by Artist and Goldsmiths Professor William Latham, created with mathematician and programmer Stephen Todd. The work captures your movements and uses them as AI generators to spawn large 3D animating organic forms in real time. Expect hundreds of long worm-like forms sprouting from your body as the work veers between order and chaos and is influenced by Arcimboldo's Renaissance assemblage portraits.
Social Space: Swatch Social – Safety Blanket with Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Collective
Location: Tanks Studio, Blavatnik Building, Level 0
Time: 18.00–21.30
Find new connections with fellow visitors at Swatch Social. Join Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner collective for a knitting session, pick up new skills and work together to create a giant collaborative textile web.
Virtual Reality: Mutator VR – Vortex
Location: Screening Space, Blavatnik Building, Level 4
Time: 18.00–21.30
Created in collaboration with William Latham's Goldsmiths University colleague Lance Putnam, Vortex offers a rich inner organic world for you to explore in VR. Immerse yourself in an interactive alien microscopic world filled with swarming agents called ‘mutoids’, influenced by Surrealism and science fiction. There are endless variations to discover.
Digital Display: Mutator Animations
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 4
Time: 18.00–21.30
Take time out between VR installations to watch some of William Latham’s best known animations. Spanning over 30 years with works from the 90s to present day, including his celebrated A Sequence from The Evolution of Form.
Digital Display: Quantel Paintbox Showcase
Location: Starr Foyer, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: 18.00–21.30
Created by Adrian Wilson, this showcase presents digital artworks by over 20 artists, which have been made with the Quantel Paintbox. The Paintbox was a computer graphics workstation which was used extensively in television and revolutionised the production of video graphics.
Workshop: HEXEN 2.0 Live Tarot
Location: Natalie Bell Building, Level 4
Time: 19.00–20.30
Participate in a live tarot reading with artist Suzanne Treister and writer Mark Pilkington using Treister’s HEXEN 2.0 to discuss ideas for positive planetary futures. The unique deck features alchemical drawings that depict everything from the interconnected histories of computers and the internet to science-fiction and countercultures, to government programmes and the control of society.
Talks: 10 Minute Talks
Various times, throughout the building
Staff and volunteers from across Tate share their personal insights into works from the collection.
Workshop: Tate Draw
Location: Starr Foyer, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1 and Blavatnik Building, Level 3
Time: 18.00–21.30
Head to our drawing desks and bring your work to life using digital sketch pads. Tate Draw is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Events requiring a ticket
Film: Video on Screen – The Early Years in Europe #2
Location: Starr Cinema, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: 18.30–20.15
Focusing on the first instances of video works made for television in Europe, this programme questions the possibilities that emerge from screening such works in the cinema screen. Including Sanja Iveković, Charlotte Johannesson, Martial Raysse, Dieter Meier, Helena Almeida, Pawel Kwiek, VALIE EXPORT, Rúrí, Gerry Schum and E. M. de Melo e Castro.
*Requires a free ticket, available to book here at 14.00 on 29 November
Audio Visual Performance: Video Synthesis
Location: Starr Cinema, Natalie Bell Building, Level 1
Time: 20.45–21.30
Catch performances from artists Alexander Peverett and Antonio Roberts. Alexander Peverett’s performance will use video painting tools, particularly the Fairlight CVI. His work unifies computational technologies from 1965 to the present day and reanimates lost ideologies of techno utopianism. Antonio Roberts (aka hellocatfood) employs algorithmic methods to make music that is both rhythmic and glitchy. His work fuses genres from ambient, footwork and IDM to drum and bass, complemented with live visuals made using coding software and hardware video synthesisers.
*Requires a free ticket, available to book here at 14.00 on 29 November
Talks: Art Chats
Location: Blavatnik Building, Level 5
Artists and curators give a quick but deep dive into their creative practice.
19.15–20.00 Curator Valentino Catricalà speaks to artist Rebecca Allen, a pioneer of digital art whose work is inspired by the aesthetics of motion, the study of perception and behaviour and the potential of advanced technology. Allen's work considers our future world and what it means to be human as technology redefines our sense of reality.
20.45–21.30 Michael Newman and Frederic Fol Leymarie of Goldsmiths Drawing Centre for Humans and Machines join artist Gretchen Andrew to discuss how they harness human-machine partnerships and how Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, code and glitter.
*Requires a free ticket, available to book here at 14.00 on 29 November
