Thursday 28th May, Aston University, Birmingham, Main Building Room 108, 1-30 pm - 6.00 pm

Test Dept Seminar and Total State Machine Book Launch.
Guest speakers:
Dr Uwe Schutte (Aston) - Welcome
Dr Peter Webb (UWE/PC-Press) - Test Dept and the spacial dynamics of resistance in music based counter culture.
Dr Alexei Monroe (London) - Monumental Spaces: Test Dept, Architecture and Sound.
Dr Stevphen Shukaitis (Essex) - Shoulder to Shoulder, Avant Garde Aesthetics from Constructivism to the Miner's Strike,
Dr Michael Goddard (Salford) - The audio-visual political mise-en-scene of Test Dept's Total State Machine.
Dr Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire/Wrangler) - Hedonism for Hard Times: Fun and Games in Collapsing new Britain.
Q and A with Paul Jamrozy and Graham Cunnington (Test Dept)

Launch After Event
20:00 - 02:00
at Vivid - http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/test-dept/
DJ 's Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire/Wrangler) and Test Dept DJ/VJ