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Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas
1 - 5 May Bank Holiday
Manchester, UK
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Transforming Manchester into a space of experimentation, making it come alive
Occupying the orbits of both digital culture and music, Futuresonic returns for May Bank Holiday with its largest and most ambitious programme to date. This year's festival features a sideways glance at social networking and a cross-section of art, music, events, exhibitions and live performances in over 30 venues across the city. Advance Delegate Pass, Weekender Wristband and individual event tickets now on sale.
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Futuresonic Music
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"A glimpse of tomorrow's music today" BBC
The RZA - the genius behind Wu-Tang Clan and producer of soundtracks for Kill Bill and Ghost Dog - headlines as Bobby Digital in a showcase of leftfield hip-hop, celebrating the creative spirit behind contemporary experimentation in the genre. Plus Venetian Snares, Luke Vibert, Flying Lotus, Chrome Hoof, Rustie, Rolo Tomassi, Zombie Zombie, The Chap, MIT and many more in a full-on programme of international mavericks, risk-takers, boundary-breakers and radical music-makers at over 30 venues city-wide.
This year's music and club highlights include:
The RZA as Bobby Digital WIRE Venetian Snares Flying Lotus Chrome Hoof Luke Vibert Rustie Sequence Dirty Projectors Rolo Tomassi Claro Intelecto The Chap MIT Allez-Allez Gay Against You Agaskodo Teliverek Bogdan Raczynski Tim Exile Computer Controlled Mike Paradinas NED The Chap Skeletons and The Kings of All Cities
AND MANY MORE TO FOLLOW
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Futuresonic Art
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Freeing urban space, making it come alive
Social Networking Unplugged features new commissioned artworks and many world firsts from an array of international artists across the city, and is the focal point of the first comprehensive and creative look at social networking by an art festival. Futuresonic plans to pull out the plug in order to take the new social spaces apart, see how they work, and put them together in new ways. The exhibition will give a sideways glance at the world of web 2.0, create spaces for social interaction, and explore the seam between open source culture and the public sphere in the city. Including the winner of the £5000 Futuresonic Art Award Commission supported by Piccadilly Partnership, Grennan & Sperandio's Rubbing Shoulders, and many more. The ART strand will be presented at various venues across the city, both expected and unexpected.
New commissioned artworks in Social Networking Unplugged include:
Thomson & Craighead ::: The Social Networking Suite plan b ::: MySpace - OurSpace - YourSpace Grennan & Sperandio ::: Rubbing Shoulders Simon Yuill ::: FSF 'the free social foundations project' Aram Bartholl ::: Friends Rajni Shah ::: Small Gifts: Give what you can, take what you need Last.fm & Futuresonic ::: Last.fm Lounge Improv Everywhere ::: Time stops picidae (Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud) ::: Wang Ba Manchester You And Me featuring Cybersonica ::: Pub Safari David Merrit and Julian Priest ::: Terms of Endearment
Plus many more exhibitions, artists and art events city wide.
For more info and to buy advance tickets now visit
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Futuresonic's Art and Music Strands are also supported by EVNTS - an open or wiki strand of the festival which enables artists groups and event organisers to present autonomous events. Since its introduction in 2005, EVNTS has grown into a community of people who each year return to give the festival an extra edge. Full EVNTS programme announced soon.
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Futuresonic Ideas
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Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies Summit
Contact Theatre, Manchester 1 - 2 May with supporting events 30 April & 3 May
The Futuresonic Conference brings opinion formers, futurologists, artists, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art communities together around shared issues to do with technology, society, art and the city. The theme Social Futures: Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking is explored by leading figures developing the next generation of social software alongside Richard Stallman founder of the Free Software movement and Gerd Leonhard on the future of music, plus keynotes, critical debates, demos, experiences and open sessions on mobile social software, freeing space in the augmented city, how game design can revolutionise social software, OpenID and who is keeping an eye on the kids. Reflecting the 'social' theme, the conference will combine keynotes, critical debates, demos and experiences with open and participatory sessions, promising a fun and engaging number of days.
This year's conference participants include:
Gerd Leonhard, Media Futurist, Author, CEO
Richard Stallman, Founder, Free Software Foundation
Jonas Woost, Co-founder & Head Of Music, Last.fm
Matt Jones, Founder, Dopplr
Scott Cohen, Founder, The Orchard
Matt Fuller, Reader in Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4
Ravikant Shama, Sarai, India
Felipe Fonseca, Bricolabs, Brazil
Adrian Woolard, Head of Innovation Culture, BBC
Justin Hall, CEO, PMOG
James Wallbank, Founder, RTI / Access Space
Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland / CRUMB
Paul Coulton, Lancaster University & Nokia Innovation Network
Gabe Sawhney, Founder, Wireless Toronto
Katie Lips, Director, Kisky Netmedia
Mark Shepard, Artist / Architect / Researcher, TSG Toolkit Ronald Lenz, Locative Media Research Programme, Waag
Ele Carpenter, Curator
Tapio Makela, Researcher & Media Artist
Drew Hemment, Futuresonic & ImaginationLancaster
Many more speakers to be announced.
For more information on Futuresonic Conference and to buy a Delegate Pass please visit http://www.futuresonic.com CLICKHERE
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For more info and to buy advance tickets now visit http://www.futuresonic.com CLICKHERE
Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Piccadilly Partnership, Lancaster University, ImaginationLancaster, Art Attack, Contact and Cube.
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(c) photographs by Jan & Emily Dixon www.andthewardrobe.co.uk
