Reflecting on the way the FutureEverything festival transforms the city of Manchester England into a living lab or play space for participatory experiments on art, society and technology.
Reflecting on the way the FutureEverything festival transforms the city of Manchester England into a living lab or play space for participatory experiments on art, society and technology.
With artists arriving the in the city, exhibitions being built, and the final preparations being put into place, Drew Hemment gives an introduction to FutureEverything 2010.
Preparing for the GloNet globally networked event on 13 May 2010, here I reflect on a visit to Sao Paulo in December 2007, when I hung out with some of the movers and shakers in Brazil’s digital culture, and witnessed a philosophy of reuse and recycling, and of sharing and collaboration, in the Monte Azul favela.
This year we launched the FutureEverything Award, a new £10,000 international prize to recognise the most inspirational art, design and social innovation. The winner, The EyeWriter, was chosen because it illustrates the creative imagination that will shape our future.
Curatorial statement on the art programme in the FutureEverything 2010 festival, which features a series of urban interventions, artworks visualising the city in imaginative ways, and projects exploring unlimited connectivity, data visualisation, mobile media, social gaming, rapid prototyping and gift exchange.
We are excited to introduce the FutureEverything conference programme for 2010, our best and most ambitious yet. We are also delighted to present the world’s best speakers under our conference themes of ImagineEverything, Unlimited Connectivity, Open Data and The City Experiment.