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Award-winning global festival of Art, Music & Ideas. After 15 years, Futuresonic is now FutureEverything, taking place 12-15 May. Expect world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive citywide music programme, visionary thinkers from around the world, and awards for outstanding innovations.

Intro to GloNet

Monday, April 19th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

GloNet is a new model for group-to-group globally networked events. For our next festival in May 2010, FutureEverything is developing a prototype in partnership with the British Council, Distance Lab, and ImaginationLancaster.

Serendipity City Challenge

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

Serendipity City Challenge invites you to discover chance encounters, the invisible and unknown, in order to hone the creative edge of the city. It is a project by FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster responding to the festival themes of Open Data and The City Experiment.

Futurity and Geek Time

Monday, February 8th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

Yesterday I opened and closed the Futurity Long Conversation event at Transmediale10 by introducing a new theory of time, ‘Geek Time’ and unpicking the Transmediale theme of Futurity.

Winner of Lever Prize 2010

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

This has been great start to 2010 for FutureEverything with the news that we have been awarded the prestigious Lever Prize 2010. This is the second year in a row we have been in contention for this major award, as we were runners up in 2009, and winner in 2010.

The quality of the other shortlisted

Read the full blog post here…

Goodbye Second Life

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 by Drew Hemment

Typical for the FutureEverything ethos, the only time I spent in Second Life was when I was running a series of Second Life events – the virtual meetings in Second Life leading up to the Social Technologies Summit at Futuresonic 2008.

FutureEverything Themes 2010

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 by Drew Hemment

Each year FutureEverything commissions and presents artworks on themes related to society, the city, environmental sustainability and technology, and plays a leading role in international debates in contemporary art and digital culture.