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Posts Tagged ‘FutureEverything’

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.

FutureEverything as Living Lab – The best way to predict the future is to invent it

Monday, July 12th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

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.

Data Visualization at FutureEverything

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 by Aaron Koblin

We live our lives surrounded by data.
It seems that to a greater and greater extent we find ourselves living in a digitally mediated reality. Most of us generate massive amounts of data whether we’re aware of it or not. Even if we aren’t personally responsible for large amounts of data it’s certain that we depend

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The debut FutureEverything Award

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

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.

GloNet Tech Innovations

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by Stefan Agamanolis

In the middle of last December I got an email from Drew Hemment with a proposition for Distance Lab to get involved in the development of the GloNet event. We enthusiastically embraced the idea, and over the course of the past 3 short months, we have developed some innovative technological solutions for some key

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Art Curatorial Statement

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 by Drew Hemment

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.

FutureEverything 2010 Conference Programme

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 by Drew Hemment

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.