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Futuresonic 2008 Programme Announcement & Advance Ticket Release


Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas
1 - 5 May Bank Holiday
Manchester, UK


Transforming Manchester into a space of experimentation, making it come alive

Art - New artworks by Thomson & Craighead, plan b, Grennan & Sperandio ...

Music - The RZA as Bobby Digital, Venetian Snares, Flying Lotus, Chrome Hoof ...

Ideas - Gerd Leonhard, Richard Stallman, Dopplr, Sarai, Matt Fuller, Last.fm ...

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.

Further info and tickets at:
http://www.futuresonic.com
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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
http://www.futuresonic.com


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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
Venetian Snares
Flying Lotus
Chrome Hoof
Luke Vibert
Rustie
Sequence
Dirty Projectors
Rolo Tomassi
Claro Intellecto
The Chap
MIT
Allez-Allez
Gay Against You
Agaskodo Teliverek
Bogdan Raczynski
Tim Exile
Computer Controlled
Mike Paradinas
N>E>D
Skeletons and The Kings of All Cities

And many more to follow - For more info and to buy tickets visit
http://www.futuresonic.com

Buy Weekender Wristbands and advance tickets now at
http://www.futuresonic.com


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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 Shepherd, 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


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Futuresonic EVNTS

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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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For more info and to buy advance tickets now visit
http://www.futuresonic.com

Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Piccadilly Partnership, Lancaster University, Imagination Lancaster, Contact, Art Attack and Cube.

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Social Networking
Unplugged - Exhibition
Programme Announced


Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas
1 - 5 May Bank Holiday
Manchester, UK


www.futuresonic.com


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Futuresonic Art
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Social Networking Unplugged

Manchester city-centre
1 - 5 May, exhibition continues till 17 May

Freeing urban space, making it come alive

Futuresonic 2008 presents the first comprehensive and creative look at social networking by an art festival, featuring a major conference plus artistic interventions across Manchester connecting this theme to Futuresonic's long-standing interest in social and participatory artworks which re-imagine the city.

Manchester city centre will be overrun with 'unplugged' social networking - featuring newly commissioned artworks and many world firsts from an array of international artists across the city.

Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Websites such as FaceBook and MySpace have introduced millions of new people to online social networking, but these sites also centralise web traffic and produce conformity. 40 years after people took to the streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished, join us as we go in search of the social today.

All artworks and exhibitions are free.


Artworks in Social Networking Unplugged include:


In the gallery
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My_Contacts (commission / world premiere)
Thomson & Craighead

Signals (commission / world premiere)
Thomson & Craighead

Flat Earth
Thomson & Craighead

FSF 'the free social foundations project' (commission / world premiere)
Simon Yuill

Terms of Endearment (commission / world premiere)
David Merrit and Julian Priest

Friends (commission / world premiere)
Aram Bartholl


All around you
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Rubbing Shoulders (commission / world premiere)
Grennan & Sperandio

Chat (uk first)
Aram Bartholl

WoW (uk first)
Aram Bartholl

Time stops in Manchester (commission)
Improv Everywhere

In Search Of the Social in Manchester (commission / world premiere)
Single Cell


City locations
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MySpace-OurSpace-YourSpace (commission / world premiere)
plan b

Small Gifts: Give what you can, take what you need (commission / world premiere)
Rajni Shah

Wang Ba Manchester (commission / world premiere)
picidae (Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud)

They Live (In Second Life) (commission)
Paul Sermon

Pub Safari (commission / world premiere)
You And Me featuring Cybersonica

Last.fm Lounge (commission)
Last.fm & Futuresonic

CD-Recycled 45rpm (commission / world premiere)
Aleksander Kolkowski

The Last Gallery
Gavin McClafferty

Manchester Ponto de Cultura
FreeSpaceManchester

The Piccadilly Social (commission / world premiere)
FutureEverything & Martin Stockley Associates


Plus more artworks announced soon.


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The exhibition will tour to Leeds and London in 2008 and 2009 as part of the Social Networking Unplugged World Tour, presented as a part of a new creative collaboration between Futuresonic and Nuffield Theatre.

For info on the Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies Summit and the rest of the Futuresonic 2008 festival visit
www.futuresonic.com/08/conference


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For more info and to buy advance tickets now visit
www.futuresonic.com

Ticket Hotline: +44 (0)844 847 2431


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Futuresonic is supported by:
FutureEverything, Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Lancaster University, ImaginationLancaster, Institute of Advanced Studies, Piccadilly Partnership, Contact, Martin Stockley Associates, Nuffield Theatre, Lone Wolf, Toasted, Saville, Last.fm, City College Manchester, Art Attack, Cube.

The Social Networking Unplugged World Tour is generously supported by the Arts Council England National Activities programme.

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