Photo courtesy of FutureEverything
Formerly FutureSonic, FutureEverything returns for a seventeenth year to Manchester this 16th through 19th of May 2012. Celebrating innovative technologies, this year the arts, music and ideas festival focuses on heightened connectivity that exists within our increasingly participatory culture.
FutureEverything features new media artworks from fifty-two international artists which will be on display until 10th June at the Museum of Science and Industry in Castlefield. The exhibition includes a digital reproduction of a hundred dollar bill by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima, constructed through the labour of 10,000 microworkers. The live music line-up includes forty-five musicians and leans towards the digitally-slanted and experimental. Of particular interest is Dieter Moibus’ improvised score for the 1927 film ‘Metropolis’ in St Philips’ Church in Salford on 17th May. For this year’s two-day conference, the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir and former volunteer for Wikileaks will be the headlining speaker. The conference features seventy speakers as well as a mass participatory experiment celebrating Alan Turing’s legacy.
Corridor8 will be reviewing the festival in the coming week.
FutureEverything 2012, 16 – 19 May 2012, Manchester, http://futureeverything.org
Download brochure and timetables here.
Published 13.05.2012 by Bryony Bond
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