[spectre] Art For Shopping Centres and Free-Media events

[Drew Hemment]

ART
FOR
SHOPPING
CENTRES

Thirty years after Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Futuresonic  
presents Art For Shopping Centres, an exhibition of major artworks,  
after which you will never look at a shopping centre the same again.

A part of FUTURESONIC 2007
10-12 May, Manchester
www.futuresonic.com

Download Brochure (9.5mb)
www.futuresonic.com/ftp/FS07_brochure.pdf

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ART
FOR
SHOPPING
CENTRES

Manchester Arndale
10-20 May, 9am-8pm, Free
Free

Transforming the city into a space of experimentation, freeing urban  
space, making it strange.


Featuring three major new artworks commissioned by Futuresonic 2007 :

MEDIASHED FT METHODS OF MOVEMENT,
THE DUELLISTS
Parkour, or freerunning, involves fluid, uninterrupted movement,  
adapting motion to obstacles in the environment. Like free-media,  
freerunning makes use of and re-energises the infrastructure of the  
city. MediaShed ft Methods of Movement present an acrobatic parkour  
competition between two late-night traceurs, staged overnight in the  
Arndale shopping centre, filmed using only the in-house CCTV system,  
in the first official implementation of the GEARBOX free-media video  
toolkit, and shown on the screens inside the shopping centre, with an  
original soundtrack by Hybernation.

KATHERINE MORIWAKI,
EVERYTHING REALLY IS
CONNECTED, AFTER ALL
Visit the Arndale to discover a whole new shopping experience. Using  
a flock of mobile devices, emergent narratives adapt to the proximity  
of other people around you while you roam the plazas and arcades. The  
shopping centre is a 'non-place', a space that is unique but  
identical everywhere across the world. The stories are tales of  
everyday people encountered in this space. As a backdrop for desire,  
projection, and the acquisition of material objects, the Arndale and  
the experience of shopping is explored in order to locate and find  
experiences and concerns that bind us together in small and large ways.

HARWOOD,
NETMONSTER
Harwood seeks to uncover truths forgotten in the light reflected from  
the endless shop windows, in an ever-evolving 'network image' showing  
how the Arndale and Manchester city centre have risen from the ashes  
of the 1996 IRA bomb. Coinciding with the date Ian Paisley and Gerry  
Adams are scheduled to form an historic power-sharing government in  
Northern Ireland, Harwood revisits the legacy of the 1996 IRA bomb,  
which famously detonated just a few meters away from Manchester  
Arndale. Harwood's NetMonster software searches the internet for  
thematic content, sniffing out links and connections, creating a  
living, composite image from images splintered around the worlds media.

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ITS
ALL
AROUND
US

We are increasingly surrounded by media and devices of every kind all  
of the time. As a result art can often be found in unexpected places,  
and the means to create it are all around us.

Futuresonic is presenting a series of events and gatherings across  
the UK, including a series of network meetings on free-media help to  
draw together and grow UK and international networks.

www.futuresonic.com/07/allaroundus.html


GEARBOX LAUNCH, SEMINAR
AND NETWORK MEETING
Launch of the GEARBOX free-media video toolkit, a set of resources  
for producing and editing video on free software and free hardware  
platforms, developed by MediaShed with the Eyebeam Production Lab.  
Plus a public seminar introducing the themes of the project, and a  
network meeting for people working in free-media.
25-29 April 2007, Enter_Unknown Territories, Cambridge
www.enternet.org.uk/unknownterritories

MANCHESTER
FREE STUDIO
Futuresonic 2007 will host the Art For Shopping Centres exhibition,  
plus a Free Studio strand at the Social Technologies Summit,  
introducing the leading figures in the grass roots open source  
movement that is sweeping across Brazil like wild fire and  
captivating the world's imagination.
10-12 May 2007, Manchester Arndale / Futuresonic 2007, Manchester
www.futuresonic.com/07/freestudio.html

VIDEO SNIFFING AND
FREE-MEDIA WORKSHOP
A participatory workshop by MediaShed will involve hands-on  
experiments with free-media and "video sniffing", a technique in  
which signals are intercepted from wireless closed circuit video  
cameras in the urban environment.
19 May 2007, Access Space / Lovebytes, Sheffield
www.lovebytes.org.uk
http://access-space.org

FREERUNNING AND
FREE-MEDIA WORKSHOP
A 2 day free-running and free-media workshop at Contact, led by  
MediaShed and Methods of Movement, presented in partnership with  
Contact Theatre.
26 & 27 May 2007, Contact Theatre, Manchester
www.contact-theatre.org

Presented in association with MediaShed, Enter, Lovebytes, Access  
Space and Contact.

www.futuresonic.com/07/allaroundus.html

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FUTURESONIC 2007 TICKET INFO
www.futuresonic.com/07/bookings.html

Weekender Wristband £30
(Access to over 30 events)

Delegate Pass £45
(Also access to Social Technologies Summit)