[spectre] Futuresonic 2008 Programme Announcement & Advance Ticket Release

[anna at futuresonic.com]

Hi everybody,
Please find below the official announcement for the Futuresonic 2008! We
are looking forward to see you on the Festival!

best wishes,
Anna Pechurina,
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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

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
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 Ј5000 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 Intelecto
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 Shepard, 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, ImaginationLancaster, Art
Attack, Contact and Cube.

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