FutureEverything gathers technology's avant garde. 18 May 2010Last updated at 10:00 By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News How to paint using a pair of glasses Artists, musicians, engineers and hackers from around the world recently descended on Manchester for a three day celebration of digital culture. Now in its 15th year, FutureEverything (previously called Futuresonic) has quietly established itself as an annual gathering for the technology avant garde. With a £10,000 prize up for grabs for the best innovation, the stakes were high for the exhibitors at a local pop-up art gallery called The Hive. Runners-up included "Prime Numerics", an algorithm-based computer programme developed to perform real-time live analysis of the language used by the three UK party political leaders during the last televised debate before the election.
(According to its results David Cameron used the most present tense verb, Gordon Brown used the longest words and Nick Clegg expressed the most positive emotions.) Continue reading the main story “Start Quote. FutureEverything opens tomorrow. FutureEverything's annual festival of art and technology opens tomorrow in Manchester. It's a huge event that takes in design, music, performance and some of the most exciting technology around. The EyeWriter, above, will be the recipient of this year's design Award from the organisation... Running from 12 to 15 May, FutureEverything aims to bring together thinkers, artists and musicians to, the organisers say, "celebrate the creativity and innovation being used to drive social change in the digital age.
" The programme explores five strands – Art, Music, Conference, PlayEverything and Showcase – details of which are listed in the press release as including: The launch of GloNet, a new way to interact globally, extends the festival via live events in five cities in different time zones. It was developed to respond to needs for festivals to find new ways to be globally connected and reduce air miles. The festival programme, ticket info and schedules can be found at futureeverything.org.
FutureEverything 2010 Art opening May 12 @ the Hive, Manchester. FutureArt & FutureEverything. Having attended this year’s FutureEverything conference, associated art exhibitions and the Art and Media conversation event at Castlefield Gallery, I have noticed a tension emerge between the worlds of media production and media art - particularly around questions of what media art is, who makes it and where we might find it. Stuck between stations - Conference & Conversation The conference, that took place at the Contact Theatre, was very much a broad church and digital affair.
The fascinating individuals that shared ‘stuff’ with us, included media artists, interactive designers, game designers, scientists, academics and hackers. Rome - Underground by Giulio Menna (Some rights reserved Creative Commons) On the other hand, the associated Art and Media Conversation event that took place at Castlefield Gallery, involved a collection of practicing UK artists and curators. Folks who very much work, curate and exhibit within the borders of the ‘art world’.
What is media art? - claire_w - Wired at FutureEverything: Day One. Imagine a smaller, redder bricked version of SXSW and you have the measure of FutureEverything: an eclectic arts and interaction festival (previously known as Futuresonic) held in Manchester. Wired spent the first day listening to talks about, amongst other things, infinite bandwidth, zero latency and future music but was particularly interested in a new project mentioned by Brendan Dawes during the afternoon’s "Navigating the Data Terrain" session: BERG’s Schooloscope.
The design consultancy’s new product, funded by Channel 4’s VC fund 4iP, is "an honest, independent, straightforward guide to how your local schools are getting on", which processes all the treacly information about an institution in official documents like Ofsted reports and DCSF Performance Tables. Oxfam donations get RFID memories read by iPhones. The Oxford Road branch of Oxfam in Manchester is trialling a system of RFID tags and QR codes that allow people to attach stories to objects on sale. The project is called "RememberMe" and it's being exhibited as part of the Future Everything festival, which is being held in the city between 12 and 15 May, 2010. People donating items to the store will be asked to tell a brief story about one of the items into a microphone -- details of when and where it was acquired, perhaps, along with any memories or stories they have associated with it.
Then, when someone's walking around the store they can see the history of the objects in front of them by using an RFID reader or a Bluetooth wand. The readers themselves are pretty interesting. In-store, there'll be a jailbroken iPhone which has been hacked to include an RFID reader, and there's also a Bluetooth wand attached to an Android handset.
Either will work with the items on display, as will any device capable of reading QR codes. The Superflux Blog » Blog Archive » Yes, it was Buzzin’ Last year we were lucky to have some fantastic guest posts from Paul Graham Raven, Scott Smith and Christina Agapakis. Continuing the tradition into our second year, I am thrilled to welcome Alexis Lloyd, Creative Director R&D New York Times, to our blog with a great essay. When I met Alexis last year, it was clear that there were crossovers in our work, and we are grateful that she agreed to write for us, brilliantly exploring a space that we are currently preoccupied with in the studio. Over to Alexis. Earlier this year, I saw a video from the Consumer Electronics Show in which Whirlpool gave a demonstration of their new line of connected appliances: appliances which would purportedly engage in tightly choreographed routines in order to respond easily and seamlessly to the consumer’s every need.
As I watched, it struck me how similar the notions were to the “kitchen of the future” touted by Walter Cronkite in this 1967 video. So what’s wrong with this vision? Adaptation Negotiation.