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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.
BBC News - FutureEverything gathers technology's avant garde
Networked City: At a Festival Where the World Gets Reprogrammed | Motherboard
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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.
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.
Wired at FutureEverything: Day One
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.
Oxfam donations get RFID memories read by iPhones
The Superflux Blog » Blog Archive » Yes, it was Buzzin’
For Superflux, 2011 was a busy year: new projects, practices and people.Inside the M60 | Manchester’s vision of FutureEveryone
Embracing all the different parts of the community is the future of Manchester.