featuring ADA geeks: Julian Priest and David Merrit. su
Begin forwarded message: > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Social Networking Unplugged > Exhibition Programme > Announced > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Futuresonic 2008 > Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas > 1 - 5 May Bank Holiday > Manchester, UK > > http://www.futuresonic.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Futuresonic Art > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Social Networking Unplugged > > Manchester city-centre > 1 - 5 May, exhibition continues till 17 May > > Freeing urban space, making it come alive > > Futuresonic 2008 presents the first comprehensive and creative look > at social networking by an art festival, featuring a major > conference plus artistic interventions across Manchester connecting > this theme to Futuresonic's long-standing interest in social and > participatory artworks which re-imagine the city. > > Manchester city centre will be overrun with 'unplugged' social > networking - featuring newly commissioned artworks and many world > firsts from an array of international artists across the city. > > Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in > isolation but in groups, placing the relations between people > first. Websites such as FaceBook and MySpace have introduced > millions of new people to online social networking, but these sites > also centralise web traffic and produce conformity. 40 years after > people took to the streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to > be abolished, join us as we go in search of the social today. > > All artworks and exhibitions are free. > > > Artworks in Social Networking Unplugged include: > > > In the gallery > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > My_Contacts (commission / world premiere) > Thomson & Craighead > > Signals (commission / world premiere) > Thomson & Craighead > > Flat Earth > Thomson & Craighead > > FSF 'the free social foundations project' (commission / world > premiere) > Simon Yuill > > Terms of Endearment (commission / world premiere) > David Merrit and Julian Priest > > Friends (commission / world premiere) > Aram Bartholl > > > All around you > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Rubbing Shoulders (commission / world premiere) > Grennan & Sperandio > > Chat (uk first) > Aram Bartholl > > WoW (uk first) > Aram Bartholl > > Time stops in Manchester (commission) > Improv Everywhere > > In Search Of the Social in Manchester (commission / world premiere) > Single Cell > > > City locations > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > MySpace-OurSpace-YourSpace (commission / world premiere) > plan b > > Small Gifts: Give what you can, take what you need (commission / > world premiere) > Rajni Shah > > Wang Ba Manchester (commission / world premiere) > picidae (Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud) > > They Live (In Second Life) (commission) > Paul Sermon > > Pub Safari (commission / world premiere) > You And Me featuring Cybersonica > > Last.fm Lounge (commission) > Last.fm & Futuresonic > > CD-Recycled 45rpm (commission / world premiere) > Aleksander Kolkowski > > The Last Gallery > Gavin McClafferty > > Manchester Ponto de Cultura > FreeSpaceManchester > > The Piccadilly Social (commission / world premiere) > FutureEverything & Martin Stockley Associates > > > Plus more artworks announced soon. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The exhibition will tour to Leeds and London in 2008 and 2009 as > part of the Social Networking Unplugged World Tour, presented as a > part of a new creative collaboration between Futuresonic and > Nuffield Theatre. > > For info on the Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies > Summit and the rest of the Futuresonic 2008 festival visit > www.futuresonic.com/08/conference > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > For more info and to buy advance tickets now visit > http://www.futuresonic.com > > Ticket Hotline: +44 (0)844 847 2431 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Futuresonic is supported by: > FutureEverything, Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, > Lancaster University, ImaginationLancaster, Institute of Advanced > Studies, Piccadilly Partnership, Contact, Martin Stockley > Associates, Nuffield Theatre, Lone Wolf, Toasted, Saville, Last.fm, > City College Manchester, Art Attack, Cube. > > The Social Networking Unplugged World Tour is generously supported > by the Arts Council England National Activities programme. > > > _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
