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festival dates | 26.04.04 to 09.05.04
live programme | 29.04.04 to 02.05.04
urbis and city wide | manchester uk
The futuresonic04 International Festival of Electronic Music
and Media Arts will explore the theme of mobile connections,
bringing together media artists, musicians, game developers
and technical innovators working in wireless and locative
media, to present a range of artistic projects, workshops
and debates.
The mobile connections artistic programme and associated conference
at futuresonic04 is a collaboration between futuresonic, loca,
Urbis, University of Salford and Liverpool School of Art and
Design, John Moores University.
Full programme announced February 04.
focus
Wireless Interfaces
Wireless technologies offer non-restrictive interfaces that
enable movement and interaction free from cables and physical
connections, but also introduce a new set of constraints at
another level. How can artists critically explore the interface
between the body and the nearest node, or the boundary between
open and closed networks?
Locative Media
Positioning technologies such as GPS make it possible to assign
data with spatial coordinates so that it can be accessed from
particular points, in a convergence of virtual and geographical
space. How can the ‘geo hack’ of Locative Media Arts go beyond
the tourist guide approach to annotating space, in which this
is just another delivery tool for the same information, and
open up new kinds of perception, different forms of spatial
awareness, or new ways of relating to the environment or to
each other?
Location Based Sound
Sound artists have long been concerned with place and context.
How can a city be navigated by sound, or sound alter the way
a city is perceived? And can the rich understandings of spatiality,
tactility and immersion that emerge from sound art inform
other areas of artistic practice concerned with place or location?
Pockets of Resistance
Where are the sites of resistance to the unequal distribution
and effects of global media, or to new forms of surveillance
and control that exploit communication technology? How can
artists intervene in the membranes of the multifarious datastreams
(of military surveillance, criminal databases, personal records,
financial transactions, etc) that constitute the invisible
threads of an emerging social fabric?
Mobile Arts
How can artists appropriate communication technologies, through
their customisation or misuse, and open up horizons not foreseen
by commercial developers or marketers? Might the mobile phone
be transformed into an instrument in the way that radio and
the turntable were in the 20th Century?
Mobile Gaming
How will a new generation of games platforms exploit location
data and use wireless technologies and mobile phones to create
game zones that occupy urban spaces and that are intertwined
with the fabric of everyday life? After the political farce
of embedded journalists in Iraq, might there emerge a critical
space for embedded or reality gaming?
mobile connections steering committee
Drew Hemment, Director, futuresonic and AHRB Research Fellow,
University of Salford Colin Fallows, Chair of Music, Liverpool
School of Arts and Design Paul Sermon, Reader in Creative
Technologies, University of Salford
futuresonic04 advisory group
David Toop
Graham Massey
Honor Harger, r a d i o q u a I i a
Howard Raynor, Chief Executive, Bridgewater Hall
Jennifer Wilson, Bossa Music
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Naut Humon, Asphodel
Phil Jones, Director, Phil Jones Presents
Sadie Plant
Scott Burnham, Creative Director, Urbis
Shahidul Alam, Director, Drik Media Agency
supported by
Arts and Humanities Research Board
Arts Council of England
Manchester City Council
Performing Rights Society Foundation
Urbis
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