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futuresonic
Since its first major festival in 1996,
futuresonic has sought to explore the connections between
electronic music, media arts and contemporary culture, and
become established as a significant international event.
futuresonic04 will present a wide range
of artistic showcases, discussions and workshops, with one
curatorial strand exploring the area of mobile connections,
and another presenting a series of turntable music events
to mark the 25th anniversary of the Technics 1200MK2 record
deck, a device that has connected the diverse circuits of
electronic music and that has become one of the most iconic
cultural artefacts of the 20th Century.
In 2002 futuresonic presented some highly
successful events under the banner of migrations, looking
at movements of peoples and sounds, and the many transverse
connections between artforms and cultures. futuresonic04 will
shift the focus to the new kinds of events and artforms made
possible by communications media, and to a different kind
of mobility or connectedness that plays upon the limits of
technological media.
www.futuresonic.com
loca
loca (Location Oriented Critical Arts) is
an AHRB funded research programme led by Drew Hemment examining
the shifting boundaries between art practice, the event and
data-systems. It explores the implications of location aware
media for artistic practice and for contemporary culture,
with a specific concern for the convergence of communication
and control in surveillance applications of mobile telephony.
loca tests the creative possibilities of locative and surveillance
technologies and the emerging subjectivities produced by pervasive
location aware networked computing devices such as mobile
phones.
www.loca.org.uk
urbis
The conference will be hosted by Urbis,
a landmark six-story glass building rising high above Manchester
city centre. Its mission as a centre for urban culture is
to reveal trends and elements of contemporary urban culture
and explore the cities of today and tomorrow. Three floors
of multimedia exhibitions explore life in cities around the
world and how people experience the urban environment, while
its 1st floor and events programme explores the best of what
is now and what could be next in urbanity. Mobile technology
is increasingly becoming the common language of the urban
interface, and as such is an area of great interest for Urbis.
www.urbis.org.uk
creative technologies, university of salford
The Creative Technology Research Group Art
& Design Research Centre
Formed in 2000, the creative technology
research group emerged from a wide array of new media research
activities taking place across the University. The core emphasis
of this group centres on redefining and developing digital
and electronic technologies and concepts for creative applications
and solutions that will enhance our human experience and cultural
engagement. The broad range of creative technology research
group members ensures a high level of inquiry and debate that
creates both research synergies and interdisciplinary collaboration
across the university, whilst informing and influencing the
related postgraduate MA and MSc programmes in Creative Technology,
Graphic Design and Virtual Environments.
Ranging from interactive media arts and
performance to virtual environments and artificial life experiments,
this research group locates itself at the forefront of its
specific fields. Current research activities in the areas
of telematics, telepresence, interactive arts, new media narratives,
digital performance and sonic arts have secured research and
development funding from sources such as The Arts Council
of England, The Arts and Humanities Research Board, The Leverhulme
Trust and The National Lottery Fund, supporting projects that
have been disseminated through participation in international
exhibitions, symposiums, theatre productions and publications
- including The Ars Electronica Centre Linz, The MIT Press,
Siggraph USA, The International Symposium of Electronic Arts
- ISEA, The ZKM Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe and The
InterCommunication Centre Tokyo.
http://www.artdes.salford.ac.uk/
Colin Fallows,
Liverpool school of art and
design
Colin Fallows is Professor of Sound and Visual Arts at Liverpool
School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University.
He has explored crossovers between sound and the visual arts
as an artist, researcher, curator, lecturer and has produced
work for live ensemble performance, recordings, exhibition,
installation, radio and the Internet. His artistic and curatorial
projects have featured in numerous international festivals
including Video Positive, ISEA98, Intermedia and Ars Electronica.
He is the founder and Artistic Director of Audio Research
Editions, a limited edition imprint for artists' soundworks,
which since 1998 has published over two hundred works by artists
from over twenty countries.
supported by
Arts and Humanities Research Board
Arts
Council of England
Manchester City Council
Performing Rights
Society Foundation
Urbis
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