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Free-media goes
UK wide

Futuresonic is presenting a series of
events and gatherings across the UK

Free and Everyware: Urban Media Workshop

Free-media is about finding inspiration and resources in our built and natural environment - it is open, unrestricted and outside proprietary controls, so you can freely change it, rewrite it or rebuild it to suit yourself. Locative media looks at how people connect with each other through technology in public places. And net-art is about networks and the play of power and influence in online environments.
11-13 March 2007, MediaShed, Southend Mediashed website

GEARBOX Launch, Seminar and Network Meeting

Launch of the GEARBOX free-media video toolkit, a set of resources for producing and editing video on free software and free hardware platforms, developed by MediaShed with the Eyebeam Production Lab. Plus a public seminar introducing the themes of the project, and a network meeting for people working in free-media.
25-29 April 2007, Enter_Unknown Territories, Cambridge
Enter_Unknown Territories website

Art For Shopping Centres Exhibition

Futuresonic 2007 will host the Art For Shopping Centres exhibition, plus a free-media strand at the Social Technologies Summit, introducing the leading figures in the grass roots open source movement that is sweeping across Brazil like wild fire and captivating the world's imagination.
10-20 May 2007, Manchester Arndale / Futuresonic 2007, Manchester
Exhibition webpage

Video Sniffin' and Free-Media Workshop

A participatory workshop will involve hands-on experiments with free-media and "video sniffin'", a technique in which signals are intercepted from wireless closed circuit video cameras in the urban environment.
19 May 2007, Access Space / Lovebytes, Sheffield
Access Space website Lovebytes website

Freerunning and Free-Media Workshop

A 2 day free-running and free-media workshop at Contact, led by MediaShed and Methods of Movement, presented in partnership with Contact Theatre.
2 & 3 June 2007, Contact Theatre, Manchester Contact website

An aim of the project is drawing together a national network, made up of, on the one hand, practitioners working in free-media and related fields, and, on the other, national media art festivals.

Presented in association with MediaShed, Enter, Lovebytes and Access Space.

MediaShed

A 'free-media' space: a place for doing art, making things or just saying what you want for little or no financial cost by using public domain software, recycled equipment and enthusiasm. A place to say what you want 'freely', using accessible media systems that can be taken apart and reused without unnecessary restrictions and controls.
www.mediashed.org

Access Space

The UK's first free media lab: a community space equipped with locally recycled computers and free, open-source software. It provides a framework, resources and support for self-directed learning, arts and creativity. Talking part is free, and anyone can walk in and contribute.
access-space.org

Enter_Unknown Territories

An international conference and festival for new technology art. Enter_ is a network and resource set up for artists, organisations, researchers and businesses with an interest in developing and using new technology in arts and media within the Eastern region.
Cambridge, UK 25-29 April 2007.
www.enternet.org.uk/unknownterritories

Futuresonic

An annual 3-day festival of art, music and ideas that is urban, cutting edge, inclusive, and in Manchester, which is currently in its 11th year. It consists in Urban Play, Music For The Beep Generation, EVNTS and the Social Technologies Summit. Presented by FutureEverything CIC.
Manchester, UK 10-12 May 2007.
www.futuresonic.com

Lovebytes

Lovebytes is an annual International Festival of Digital Art bringing together a vast array of creative work from the frontiers of digital culture, including new work in film, music, art and design with live performances, installations, screenings and exhibitions across the city.
Sheffield, UK 13-20 May 2007.
www.lovebytes.org.uk