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Participate
Be a part of the festival... get your hands dirty in participatory events, get skilled up at expert sessions, show your stuff alongside international and local artists, get involved in building another world.
See also Social Technologies Summit
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Saturday 12 May 2007
Saturday Kro Lab
Kro Bar (upstairs), Oxford Road / Saturday 12 May, 12pm-4pm / Free
Video Sniffin' and Spy-Kiting
MediaShed / 12pm Midday
Hack wireless CCTV while talking a stroll through the streets of Manchester, and fly kites
equipped with CCTV cameras. A Gearbox free-media project by MediaShed. Gather upstairs at Kro at 12pm.
iPoi
Jennifer Sheridan / 1pm
Imagine swinging tiny computers in tennis balls and socks around your body to create live visuals and audio like a DJ or VJ. Developed at Lancaster University, iPoi is based on the ancient Maori art of poi and uses a wireless, peer-to-peer, sensor-packed upgrade of the original.
Mobile Gaming and Social Software
Paul Coulton / 2pm
Try mobile software applications developed by Lancaster University's InfoLab21 :
Poppet: Using mobile phones as motion sensing games controllers for a car racing game.
Locomash: Using mobile and gps to create a collaborative location based photo mashup.
Art For Shopping Centres
Artist Talks / 3pm
Informal talks by Graham Harwood and Katherine Moriwaki on the artworks in the exhibition,
followed by a trip to Manchester Arndale for a 'gallery tour'.
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Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 May 2007
Musician & Artist Talks
Contact Theatre, Oxford Road
Doors 6pm - 8pm (Talks at 6pm, ticket includes entry to Futurevisual at 7pm)
£5 / £3 Conc. / Free with Futuresonic Weekender Wristband
Thursday 10 May: 1967 MULTI-MEDIA
Barry Miles on 1960's 'Multi-media' (See Futurevisual section),
in conversation with Colin Fallows
Friday 11 May: SPIRIT OF '77
Faust with Stephen Morris (drummer of New Order/Joy Division),
introduced by John Robb
Saturday 12 May: SPIRIT OF '87
Wolfgang Flür (Kraftwerk) with Graham Massey,
introduced by John Robb
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Friday 11 May 2007
Dorkbot
Friday 11 May / 6pm-8pm / Free
Council Chambers, Steve Biko Building (upstairs in Academy), Oxford Road
Manchester's first Dorkbot, an informal gathering and Show 'n' Tell for artists, musicians, video makers, inventors, hackers, engineers ... anyone doing strange things with electricity, with a special focus on alternative computer interfaces. During the event Steve Symons will demonstate his computer interface 'muio' and show how to make a 'muio-mini' for under £17. Simon Blackmore will demonstate how to use 'Wiring', an open source programming environment and electronics i/o board currently developed at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia by Hernando Barragán.
There will also be a Manchester release of 'SLOW', a free DVD of open source software for Mac and Windows. Hot of the press from streets of Bogota, 'SLOW' is designed to make migrating to open source software easier.
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Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 May 2007
Free Studio Presentations
Saturday 12 May / 2pm-4pm & 8pm-9pm
Contact Theatre
There is today a grass roots open source movement that is sweeping across Brazil like wild fire and captivating the world's imagination. Join the leading figures from Brazil in discussions and presentations and help to establish a local group based on the Brazilian model.
Running alongside the Free Studio conference sessions are a series of presentations and films by open source and environmental activists, and a workshop focusing on establishing a Manchester Ponto de Cultura.
Saturday 12 May / 4pm-6pm / Council Chambers
& Sunday 13 May / 12pm-5pm / Zion Centre
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April / May 2007 - Dates Various
Mutant Media Festival
Basement Social Centre, 24 Lever St
April/May - See website for details
http://mutantmedia.org.uk
Open Source Media Workshops
An extensive series of workshops led by Mutant Media's Mick Fuzz, including:
Video Redux, by UK Hip Hop video producer, Greg Hall /
Video/ Radio Podcasting aka Create your own on-line TV Channel /
Video production 101 /
DVD production with Subtitles using Free Software /
Putting Video on the Internet / You Tube / CDRom [Open Source] /
Introduction to using Drupal [Open Source] /
Making a Linux Video Archive Jukebox [Linux]
Media Activism Event
A window into media activism around the world. We will also look new techniques to evolve media activism to a new level to reflect the opportunities of Internet distribution. Films and talks on using open source technology for audio and video creativity in Brazil. How and why you should be creating Internet TV right now. Plus performance by Geoffrey Software and Tight Fisted Cow.
Friday 11 May, 8.30pm
Basement Social Centre, 24 Lever St
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Delegate Pass (includes £30 Weekender Wristband)
£45 BUY
Student Delegate Pass
£10 BUY
++Fixed number of Day Passes available each day on a Pay-What-You-Can basis.