All Around
You
Some artworks do not take place in any one location, but involve everyone everywhere across the city, in the streets, at work, in the bars and clubs, on the bus...
Grennan & Sperandio
Everyone is invited to join a social network which aims to "bring the people of Manchester closer together," supported by Piccadilly Partnership.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Aram Bartholl
Chat
Expect to see people with 'speech bubbles' floating above their heads having a comic-strip-like 'chat' across the street or in music venues.
(UK First)
Aram Bartholl
WoW
Join trails of people with their name in chunky green lettering above their heads in the same way their avatars do online.
(UK First)
Improv Everywhere
Time Stops In Manchester
Improv Everywhere cause scenes of joy and chaos in public places. Join the flash mob and freeze together on the spot.
(Commission/UK First)
Simon Yuill
FSF - 'the free social foundations project'
Discover how 'free' and 'open' the spaces in your city truly are - from public parks and street corners, to shopping centres, cafes, clubs and community halls.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Single Cell Collective
In Search Of The Social In Manchester
Explore the use of public space in our city, followed by film screenings and live music.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Matthew Fuller
Digger Barley
Take a pack of barley seeds and spread them around Manchester to sow the seeds of revolution.
Online/Offline
Last.fm and Futuresonic
Last.fm Lounge
An event where the music is selected from the audience's preferences online, taking the Last.fm web 2.0 concept "unplugged".
(Commission)
Paul Sermon
They Live (in Second Life)
Merging 'Second Life' with the real space of the festival venue, allowing 'first life' visitors and 'second life' avatars to share the same space
(Commission)
Digital Situations
Dirt Party
An installation that searches the web for information on people at social events and presents live mashup gossip reports.
(UK First)
project.arnolfini
antisocial notworking
An online
collection of artworks critical of Web 2.0
including logo_wiki, Participation 0.0 - Part I,
Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, and
www_hack.
(Premier)
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City
Locations
Many artworks are located in unexpected city locations, around Piccadilly Gardens - the historic heart of Manchester, continuing past China Town down Portland Street to the exhibition at CUBE, and then along Oxford Road towards the main music and conference venues and the Futuresonic Social at Contact Theatre.
Drew Hemment and Martin Stockley
ThePublicSpace
A temporary architectural structure in Piccadilly Gardens open to the people of Manchester to meet, mingle and socialise.
(Commission/World Premiere)
plan b
MySpace-OurSpace-YourSpace
An empty shop window converted into an 'unplugged' alternative to MySpace offers festival visitors the ability to create their own space.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Rajni Shah Theatre
Small Gifts: Give what you can, take what you need
A big dinner party, to which everyone is invited, in Piccadilly Gardens invites passers-by to eat, talk and meet new people.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud
Wang Ba Manchester
This temporary internet cafe, or 'Wang Ba', is meeting place to explore issues such as censorship and freedom on the web.
(Commission/World Premiere)
You And Me
Pub Safari
Creating a trail between unique and sometimes forgotten pubs, you are invited to join the locals in a game of Three-sided Chess.
(Commission/world Premiere)
Aleks Kolkowski
CD-Recycled 45rpm
A social music sharing event with a difference - bring music files and take away CDs/DVDs you can play on a turntable.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Gavin McClafferty
The Last Gallery
An architectural structure made from recycled materials will host a series of happenings over the festival weekend.
(Commission)
FreeSpaceManchester
Part of a long term effort to create a free and open source space in Manchester.
(Commission)
Geraldine Juárez
Freewear: The Manchester Collection
A workshop and fashion show making fashion items from clothing obtained from Freecycle. Cant pay, wont pay.
(UK First)
Artists Talks
Art and
Social Media
Saturday 3rd May
1pm - 3pm
MDDA (next to CUBE), Portland Street
Free artist
presentations exploring central themes in this
year's Futuresonic Art.
Free |
In The
Gallery
Forming the centrepiece of the exhibition, located in CUBE on Portland Street at the midway point between the city-centre festival sites and the main music and conference venues on Oxford Road, is an exhibition of artworks exploring the social networking unplugged theme. CUBE exhibition runs until 17 May.
Thomson & Craighead : The Social Networking Suite
One of the UK's best-known collaborative teams in new media art, Thomson & Craighead, present three artworks:
Thomson & Craighead
My_Contacts
See Osama bin Laden's Flickr photo collection and discover Tony Blair's catalogue of damaged roofracks.
(Commission/world Premiere)
Thomson & Craighead
Signals
A 'crowd scene' of overlaid mouse icons which seemingly having a personality as if they were the people themselves.
(Commission/world Premiere)
Thomson & Craighead
Flat Earth
A desktop expedition and documentary, woven from satellite imagery to make an extraordinary seven-minute journey around the world.
(First time shown in a gallery context in UK)
Aram
Bartholl
Drop in to create your own page in a book of Friends, which can be personalised using stickers, polaroid photos and text.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Simon Yuill
FSF - 'the free social foundations project'
The map will be displayed in the gallery as well as made available online and distributed freely across Manchester.
(Commission/World Premiere)
David Merrit and Julian Priest
Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment highlights the value per user to online social-networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn, and the depth of the small print many of us never read.
(Commission/World Premiere)
Unplugged
World Tour
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. |
