Social Technology Summit

Bob The Lamp

Installation

Bob the Lamp is a desk lamp with a difference he has a personality. He is the result of a Digit project that explored the ways everyday objects can be used physically to show digital data.

Katherine Gillieson (UK) and Eric Kindel (UK)

Reading Manchester: a virtual itineraries workshop

Reading Manchester:Virtual Itineraries workshop aims to expand and share knowledge about environmental lettering in the Manchester cityscape.

Jen Southern and Chris Speed

Comob Workshop

The comob workshop is an experiment in mapping pollution through the spatial and social relationships between people during group walks.

Jonah Brucker Cohen (US)

Deconstructing Networks

This is an opportunity to hear Jonah Brucker Cohen talk about his work on the theme of 'Deconstructing Networks'

Mario Cacciottolo (UK)

Someone Once Told Me

Some Once Told Me is an online photography gallery that is updated everyday featuring portraits sent from around the world featuring messages that they have been told.

arte.mov

arte.mov - Internation Festival of Mobile Media Art

Selected from over 1,500 submissions from the last three editions of arte.mov - the Brazillian - International Festival of Mobile Media Art,

David Gunn (UK)

Echo Archive

David Gunn is the Director of Incidental, an organisation specialising in cross-disciplinary work including websites, installations and performances.

Social Media Cafe Manchester

Social Media Cafe Manchester

Manchester’s monthly Social Media Cafe has relocated to the Contact Theatre for Futuresonic. It is a place for people interested in social media to gather, get acquainted, and to plot, scheme, and share… emphasis on open and interesting conversation!

Echo Archive Perfomance

Echo Archive Performance

This is a rare opportunity to see this groundbreaking collaboration between Opera North and new media practitioners, Incidental.

Abigail Schoneboom (US)

Project Skive: Creative Timewasting and the English Worker

Project Skive, and the time-reclaiming practices it celebrates, signifies the technologically enabled emergence of a public discourse on work-life balance.

Lanfranco Aceti (IT)

Social Connectivities: Adopting Digital Behaviors in Real Life…

The presentation will address whether it is possible to transfer digital behaviors or social connectivity from online environments to real life and influence and/or change socio political interactions.

Jonah Brucker Cohen (US) and Mike Bennett (IE)

Thwonk: Showcase and Workshop

THWONK is an online social networking application to be launched at Futuresonic 2009. It is a development of a previous project by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Bennett called BUMPLIST, a mailing list where every new member would bump the oldest member off the list.

Miguel Andres Clavera (ES)

scanMemories Documentary, Performance and Presentation

scanMemories documentary provides an emotional and evocative approach to Memory, Death and Space in Networked Societies.

Aaron Koblin (US)

Data Visualisation

Aaron Koblin is an Artist|Designer|Researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems. Currently part of Google's Creative Lab in San Francisco,California, USA.

Yuri Suzuki (JP)

Cybernetic Love

The idea image of the Japanese female is evolving into a manifestation of Japanese popular culture, notably comic book, animation characters.

Japan Media Arts Festival

Japan Media Arts Festival

An opportunity to see prize winning work from the recent 12th Japan Media Arts festival. Open to international entries for 10 years, the festival is still largely focused on innovative Japanese work drawn from a mix of arts, entertainment and industry.

Art Programme Talks & Presentations

Further artist talks and presentations can be found within the Art Programme. A summary here of some key events here.