Futuresonic Commissions and Conference - Call for Submissionsclick here to view this online: http://www.futuresonic.com/08/eflyer/cfp.html
2008Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas1-4 May, Manchester, UK
Call for Submissions
Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to submit proposals to its Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS strands. Join us for one of the biggest Social's of the year.
A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are available:Art and Conference deadlines -- 5pm 18th December 2007Music and EVNTS deadlines -- 5pm 7th February 2008
2008 Theme - Social Networking Unplugged
Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not inisolation but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the hype lies ever greater isolation and conformity. The Futuresonic 2008 themeis The Social - Social Networking Unplugged. Join us as we go insearch of the social.
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Futuresonic Art - Submit NowA commission valued at GBP 5000 is available to create a newartwork, plus Futuresonic can support a limited number of otherprojects, addressing the Social Networking Unplugged theme.Futuresonic's art strand focuses on social and participatory artworkswhich re-imagine the city.
Art Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 18th December 2007Learn moreFutresonic Ideas - Submit Now
The Futuresonic international conference and the SocialTechnologies Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshopsand session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for socialinteraction and experimentation are encouraged. Theme - Online, Mobileand Unplugged Social Networking.
Conference Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 18th December 2007
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Futuresonic Music - Submit Now
In 2008 we invite musicians to share their take oninnovative, original and daring 21st century music with our audience.Futuresonic's roots are in post-dub electronic music, and it showcasesgenre defying great live music. Futuresonic will be able to support alimited number of performances.
Music Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 7th February 2008
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Futuresonic EVNTS - Submit Now
Futuresonic now invites any programmer, curator, promoter,label or artist group anywhere in the world to take part in EVNTS 2008,a city-wide showcase of affiliated events. EVNTS has grown into acommunity of people who each year return to give the festival an extraedge. Awards of GBP 1000 and GBP 500 are available via the EVNTCompetition.
EVNTS Competition deadline -- 5pm, 7th February 2008EVNTS 2008 showcase deadline -- 5pm, 20th March 2008Learn more
The Conference Pass includes access to all festival events.Email your name, address and contact details to mailto:ideas2008@futuresonic.com and we will send you full details onFuturesonic Conference 2008 as well as priority booking options.
Futuresonic 2008
An annual festival of art, music and ideas, which iscurrently in its 12th year, Futuresonic occupies the orbits of bothmusic and digital culture.
A focus in recent years has been presenting artworks inunexpected city spaces, and on social art and social technologies.
Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to getsocial and present new types of collaborative social experience atFuturesonic 2008.This is a time when we see how electronic communication canisolate us, as more and more people drown in a deluge of email thatgenerates stress, even reducing IQ; and it is 40 years since people tookto the streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished.
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Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England North West andpresented in association with Imagination at Lancaster.
