FutureFest is taking place next weekend in London - Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th March 2015 at Vinopolis / London Bridge. Weekend and Day tickets available on the website
http://futurefest.org/?utm_source=womenshiftdigital&utm_medium=wsdwebsite&utm_term=futurefest%20tickets&utm_content=webcontent&utm_campaign=ff2015 Developed by Nesta and curated by Pat Kane, Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space / Women Shift Digital) is Associate Curator for Panels and Future Machines. This second edition of FutureFest gathers some of the planet's most radical thinkers, makers and performers together to create an immersive experience of what the world might be like in decades to come. FutureFest is not designed as a traditional static event but as a multi-format festival, which gives visitors ample opportunity to take self-guided journeys. The programme will span debate, discussion, performances, installations and immersive experiences. The content is anchored by six themes, which examine the future of: democracy, global cities, machine and human interaction, money, music and thrills. Edward Snowden, Vivienne Westwood, George Clinton, Natalie Bennett, Owen Jones, Eva Pascoe, Brett Scott, Vitalik Buterin, Anna Dumitriu, Hannah Redler, Janis Jefferies, Peter Pomerantsev. Louis Philippe Demers, Birgitta Jonsdottir and many more. There is an excellent diverse range of speakers including a range of top level women http://www.womenshiftdigital.com/what-does-the-future-hold/ I will be chairing 2 panels during the weekend: - Toast In The Machine? The Fate Of Human Skill and Sensibility Under Radical Automation / Saturday 14th March 2015 – 12:30 to 13:15 with Dr Michael Osborne, Anna Dumitriu and Ije Nwokorie - The Gender Setting: Flexible Technology, Narrow Sexuality / Sunday 15th March 2015 – 16:15 to 17:00 with Helen Lewis, Maggie Philbin and Stef Lewandowski Additionally body>data>space present: The Blind Robot - an interactive robotics artwork developed by Louis Philippe Demers. In this installation visitors are invited to sit down in front of and engage into a non-verbal dialogue with the Blind Robot. Examining human machine feel/touch relativity, the robot delicately explores the face, of the visitor in a manner that recalls the beauty of the touch of blind people familiarising themselves with people and objects. Presented at Ars Electronica and SAT Montreal, this is the premiere of the Blind Robot in the UK. A 2012 commission for the Robots and Avatars project (body>data>space, KIBLA, AltArt, FACT) it was commissioned by body>data>space and the National Theatre, and premiered at KIBLA, Slovenia in October 2012. http://www.bodydataspace.net/2015/01/blind-robot-and-robot-world-at-futurefest/ Ghislaine Boddington Creative Director body>data>space <http://www.bodydataspace.net/> Research Fellow, Middlesex University <http://www.mdx.ac.uk/our-research/research-profiles> @GBoddington <https://twitter.com/GBoddington>
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